Monday 1 March 2021

Blog Tour: The Electric Girl by Christine Hart {Guest Post + #Giveaway} @chris_a_hart

 



Author: Christine Hart
Title: The Electric Girl
Genre: YA SciFi Fantasy, Magic Realism


Polly Michaels is trying to forget that her mom has cancer. She keeps busy at school and plods through a normal social life. Until a freak electrical storm and a unicorn appear in the orchard next to her house.

Sy'kai wakes on an orchard floor to the smell of rotting cherries and wet earth. She doesn't know where she is-or what she is-but she knows something is hunting her.

Polly recruits her friends to find the mysterious creature she saw from her window while Sy'kai, a confused shape-shifting endling from another dimension tries to piece her mind back together. Once the human girls find Sy'kai (whom they nickname Psyche) the mystery unravels and the danger facing all of them comes into focus. 

A gritty struggle ranges throughout the girls' rural hometown and in the wild terrain around it. All while two questions hang over their heads. Can an alien deliver a miracle for a human mother? Can a group of teens defeat an interdimensional demon?



Guest Post


The Electric Girl: Character Hang Out


Would you ever hang out with fictional characters? 

If the answer is yes, today’s post is right up your alley. We’re chatting with author Christine Hart – and the lead characters of her new YA, The Electric Girl. Keep reading to meet two incredibly unique girls – and their creator.

Christine, what should we know about you before we meet your characters?

I wear a lot of hats. I’m a tech blogger, mother of two, and a metalsmith with a small Etsy shop. I’m one of those ladies that decided to go the side-hustle route when I became a mother. Because child care is expensive and if you don’t have a boss, you don’t need permission to stay home with a sick kid or drive someone to a dentist appointment.

On a related note, I’m not as young as I used to be. I think it’s relevant for YA authors and as much as I love it, I’m not sure how long I’ll be able to write for young readers. I started writing YA fiction when I was 26 and I felt well-equipped to revisit my teen mindset. At this moment, I’m 42. I have children of my own – the oldest of which is much closer to his teen years than I am to mine.

And still, I relish chances to inhabit that phase of life. They were the years I was most free to be myself without too many demands. Hopefully I’ll know if I start missing the mark in my books.

Polly, what do you want to tell us about how you handled yourself in this story?

I still can’t believe it all really happened. I have these little moments where I look at the repairs on my house – or I glance at my pendant from Psyche – and I know it was real.

Part of me thinks it’s awesome that I could be so brave and that I fought as hard as I did. And then I think, ‘Oh, my god, that could have gone so badly! What was I thinking?’

I feel kind of like I don’t need to make excuses for myself anymore. I’m pretty fantastic. Nowadays, anybody that doesn’t see that can suck rocks. My friends and I rule!

Psyche, can you share something none of our readers learned about you in the book?

I do feel a sense of being drawn out into the universe. I do not know if this is to continue interstellar and inter-dimensional exploration, or perhaps to somehow continue to develop my individual consciousness. I never pursued self-improvement for its own sake; I was a gatherer of knowledge and then a guardian. I have a growing need to find out what it will be like to simply exist for my personal enjoyment.

I was very fortunate to (mostly) enjoy my teen years, awkwardness and all. I was an art/literature geek, but I rebelled too. I was a careful student, but I did bad things. (I won’t elaborate too much on that last point.) I struggled to balance academic and social. I felt unrequited love, artistic let-downs, and the disappointment in self that most over-achievers typically feel. Throw in a little imposter syndrome and that’s me in a nutshell.






Located on BC’s beautiful West Coast, I write from my suburban home outside Vancouver.  I love writing about places and spaces with rich history and visually fascinating elements as a backdrop for the surreal and spectacular.  

In addition to my undergraduate degree in writing and literature, my background also includes corporate communications and design. I am a current member of the Federation of BC Writers and SF Canada.

When not writing, I have a habit of breaking stuff and making stuff – in that order – under the guise of my Etsy alter-ego Sleepless Storyteller.  I share my eclectic home and lifestyle with my metalworking husband, dancing daughter, and future rocket scientist son.





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$25 Amazon
 

3 comments:

  1. An awesome cover and an intriguing synopsis, this sounds like a must read for me. Thank you for sharing the book and author details

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  2. Anastasia, thank you for posting about The Electric Girl. Much appreciated!

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