Saturday, July 4, 2015

Amy Leigh Strickland Giveaway

Author Amy Leigh Stickland has a giveaway for her steampunk adventure books!  Who is Amy? Amy Leigh Strickland was born Amy Leigh Albro on June 8, 1986 in a hospital in Nashua, NH. She was raised for eighteen years in Townsend, MA, participating in Drama Club, Girl Scouts, Art Club, Flight Student Literary Magazine, and the National Honors Society. Amy graduated as a Gold Award Girl Scout, as President of her school's chapter of the NHS, and received the Flag Award for citizenship. 

After graduating High School, Amy enrolled in the Savannah College of Art and Design. Amy earned her BFA in Performing Arts at SCAD, and she starred in Sharon Ott's 2008 production of Oliver Twist as the title role. During this time, she also took advantage of her electives, studying writing, Shakespeare, and World Mythology. It was here that she met her future husband, Kyle Strickland.

In the summer of 2008, BFA in-hand, Amy returned to Townsend, MA to plan her wedding. She began writing her first novel while working retail and doing freelance web design work. On April 24, 2010, Amy married and became Amy Leigh Strickland. Days after returning from her honeymoon, Amy packed up and moved to Alabama.

Amy's first published novel, Olympia Heights: The Pantheon, was released in July of 2011. Its sequels, Olympia Heights: The Weight of the World, Olympia Heights: The Blood of Athens, and Olympia Heights: The Cult of Kronos followed. In 2013, Strickland published Rescue OR, Royer Goldhawk's Remarkable Journal, an American steampunk adventure novel. Its sequel is expected in 2014.

Strickland holds a Masters of Secondary Education (English Language Arts) from the University of Montevallo. 



The keychain giveaway to in celebration of the launch of the second book in the series, Major Bedloe's Cold Iron War Machine


Description:
Upon their arrival in Fairy, Royer Goldhawk and his companions are swept away by an encampment of free humans who are fighting a war on two fronts.
Royer must broker peace between these humans and the fairy rebels in order to defeat their common foe, Major Bedloe, and to stop the horror he is about to unleash upon the world.

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Give these books a look and try to win the awesome keychain in the giveaway.  Let me know if you are the winner!

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