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#Giveaway Interview THE MONSTER HYPOTHESIS by Romily Bernard @RomilyBernard @DisneyBooks Ends 12.26

December 5, 2019 By Mary

by Romily Bernard

THE MONSTER HYPOTHESIS 

Title: THE MONSTER HYPOTHESIS
Author: Romily Bernard
Pub. Date: December 10, 2019
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 304
Formats: Hardcover, eBook

Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, B&N, iBooks, Kobo, TBD

Welcome to Bohring-home to 453 people, 2,053 alligators, and one monster curse.

Correction: home to 454 people, now that Kick Winter is living in the swamp Hollows with her Grandma Missouri, the town (fake) psychic. Bohring is anything but boring for Kick who has already blown a hole through the kitchen floor, befriended a chicken-eating gator, and discovered that the town’s hundred-year curse is upon them.

It’s the Bohring curse and all the kids are about to become monsters-or so the legend goes. People are worried-except for Kick. She knows there’s a scientific explanation for everything, especially curses and monsters. But Kick is the new kid in school and she’s determined to make a name for herself . . . by pretending to be psychic.

According to her calculations: one teeny-tiny life + (fake) psychic skills = popularity. But when kids start disappearing and glowing creatures start showing up, Kick’s theory quickly evaporates in a puff of foul-smelling swamp gas. Can Kick use her (real) science smarts to prove the curse is a hoax? Or is it just-maybe-sort of-somehow possible the curse is here?

Author Romily Bernard weaves a fast-paced middle-grade mystery filled with humor and scientific intrigue, set in a perfectly eerie Southern town.

 

About Romily:

Romily Bernard graduated from Georgia State University with a literature degree. Since then, she’s worked as a riding instructor, cell-phone salesperson, personal assistant, horse groomer and exercise rider, accounting assistant, and, during a very dark time, customer service representative. . . . She’s also, of course, now a YA novelist.

So don’t let anyone tell you a BA degree will keep you unemployed.

Romily currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia, and Find Me is her debut novel. It placed first in the 2011 YA Unpublished Maggie Awards (given by Georgia Romance Writers) and won the Golden Heart Award for YA Romance from the Romance Writers of America in 2012.

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 INTERVIEW

  1. What is on your nightstand?
    Four or five Paw Patrol figurines, my dog’s collar, and a power drill. Does that sound weird? Welcome to my life.

 

  1. What author would you totally fan?
    I have to pick one??? That’s harsh. I would go with Tana French, Dennis LeHane, and Nick Herron. Oops that’s three. Sorry. Math was never my strong suit haha

 

  1. What makes you cringe?
    So very many things. At the moment, it’s from watching my neighbor walk around on his roof. Does he have on work boots? Check. Harness? Also check. Now where’s the harness line attached to in case he falls….? The ground. That’s not how it works, buddy.

 

  1. Do you obsessively plot out each point or just go with the flow?
    I go with the flow. It’s more interesting to me, but it can also leave me with a first or second draft with plot holes huge enough to lose a Honda in.

 

 

  1. Is there a word you love to use?
    It changes from manuscript to manuscript. Once, I used edge forty-odd times. Another book, I always had my characters pulling their chins up. Sigh. It’s a problem.

 

Giveaway Details:

3 winners will receive a hardcover of THE MONSTER HYPOTHESIS, US only.

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Tour Schedule:

Week One:

12/2/2019 Popthebutterfly Reads Review
12/3/2019 Mythical Books Excerpt
12/4/2019 Sometimes Leelynn Reads Review
12/5/2019 Lifestyle of Me Review
12/6/2019 BookHounds Excerpt

 

Week Two:

12/9/2019 Ogitchida Kwe’s Book Blog Review
12/10/2019 For the Love of KidLit Excerpt
12/11/2019 Little Red Reads Review
12/12/2019 Life Within The Pages Review
12/13/2019 Book Briefs Review

 

Week Three:

12/16/2019 Adventures Thru Wonderland Review
12/17/2019 BookishRealmReviews Review
12/18/2019 fictitious.fox Review
12/19/2019 Paper safari Review
12/20/2019 Nay’s Pink Bookshelf Review

 

Week Four:

12/23/2019 She Just Loves Books Review
12/24/2019 Hurn Publications Review
12/25/2019 Two Chicks on Books Excerpt
12/26/2019 Character Madness Excerpt
12/27/2019 Satisfaction for Insatiable Readers Excerpt

 

Week Five:

12/30/2019 Two Points of Interest Review
12/31/2019 Fyrekatz Blog Review

 

 

 

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Comments

  1. Nancy says

    December 25, 2019 at 9:34 am

    Fantastic cover

  2. Debra Branigan says

    December 30, 2019 at 10:24 am

    I am looking forward to reading this one and passing it on to a young reader. The cover is great for MG readers and the storyline sounds perfect for that age. Best wishes to the author on the new release.

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