Ill-fated - YA Fantasy Novel Book Marketing by Evelyn Ink
"The stars have aligned to make my life grim and loathsome," Leila Edgewick stands on the brink of disaster; balancing the fate of Bainland and her father's legacy against a vague, ill-fated prophecy. A meaningless number, a luckless red moon, and worst of all– a star that falls south– send Leila on a quest she does not expect to survive.
Ill-fated is YA Fantasy novel shot though with adventure, suspense, quirky wit, and a bit of light romance. Here's the blurb:
Simultaneously, an unknown boy wakes up in the sunken hull of a decrepit cargo ship. Captured and mind-locked, the boy– dubbed "Sam" by the ship's crew– must escape the infamous Bonesplitter and the dark schemes of one Captain Erastacus Oren.
All the while, Leila journeys out of Bainland. Crossing the wall for the first time in her life, she finds a world where magic meets machine. Aeroskiffs, daguerreotypes, and automatons merge with the 'earthdolven' magic of the South, leaving her to question, "What is sorcery and what is science?"
When Leila and Sam's paths cross, fate ties them together, sending them deep into the Ramble in search of the Wasteland Witches. Plagued by Sam's erratic memory and Leila's dubious rational, they must outwit the Southland drudge hunters, and take on the dangers of the Ramble: sandwolves, bloodswamps, and the Kartivause – terrifying night creatures from the Shadowland.
Their friendship develops quickly, but as Leila's quest unravels, Sam's past is pieced together– and when Sam's identity is finally revealed, Leila must face up to a bloody family history that could rip their friendship apart...
About the Author:
The plaque on Mrs. Ink's lawn reads the Edgington Mansion, it was once thought to be lovely, though now rather decrepit and certainly full of secrets. She lives here with her husband. He is a philosopher, and said to be quite mad. According to Mrs. Ink their house is full of books, "Stacked, piled, and always advancing out and away from the shelves that ought to keep them in." She paints and draws, writes and reads, and occasionally goes down into the dark, dismal, cobweb-creepy dungeon, to do laundry.
Evelyn Ink is the author of the YA fantasy novel Ill-fated and the children's trilogy Sticks, Stones, and Dragon Bones. She was formally trained to be a parachutist, but found it did not fit her longstanding desire to avoid heights and thus decided to study the much less vertically horrifying subject of English Literature.
If interested, you may choose to follow Mrs. Ink on her blog or check in with her on facebook. However, due to her absolute terror of electronics and a crippling phobia of the social media (technical term: Socmephobia), her blog posts tend to be infrequent and erratic. Also, due to several post exile investigations she is generally prevented from giving any specific information regarding her whereabouts...