Goddess Fish: “Forward to Camelot” by Susan Sloate and Kevin Finn Super Book Blast

By Ruth on October 31, 2013 in book, giveaway, promo
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Forward to Camelot BannerForward to Camelot

by Susan Sloate and Kevin Finn

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Foward to Camelot Book CoverBLURB:

 

WHERE WERE YOU THE DAY KENNEDY WAS SAVED?

 

On the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination comes a new edition of the extraordinary time-travel thriller first published in 2003 with a new Afterword from the authors.

 

On November 22, 1963, just hours after President Kennedy’s assassination, Lyndon Johnson was sworn in as President aboard Air Force One using JFK’s own Bible. Immediately afterward, the Bible disappeared. It has never been recovered. Today, its value would be beyond price.

 

In the year 2000, actress Cady Cuyler is recruited to return to 1963 for this Bible—while also discovering why her father disappeared in the same city, on the same tragic day. Finding frightening links between them will lead Cady to a far more perilous mission: to somehow prevent the President’s murder, with one unlikely ally: an ex-Marine named Lee Harvey Oswald.

 

Forward to Camelot: 50th Anniversary Edition brings together an unlikely trio: a gallant president, the young patriot who risks his own life to save him, and the woman who knows their future, who is desperate to save them both.

 

History CAN be altered …

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Excerpt :

The man in the doorway was yawning, and his bright chestnut hair, flecked with threads of gray, was tousled. He wore half glasses down on his nose and held a thick typewritten report in one hand. His navy silk tie was pulled down, his white shirt was rumpled. His eyes, though bloodshot, focused on us politely.

I was face to face with President John F. Kennedy.

He looked at us, puzzled, and glanced around the empty hallway.

I knew if I didn’t speak that I’d never have another chance, but I couldn’t think of a thing to say. The President looked at us, raised an eyebrow.

Quick, Cady, say something. “Mr. President, my name is Cady Cuyler.” Beside me, I felt Lee start at the words. “I’ve come a long way to speak to you. Please, it’s very urgent.”

He was still puzzled. “Where’s my Secret Service detail?”

I took a deep breath. In for a penny, in for a pound. “They’re out drinking at a nightclub called The Cellar, here in Fort Worth. They left some Fort Worth firemen to guard you. They’ll be pretty hung over in the morning.”

Kennedy looked down at me. His eyes were a bit brighter, though it was now close to 2:00 a.m.  He looked over at Lee, who gave him a tense smile, and stood almost at military attention. He looked back at me and asked quietly, “And how do you know this?”

It was time. His hand was on the doorknob. Almost imperceptibly, he was inching it shut.

I took a deep breath. “I’ll tell you, but you’re not going to believe me.” I waited; he waited too. But he was listening; I still had a chance.

“I’m from the future. I don’t live in Dallas in 1963. I live in New York in the year 2000. I’m here to warn you, sir, and save you if I can. If you don’t listen to me now… you’re going to die in less than 12 hours.”

 

Oswald had turned to me in alarm. Kennedy’s gray eyes never left my face while I spoke. When I stopped, hoping, praying I had reached him, he glanced down for a moment, then down the hall. All was quiet, the annoying yellow lights still burning overhead. Like casinos in Vegas, it was impossible to know from the artificial light in the hotel whether it was noon or midnight.

“You’re right,” the President said in that distinctive accent. “I don’t believe you.” He started to close the door in my face.

Before he could, I was talking again, as quickly and persuasively as I could. “Why would I make up a story like that? It makes no sense. Unless it was true!”

His gaze was even and noncommittal, but at least he’d stopped closing the door. “Can you prove it?”

 

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Susan SloateAUTHOR Bio and Links:

 

SUSAN SLOATE is the author of 20 previous books, including the recent bestseller Stealing Fire and Realizing You (with Ron Doades), for which she invented a new genre: the self-help novel. The original 2003 edition of Forward to Camelot became a #6 Amazon bestseller, took honors in three literary competitions and was optioned by a Hollywood company for film production.

 

Susan has also written young-adult fiction and non-fiction, including the children’s biography Ray Charles: Find Another Way!, which won the silver medal in the 2007 Children’s Moonbeam Awards. Mysteries Unwrapped: The Secrets of Alcatraz led to her 2009 appearance on the TV series MysteryQuest on The History Channel. Amelia Earhart: Challenging the Skies is a perennial young-adult Amazon bestseller. She has also been a sportswriter and a screenwriter, managed two recent political campaigns and founded an author’s festival in her hometown outside Charleston, SC.

 

Kevin FinnAfter beginning his career as a television news and sports writer-producer, KEVIN FINN moved on to screenwriting and has authored more than a dozen screenplays. He is a freelance script analyst and has worked for the prestigious American Film Institute Writer’s Workshop Program. He now produces promotional trailers, independent film projects including the 2012 documentary SETTING THE STAGE: BEHIND THE SCENES WITH THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE, and local content for Princeton Community Television.

 

His next novel, Banners Over Brooklyn, will be released in 2014.

 

For updates and more information about Forward to Camelot: 50th Anniversary Edition, please visit http://susansloate.com

Susan and Kevin will be awarding a $25 Amazon Gift Card to a randomly drawn commenter during this tour and their Virtual Book Tour.

(Look for my review during that  tour–I’m excited to start this one!)

Follow the tour and comment; the more you comment, the better your chances of winning. The tour dates can be found here:

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“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.” — Franz Kafka Ruth is an inspirational entertainment journalist who instinctively sees the best in all and seeks to share universal beauty, love and positivity. She is an artist who leads with her heart and gives readers a glimpse of the best of this world through the masterful use of the written word. Ruth was born in Tacoma, Washington but now calls Yelm, Washington her home. She lives on five acres with her parents, a dog, two miniature goats, cats and a teenage daughter who is a dynamic visual artist herself. Ruth interviews fellow artists both inside and outside of the film/television industry. At the core of all she does is the strength of her faith.

9 Comments

  1. Mary Lou Gerrish November 2, 2013 Reply

    This is a terrific time travel book. I think it is the best I have read on this subject. We can only speculate on how different our world would have been if something like this had happened. FORWARD TO CAMELOT is full of fast moving action. A real page turner and hard to put down. I would love to see this made into a movie.

  2. Kevin Finn November 2, 2013 Reply

    With Civil Rights intended as JFK’s main platform for re-election in ’64, RFK, JFK and MLK would’ve been at the forefront of cultural change. Perhaps some of the personal freedoms and basic rights people are still fighting for today would have been addressed decades earlier, without the violence & bloodshed.

  3. Catherine November 2, 2013 Reply

    It’s interesting to speculate how the world might have been different had JFK, RFK, and MLK had all not been assassinated.
    catherinelee100 at gmail dot com

  4. bn100 November 1, 2013 Reply

    Nice excerpt

    bn100candg at hotmail dot com

  5. Kevin Finn November 1, 2013 Reply

    Usually it’s all great, Susan and I compliment each other well. her strengths may be my weaknesses and vice versa. So when we’re both going well with thought it’s easy. Some days one partner carries the other, and that’s great. Sometimes we both have bad days, but they can somehow turn good if one of us strikes a solid idea. There’s always one partner who as to be considered ‘senior’, the one who breaks the deadlocks when we disagree on a creative choice. Then there’s the ‘voice’ of the piece–in this case, protagonist is a woman, so it made perfect sense that Susan would write and eventually rewrite everything we did. There may be two writers, but there can only be one voice and sometimes it’s a little hard to give up that kind of control.

  6. Andra November 1, 2013 Reply

    How hard was it for the two of you to collaborate on the project?

    andralynn7 AT gmail DOT com

  7. Theresa Ann Fischer November 1, 2013 Reply

    Interested to learn how this book ends. AFischer48@mail.com

  8. Susan Sloate November 1, 2013 Reply

    Thanks so much for hosting us today, Ruth! It’s so good to be here!

  9. goddess fish November 1, 2013 Reply

    Thank you for hosting.

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