The Sugarspear Chronicles
Author: Nicole Arlyn
Genre: Fantasy
Book Description:
The Sugarspear Chronicles, the incredible twenty-six-novella saga that started with a little girl and her willow tree, is finally available in one complete collection.
The Sugarspear Chronicles: The Complete Collection is the story of young Sadie Sugarspear, a girl who endures intolerable abuse by reading about a fantasy world filled with incredible sights and outlandish people—a place she’s only ever encountered through her real father’s storybook.
One day, when the cruelty becomes too much to bear, Sadie runs away and hides inside her beloved willow tree. To her surprise, the tree opens, sending Sadie down into the abyss, into a land she’s only ever read about—where she must being a long, terrifying, and heartbreaking journey home.
Readers can now enjoy the entirety of author Nicole Arlyn’s dark fantasy saga in one complete book. This complete collection also includes a note from the author detailing the inspiration and events that led to The Sugarspear Chronicles.
Author: Nicole Arlyn
Genre: Fantasy
Book Description:
The Sugarspear Chronicles, the incredible twenty-six-novella saga that started with a little girl and her willow tree, is finally available in one complete collection.
The Sugarspear Chronicles: The Complete Collection is the story of young Sadie Sugarspear, a girl who endures intolerable abuse by reading about a fantasy world filled with incredible sights and outlandish people—a place she’s only ever encountered through her real father’s storybook.
One day, when the cruelty becomes too much to bear, Sadie runs away and hides inside her beloved willow tree. To her surprise, the tree opens, sending Sadie down into the abyss, into a land she’s only ever read about—where she must being a long, terrifying, and heartbreaking journey home.
Readers can now enjoy the entirety of author Nicole Arlyn’s dark fantasy saga in one complete book. This complete collection also includes a note from the author detailing the inspiration and events that led to The Sugarspear Chronicles.
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Excerpt
The wind was ripping through the dandelion fields. The fence that stood alone shook but the blue flowers hanging off it stayed still. A pale girl walked on the dirt road through the fog and mud puddles towards the fence, her long brown hair slapping against her face, covering her green eyes that seemed blue when she turned them to the sky. She pushed her thin body through the wind, the black Rolling Stones t-shirt she wore as a dress blowing into her stomach. When she stood in front of the fence, the flowers finally swayed. Sprinkles of dew dying. Then she pulled them off, the crushed flowers in her hands, falling to earth. The wind never took them.
She sat on top of the fence watching the sky for rain. Instead she saw the faces that the clouds made morphing from evil to angel in one blink of her eyes. She ran her hands along the old brown wood, digging her fingertips hard in, crusted blood under her fingernails. She kicked her legs against the fence half wanting to knock it over and half wanting to fall with it, but it wouldn’t fall. She rubbed her thighs with the splinters until they burned and then made a fist with her right hand and bit down on it. She bit hard enough to stop her own tears. Only cry when the rain comes, she thought. That way the rain would wash away her tears and no one would know. She saw a caterpillar sitting beside her and picked it up.
“No one knows youʼre here but me,” she whispered. She laid the caterpillar where she found it. She opened her hands and kept waiting to catch the rain. She waited as the sky twisted around her, sealing her in a mist she wished only the sky could see through.
She sat on top of the fence watching the sky for rain. Instead she saw the faces that the clouds made morphing from evil to angel in one blink of her eyes. She ran her hands along the old brown wood, digging her fingertips hard in, crusted blood under her fingernails. She kicked her legs against the fence half wanting to knock it over and half wanting to fall with it, but it wouldn’t fall. She rubbed her thighs with the splinters until they burned and then made a fist with her right hand and bit down on it. She bit hard enough to stop her own tears. Only cry when the rain comes, she thought. That way the rain would wash away her tears and no one would know. She saw a caterpillar sitting beside her and picked it up.
“No one knows youʼre here but me,” she whispered. She laid the caterpillar where she found it. She opened her hands and kept waiting to catch the rain. She waited as the sky twisted around her, sealing her in a mist she wished only the sky could see through.
About the Author
Nicole is a writer and an actress born in Brooklyn, New York. She has worked in films such as Clay Pigeons, opposite Joaquin Phoenix; The Wedding Planner; and Brooklyn Bound, among many others. She has performed, written and directed theater productions in New York, Los Angeles, and Europe. She has also read her poems in many poetry lounges in Europe and America, and is a song lyricist for musicians.
After living in Rome, Italy, for the past several years, Nicole has returned to New York City where she lives with her husband and son. She is at work on more novels.
After living in Rome, Italy, for the past several years, Nicole has returned to New York City where she lives with her husband and son. She is at work on more novels.
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ReplyDeletethank you Lisa!
DeleteThis sounds like a nice collection of stories. Also Sugarspear is a cute last name.
ReplyDeletethank you! It's a kind of combination of Shakespeare and Sugar... the girl Sadie in the book, loves to read and write... and dreams of becoming a great writer... of course after she goes on her arduous journey
DeleteQuestion to the author: What character in a book would you like to be best friends with?
ReplyDeleteI would want to be best friends with the same person Sadie is best friends with. Billy Flath. He is a young boy she grows up with who goes through similar abuses as she does. They understand each other without words. Although she encounters and befriends and falls in love with so many mythical characters, Billy is the purest. Billy is HOME.
DeleteIt does sound like a wonderful read. I'm always a bit skeptic about novellas, since they rarely give me the sense the satisfaction and fulfillment a full-size novel is capable of, but when they do it's always magical.
ReplyDeleteThe excerpt is very well written and very promising!
Thank you Elisa! I know what you mean. This quite a journey.. if you love novels, you will love this because it is one story in fairy-tale like segments but one story about the young girl Sadie's life..thanks for your comment!
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ReplyDeletethank you to Goddess Fish and to C.B.Y. Books for doing such an awesome job!
DeleteWhat made you want to write a 26 novella series? Thanks for the giveaway.
ReplyDeleteHI Zed! I'm nuts! No... I guess I just have worlds inside of me, I needed to explore.. I could write forever the only thing that ever stopped me was my pinky.(from pressing on it too much) I wrote the books long-hand and then also on computer.. it's a long story I'm doing video interviews about it and will keep you posted. But really it's imagination and life experiences and watching the character go through their life. which is also never ending!!!
DeleteSounds like great reads, thanks for sharing and good luck!
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ReplyDeleteHope to win and read the whole story. Thanks for the chance
ReplyDeleteThe exceprt reads interesting.
ReplyDeleteSounds like great, interesting stories. Thanks for the chance!
ReplyDeleteWhat a fascinating book! Great excerpt. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteThis looks like a great collection. Thanks for the giveaway.
ReplyDeleteWhat a cool giveaway & good luck to everyone that has entered :)
ReplyDeleteI like the idea of linking a bunch of short stories and piecing together a saga. It reminds me that Dickens' novels were serialized in newspapers back in the day.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed the excerpt! Thank you for sharing.
ReplyDeletethe entire saga in one book, that's great!
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Wow, the author has more than an impressive resume. So many talents from writing, acting and direting. I wish her much success.
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