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Move the Stars {Book Tour}

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Move the Stars
Genre: YA Fantasy
Author: Sandy Lender
Purchase: Move the Stars

About Move the Stars

“Move the Stars” offers a sometimes-humorous, but always magical, story of 16-year-old Ava Stonebreaker finding and using her voice for the good of her world. With Eddag Fen afire behind her, she journeys to her father’s home, at first fearing she returns to him with failure as her legacy.

Bringing with her a half-blood fae, a star reader’s apprentice and news of storm stars closing in, she also carries hope. Fanciful creatures have encouraged her to seek out the giant dragons beyond Modric’s Pass. With spunky shoulder dragons and the endangered arabesque to whom she sings accompanying her, Ava devises and undertakes a daring plan to re-shake the world…and move the stars.

Excerpt from Move the Stars

The two friends lay quietly in the dark, both of them close enough to feel the almost silent hum of the two arabesque next to Ava and Strike.

“Now Celia doesn’t have to be the last of her race,” Ava whispered. “They have each other.”

Jayndor couldn’t reply. She quietly cried into her cloak.

“What’s that sound?” Goira asked.

“Nothing,” Ava said, wanting Jayndor to have her privacy.

Strike began to growl.

“Why’s the dragon growling?” Goira asked, hysteria building in her voice.

Devon already stood next to the shelf where he’d been resting. “Jayndor, help me.”

Wiping her eyes with her sleeve, Jayndor sniffled back her recent emotion. “I have Goira’s walking stick.”

“We need light, Strike,” Ava said.

With a sound like “gah,” Strike hopped to the edge of his shelf with Ava and spewed flame into the darkness. A pair of yellow eyes at the opening of the cavern glowed back at them.

Goira screamed.

“That’s not helpful,” Devon shouted over her noise, fumbling with a rock to use as a weapon.

Jayndor waved the walking stick at the eyes.

“More light!” Ava barked, reaching for the knife in her boot.

Strike flapped to sit atop a stalagmite-like tower of rock and spat a steady stream of flame toward the opening of the cavern where three wolves paced around one another. When Ava saw what they were up against, she gasped, nearly choking on the dust and air hitting the back of her throat.

Review of Move the Stars

As with many YA Fantasy books, this lacks nothing when it comes to adventure and intrigue. Packed full of girl power goodness, Move the Stars heroine Ava’s bravery, courage, and determination is in full force.

This is the first book by Sandy Lender that I have reviewed and it did not disappoint. There was humor sprinkled throughout in a delightful manner that gave this book a lighter feel. It would be a great read for any avid teen reader.

About the Author

Sandy Lender is a magazine editor by day and author of girl-power fantasy novels by night. She lives in Florida where she volunteers in sea turtle conservation and parrot rescue.

Sandy Lender Ink Inc., headquartered in Central Florida, is her umbrella company for the copywriting, editing, and marketing services she offers. With a four-year degree in English and 28-year career in publishing, Sandy brings a deep understanding of public relations and journalism to a variety of projects.

Her successes include traditionally and self-published novels, hundreds of magazine articles, multiple short stories in competitive anthologies, a couple APEX technical writing awards, a 2019 Imadjinn Best Literary Fiction Novel Award for her #MeToo novel She’s Not Broken, and a 2020 Pushcart Prize nomination for her short story Woman off the Grid.

In December, she released her first non-fiction book “How to Train Your Human: a guide for parrots,” which she wrote from a parrot’s point of view. With a new publisher taking over her “Choices” series this summer, she’s launching the “Gentle Dragons” series on her own, starting with Ava’s story in Move the Stars.

Connect with Sandy Lender

website – facebook – amazon

This post is part of a virtual book tour organized by Goddess Fish Promotions. Sandy Lender will be awarding a $10 Amazon or Barnes and Noble Gift Card to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour. Click here to see the other stops on the tour.

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  1. Goddess Fish Promos (@GoddessFish) says

    May 18, 2020 at 3:47 am

    Thanks for hosting!

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  2. Sandy Lender says

    May 18, 2020 at 7:18 am

    Thank you for hosting the tour of “Move the Stars” today. And thank you for your kind words about Ava’s bravery and courage. She was a joy to write about…had to pull her out of a lot of self-doubt…THANK YOU for sharing her with your followers! I’ll be working the day-job today, but I’ll check in by EOD to say “hey” to folks. Have an unshakeable day!

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  3. Bernie Wallace says

    May 18, 2020 at 7:37 am

    Are any of the characters in your book based off of characteristics or personalities of people that you know?

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  4. Rita Wray says

    May 18, 2020 at 10:21 am

    Sounds like a good book.

    Reply
  5. Sandy Lender says

    May 18, 2020 at 4:08 pm

    Bernie, in “Move the Stars,” at least one of the characters has a couple “real world” people combined to make her more realistic and believable. But, overall, these characters are straight outta my brain. Now…those shoulder dragons are based totally on my pets. 😉

    Reply
  6. Bernie Wallace says

    May 19, 2020 at 8:09 am

    How many books have you written so far? Congrats on the release.

    Reply
  7. Bernie Wallace says

    May 20, 2020 at 8:14 am

    Your book sounds like alot of fun. Thanks for sharing.

    Reply
  8. Leah Cavendish says

    May 20, 2020 at 10:22 am

    This sounds really interesting.

    Reply
  9. Bernie Wallace says

    May 21, 2020 at 9:10 am

    Thanks for sharing your book. Wishing you a successful release.

    Reply

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