Pump Up Your Book Presents Shadows of an Empress Book Blast & Book Giveaway!

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We invite you to Carole Waterhouse’s SHADOWS OF AN EMPRESS Book Blast on July 5 – 29!

Shadows of an Empress

Inside the Book:

Title: Shadows of an Empress
Author: Carole Waterhouse
Publisher: Anaphora Literary Press
Pages: 310
Genre: Literary Fiction

After the death of her mother, Sylvia is sent to live with her grandmother on an isolated piece of farmland, where she and a nymph-like companion run through the woods creating an imaginary world where her mother is still alive. When Sylvia marries Dan, everyone sees her life moving from tragic to fairy tale.  But when a recurring dream about a city she can’t identify leaves Sylvia feeling especially unsettled, she goes into her living room on a sleepless night and finds the Empress Elisabeth of Austria waiting for her.

Suspecting their lives are somehow linked, the empress helps Sylvia sort through her past and question her present.  She and Sissi, Elisabeth’s younger version, embark on a whirlwind tour of places related to the empress’s past where the Archduchess Sophie tries to arrange a courtship between Sylvia and Franz Joseph, a heart-broken Heinrich Heine laments the empress’s tendency to credit him as the inspiration for her awful poetry, and Sigmund Freud offers commentary on their journey.   As they travel, Sylvia becomes more aware of the empress’s faults. As their paths begin to separate, Sylvia learns from Elisabeth’s mistakes and comes to realize that the answers she has been searching for need to come from within. In a mock ceremony in Vienna, Sylvia is crowned the empress of herself and returns home to start a new life with Dan. She understands then that the city she has been haunted by all this time is the life the two of them built, the one they are finally ready to enter together.

Shadows of an Empress is available at Amazon.

Meet the Author

Carole Waterhouse

A professor of creative writing at California University of Pennsylvania, Carole Waterhouse has an MFA in fiction writing from the University of Pittsburgh and a Ph.D. in 20th Century Literature from Ohio University.  She’s the author of three novels, Shadows of an Empress, The Tapestry Baby, and Without Wings, as well as a short story collection, The Paradise Ranch.  Her short stories have appeared in an anthology, Horse Crazy: Horses and the Women who Love Them, and numerous literary magazines, including The Massachusetts Review, The Artful Dodge, The Ball State University Forum, Crack the Spine, Blue Lake Review, Ceilidh, Eureka Literary Magazine, Crossconnect, Spout, The Styles, Turnrow, Half Tones to Jubilee, Potpourri, The Baybury Review, Arnazella, Parting Gifts, Pointed Circle, Seems, The Rockhurst Review, Oracle,  and The Griffin.  She has reviewed books for The Pittsburgh Post Gazette, The Pittsburgh Press and The New York Times Book Review.

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Giveaway!

Carole Waterhouse is giving away an autographed copy of THE TAPESTRY BABY!

Terms & Conditions:

  • By entering the giveaway, you are confirming you are at least 18 years old.
  • One winner will be chosen via Rafflecopter to receive one autographed copy of The Tapestry Baby by Carole Waterhouse
  • This giveaway begins July 5 and ends on July 29.
  • Winners will be contacted via email on July 30.
  • Winner has 48 hours to reply.

Good luck everyone!

ENTER TO WIN!

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Participating Blogs

Tuesday, July 5 – I’m Shelf-ish

Wednesday, July 6 – Rainy Day Reviews

Thursday, July 7 – The Reading Queen

Friday, July 8 – The Writer’s Life

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Monday, July 11 – Bound 2 Escape

Tuesday, July 12 – Readsalot

Wednesday, July 13 – A Title Wave

Thursday, July 14 – Ashley’s Bookshelf

Friday, July 15 – The Bookworm Lodge

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Monday, July 18 – Cafinated Reads

Monday, July 18 – As the Page Turns

Tuesday, July 19 – Dreaming Big

Tuesday, July 19 – The Literary Nook

Wednesday, July 20 – The Review From Here

Thursday, July 21 – Confessions of an Eccentric Bookaholic

Friday, July 22 – My Bookish Pleasures

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Monday, July 25 – The Dark Phantom Review

Tuesday, July 26 – StoreyBook Reviews

Wednesday, July 27 – Mello & June, It’s a Book Thang!

Thursday, July 28 – Books, Reviews, ETC.

Friday, July 29 – Deal Sharing Aunt

 

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