I’m very pleased today to welcome The BBNYA Semi-Finalist Spotlight Tour for Russell Isler’s Magical Girl Blues! This book has made it to the semi-finals, so you know there’s something good going on–but before getting to this Spotlight, let’s start with a word about BBNYA.
Also, come back in few hours when I will finally get my post about the book up–almost 3 months after I read it.
BBNYA:
BBNYA is a yearly competition where book bloggers from all over the world read and score books written by indie authors, ending with 15 (17 in 2025) finalists and one overall winner.
If you want some more information about BBNYA, check out the BBNYA Website https://www.bbnya.com/ or take a peek over on Twitter @BBNYA_Official.
Book Details:
Title: Magical Girl Blues by Russell Isler
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Age Category: Adult
Format: Hardcover/Paperback/Ebook/Audiobook
Length: 478 Pages
Publication Date: November 26, 2024
About the Book:
Some things are worse than death… Or high school
Xenia Findlay should be dead—just like her parents, and her best friend Bethany. After the crash, she moves to the tranquil small town of Porter Valley to live with her great aunt. But her recovery is plagued by terrible headaches…and hallucinatory visits from her dead friend.
Worse, the students of Porter Valley High have begun to disappear.
As the missing teenagers join Bethany in Xenia’s visions she begins to suspect that everything she thought she knew—about the world, about death, and about herself—is wrong.
Which means a ghastly force really is lurking in the shadows of her idyllic new home.
And unless Xenia can unlock the power she’s discovered, she might just lose herself, her town—and her very soul.
Book Links:
Amazon Canada ~ Amazon US ~ Amazon UK ~ Goodreads ~ The Story Graph
About the Author:
Russell Isler was born in Champaign, Illinois. As a child, his fate was sealed the evening his parents took him to see Star Wars. Practically obsessed with spaceships, robots and dragons for his entire life, he pursued a career in animation. After a couple decades jumping between the video game and commercial television VFX fields he stumbled into a new group of friends, who went on to create the award winning Adventures of the League of S.T.E.A.M. web-series. In addition to becoming head of VFX for the League, Russell also acted in several of the episodes. The League also gave him his first taste of writing. His writing on the series finale won “Best Screenplay” in the 2017 Dublin Web Festival. By then he realized that he’d had so much fun writing those screenplays that he should probably write down that book idea that had been living in the back of his head.
My thanks to The Book Bloggers’ Novel of the Year Award for the invitation to participate in this tour and the materials they provided.
