Blog Tour: Charlotte Brontë Before Jane Eyre (excerpts, teasers, and giveaway)

Hello, hello, hello!!!

It’s mid-week again and happy Wednesday! 😀

Since it was our Mid-Autumn Festival, a.k.a. Moon Festival, last Friday, we got a short holiday back then and I managed to do nothing except sleeping, eating, reading, repeat. LOL Better yet, I’ll be taking this Friday off (that’s 2 days from now!) and spend some quality time with my family while celebrating my grandma’s birthday at a lovely resort in the Eastern part of the island. ❤ *Eeeeps*

Hence, I’m feeling kinda high all week long despite the fact that I’ve been working nonstop for weeks lately. 😛 Anyways, it’s 1:30 in the morning and here I am, sharing an upcoming graphic novel featuring the most classic female character/author, Charlotte Brontë and her life before Jane Eyre…at least that’s what the title implies.

All right, folks! Fasten your seatbelts and let the ride begin!

Title: Charlotte Brontë Before Jane Eyre

Author: Glynnis Fawkes

Release Date: Sept. 24th, 2019

Publisher: Disney-Hyperion

Formats: Hardcover, paperback, ebooks

Pages: 112

Genres: Young Adult, Historical, Graphic Novel

Synopsis:

Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!–I have as much soul as you,–and full as much heart!

Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre is a beloved classic, celebrated today by readers of all ages and revered as a masterwork of literary prowess. But what of the famous writer herself?

Originally published under the pseudonym of Currer Bell, Jane Eyre was born out of a magnificent, vivid imagination, a deep cultivation of skill, and immense personal hardship and tragedy. Charlotte, like her sisters Emily and Anne, was passionate about her work. She sought to cast an empathetic lens on characters often ignored by popular literature of the time, questioning societal assumptions with a sharp intellect and changing forever the landscape of western literature.

With an introduction by Alison Bechdel, Charlotte Brontë before Jane Eyre presents a stunning examination of a woman who battled against the odds to make her voice heard.

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

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Exclusive Sneak Peeks!

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About the Author

I’m a cartoonist and illustrator living in Burlington, VT.

My most recent book is Charlotte Bronte Before Jane Eyre, Center for Cartoon Studies Presents series, will be published in September 2019 by Disney/Hyperion. Also in September, Secret Acres will publish Persephone’s Garden, a collection of autobiographical comics that have appeared in the New Yorker and other places.

I began working on excavations as illustrator in 1998 and have worked on sites in Greece, Crete, Turkey, Israel, Cyprus, Syria, and Lebanon.  I continue to work in Greece every year.   My illustrations have been published in several books and many articles.

Many of my personal comics reflect a career in archaeology and family life.  Greek Diary is about working on a dig and traveling with children.  My drawings about my children were published regularly on Muthamagazine.com  and were nominated for an Ignatz Award at the Small Press Expo in 2016.

Another project, Alle Ego, is about my first trip to Greece and how it launched my work in the direction of archaeology.  A draft of this book won the MoCCA Arts Festival Award in NY in 2016.  I drew most of it during a residency at La Maison des Auteurs in Angouleme, and I plan to return to work on this book in the future.

I’m currently working on a middle grade adventure set after the eruption of Thera in Late Bronze Age Greece.

Website | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Tumblr | Goodreads

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Giveaway!

3 winners will receive finished copies of the book.

U.S. only.

Ends in 16 days.

GOOD LUCK!!!!!!

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Tour Schedule

Week One:

9/2/2019- Odd and Bookish– Excerpt

9/3/2019- Country Road Reviews– Excerpt

9/4/2019- dwantstoread– Review

9/5/2019- A Dream Within A Dream– Excerpt

9/6/2019- Lifestyle Of Me– Review

Week Two:

9/9/2019- Christen Krumm, Writer, Reader, Serious Coffee Drinker– Review

9/10/2019- Careful of Books– Review

9/11/2019- Character Madness and Musings– Excerpt

9/12/2019- Fictitiouswonderland– Review

9/13/2019- Fyrekatz Blog– Review

Week Three:

9/16/2019- Little Red Reads– Excerpt

9/17/2019- Book-Keeping– Review

9/18/2019- Life of a Simple Reader– Excerpt

9/19/2019- Kati’s Bookaholic Rambling Reviews- Excerpt

9/20/2019- Inspired by Savannah– Review

 

Week Four:

9/23/2019- History from a Woman’s Perspective– Review

9/24/2019- Wishful Endings– Excerpt

9/25/2019- Just Another Reader– Review

9/26/2019- Jade Writes Books– Review

9/27/2019- Rants and Raves of a Bibliophile– Review

Week Five:

9/30/2019- two points of interest– Review

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Yay! Hopefully you’re as intrigued by the synopsis and the entire concept of probing into Charlotte’s life before Jane Eyre as I do! Honestly, I’ve never read graphic novels so this one is very likely to be my first try. 🙂

Thanks again to the wonderful Rockstar Book Tours for the blog tour opportunity.

Happy rest-of-the-week and weekend in advance!!

 

Until next time,

Jasmine 🙂