Spooky Reads From LEAP: Patrice Lyle

LEAP Books October Spooky Reads titles, each only $1.99 all October long! Killer's Instinct: Amazon | B&N Beware the Little White Rabbit Anthology: Amazon | iTunes | B&N | Smashwords | Goodreads Half-Life: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N | iTunes Fright Before Christmas Anthology: Amazon | B&N | iTunes | Smashwords The Case of the Invisible Witch: Amazon |  Smashwords | Goodreads  Spirited Anthology: Amazon | B&N  Welcome to the first week of Spooky Reads from Leap! This week we are featuring Patrice Lyle and her spooky books, including her newest release in the Poison Ivy Charm School series, The Case of the Washed-Up Warlock & an excerpt!

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When thirteen-year-old Tulip Bonnaire’s super-cute crush, Dexter, is threatened with expulsion from Poison Ivy Charm School, she can’t help but take the case. Someone has put a spell on Garrett’s Levitation skills and all the evidence, including the testimony of a sea hag stone, points to Dex. Tulip can’t imagine Poison Ivy without him, so she’s intent on proving his innocence. But that means delving into an old secret to find out who turned Garrett into a washed-up warlock. Book Two in the Poison Ivy Charm School Series, releasing  October 5, 2015 Pre-Order Links: Amazon |  Smashwords | Goodreads  Excerpt from The Case of the Washed-Up Warlock:                              “Any news yet?” He sat down on his bed and wedged himself against a mountain of pillows.                 I was about to answer when a glint of gray caught my eye. A stone the size of a cookie, with an uneven hole in the middle of it, sat on his bedside table. “Is that your enchanted sea hag stone?” The one that had started all the trouble?                 “Yeah. Glad she finally woke up and told me ’bout Dexter busting into my closet.”                 I ignored him and approached the troublemaking pebble. Its smooth exterior was cool against my skin when I rolled it between my fingers. Not a sign of life existed until I dropped it – kinda accidentally – onto his table. Thud.                 Dark, creepy eyes appeared, lined with spiky, green eyelashes. A tiny mouth with slimy black lips emerged around the hole. And a long, carrot-shaped nose covered in warts jutted out. “Hey, you. Don’t drop me like a bag of dirt.” Her voice screeched like a spider monkey on a rampage.                 I laughed. “You talking about Garrett’s Lev performance?”                 Garrett cleared his throat. “That’s not my fault. It’s a spell.”                 “Don’t you drop me again, you idiotic hooligan.” The sea hag had a ’tude stronger than Alexandria’s.                 I wanted to fling the stupid stone out the window, but that wasn’t the best way to get information. If the dumb hag had seen Dexter, maybe she’d seen something else that could help me solve the case.                 “Sorry,” I said. “I didn’t mean to.”                 “Yeah, right. I know a rock dropper when I see one.”                 I stifled a smirk and a smart comment about a rolling stone. “You see anything else suspicious in Garrett’s room?”                 She batted her needle-like eyelashes. “Nothing but that nerd ’lock who slipped in here like some moron ghost who hasn’t mastered being dead yet. He fumbled with the door forever before crashing in like a nitwit.”                 Anger shot through my veins like an ink pen explosion. First Garrett had insulted Dex. And now some stone with a hideous, old hag face? Who do they think they are? I grabbed the dumb rock with both hands and pinched the sea hag’s ugly warty nose, intent on breaking it off.                 But she bit me!                 Her moldy teeth chomped down on my fingers, drawing blood.                 “Ouch! You stupid sea hag!” I tried to hurl her against the wall, but her grip was like a pit bull’s.                 If pit bulls had carrot-shaped noses, spider monkey voices, and moldy teeth.                 “Get this thing off me,” I yelled at Garrett. “Or I’ll drop your case.” Patrice Lyle has never met a ghost story she didn’t like. She’s been fascinated with the paranormal since childhood. She attributes this fascination to having heard old family stories of ghostly wreaths, ESP, and money hidden in the lining of antique purses. She grew up on the Oregon Coast and has a Master’s Degree in Writing Popular Fiction. Now she lives with her husband and three cats near Orlando, where she’s working on the next Poison Ivy novel and trolling the area for ghostly happenings. Friend Patrice on Facebook or visit her website. She is also on AuthorsNow! and Twitter: @Patrice_Lyle

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Title: The Case of the Washed-Up Warlock (Poison Ivy Charm School #2)

Author: Patrice Lyle

Release Date: October 5, 2015

When thirteen-year-old Tulip Bonnaire’s super-cute crush, Dexter, is threatened with expulsion from Poison Ivy Charm School, she can’t help but take the case. Someone has put a spell on Garrett’s Levitation skills and all the evidence, including the testimony of a sea hag stone, points to Dex. Tulip can’t imagine Poison Ivy without him, so she’s intent on proving his innocence. But that means delving into an old secret to find out who turned Garrett into a washed-up warlock.

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Author Bio:

Patrice Lyle has never met a ghost story she didn’t like. She’s been fascinated with the paranormal since childhood. She attributes this fascination to having heard old family stories of ghostly wreaths, ESP, and money hidden in the lining of antique purses. She grew up on the Oregon Coast and has a Master’s Degree in Writing Popular Fiction. Now she lives with her husband and two cats on Florida’s Space Coast, where she’s working on her next novel under an umbrella on the beach. For more information, please visit her website at www.patricebooks.com.  

The Case of the Washed-Up Warlock Cover Reveal and Book Blitz Sign-up

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The Case of the Washed-Up Warlock by Patrice Lyle

Thirteen-year-old Tulip Bonnaire moonlights as a private investigator at Poison Ivy Charm school, and her latest case depends on uncovering an old secret to prove her crush Dex hasn't been casting harmful spells. She's in for quite a scare with this case.

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When Ashlee’s stepdad completely forgets her birthday she takes matters into her own hands to get the one thing she really wants: her own cell phone. But text messages start rolling in from a broken-hearted boy, and though Ashlee knows not all stories end happily, she’s determined to make hers the best it can be.

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Fright Before Christmas Anthology Official Author Roster

We have finalized our impressive list of authors to be featured in our middle grade horror anthology project, FRIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS. This collection of 13 tales, from 13 different authors, will knock the stockings off your fireplace this Christmas season. FRIGHT is set to launch in November. Be sure to watch for the cover reveal soon!

And so we give you the FRIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS anthology author roster (authors listed in no particular order):

Richard Ankers

Website: http://richardankers.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Richard_Ankers

Richard is a former authonomy.com gold medalist. He has featured in Third Flatiron Publishing’s ‘The Time It Happened’ anthology and also in The New Accelerator digital imprint. Richard lives for writing and his love of the great outdoors.

Jackie Horsfall

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/jackiehorsfall

Jackie Horsfall is the author of 20 books and hundreds of short stories and articles. She lives deep in the woods of upstate New York, awaiting a Bigfoot sighting.

Boyd Reynolds

Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheBoydReynolds

Boyd Reynolds is a freelance writer and educator living in Vancouver, Canada. He has published short stories for children, teenagers and adults. His other published works include newspaper articles, educational non-fiction pieces and pop culture commentary. Boyd holds a Master of Arts in Children’s Literature and enjoys all things scary.

Lea Storry

Website: http://ourfamilylines.ca/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RavennamedFlight
Twitter: https://twitter.com/FamilyLines

Lea Storry (her real name) is a writer who owns a memoir writing business. She loves creating fiction too and has a kids’ book out about a raven learning to fly. Besides being a writer, Lea’s a pilot and a traveller who lives with her husband in Alberta, Canada.

Ally Mathews

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ally-Mathews/110126195742339?fref=ts

Twitter: https://twitter.com/AllyMathews_YA

Ally lives in Texas with her husband, three kids, four dogs, a cat, a rabbit, and assorted reptiles. She used to be a children’s librarian, but now spends her time writing middle grade and young adult books, and is particularly fond of fairy tale retellings.

Laura Pauling

Website: http://laurapauling.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Laura-Pauling/308338192559237

Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurapauling

Laura Pauling writes about spies, murder, and mystery. She’s the author of the young adult Circle of Spies Series, the Prom Impossible Series, and the Holly Hart Cozy Mysteries for adults. She writes to entertain…and work in her jammies and slippers.

Ty Drago

Website: http://www.tydrago.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ty.drago

Twitter: https://twitter.com/@tydrago

Ty Drago is the author of several published novels, including the critically acclaimed YA series, THE UNDERTAKERS, which has been adapted for a feature film.  His short fiction and articles have appeared in numerous magazines, e-zines, and anthologies, including WRITERS DIGEST.  He and his wife Helene live in New Jersey.

Jessica Bayliss

Website: http://www.jessicabaylisswrites.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jessica-Bayliss/402408229917430
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JBaylissWrites

Jessica Bayliss's love for reading goes all the way back to the 6th grade book bin, and it's never faded. She writes across genres and age groups, but Jessica's dearest dream is to dazzle the hearts of young readers.

Judith Graves

Website: http://judithgraves.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/judithgraveswrites

Twitter: https://twitter.com/judithgraves

Judith Graves loves tragic romance, werewolves, vampires, magic and all things a bit creepy. A firm believer that teen fiction can be action-packed, snarky and yet hit all the right emotional notes, Judith writes stories with attitude. She lives in northern Alberta and when she’s not writing, she works in a school library.

Andrea Stanet

Webbsite: http://andreastanet.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AndreaStanetauthor

Twitter: https://twitter.com/AndreaStanet

A freelance writer from upstate New York, Andrea Stanet has been published online and in print since the late 90s. While she typically writes contemporary and urban fantasy, her reading interests span all genres. Other published middle grade work includes “Nelita and the Shadow” in the anthology Wild Cards.

Patrick Hueller

Patrick Hueller is the author of several scary YA and middle grade books, including Wolf High, The Wish, and (under the pen name Paul Hoblin) Foul.

Dax Varley

Website: http://www.daxvarley.com/

Facebook: http://facebook.com/DaxVarley
Twitter: https://twitter.com/daxvarley

Dax Varley writes the kinds of stories and books she wishes were around when she was a kid. She’s the author of Sleepy Hollow, Return to Sleepy Hollow, Bleed, and Nightmare House. Dax enjoys reading and writing horror and loves all the eerie bumps in the night.

Medeia Sharif

Website: http://www.medeiasharif.com

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/sharifwrites

Medeia Sharif was born in New York City and now lives in Miami. She received her master’s degree in psychology from Florida Atlantic University. Published through various presses, she writes middle grade and young adult short stories and novels. In addition to being a writer, she’s a public school teacher.

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For this weekend only, Leap Books is placing the Kindle version of BEWARE THE LITTLE WHITE RABBIT at a price of only $0.99 to celebrate the July 4th boat ride that started it all! 

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150 years ago Macmillan first published ALICE and to think her birth started during a boat ride on July 4th just a few years before that! An icon in our culture ever since, ALICE has staying power! Don’t believe us? Visit our Facebook page and see how many mad (and glorious) events are going on this year in celebration—here AND across the pond!

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