Kendare Blake Meets Buyers and Readers at the London Book Fair
Apr 18, 2011
For Immediate Release
Contact: Lucinda Clark info@prapublishing.com
New YA Author Debuts at London
Book Festival (London England, April 2011) Kendare Blake will be making
her debut at the London Book Fair, in Earls Court on Monday, April 11, 2011
from 9-1:30 at booth K775.
Representatives from Strategic Book Marketing will be on hand to answer
any questions regarding purchasing of rights for the title.
Blake is the author of Sleep
Walk Society (P.R.A. Publishing 2010), her debut novel as a young adult
fiction writer. Kendare
was a Momaya Press prizewinner in 2007, and is published on various sci-fi
blogs.
She was born in Seoul, South Korea. After moving to the U.S., Blake earned a B.S. degree in Business Administration/Finance from Ithaca College in New York and a M.A. in writing from Middlesex University in London. Her hobbies include running, ice hockey, tennis, horseback riding, reading and going on quests to save turtles. She resides in the Seattle area with her husband, Dillon.
What
her peers are saying about Sleep Walk Society
Violet
Monroe has just fumbled her way through
the first year of college. All she wants
now is to go home and have one great
summer with her best friends,
Terran, the beautiful one, and Joey, the
perpetually angry underachiever. But when she goes home, she finds
that
everything has changed: Joey's charismatic
cousin, Brandon, has come to town,
and pays more attention to plain girl Violet than she's used to. Terran and Joey meanwhile, decide to give in to their mutual attraction, only to deal with a troubling aftermath. In the midst
of everything, Violet must decide who she is, something which her parents insist is intrinsically linked to what kind of job she gets after graduating. A contemporary coming of age story about the choices you make when you have no idea how it's all going to turn out.
--Page Turners Blog
...”This is certainly an engaging and above
all emotionally honest young adult novel, the likes of which are far too rare
in today’s market. Violet is no cardboard heroine; she is concerned more with
figuring out herself and her world than with vampiric tonsil hockey and so her
voyage of self-discovery is at its core more painfully, poetically real in its
simplicity than any epic romance could ever be."
--Tara Isabelle Burton author of Father Luigi's
Chameleon
Blake writes with a graceful
subtlety and insight as she creates a complex and intriguing cast of
characters, most notably Violet, who is wonderfully vulnerable and honest as
she navigates the difficult journey toward independence and self-discovery.
--Jayne Pupek author of Tomato
Girl
“Blake
was able to accomplish, in her debut novel, what many others, more experienced, writes are unable to -
she created completely believable world and
story. I cannot tell you how much I appreciate that she was courageous enough to write a book about young
adults that teenagers could really connect
with.” --Bookish Girl Reviews
About P.R.A. Publishing
P.R.A.
Publishing is an independent press based in Martinez, Georgia. We have published thirteen titles to date.
Our genres are poetry and fiction. We
sponsor the annual Poetry Matters contest every April. Follow us on Twitter.
PhoenixRising87@twitter.com.
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