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Friday, December 14, 2012
Promo event! Troll or Derby by Red Tash
Title: Troll Or Derby
Genre/Age Group: Fantasy / YA
Author: Red Tash
Release date: June 2012
Book Description:
In Troll Or Derby,
fifteen-year-old Roller Deb is singled out by town bullies for both her skates,
and for being different. When her popular homecoming queen of a sister is
kidnapped by a scuzzy drug dealer, Deb must flee the trailer park in which
she's grown up, and rescue her. Along the way, Deb becomes enmeshed in the
magical realm of trolls and fairies, and the blood-thirsty version of roller
derby at which these beings excel. But spending too much time among the fairies
comes with a price. Will Deb choose to save her sister, with the aid of a
mysterious troll? Or will she be lost to the lures of roller derby, and this
magical new realm, forever?
About the author:
Red Tash is a
journalist-turned-novelist of dark fantasy for readers of all ages. Monsters,
SciFi, wizards, trolls, fairies, and roller derby lightly sautéed in a
Southern/Midwestern sauce hand-canned from her mama's recipes await you in her
pantry of readerly delights. Y'all come, anytime.a Rafflecopter giveaway
Book Trailer:
Book excerpt:
I'd
Love to Change the World
Harlow
I want you to understand something. I didn't rise up out of
the ground fully grown, I wasn't the bastard child of an angry god, and I
didn't become this way because I was cursed. My skin's not green and I won't
turn to stone in the sunlight.
When I was young, I had a mother, and she was a troll. I had
a mother and a father who were both
trolls, in fact--and we were a family. Yes, I had a family. Just like you.
Scared yet?
Almost everything I know about humans, I've learned from their
trash. Redbook and Woman's Day show up at my doorstep more
than any other source, I reckon. It may not be a perfect picture of what your
life is like, but I'm betting I've got a more accurate view of your lifestyle
than you have of mine, at least for the time being.
For starters, there's a shopping mall full of differences
between troll family life, and how human families live. Trolls, for instance,
do not typically invest a lot of emotion into their own young--often don't even
raise them. They especially don't socialize with their relatives for special
occasions. You won't see us breaking out the patio umbrellas and the ice chests
full of soda for a family barbecue. A special occasion in troll culture is when
the villagers rise up and try to corral one of us in a cave, or something like
that. At least, that's how it used to be. That's what my mom told me. I remember that.
I remember a lot more now than I did, when this adventure
started—but I'll get to that.
Best I can tell, my nuclear family was more like a human
family than a troll one. The extended family, as you English would call it, was
a mess. A big, illegal, drug-running, slaving mess. But I'll get to that. This
is my part of the story and I want to begin in the beginning. I'm not a
storyteller. It's not my profession. Bear with me while I sort this out, okay?
Sure, you're going to think what you want about trolls. I
mean, you've seen movies, you've read Rowling and Tolkien. I'm telling you that
the real-live working-class trolls of the Midwest are nothing like you've been
told. We're capable of great violence, sure, and I'll concede that our
proclivity is largely toward evil, but let's face it—a lot of that comes down
to breeding and culture.
In our world, might most definitely makes right. That's the
fundamental law of troll culture, although most trolls would forego the flowery
wording and just express it with a grunt and blow to the head.
Trolls as a species, though, are capable of great love. I know, because I've experienced it. You
don't live with something like that and ever forget. If you do, you're a fool,
anyway.
My parents weren't totally solitary like so many other
trolls are. They even had a very close friendship with a fairy family called
the Wheelers. If we'd celebrated holidays, the Wheelers were the ones we'd have
invited over for a Fourth of July cookout. We didn't do that a lot, that I can
recall. We did raid sinkholes filled
with garbage on a few occasions, though. Good times.
The Wheelers were not just fairies, they were Protectors.
Fleet of foot and quick of mind, their instincts were so well-tuned as to be
mistaken for psychic powers, by most. According to my mother, in the old days
humans and fairies alike worshiped or feared the breed of fairy the Wheelers
were. Their massive black wings shimmering in air above a crowd of would-be
foes were beautiful and awesome—I remember that, too. Sometimes. The memories
come and go, unless I'm looking at Deb. Then I can't forget.
Anyway, these two particular Wheelers, Marnie and Mannox,
were so powerful and strong, everyone lived in fear of them. Everyone but my
folks, and me, I guess. The Wheelers were my fairy godparents. I don't remember
much about them, but I remember that.
Trying to remember is a full-time job. I've visited the library
in Bloomington, and even picked through the local bookstore in Bedrock, curious
about what the old days used to be like. Maybe there'd be a book there, or
something. I read in a muddy copy of Psychology
Today once that some therapists use fairy tales to trigger vital memories
in their patients—and I used to get these blank spots, this fogginess.
Anyway, my point is, among the children's stories and the
romantic teen fiction, and even in a lot of the comic books, there's some
truth. Mostly fiction, but if you look hard enough, you can see through the
tall tales, and find the common thread within. I've always been good at that
sort of thing. Figuring stuff out.
The one thing I wish I'd figured out sooner was what to do
about my uncle Jag.
Why? Well, for starters, my uncle killed my parents, and my
fairy godparents. It was immediately after the bonding ceremony between their
baby daughter and me. The Wheelers had pledged to protect my parents, and by
extension, me. My parents were to protect Deb, and I was, by extension . . .
Well, I jump ahead of myself. I told you I'm not good with
stories.
I should start with an introduction, shouldn't I?
My name is Harlow Saarkenner. I am an American Troll living
in rural Indiana, and this is the story of how I met a kick-ass rollergirl,
rejoined a rock band, and lived happily ever after.
In a landfill. Did I mention that?
But there's more. Stay tuned. I'm just going to tell it like
it happened, best I can. Deb will fill in the rest.
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