Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Janine A. Southard’s CRACKED: A MAGIC IPHONE STORY virtual book tour February 2 – 27!
Title: Cracked! A Magic iPhone Story
Author: Janine A. Southard
Publisher: Cantina Publishing
Pages: 265
Genre: Contemporary Lit/Humor
Format: Paperback/Kindle
Author: Janine A. Southard
Publisher: Cantina Publishing
Pages: 265
Genre: Contemporary Lit/Humor
Format: Paperback/Kindle
What can
your phone do for you?
This is the story of a girl and her iPhone. No, that’s not quite right. This is the story of a middle-aged statistician and her best friend. Though she didn’t consider herself middle-aged. And the best friend was more of a roommate-with-whom-she’d-developed-a-friendship. And this description completely ignores the 6,000-year-old elf with whom the woman and her best friend enjoyed story gaming.
So let’s try this again.
This is the story of a woman who wished to find love, but who would rather play story games than actively look for it. Especially in the wake of a horrid break-up six months before from a man who had never sent her a single gift.
Until this Valentine’s Day, when she received a brand new iPhone in a box with his name on it.
Between story gaming and succumbing to the phone’s insidious sleekness, she learns that friendship trumps romance.
In Cracked! A Magic iPhone Story, award-winning author Janine A. Southard (a Seattle denizen) shows you how the geeks of Seattle live, provides a running and often-hilarious social commentary on today’s world, and reminds you that, so long as you have friends, you are never alone.
This is the story of a girl and her iPhone. No, that’s not quite right. This is the story of a middle-aged statistician and her best friend. Though she didn’t consider herself middle-aged. And the best friend was more of a roommate-with-whom-she’d-developed-a-friendship. And this description completely ignores the 6,000-year-old elf with whom the woman and her best friend enjoyed story gaming.
So let’s try this again.
This is the story of a woman who wished to find love, but who would rather play story games than actively look for it. Especially in the wake of a horrid break-up six months before from a man who had never sent her a single gift.
Until this Valentine’s Day, when she received a brand new iPhone in a box with his name on it.
Between story gaming and succumbing to the phone’s insidious sleekness, she learns that friendship trumps romance.
In Cracked! A Magic iPhone Story, award-winning author Janine A. Southard (a Seattle denizen) shows you how the geeks of Seattle live, provides a running and often-hilarious social commentary on today’s world, and reminds you that, so long as you have friends, you are never alone.
About The Author
Janine A. Southard is the IPPY award-winning author of the Hive Queen Saga, as well as other science fiction and young adult novels and novellas.
The Hive Queen Saga books blend cultural experimentation with epic as they follow a formalized Hive of teenagers on a voyage to new lands and new cultures where their own ways seem very strange. The first novel in the saga, Queen & Commander, has been described as “like Joss Whedon’s Firefly but for teenagers” by the YA’s Nightstand. The second book, Hive & Heist, is a classic heist tale set on a space station.
Queen & Commander received an IPPY (Independent Book Publishers) Award for science fiction ebooks in 2013. Outside the Hive Queen Saga, the science fiction novella These Convergent Stars was selected as the short ebook recommendation of the week at Tungsten Hippo on 29 January 2014.
All Southard’s books so far have been possible because of crowdsourced funds via Kickstarter. She owes great thanks to her many patrons of the arts who love a good science fiction adventure and believe in her ability to make that happen.
From her home in Seattle, she is currently working on a half-contemporary, half-fantasy novel for adults, Cracked! A Magic iPhone Story, which releases in early 2015.
For More Information
- Visit Janine A. Southard’s website.
- Connect with Janine on Twitter.
- Find out more about Janine at Goodreads.
Excerpt:
Morena’s new iPhone
double-buzzed on the bathroom counter, perilously close to the washbasin.
“I didn’t know you’d
decided to use this one exclusively,” Suzyn said, hoping Morena would donate
the older Samsung to her. Unfortunately for Suzyn, that would never happen. Not
only did Morena prefer her familiar old phone for work purposes, but she hadn’t
actually noticed she’d transitioned to the new iPhone.
The iPhone was just so
handy. Somehow, it was always there, as though it were tethered to Morena’s
subconscious. Why, it was almost like it had followed her to the bathroom.
Morena shrugged and
thumbed the unlock with her left hand while her right fished for the liquid
eyeliner she knew was somewhere in her makeup kit. Why was it that the thing
she wanted always shifted to the bottom? “I’m just gonna check Mãe’s
location...”
There might have been
an end to that sentence, but she was distracted by the hunt for the
all-important eyeliner.
...and
by the bright green heart that filled the screen. That was not the regular
dashboard, nor was it the friend-finding app.
Suzyn giggled and
knocked their elbows together over the laminate counter showing water stains
from the ’80s, ’90s, and today. “If you can’t handle an iPhone, maybe you
should just give your oversized thumbs a rest.”
For More Information
- Cracked! A Magic iPhone Story is available at Amazon.
- Pick up your copy at Barnes & Noble.
- Discuss this book at PUYB Virtual Book Club at Goodreads.
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