Last Star Standing by Spaulding Taylor | $50 Giveaway, Excerpt, & Spotlight
A book blog tour from Goddess Fish Promotions.
Thank you to the author, publisher, and Marianne & Judy at Goddess Fish for providing me with the information for this tour.
Book Details
Last Star Standing by Spaulding Taylor Published by Unbound Digital on 02/18/2021
Genres: Action & Adventure, Fiction, Dystopian, Post Apocalyptic, Speculative Fiction, Thriller
Format: eBook, Paperback
Pages: 336
Aiden has always felt like an outsider. After the rebel assassin is captured and imprisoned by the world’s galactic overlords, he awaits execution. Then a mole working for the occupying regime alerts him to a plot that could destroy the entire resistance...
Engineering a daring escape, Aiden’s growing feud with the new rebel leader leaves him out in the cold and smouldering with resentment. Faced with deceit and betrayals on every side, he recruits a group of overlooked outcasts and stakes everything on one last mission.
Can the restless, reckless Aiden take a stand long enough to save humanity from enslavement?
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Excerpt from Last Star Standing
Nothing. Clean as a whistle. Until my massive hand grasped hold of something, something which must have blended into its background so perfectly that I hadn’t even spotted it. Something alive, nestling under the co-pilot’s seat. I couldn’t believe it. A live gromeline. Trembling, possibly with fury, and trying in vain to squeeze back. Grabbing my trophy – I could feel its hot little heart throbbing like an injury against my palm – I hopped out of the plane so fast that my wound protested.
‘Bully!’
Bully raised one eyebrow. Two would have been overkill.
‘Bully, you are not going to believe this. I found a gromeline!’ The gromeline – only about fifteen centimetres – bit my finger, hard, even though I could have easily crushed its entire body with my fist – and probably would have, had I been a tester, and not merely disguised as one.
Feisty little gromeline. I flicked it lightly with my sausage-sized finger. When it protested, I growled, ‘Cheese it, munchkin,’ though I could feel it struggling obstreperously against my palm.
Bully was intrigued. ‘Is it genuine?’ ‘Of course it’s genuine. It just bit me, didn’t it?’
Bully probably considered this no proof. But they’re rarer than clean air these days and his fascination was obvious. Now gromelines come from the farthest galaxy so far discovered, can speak any tongue and own enviable mental powers. They are also brave to the point of stupidity and ludicrously small. This one was mouse-coloured – they can be spectacular – with tiny red eyes. Few humans have ever seen one.
Excerpt provided by the author/publisher for use in this post.
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Purchase Links for Last Star Standing
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Promotional Video for Last Star Standing
@alicemcveigh0 Last Star Standing: awardwinning action/adventure
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Guest Post from Spaulding Taylor
A day with (you) behind the scenes.
Our lives have got easier, as my husband has just “retired” (meaning: he’s not a professor at the University of London any more – however, he’s still writing books).
Whether in London or our home by the sea in Crete, we’re always up by six. If in Crete, we often drive down to Kalathas beach, where the regulars swim daily – even in the winter. We sometimes swim, but we mostly read and watch the colours change as the sun comes up…If we’re in London, I’ll run on the treadmill. Wherever we are, after working a couple more hours, we’ll walk our two sausage dogs in the woods.
If it’s a tennis day in London, we’ll have group coaching at the Bromley Tennis Centre – in Crete, we share our own lesson with the crazy and crazy/brilliant Spyros!
In London, after our afternoon writing/editing session, if we’re lucky enough to have chamber music planned, I’ll have serious cooking to do. In Crete – it’s waaaaay cheaper – we tend to meet friends for dinner at one of the usual tavernas. I practice cello much more in London, too, this year in particular, because I have an Elgar cello concerto performance in mid-November. In Crete, I only have a pretty awful electric cello to practice on, and no groups to play with.
So what are we working on, when not playing tennis, walking dachshunds etc.? Simon is writing a book for Boydell on Concertlife in London from 1900-1914, featuring George Bernard Shaw, Ravel, and Richard Strauss. I’m editing it, at the same time as writing my own novels.
When I finish one, Simon then kindly gets down to editing me. (Yeah, we do save a ton of money on editors… but I still think that I have the tougher job, because he enjoys editing my fiction, and his academic books are far more complicated!)
During the lockdown, our daughter lived with us again (she was in her last term at Oxford, reading Chinese lit.) Now we just call her a lot – and we very often “wish she was here”!
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About Spaulding Taylor
Alice (Spaulding Taylor) McVeigh has been published by Orion/Hachette in contemporary fiction, by Unbound Publishing in action/adventure and by Warleigh Hall Press in Austenesque fiction. Her novels have won Gold Medal/First Place in the Global, eLit and Pencraft Book Awards, been runner-up in the Independent Press Awards, and finalists in the Eric Hoffer, Rone and Wishing Shelf Book Awards and selected by Shelf Unbound as one of the "top indies" of 2021. Two of her novels are currently finalists in the CIBA Book Awards (the Cygnus and Goethe Awards). Her most recent novel (Harriet: A Jane Austen Variation) was just selected as Editors’ Pick “outstanding” on Publishers Weekly.
A professional London cellist, Alice lives in London and Crete with her professor husband: their only child is completing her Masters in Chinese Literature. They also share two miniature long-haired dachshunds and an incurable addiction to tennis.
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Easy Amazon Info Link
Last Star Standing is on sale during the tour only. The price reflected below is always correct.
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Giveaway!
One randomly chosen winner via rafflecopter will win a $50 Amazon/BN.com gift card.
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Official Tour Page for Last Star Standing
Full Tour Schedule:
July 18: The Avid Reader
July 18: Splashes of Joy
July 19: Sandra’s Book Club
July 20: Kit ‘N Kabookle
July 20: Momma Says: To Read or Not to Read
July 21: Lisa Haselton’s Reviews and Interviews
July 22: Gina Rae Mitchell
July 22: Just Bookish Things
July 25: Fabulous and Brunette
July 26: Andi’s Book Reviews
July 26: The Faerie Review
July 27: Author C.A.Milson
July 28: Coffee and Wander Book Reviews
July 28: Author Deborah A. Bailey Blog
July 29: It’s Raining Books
August 1: Read Your Writes Book Reviews
August 1: Gold Dust Editing & Book Reviews
August 2: Sybrina’s Book Blog
August 3: Westveil Publishing
August 3: Hope. Dreams. Life… Love
August 4: Our Town Book Reviews
August 5: Long and Short Reviews
August 5: Novels Aive
August 8: fundinmental
August 9: All the Ups and Downs
August 9: Michael Leon (Book Reviews) – review
August 10: Literary Gold
August 11: Sadie’s Spotlight
August 11: Stormy Nights Reviewing & Bloggin’
August 12: Jazzy Book Reviews
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This sounds like a good read.
Happy Friday! Thank you for sharing your guest post and book details, do you have any specific reading or writing plans for the weekend?
I like the cover! Sounds like a great story with lots of action.
Last Star Standing by Spaulding Taylor sounds like a fascinating book that will sweep readers to a place far, far away!
I enjoyed the excerpt, the video and the guest post, Last Star Standing sounds like a fantastic book to read and I like the cover! Thanks for sharing it with me and have a glorious TGIF!