Welcome to the Cicada blog tour stop
at Refracted Light!
sponsored by AToMR Book Tours
What Inspired Me to Write Cicada by
Belle Whittington
There’s not any one thing that inspired me to write Cicada. I find inspiration in everything around me, and there are a lot of cumulative memories of inspiration from over the years that all culminated in this YA Paranormal Sci-Fi trilogy! However, I will say that I did include a lot of actual places from the town in which Cicada is set. For instance, I pass a ranch on my way home every day (and sometimes night!), and out in the middle of one of the grassy fields is a small forest of trees with a dense wall of tightly grown underbrush. For years, I’ve imagined that something very mysterious was going on inside that forest, and sometimes at night I’d get creeped out while driving by it! Now readers can get a feel for that forest by reading about the “haunted forest” in Cicada!
A little bit about Belle…
Belle resides somewhere north of Houston, Texas in a small inconsequential town with the smallest most inconsequential name. There, in the shady reaches of the pines, elms, and oaks, she daydreams of adventures and secrets that she weaves throughout her stories.
As a student of literature, Belle is earning her degree in English at the University of Houston. She hopes to teach literature at the college level some day.
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About the book…
The Giveaways…
Belle is generously providing 12, that’s right TWELVE, ebooks of Cicada!
Please fill out the Rafflecopter form to enter. This is mandatory. Comments alone will not be counted as your mandatory entry. Rules and conditions are listed below the Rafflecopter form.
Belle is also giving away an electronic firefly in a jar in honor of the sequel to CICADA called FIREFLY. You can see a video of the jar here. US only.
I can’t figure out how to get the second Rafflecopter to post… it’s giving me issues, but you can go HERE or to pretty much any other stop on the tour to enter this giveaway!
Happy Reading!
Many thanks to the lovely Dani for having me over for a visit on her gorgeous blog!
And thank you to all the readers for stopping by! Y’all are the reason I write! <3
`Belle
My pleasure, Belle!
<3 <3 <3
Thanks for the awesome giveaway! Cicada sounds like a great book =D
BTW I said i would follow via GFC (cause im pretty sure I already am) but can’t find it, but I do follow via email =D
-Becky
Hey Becky! Thanks for checking out the blog tour! Unfortunately GFC no longer supports WordPress blogs so I’ve pretty much gone to Feedburner now. Thank you so much for re-following. I really appreciate it!
Wow, amazing book and giveaway!
Thanks for stopping by Cathy! Good luck!
Thanks for participating in this blog tour stop
This book looks awesome. Love the cover and love the name. I love the sound that cicadas make, that is summer to me. Thanks for hosting the blog tour and will keep following along. Thanks for the giveaway and hope I get to be a lucky winner.
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Great giveaway! Thanks so much!
Cicada sounds really good. Thanks for the chance to win!
Sounds like an awesome book thanks for the giveaway!