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Cruel Summer: Indie Blog Hop Book Tour August 2021
From August 23 through August 26, Paige aka PopTheButterfly is organizing the Cruel Summer book tour hosted through Indie Blog Hop!
BOOK TOUR STOPS
August 23
PopTheButterfly: Instagram, Blog, TikTok
August 24
Mr Pink Ink: Blog
August 25
The Reading Rebel: Instagram
August 26
Tabi Slick: Blog
ABOUT THE BOOK
Cruel Summer by Bernard Jan
Genre: YA Cross-Genre (Sexual Abuse, Friendship, Skateboarding, Dystopian)
All he wants to do is skate. But they have other plans for him.
Michael Daniels is seventeen and dreams to enter professional skateboarding contests. But beneath New Manhattan, a city under the oppressive shadow of climate change, exists another world altogether—secret laboratories which threaten society as he knows it.
Those with power will get what they want. No price is too high, even if it means making someone special or robbing them of their dignity, freedom . . . or life.
The price is too high for Michael, though. He has endured his stepfather’s abuse and mind games for almost as long as he remembers. Until one day he takes matters into his own hands, ruining the lives of those he loves most. And his skateboarding friends, Alien and Victor, are his only hope for freedom.
When there is no hope left, friendship is what remains.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Bernard Jan is a pen name of an award-winning novelist and a poet from Croatia, and he has released four books in English.
A World Without Color is a true story of the last three days he spent with his cat, while Look for Me Under the Rainbow in a unique and gentle way sheds light on the plight of harp seal pups in Canada. It warms the heart of all readers concerned about our planet and its treasures. January River is a heartwarming cross-genre novel about five friends, one dog, and one river carrying a secret. His latest YA cross-genre novel, Cruel Summer, is a gripping story of an abused teenager from New Manhattan who only wants to skate, but they have other plans for him.
His first two books were written at the beginning of the war in Croatia in 1991 amidst air alerts and illusory attempts when he wanted to believe and think that life is normal, that everything is all right with the world. He has published five novels, two novellas, and one book of poems in Croatian. Four of his books, including the book of poems, were translated into English.
CRUEL SUMMER ON AMAZON AND GOODREADS
(Please leave your honest review)
Amazon.com
paperback and eBook
Amazon Australia
paperback and eBook
Amazon Canada
paperback and eBook
Amazon UK
paperback and eBook
Goodreads
paperback and eBook
Thank you for organizing this tour, Paige!
BJ
www.bernardjan.com
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Cover and art design by Dean Cole.
Bernard Jan
BOOK TOUR STOPS
August 23
PopTheButterfly: Instagram, Blog, TikTok
August 24
Mr Pink Ink: Blog
August 25
The Reading Rebel: Instagram
August 26
Tabi Slick: Blog
ABOUT THE BOOK
Cruel Summer by Bernard Jan
Genre: YA Cross-Genre (Sexual Abuse, Friendship, Skateboarding, Dystopian)
All he wants to do is skate. But they have other plans for him.
Michael Daniels is seventeen and dreams to enter professional skateboarding contests. But beneath New Manhattan, a city under the oppressive shadow of climate change, exists another world altogether—secret laboratories which threaten society as he knows it.
Those with power will get what they want. No price is too high, even if it means making someone special or robbing them of their dignity, freedom . . . or life.
The price is too high for Michael, though. He has endured his stepfather’s abuse and mind games for almost as long as he remembers. Until one day he takes matters into his own hands, ruining the lives of those he loves most. And his skateboarding friends, Alien and Victor, are his only hope for freedom.
When there is no hope left, friendship is what remains.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Bernard Jan is a pen name of an award-winning novelist and a poet from Croatia, and he has released four books in English.
A World Without Color is a true story of the last three days he spent with his cat, while Look for Me Under the Rainbow in a unique and gentle way sheds light on the plight of harp seal pups in Canada. It warms the heart of all readers concerned about our planet and its treasures. January River is a heartwarming cross-genre novel about five friends, one dog, and one river carrying a secret. His latest YA cross-genre novel, Cruel Summer, is a gripping story of an abused teenager from New Manhattan who only wants to skate, but they have other plans for him.
His first two books were written at the beginning of the war in Croatia in 1991 amidst air alerts and illusory attempts when he wanted to believe and think that life is normal, that everything is all right with the world. He has published five novels, two novellas, and one book of poems in Croatian. Four of his books, including the book of poems, were translated into English.
CRUEL SUMMER ON AMAZON AND GOODREADS
(Please leave your honest review)
Amazon.com
paperback and eBook
Amazon Australia
paperback and eBook
Amazon Canada
paperback and eBook
Amazon UK
paperback and eBook
Goodreads
paperback and eBook
Thank you for organizing this tour, Paige!
BJ
www.bernardjan.com
Subscribe to my mailing list.
Follow me on Twitter.
Cover and art design by Dean Cole.
Bernard Jan
Cruel Summer 2nd in the TCK Publishing Contest
TCK Publishing Reader’s Choice Awards 2021 contest is over and so is the eight months long competition for my novel Cruel Summer.
After a tough “fight” in which Cruel Summer was also in the lead for a few months, it ended up 2nd in YA and Middle Grade book category with 265 votes. Only in the last few weeks the one book beat it in winning the title of the best YA and Middle Grade book in the fifth annual Reader’s Choice Awards, with 104 books competing this year.
This is a great achievement. I am proud of my book and grateful to everyone who casted their votes for it! It’s been a great experience and thank you all for making this competition so exciting!
BJ
www.bernardjan.com
Subscribe to my mailing list.
Follow me on Twitter.
Bernard Jan
After a tough “fight” in which Cruel Summer was also in the lead for a few months, it ended up 2nd in YA and Middle Grade book category with 265 votes. Only in the last few weeks the one book beat it in winning the title of the best YA and Middle Grade book in the fifth annual Reader’s Choice Awards, with 104 books competing this year.
This is a great achievement. I am proud of my book and grateful to everyone who casted their votes for it! It’s been a great experience and thank you all for making this competition so exciting!
BJ
www.bernardjan.com
Subscribe to my mailing list.
Follow me on Twitter.
Bernard Jan
