Friday, April 19, 2013

BLOG TOUR EXCERPT: Blue Dust by Katy Krump


BLURB:
All teenage girls keep secrets and Kerry Johnston is no exception. More than anyone else she knows how to lie, for ‘Kerry’ is an alias and her life is a nightmare of secrecy, violence and fear. In reality this overweight, limping teenage girl is Qea, a Forbidden child from the Qarntaz Octad, sent to Earth to hide from the warlord she has betrayed. Born third into her family in an overpopulated world where surplus offspring are Forbidden and killed or delivered as fodder for the malevolent Inquisitors, Qea has spent her life in hiding.
Qea (Pronounced Kee-ah) is a girl with an unusual history. She comes from a distant galaxy where warlords rule the law and corruption is rife, so she must become hard to survive, but here on Earth a young man will change her heart and risk her life, changing it forever.

LINKS:
B&N Paperback: 
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/blue-dust-katy-krump/1114489873?ean=9780957243491
ABOUT KATY:
Katy was an English and music teacher before almost losing her sense of humour (and mind) and deciding she needed to devote herself to the thing she loved most - writing. She published a number of children’s musicals and then became a full-time television scriptwriter for children, entered a nationwide scriptwriting competition and was selected to be on the writing team of a popular South African soap. She also worked as an advertising copywriter, wrote radio ads and jingles, educational textbooks and readers...anything writing-related to keep the wolf from the door. Basically, she’s constantly writing, books and TV scripts and if not that then plotting, planning and scheming how to take over the world!
Like her creation Qea, the feisty heroine in Blue Dust: Forbidden, Katy understands something about being an alien after she embarked on a new journey, crossing the galaxy to settle on a new planet (England) many moons ago. Some like to call this process 'immigration'. Katy is now a proud possessor of a maroon Intergalactic Wayfarer Permit and has come to love the aliens she mixes with daily.
WHERE TO FIND HER:
Official Web Page: http://www.katykrump.co.uk/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KatyKrump?fref=ts
Twitter: https://twitter.com/KatyKrump
Goodreads:http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6539731.Katy_Krump
Her Publisher: http://www.ghostlypublishing.co.uk/
EXCERPT:
Now she was older, cynical, Donna knew that he’d probably tried reasoning with 
the Committee anyway and that her prompting had nothing to do with it. And all 
the time her mother grew fatter. Papa’s voice came rushing into her ears, the 
soft inflection, the gentle accent, and Donna’s eyes welled up. She was back in 
the hot sweet air, watching her mother’s expanding waistline, wondering what was 
happening, why her father was so bad tempered, why her mother cried so much. The 
rumours grew stronger and stories about settlements being attacked reached them 
and amidst all this Qea once again heard the word Forbidden, though it meant 
nothing. One day Qea awoke and her father was gone, her mother’s eyes were red 
and her voice thin, as if she had no energy to speak. ‘But where is Papa? Why 
has he gone again?’ asked Qea, placing her hand on her mother’s swollen belly. 
It moved beneath her hand, as if it was alive.




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