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Monday, October 8, 2012

FORGET ME NOT ... ghost tour!

Welcome to STOP #3 of Carolee Dean’s

FORGET ME NOT GHOST TOUR!

FORGET ME NOT is a paranormal verse novel exploring the story of a young girl, Ally Cassell, who makes a rash and desperate decision after being bullied and ostracized to the point of humiliation. She then finds herself vacillating between worlds with the ability to see ghosts. As she learns their stories, she realizes that suffering is a human phenomenon present throughout history.

STOP 1, Kimberley's Wanderings, visited the places around the school where different ghosts gravitate depending on how they met their end.

STOP 2, Girls in the Stacks, was a ghost hunter video.

To visit those stops and see what’s coming next, go to the end of this post. Check out these hand-crafted raven earrings made specially for the GHOST TOUR:

The poem below explores the colorful history of the school. It was many things before it became a high school.

THE GHOSTS OF RAVEN VALLEY HIGH

A hundred years ago the school was a convent.

Then after a scandal involving a young nun and a

Jesuit priest the convent was sold and Our

Sisters of Divine Charity became The House of

Fallen Angels

and eventually a Military Institute. Unfortunately there

was a tragic incident involving a young private and a

girl from a nearby prep school and it closed down. It’s

hard to follow the rule of no guns in school when you’re

preparing for war.

It was later reopened as a small private university, which

is the reason the buildings have names like Sci-Tech.

Then the head of the English Department made off

with a bunch of money tucked inside a book of stolen

Metaphors

The property sat vacant for ten years and became a home

to migrating birds and vagrants. Eventually the city auctioned

off the land and the buildings. The school board bought it

cheap thinking it would be the perfect location

for a high school.

Contact the author (email link- caroleedean@yahoo.com) for permission to reproduce

Simon Pulse, October 2, 2012 - Available Now!!!

From the author of Take Me There, a fast-paced novel in verse about a girl caught between life and death—and the boy who will do anything to save her.

Ally is devastated when a scandalous photo of her is texted around school. With her reputation in shambles and her life essentially over, she hides out in a back hallway, trying to figure out where everything went wrong.

Elijah has spent time in that hallway too. He landed there after taking a whole bottle of sleeping pills. Now he can see ghosts, and he knows what Ally has yet to suspect—that she’s already half dead, and one choice away from never coming back. Elijah has loved Ally for years and would do anything to save her from the in-between place. But if she’s going to live, Ally must face her inner demons and find the will to save herself.

Told in interwoven verse narratives, this crushingly honest and poetic exploration of pain and redemption will appeal to fans of Ellen Hopkins.

Carolee Dean

THE CONTEST

You can win the raven earrings and other cool prizes by visiting GHOST TOUR CENTRAL and going to the Rafflecopter contest at the bottom of that page.

FORGET ME NOT Ghost Tour Link

And don’t forget to read about the making of the book trailer and watch the video HERE.

4 comments:

Donna HoleOctober 8, 2012 at 5:13 PM
Interesting premise. A powerful trailer too.

.......dhole
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Carolee DeanOctober 8, 2012 at 7:48 PM
Thanks for being part of the tour.
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Adventures in YA PublishingOctober 9, 2012 at 10:49 AM
The book sounds wonderful! And I love the trailer. Good luck with the launch and the tour. I'm looking forward to reading this one.

Best,

Martina
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