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He is the Monster - Available Now

8/29/2018 11:30:00 am

He is the Monster, the new verse novel by Amy Ellis, is available now in paperback and eBook format on Amazon.


He is the Monster Book Cover

What if your father turned out to be a child molester? A question Esther had never asked herself before he was arrested during breakfast. Written in verse, follow the heartbreaking story of a family reeling in the aftermath of the unthinkable.

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Cover Reveal: He is the Monster

8/06/2018 07:58:00 pm

After almost exactly three years, I am excited to announce that my new verse novel He is the Monster will officially launch on August 29, 2018.


I'm so excited to share my new work with all of you. It's certainly been a while!

Without further ado, check out the cover of 'He is the Monster' below: 

Book cover for He is the Monster by Amy Ellis

Summary: 
When Esther comes back at dawn on a school night, she’s expecting an argument with her parents at breakfast. Instead, the police arrest her father for molesting girls in their neighborhood. As her father awaits trial and her mother wastes away with grief, Esther seeks comfort in the things that make her numb: parties, boys and her secret relationship.
She is fine.

Everything is fine until Esther meets Matthew, who refuses to be just another notch in her bedpost. Forced to confront her feelings, Esther has to decide whether to stay comfortably wild and numb or if it’s time to start dealing with the painful reality of her shattered life. 
Written in verse, He is the Monster tells the heartbreaking story of loss and desire after learning that your loved ones aren’t always who you think they are.

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What do you think of the cover? Let me know in the comments below!

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I've updated my review copy policy

6/10/2018 05:10:00 pm

Hello book bloggers--this one is for you.

As the title says, I've updated my policy for review copies for book bloggers.

I've always been happy to send out free review copies of any of my titles in eBook format and I still am. If you're a book blogger and would like an electronic copy of one of my books to review, send me an email with a link to your blog and your Twitter handle. (I want to follow you!) I'm happy to send you a copy of any of my books in whatever format you prefer.

However, I'm now able to provide physical review copies of my books for book bloggers with over 1000 followers on Twitter. Again, just drop me a line with your blog's URL and Twitter handle. I'm limiting physical copies to bloggers in the USA and United Kingdom for now (to cut down on shipping costs) but I may change this to include EU and Canadian book bloggers as well.

Happy reading!

-Amy


PS

If you're interested in getting a review copy of my upcoming book, sign up to my mailing list as I'll be sending out an email with Advanced Review Copies up for grabs soon!

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Happy Birthday to Me Giveaway [Enter to Win 3 Books!]

2/01/2018 08:31:00 am

My birthday's tomorrow and I am... excited... I guess. I think I'm finally starting to realise that the older you get, the less fun birthdays are. I think the way to cope with this feeling is to eat too much cake, drink (a bit) too much wine, and give away some books.

I've done birthday giveaways in the past but this is my biggest one yet.

Two winners, three books each!


One winner will receive a paperback copy of all three of my books, Thinspo, Fault, and Girls Who Wear Pink. The second winner will receive eBook copies of all three of my books, in the format of their choice.

There are lots of ways to enter so good luck!


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Photos from the Oxford Brookes Wellbeing Poetry Contest Prizegiving

11/03/2015 02:39:00 pm

I mentioned in my last post that I won second and third place in the Oxford Brookes Wellbeing Poetry contest and then completely forgot to follow up with some photos.

The reading was fantastic. I was in really good poetic company that night and the small audience was very receptive to all of us. I had a great time reading in front of people for the first time in a few years and my legs only shook a teeny-tiny bit.

Here's what the judges had to say about my poems, which you can read here:

Amy Ellis achieved the remarkable feat of being placed both third and second, and with poems which are radically different from one another in subject matter and tone. Her third-placed poem, ‘The Secret Keeper’ was an intense, shocking piece which the judges admired for its uncompromising approach but also for its craft - the deft use of rhyme and half-rhyme to insinuate and then stun the reader with the full force of the violence being described. The poem is constructed with considerable skill, the beginnings and ends of lines designed to complement the vivid and dynamic imagery.

Amy’s second-placed poem, ‘Stirring’, by contrast, depicts the warmth of a relationship between - what seems to be - a grandmother and granddaughter. It reflects with great tenderness upon a private moment as the speaker looks into the kitchen to see an elderly woman carrying out the everyday action of cooking. She does so selflessly, almost defiantly, making something to please the granddaughter, but in that unguarded moment, revealing her own fragility and age, offering the reader a tension between the grandmother’s repetitive action, and the knowledge of her mortality.

And as promised, a few photos of me in a probably too-short dress reading my poems:
 
 




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