Welcome to the book tour for Just a Girl in the Whirl by Annie Wood! Today you're getting a sneak peek inside this book plus an exclusive peek at her upcoming book Memory Ghosts! Be sure to follow the tour for more! Best of luck in the giveaway.
A 17 year old girl is overwhelmed with responsibilities trying to keep her messy family together. Everything spins out of control when her addict actor dad who bailed on the family three years ago leaving her with her lovable but bi-polar mom and her two little sisters, comes back into town and wants to reconnect.
Writing poems is her only escape. Just a girl in the is about family, forgiveness, and having enough courage to live your own life, your own way.
Read an excerpt:
She could feel it build up inside her,
an inner quake that threatens to set off a tsunami that will
destroy everything in its path.
a rise in the belly,
coming in tidal waves.
A tickle in the nose,
that’s not an oncoming sneeze.
She trained herself to ignore this pattern within and respond quickly.
She puts up sandbags to keep it away.
her smile - her glass wall.
She is the solid ground beneath their feet.
She can’t afford a crack to surface.
She’s gotten so good at pretending.
She can feign indifference with the best of them.
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Preview of an upcoming book
Here’s the FIRST ever sample of my upcoming book Memory Ghosts! Please stay in touch to be alerted about its release. You can sign up for my newsletter at anniewood.com
Memory Ghosts - Prologue
Hi. Addison here. I’m going to tell you a story about family and about a stranger who turned into family in just one day. But before you get too excited by the title of this book you’re holding in your hand, or in your Kindle, or listening to on audible, I think It’s important to come clean. I don’t want to start off our relationship with any confusion. The title of this book does not refer to the kind of ghosts you might be expecting. I’m not talking about actual supernatural spooky, All Hallow’s Eve sort of ghosts. Sorry if I misled you. I’m talking about a different kind of ghost. The kind of ghost that lives in our minds. Of a time and place or person we once knew and loved who for whatever reason are no longer around us in our waking life. But they sort of still are. The essence or them, I guess, the spirit, the ghosts of them, they live in our memories. Those are the ghosts I’m talking about. The ones that call you in your mind, making you time travel to a different time and place. Time traveling without a DeLorean and without actually physically going anywhere.
My dad had the Back to the Future blu-ray when I was a kid and we watched it more times than I can count, before I could count. In fact, legend has it that my first word was McFly. My dad would recite all the dialogue along with the actors. So lame, right? Ugh, dads are so dorky! Wait…hang on…I’m not going to do that. I’m not going start our relationship this way either. I’m not going to try to act all annoyed and over it just so you’ll think that I’m cool. Because the truth is, watching Back to the Future with my dad, hearing him alter his voice depending on the dialogue he was reciting, entertaining me as I sat there bouncing up and down on our purple sofa eating CheeseIts out of the box. … those were the best times of my life. If dad and me were relaxed enough to watch a movie it meant that mom was peacefully sleeping upstairs. It meant things were calm and we were safe. At least until it was time to climb out of the DeLorean and come back to reality where we’d have would to rescue mom all over again.
Prologue Part II
Two more things I forgot to mention.
1. I shouldn’t have said that we’re not going to go anywhere physical, I meant that we’re not going anywhere physically, like backwards or forwards, in time. But we will go for a walk. A long, freakin walk. With, now that I think of it, the equivalent to my version of a kooky scientist. The time travel will be the kind that happens when memory ghosts infect your mind and take you places you may or may not want to visit.
2. I’m an artist. I draw, paint, collage and take photos. I create art to make sense of things. I create to figure out the world. I make stuff to calm the hell the down. Anyway, you’ll see.
Love and Good Vibes, Annie Wood
Wood was part of the NBC DIVERSITY SHOWCASE with her comedic scene, That’s How They Get You. She’s written 100s of scenes for actors that have been used by Emmy Award-winning TV director, Mary Lou Belli in her UCLA course and casting director, Jeremey Gordon in workshops all around town.
As an author, she has three books out: Dandy Day, Just a Theory: a quantum love adventure and her first YA novel, Just a Girl in the Whirl (Speaking Volumes Publishing)
Annie’s also an Internationally exhibited mixed-media artist, a produced playwright, and was the third female solo dating game show host in the history of television with the nationally syndicated show, BZZZ! that she also co-produced. (Which just re-ran in 2020 on BUZZRTV!)
Annie writes and creates art daily.
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She also runs the Twitter account for the Women of the Writers Guild West Follow us here —> @WoWGAW
She is part of the Middle Eastern Committee at WGA
and a Dramatist Guild Member and an Authors Guild Member
Annie Wood will be awarding a $40 Amazon or Barnes and Noble GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.
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