The Skinwalker's Apprentice
Release Date: 02/24/14
Summary from Goodreads:
New York City 1984: It’s Emerald Kipp’s sixteenth
birthday, and nothing has changed. She’s still the biggest loser in school,
she’s still trying to find a place for herself and yeah, she’s still a witch.
Her last year of high school is turning out to be the worst yet, and Emerald
thinks it can’t possibly get any worse. Unfortunately for her, she’s dead
wrong.
East Hampton, NY 1658: The Pennyfeathers are the black sheep of their small English settlement. As hard as they try to keep the family secrets just that, the magical bunch just can’t seem to fit in. But when a High Priestess witch chooses 16-year-old Margo Pennyfeather as an apprentice, Margo’s luck finally begins to change. What she doesn’t know, is there’s a lot more to her apprenticeship, and to being a witch, than she could ever imagine
Discover the mysterious beginnings of The Empire Witch Series in "The Skinwalker's Apprentice: An Emerald Kipp Novella."
East Hampton, NY 1658: The Pennyfeathers are the black sheep of their small English settlement. As hard as they try to keep the family secrets just that, the magical bunch just can’t seem to fit in. But when a High Priestess witch chooses 16-year-old Margo Pennyfeather as an apprentice, Margo’s luck finally begins to change. What she doesn’t know, is there’s a lot more to her apprenticeship, and to being a witch, than she could ever imagine
Discover the mysterious beginnings of The Empire Witch Series in "The Skinwalker's Apprentice: An Emerald Kipp Novella."
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Excerpt:
Emerald
slid one sneaker off with her right foot and kicked it in the air, then did the
same with the other, not bothering to check where it landed. They’d put
themselves away, she thought. Since her room was the only place she could use
magic, she used it freely, enchanting every last thing from her socks to her
wallpaper. Her walls were covered with posters of her favorite bands, and they
all came to life as she entered the room. One drummer in a black and white
poster twirled his drumsticks in an infinite loop, while the guitarist shredded
his guitar midair, legs splayed out to his sides. The little wallpaper that was
showing from underneath her posters, swayed as if the flowers were in a breezy
meadow instead of an apartment in downtown Manhattan. Her mint colored robe
laid lazily on her bed, its fluffy sleeves turning the pages of her precious
Vive Le Rock magazine as if it could actually read, or see for that matter.
Emerald shook her head and smiled, just as her slippers plodded out from
underneath her bed, stopping at her feet.
“Not
yet,” she dismissed the slippers, and they shuffled back into the darkness
underneath her iron wrought bed. Records lined the shelf to the right of her
bed, and a record player sat on the sill of the bay window that looked out into
her backyard.
She
looked at her record collection and twisted her mouth in thought. Before she
could make up her mind what to play, a record flew off the shelf, slipping out
of its sleeve and floating over to her stereo set. The needle settled on the
vinyl disk, and “Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops,” began to play.
About the Author:
Claribel Ortega is a graduate of the SUNY Purchase
journalism program, and got her start writing for the school’s Independent
Newspaper. There, she quickly rose the ranks from editing the student’s often
times hilarious ads and ramblings on the back page of the paper to staff and
feature writer.
After graduation, Claribel worked as a reporter for
The Rivertowns Enterprise, a local paper in lower Westchester County, New York.
As a reporter, she enjoyed going to board of education meetings and texting the
town mayors about the line at Starbucks.
Today, Claribel works for The Combined Book Exhibit,
a book marketing company in Westchester NY.
She lives in New York with her really awesome
boyfriend, her suspiciously intelligent yorkie Pancho Villa and is surrounded
by an impenetrable fort of books she gets from her job.
“The Skinwalker’s Apprentice” is her first book, and
cheese is her favorite food.
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