Book Blitz run by Xpresso Book Tours.
About the Book
Title: The Princess of Baker Street
Author: Mia Kerick
Publisher: Harmony Ink Press
Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, LGBTQ+
Release Date: January 22, 2019
ISBN13: 9781640803947
“Always wear your imaginary crown” is Joey Kinkaid’s motto. For years, Joey, assigned male at birth, led the Baker Street kids in daring and imaginative fantasy adventures, but now that they’re teenagers, being a princess is no longer quite so cool. Especially for a child who is seen by the world as a boy.
Eric Sinclair has always been Joey’s best friend and admirer—Prince Eric to Joey’s Princess Ariel—but middle school puts major distance between them. As Eric’s own life takes a dangerous turn for the worse, he stands by and watches as Joey—who persists in dressing and acting too much like a Disney princess for anybody’s comfort—gets bullied. Eric doesn’t like turning his back on Joey, but he’s learned that the secret to teenage survival, especially with and absent mother, is to fly under the radar.
But when Joey finally accepts who she is and comes to school wearing lip gloss, leggings, and a silky pink scarf, the bullies make her life such a misery that she decides to end it all. Eric, in turn, must decide who he really is and what side he wants to stand on… though no matter what he chooses, the consequences with be profound for both teens, and they’ll face them for years to come.
Is there a chance the two teens can be friends again, and maybe even more?
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About the Author
Mia Kerick
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Mia focuses her stories on the emotional growth of troubled people in complex relationships. She has a great affinity for the tortured hero in literature, and as a teen, Mia filled spiral-bound notebooks with tales of tortured heroes and stuffed them under her mattress for safekeeping. She is thankful to her wonderful publishers for providing her with an alternate place to stash her stories.Her books have been featured in Kirkus Reviews magazine, and have won Rainbow Awards for Best Transgender Contemporary Romance and Best YA Lesbian Fiction, a Reader Views’ Book by Book Publicity Literary Award, the Jack Eadon Award for Best Book in Contemporary Drama, an Indie Fab Award, and a Royal Dragonfly Award for Cultural Diversity, a Story Monsters Purple Dragonfly Award for Young Adult e-book Fiction, among other awards.
Mia Kerick is a social liberal and cheers for each and every victory made in the name of human rights.
Excerpt
And the weirdest thing is, although I never actually seen my backyard neighbor’s terrifying dog, Cujo, because he lives behind a tall wooden fence, I’m listening for the sound of his ferocious barking. Every now and then, when I think I hear it, I like it so much I smile a little. Cujo’s barking lets me know I’m not the only living being left on earth. Or on Baker Street.
It’s not like I plan what happens next. Tears don’t exactly ask permission to drip down somebody’s face. And they just start streaming down my cheeks like somebody turned a faucet on behind my stupid eyes. But nobody will ever know about how I’m wrapped up in my sheets, crying like a newborn baby who wants his bottle. Nobody can see me here in my bed, under my sheet. It’s like I’m invisible.
Crying feels good—it gives me a shit-ton of relief. I decide to let myself bawl until it turns into tomorrow.
And so I do.
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