Margo L. Dill, YA & Kids' Author

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  Eleanor Roosevelt said to do something that scares you each day. This is great advice!

  07/25/14

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  The Fourth Wall by Elizabeth Maria Naranjo is a new debut YA fantasy novel from WiDo publishing. You can enter the giveaway at the Lit Ladies blog: http://www.thelitladies.com

  Here’s more about the book: “Essentially, the book is about the power of grief, and how holding onto it can do damage. It’s about the importance of moving on.”

  Here’s a summary: When Marin was little and monsters chased her through nightmares, she learned to weave her own dreams. Her mother called the lucid dreaming a gift, and when an accident takes her mother and leaves her baby brother an empty shell, Marin uses this gift to spin a new reality for herself. One without time or sorrow. A world without memory. But just when Marin thinks she’s safe in her make-believe fantasy world, the monsters come back and her dream turns to a nightmare. Something in the dream doesn’t want Marin to wake up. In order to heal herself and her family, Marin must face the truth she’s forgotten and conquer what lies behind the fourth wall.

  Here’s a comment about the main character, Marin: Marin’s strengths include independence, a creative mind, and a strong will. All three strengths contribute to her greatest moments of weakness. She is deeply introverted—and I hate to call that a flaw—but certainly it hurts her to stay wrapped inside herself. I guess her main character flaw would be indulgence, and she works on that by slowly opening up, letting the world back in, and allowing herself to heal.

  http://www.thelitladies.com/the-fourth-wall-by-elizabeth-maria-naranjo-ya-book-giveaway/

  07/22/14