Crystal & Bone: Who's Your Hottie?
By L.C. Glazebrook
http://lcglazebrook.blogspot.com
The October Girls, Crystal and Bone, were your typical teen-aged best friends, worried about fashion on a budget, trendy pop stars, and all those fumbling, unsophisticated boys at Parson's Ford High School.
Well, actually, Crystal wasn't all that typical--she's the latest in the generational line of Aldridge witches who have the responsibility of guarding the Orifice, a mysterious, oozing cavern that connects this world to Darkmeet. But Crystal doesn't want the job, because it means she has to remain Appalachian trailer-trash for the rest of her life, and she has plans for community college and the big city.
But everything changed when Bone was run over by a truck and got stuck at 16 forever. Crystal gets depression and drops out of school and now is trying to earn her GED and doesn't have time for boys. And she's not keeping up with the folk magic her momma is trying to teach her, though she's learned enough to consort with the dead and can't resist helping Bone come back from the other side of the grave.
That's complicated enough, but then there's all these guys around. Right?
CRYSTAL: Bone, if I help you come back from the dead, will you promise to stay away from bad boys?
BONE: Oh, you mean like Dempsey, the hot movie director who wants to make a horror movie in parson's Ford?
CRYSTAL: I can't help it. He says French words.
BONE: And the leather and the cute little silver chains don't do a thing for you, do they?
CRYSTAL: You know I'm loyal to Pettigrew.
BONE: Do I?
CRYSTAL: Umm, you've been watching, haven't you? The Orifice is right there on my bedroom wall. I'll bet you know more than you're letting on.
BONE: Gross. Do I look like a pervert?
CRYSTAL: You look like a car-crash victim wearing seven pounds of cobwebs. And what's with that floral-print blouse?
BONE: Family. They'll just bury you any old way.
CRYSTAL: Well, I'm in enough trouble just bringing you back from the dead. If you go out there and start fooling around and breaking hearts, who knows what might happen?
BONE: Heh heh. Yeah. Who knows?
CRYSTAL: Stay away from Dempsey. He's bad news.
BONE: Well, I'm already sort of seeing someone.
CRYSTAL: That was fast.
BONE: No, I mean "over there," in Darkmeet. A hunky guy with tight jeans and T-shirt, Robert Pattinson eyebrows, Brad Pitt lips, George Clooney charm, Johnny Depp cool.
CRYSTAL: Oooh, when can I meet him?
BONE: Pettigrew, remember?
CRYSTAL: (Sigh) Yeah. Momma's love spells. What can you do?
BONE: Family. They'll just match you up any old way.
CRYSTAL: He's reliable.
BONE: Yeah. And nice. And good for 40 years of marriage in a trailer park. Good luck with that.
CRYSTAL: That's mean, Bone. I'm going to get you--
BONE: Hee hee.
CRYSTAL: Hey. Come back. Don't go invisible when I'm trying to strangle you...
BONE: Hee hee.
Halloween. Candy corn never tasted so strange and sweet.
Order October Girls in ebook or paperback at http://www.amazon.com/October-Girls-Crystal-Bone-ebook/dp/B00433TD0I.
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LC Glazebrook is the pen name of Scott Nicholson, author of Speed Dating with the Dead, Drummer Boy, Forever Never Ends, The Skull Ring, As I Die Lying, Burial to Follow ,and They Hunger. His revised novels for the U.K. Kindle are Creative Spirit, Troubled, and Solom. He’s also written four comic series, six screenplays, and more than 60 short stories. His story collections include Ashes, The First, Murdermouth: Zombie Bits, and Flowers.
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Looks interesting. :)
Jase
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Crazy interview,Scott!
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Crazy interview,Scott!
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I'd love to win this.
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Scott wrote: "A hunky guy with tight jeans and T-shirt, Robert Pattinson eyebrows, Brad Pitt lips, George Clooney charm, Johnny Depp cool."
I thought you were saving yourself for Ned Beatty? And look at you getting all starry eyed of the current hunks o' the day... SHOCKING! Especially since everyone knows you are hoping to co-star with Beatty in "Deliverance 2: Ned Beatty's Revenge" and be the hillbilly he "deflowers" in the revenge rape scene!
Ned's BACK! It's 40 years later...and his butt is still sore! (Cue the banjos...)
Blah blah blah! It's 12:31 am and I NEED to get to bed (but if it's 12:31 a.m....that MUST mean that... I FINALLY have the internet up and running at home! Yahoooo!).
Sweet nightmares, Daddy-O!
CHEERS!
Looks and sounds interesting.
I liked the sample of "October Girls", but at the moment I am too broke to buy even an ebook. :(
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I'd love to buy this for my daughter, but all they have on Amazon right now is the Kindle version...guess I'd better try to win a Kindle, then! :P
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very interesting!!
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I'd love to win a Kindle- but who wouldn't?
vicky.vak8(at)gmail.com
Lovely post! :)
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I will be getting this for my daughters. They can read it after me though .
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L.C. . . . Scott . . . dual personalities? That explains a whole lot.
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Sounds fantastic. I'd love to be entered. ....Tiffypoot @ (aol.com)
Scott, count me in for the Kindle!
Paul
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I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, and after my wife read the first chapter online, she decided it would be the first e-book she would buy for her brand new Kindle. We bought it last night and she is now reading it. :)
-Neal
So many great giveaways on this blog! Awesome!
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Another stop, another chance to send me a kindle....
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Another great post, love the excerpt / conversation, lol, vera interesting!!! Lovin' the tour!
Dottie :)
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October Girls is a great book, both for young and older adults. It's quirky, funny and never dull. And I really love the cover art.
Christa
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Just added my review to the Kindle Korner book reviews section.
Christa
Thanks for the giveaway. Interesting interview. Please enter me in contest. Thank you. Tore923@aol.com
Would love to win.
kate[at]parchmentgirl[dot]com
Great post!
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I dare say these things are getting stranger with every passing day. November is going to be crazy.
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I am a tour newsletter subscriber. My contact info:
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and
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Your October Girls looks very interesting. After I finish reading The First, I think I'll have to get into October Girls. :)
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Hmm. Is there much symbolism in this book? varbonoff22 at cox dot net
Katie, there is a paper version but for some reason it's not linked to the Kindle product page (I think I haven't added "Scott Nicholson" to the paper version yet but search for October Girls and you can find it)
Neal, hope the wife enjoys it and thanks for proofing it.
Also, there will be a special pink cover for the Kindle version Oct 18-24, and all author proceeds will be donated to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. So if you buy it, tell a friend!
Scott Nicholson
Great post, Scott.
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My daughter downloaded it right away, but is waiting for her birthday Kindle to read it. She doesn't like reading on her netbook. I may snag it as well.
lorraine_lanning[at]yahoo[dot]com
I just read this earlier this week, cute story!
candace_redinger at yahoo dot com
Tiffany Christie, why did you name your son Orion? I like it! It's one of my favorite constellations! I named my dog Sirius (alpha Canis Major). My children would have killed me if I had named them "Andromeda", "Scorpio", and "Ursa Major." Scorpio would be a cool name, though. My wife fought against my wanting to call one of our twin sons Angus? Do you call your son Rion, or just O, perhaps? I could see that as appealing to a young fella.
Scott, I want to read all your books that I now own, and each time I read your description of a different book on this tour, it makes me want to skip to that one. So I have a bunch of partially started books resulting in one very confused reader. I like how the Kindle saves your place in what you are reading, but it does not help me get back into the story, so I usually have to go back and reread a bunch to get into the swing of things again. It's quite frustrating because I'm expected to do other things around here during my waking hours apart from reading. Commenting on blogs has carved out a good piece of my time as does reading other people's responses, looking at their profiles, looking around the host blogs, and then trying to correct my spelling in my comments, etc. I'm having fun, though, and always have to come up with, what I think are, credible excuses for not doing some particular thing I was supposed to do. Recently I'm spending a lot of my time, putting my library into groups and trying out some of the games (like SUDOKU)on my new Kindle 3! I love it! Still gets me into trouble. C'est la vie, No?
I agree with Crista, again, that the cover of October Girls is super! Who did the art? The cover has to say it all!
Thanks Larissa for hosting the tour today. I looked over your blog and want to return to go deeper soon.
Gotta go. Laundry's callin'.
Jeff White whitejw@ameritech.net
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I had something to say but I've forgotten. Stupid cold.
teawench at gmail dot com
This is another one I'll have to pick up. It sounds too interesting to ignore.
andrea.infinger@gmail.com
Count me in!
Very entertaining. Might have to pick up October girls soon.
bacchus76 at myself dot com
Awesome tour! And I'd love to have a Kindle!
LaQ
Enjoyed the excerpt!
kissinoak at frontier dot co,
And I did it again. Forgot to leave my contact info.. :s
LaQuiet(at)gmail(dot)com
Great Tour!
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Wow, Scott, that sure was a change from your normal blog. I do believe you have multiple personalities. LOL
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Thanks Scott
Candy
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I need to write novels with a pen name. Hmm what should I choose/
Your the best LC or should I say scott. reg
i think c & b is up my alley. would like to read it sometime soon!
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LauraLynn, yeah, no need to get bored when you have a thousand different soul-hopping spirits in your head
Jeff I'm sorry (not) the Kindle 3 has added so much to your life. The cover art was by Ludeshka, an Argentina artist who did the cover and concepts for my Dreamboat graphic novel. She's very talented.
Regge, why don't you use "Scott Nicholson" as a pen name? Or at least have the checks made out to him...
Scott
Must...win...Kindle...
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This has been great! Great idea! I.pearson@comcast.net
I want a guy just like you described too. I'm so glad you didn't go with too many current teen idols, I'm way to old to have been interested if you had added Justin Bieber in the mix.
waitmantwillie at hotmail dot com
Great interview! And I'm totally envying the Kindle...
spiffyish at hotmail dot com
Whew! I almost gave up on trying to see this post - this blog took forever to load on my computer!
This might have to be the next one I read after I finish Drummer Boy
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I would LOVE a Kindle DX. Thanks for the opportunity to win one! :)
P.S. Click on my name for my contact info. ;)
Please enter me.
bkhabel at gmail dot com
Thank for the chance to win.
cjwallace43 at gmail dot com
Great books Scott! I'd love to re-read some on the Kindle I win ;)
emily_erickson@yahoo.com
What a wacky interview. Great job.
dalelmurphy(at)gravesidetales(dot)com
sounds interesting
kidpack05 at yahoo dt com
Crystal and Bone sound fun, though I'd prefer to read about them than be friends with them!
eva.s.black[@]gmail[.]com
I enjoyed and the blog tour. I look forward to reading more posts.
Thanks,
Tracey D
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Great Post!
Gail in Florida
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Woo hoo! Just bought Ashes:-)
skeltons3 at hotmail dot com
Catching up on late tour stops!
mayarend -at- yahoo.com.br
Awesome. Thx for the peek.
Need to finish reading that book!
-Jesse
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What a fun interview! And this is another cool blog site!
dreamer dot ima at gmail dot com
Love it!
josephafisch@gmail.com
Funny!
This has the potential to be huge to the YA crowd. Congrats!
Stefanie647@msn.com
Great post! Thanks!
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@coriwestphal
Count me in, please.
Thanks for the chance to win.
lkish77123 at gmail dot com
...the "Orifice"? Really. I mean...really, really? :D
Interesting plot there, Scott.
jamesemr (at) gmail (dot) com
Whooooooo, yay! Finally found the place to post comments.
40 years in a trailer park --- that could be a nightmare.
Depending on the neighbors and how much love there is.
bmcbroom at gmail dot com
sounds interesting scott, you have a very busy mind there!
Julie
pjtansey@hotmail.com
scot, i found it...i still want a kindle! spvaughan@yahoo.com
Following the blog tour - love the interviews, Scott.
~Chrizette
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I like L.C.-so much better at exploring teen love.
hmhenderson AT yahoo DOT com
and since I haven't slept I forgot to put my contact... erg!
stephanie(dot)pridgen(at)gmail(dot)com
enjoying the blog tour... thanks!
He Scott,
I already got October Girls, although my daughter will probably have to get a little bit older before she can read it.
In fact it was so easy to get (for my Kindle for PC) that I went ahead and got Burial to Follow . . . then Murdermouth . . . then Haunted . . . then three of your short story collections before I screamed at myself to stop the madness!
So many stories and no Kindle (I had to return the borrowed Kindle) . . . but after I counted up all the money spent I realized to my great relief that I'd only spent one day's worth of lunch money.
--Whew--
Thanks for the chance to win,
Greg "The Undead Rat" Fisher
theundeadrat (@) gmail (.) com
I'm stalking you all over the blogosphere and being more impressed with your creativity. Unfortunately, I haven't had time to start on any of your books yet (prior committments). I'm looking forward to October Girls especially.
dulcibelle [at] earthlink [dot] net
Another good site.
byonge@lonepinetv.com
How cool! I'd love a Kindle. :-D
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Thanks sooooo much.
dorcontest at gmail dot com
I would love to be entered!
littlebearries@yahoo.com
Wow what a crazy post. lol. Larissa has an interesting life. Hi Scott, I am still following you and have my name on one of the Kindles.
misskallie2000 at yahoo dot com
Kindle, please.
Thanks, Scott.
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Nice interview, looks like a good book.
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what a interesting interview! :)
starflower135 at gmail dot com
Really would love the chance to read 'October Girls' on the Kindle..... ;)
purposedrivenlife4you at gmail dot com
Thanks for entering, everyone, entries here capped at 92. Thanks for hosting, Larissa!
A reminder, Oct. 25-31, all author proceeds from October Girls will benefit the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. Good luck, everyone!
Scott Nicholson
Bone sounds like the mischevious one in this story. She's bound to cause trouble somewhere in the story, you can just feel it.
jessangil at gmail dot com
Hi,
Scott, I just wanted to wish you the best of luck with all your books..I love how creative you are..
Happy Halloween..
:)
baby_blackroze@yahoo.com
hufflepuffgrl13@yahoo.com
Really awesome post! Bone and Crystal are funny :)
yabookiemonster{at}gmail{dot}com
Funny/creepy post! :)
Please toss my name into the hat for a chance to win. I'm at sweetbrier at shaw dot ca
Thanks so much! :)
I want a Kindle for Christmas plese enter me
Awesome!! So glad I saw this before the month was over.. sheesh.. haha.. Great fantastic giveaway! Now I say farewell and head to the blog tour!
Thanks again! :)
Someone just mentioned "October Girls" to me yesterday. What a coinkidink! I'm even more curious now!
I'd love to enter your amazing giveaway!
lcintocable[at]gmail[dot]com
Hi Scott, thanks for visiting, great prize offered too.
Thanks,
Dina
dlsmilad@yahoo.com
Man, your humor is just a little twisted, isn't it?? Good thing we like it like that!
Thanks for such a great giveaway! Now we just have to find the money for the books (yes, some of us ran out of book budget over a month ago...darn addiction, books ad up quick when you read fast. At least we can enjoy them over again!)
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