Benjamin McTish and the Door Through the Grandfather Tree by June M Pace Giveaway and Guest Post

About June M. Pace

June lives with her soon to be husband and best friend Ray, his youngest son and their two dogs, seven chickens and two ducks, in Santa Cruz Ca. Ray’s two older kids live respectively in LA and San Francisco.

June spends her days writing and sometimes painting her well known series of Rock n Roll icons.This series of work, the McTish characters, are a part of June in every sense of the word. “This work brings a deep sense of joy and passion for me in a very profound way, like nothing else that I do.”

About Benjamin McTish and the Door Through the Grandfather Tree

It’s Harry Potter meets the Celestine Prophecy in this magical and thrilling ride! The McTish Series is an explosive adventure through a dimensional Gateway into another world, a world of beauty and magic, Coranim…a land of insight, thought and possibilities, that sits beneath the enchanted Gilley Forest.

There is local legend in the small town of Grandlochcheshire that has been passed down for a 100 years about the mysterious disappearance of the Chickering family, that trails on the coat tails of the equally shocking abduction of the Skeffington Union Rails heirs, Connor and Shelbe. The circumstances that follow this notorious tale enter into the modern world of Benjamin and his two best mates.

One day Benjamin watches from behind the Rhododendron as a mysterious little woman steps out of a taxi in front of the cream colored house with the forest green trim next door and in one synchronistic moment their eyes lock and a series of visual snippets of unfamiliar events unfold in his mind’s vision. His razor sharp sixth sense allows him the freedom to explore the extrasensory messages coming at him in a frenzied speed, like a derailed freight train.
And when Benjamin finds a peculiar old relic of a key in his grandmother’s garden shed, he could never know his world was about to change forever.

Annabel and Mathilda, two sisters who have moved to Grandlochcheshire from America, have become more than mere friends to Benjamin, they have all become the three Muskydeers (Mathilda’s mispronounced version of Musketeers, which was a huge laugh and of course it stuck), as they are plunged head first into this curious journey.

In the Gilley Forest they discover that the path they have chosen is inundated with many obstacles as well as intrigue. Alliances are made with the Forest clan of Gnomes known as the Set, and with the aid of the Vila sisters, Sethina and Morel, as well as some surprising and unexpected allegiances, the three friends take on the test that is the Grandfather Tree. They must stay on the pre ordained Path of prophecy, portended by the ancient seer Pajah Set, whose ancestry comes from the home of the oldest living beings on the planet, the Elves of the Darmon However, this is no easy task for the Muskydeers as they have the foulest of sorcery hunting their every move, the powerful dark beauty known to all as Tar Vigorn.

This ruthless Queen is not without humor however, and loves a good game of cat and mouse, as long as she’s the cat. With her biting sense of sarcasm and calculated taunting, she knows just how to unnerve the young Benjamin. Her phantom army known as the Blunt are searching for a way into the Grand Tree and will stop at nothing to infiltrate the pristine world beneath his giant roots.

Once in Coranim the children make the acquaintance of the greatest Medicine Elder alive, Esmerelda Fet. A most powerful Light Sorceress with a brazen in your face attitude and a thick Irish brogue, who guides the trio on their Path of destiny. “All tings be possible ya wee chil’ren, if’en ya put yer mind to it! Thar be nothin ya can’t accomplish. Ya just need ta be placin all yer carage inta tha middle of yer core whar yer Spirit shines…an ya can do anythin! Ha!”

Filled with many wonders, and home to the Fet clan of Gnomes, Coranim is a magical world of art, sound, thought, invention and discovery….and home to the World Library of Identity, with none other than Dunston Tibbitts at the helm.
Every being on the planet has a book dedicated to the entirety of their lives. Dunston reports to Benjamin, “according to what I see here now, this very minute, whatever it is that you are seeking will show itself today and change your Path immediately. It will put you into a whole new dynamic as they say.”

What could alter the overpowering trajectory Benjamin has followed to Coranim? How will it change his life?
Find out as our three heroes delve into the mystic, as well as their own inner character, as you watch from the edge of your seat.

Book Two, Benjamin Mctish and the Wizards of Coranim, coming 2013

Guest Post:

Okay, so things are winding down...it’s been a long haul here.  Between planning my wedding and writing, let’s see, oh I forget the exact count, but I have two tours that have over lapped this past week and my guess is well over 20 posts, I’m kinda running out of interesting things to share...so bare with me as I do my best...ps. the wedding was wonderful!

So I’m madly working to finish up the second book, hoping to gain serious momentum on these tours spectacular reviews. So far I’ve had no less than three professional reviewing blogs compare Benjamin to Harry Potter by means of excitement and adventure.  Now that’s something an author wants to hear...at least this author did.  And I have three of four reviews left, so keep your fingers crossed we keep moving up in this same vein....not that it should really matter to you, but hey, I need all the support I can get right now...who doesn’t?

I’m really excited about one review that described how well the world was written.  How she felt she could smell the flowers and feel the wind blowing...this is important to me, as I have explained in past posts, my writing is very visual, as I am a very visual person, an artist.  So my story unfolds like a movie, and capturing the readers inner vision to carry the story and bring a bigger impact is exactly what I was aiming at.  So well done me it seems.

You know this process is brand new to me, this getting the book out there and opening a blog page, nervous as hell as to read what this person had to say about my baby.  Hoping it was accepted the way I intended. It’s nerve racking to say the least.

I’m used to having friends and family members go on about their personal love of my book (although I have to admit, I have a couple people in my life who don’t sugar coat too much, so the fact that they actually loved the book was kudos to me personally), however, to have the validation of other people that I don’t even know, people who stand nothing to gain by giving me these rave reviews, has really given me a serious jump start to getting a good marketing platform rolling.  I mean it’s one thing for a friend to say, “Oh, it’s like Harry Potter meets the Celestine Prophecy” and another to have complete strangers say they haven’t been as excited about a book/series since Harry Potter, or put my book in the same category as Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings...seriously? 

I, of course, wanted to believe this story would find the Harry Potter fans, of which I am one.

You see, us fans of magic and being lost in another world of colorful possibilities hits a deep cord within us.  We want to be taken away, we want to cheer for the good guys and laugh at the quirks of the unusual characters, and we most definitely want loads of magic!  There is something about magic that let’s us rest for a bit and forget everything else. 

People say to me now, oh, maybe you’ll become the new Harry Potter, the new J.K. Rowling, and I say we don’t need a new one.  I don’t want to be Rowling...I want to be June.  And Harry Potter came to us as a brand new thought, a new idea and adventure...there’s nothing like Harry Potter and there will never be anything like it again.  I’ll watch the movies over and over till I’m old and buried (it’s that visual thing again for me...loved the world created on screen).  No, I don’t need to be the next Harry Potter, what I need is to bring another story that fills up the gap that Harry left...because there is a HUGE gaping space where that world resided and something needs to bring a new spark.  That let’s us go to that same place, only with new characters to cheer on...new faces and new villains.  Something without scores of creepy  gooey looking armies fighting wars endlessly, when all it takes is a group of wizards with a wand or two to make it completely exciting.

So if people are starting to put Benjamin McTish in the same category as Harry Potter,  well then, I suppose I have done my job...and just maybe, if we clap loud enough... it might make it up on that big screen someday too...now wouldn’t that be magical?   Well a girl can dream can’t she?