Believing
In the Magic
Sarah’s
Gift
Book
Two
Erica
Tucci
Genre:
Children’s fiction, paranormal, social issues
Publisher:
Publish it Write
Date
of Publication: July 18, 2016
Word
Count: 12,391
Cover
Artist: Nada Serafimovic
Book
Description:
Sarah
is a fifth grader who has psychic abilities - she can see spirits. At
school she meets Leila, a fourth grader and finds out that Leila also
has psychic abilities. She uses telekinesis to make things happen,
but she uses them to get back at kids in school who taunt her.
Knowing how it is to be taunted by her peers, Sarah befriends Leila
and helps her learn how to use her powers in a good way. In the end,
Leila encounters a situation in which her powers “save the day”.
Book
Trailer: https://youtu.be/Zs3_pzOhzGY
About
the Series:
Sarah’s
Gift is a series of chapter books for 7-12 year olds about a young
girl with psychic abilities, who uses them to harmlessly deal with
different life situations. Standing Up for Yourself is about how
Sarah deals with a school bully. Believing In the Magic is about how
Sarah helps a girl with telekinetic abilities use them in a good way.
There will be a book coming out every two months, with several of
them being co-authored by youngsters, the third one being one of
them.
“Standing
Up for Yourself is a gift that many parents will welcome. It helps
parents encourage a child's gift of second sight perception that is
all too often written off as ‘just your imagination’. Through the
story telling Ms. Tucci provides support for children for their
intuitive and psychic gifts. I've noticed how many more children
these days are being acknowledged rather than shamed for their
capacities to see, hear, and feel those ordinarily non-visible beings
that make their appearance known. Both you and your child will
thoroughly enjoy this story!”
— Dr.
Steven Farmer, author of Animal Spirit Guides, Earth Magic, and the
Children's Spirit Animal Cards
"I
am raving about the second book Believing in the Magic in the Sarah's
Book Series by author Erica Tucci. As soon as I started reading the
first few pages I couldn't put the book down. As a young child I
remember magical moments in my life. I had great intuition and was
always helping and healing friends and the creatures that God
created. Sarah's story took me back in time to my childhood. Each of
us have magical gifts that can be used for the goodness of life just
like Sarah...The mindset of positive thinking and using your gifts
for the greater good as Sarah brought out helping her friend Leila,
are belief systems we all can learn from. In this story the messages
are we are our own magic and believe in the power of thought for the
greater good...This is a book to read to your children and discuss
with them...It's a story of a compassionate friendship with a binding
of acceptance in unconditional love."
—
Cindy
Hively, Intuitive Healing Catalyst for Women
Excerpt:
Introduction Believing In the Magic
Sarah
lay in bed. She had just started reading The Girl with the Silver
Eyes by Willo Davis Roberts. Her digital clock on her nightstand read
8:30. Stifling a yawn, she turned the page to keep reading; she was
engrossed in the book and finding out more about Katie.
“Just
for the fun of it, Katie had shifted the air current then so that the
pollen drifted under his nose; when he sneezed, Pastor Grooten had to
grab for his sermon pages before they sailed off the lecturn.”
Wow!
Sarah thought. To be able to move things by just thinking about it.
How does Katie do it? But then she thought about what she was able to
do. I can talk to ghosts. I wonder if there are others out there who
have psychic abilities. I can’t be the only one! Katie was
different, like her, just in a different way. Wouldn’t it be nice
to meet someone else who was different. There have to be others like
her somewhere. Sarah wished she could meet Katie. They could be best
friends!
She
delved into the book, reading passage after passage of Katie’s
harmless pranks: making her horrible babysitter tremble at the sight
of a floating fork and creating a gust of wind that caused a door to
slam into her pesky neighbor’s face.
Sarah
understood Katie’s predicament. Katie had silver eyes and was odd
to people around her. Sarah felt the same way. Most people shied away
from her because they thought she was “cursed.”
She
was so enamored by the book that she read until her eyes became very
heavy. She remembered when she was younger how her dad would say
“Your eyes are getting heavy; you are getting sleepy, sleepy,
sleepy” when he was trying to put her to sleep. How she missed her
dad. She knew that he was okay on the other side since her
grandmother who had come to her one day told her so. She wondered if
he would come to her directly someday. It would be so nice to see him
and talk to him, even if he was in spirit and not on the earthly
plane anymore.
Turning
off her bed lamp and laying her book on her nightstand, Sarah
snuggled under her duvet and fell fast asleep. She had no problem
falling asleep; in fact, she would fall into such a deep sleep, she
would have the most vivid dreams. And that night was no different.
She
was sitting in the back seat of her mom’s car peering out the
window. The crow came up to her window and started tapping on it with
his beak. He started talking to her telepathically. “Pay attention
to the magic in the world,” he chirped. “You can create anything
you like through magic. Your thoughts are powerful!”
Sarah
woke up the next morning thinking about the dream and how she felt
that crow was trying to tell her something, but what? She had to put
it out of her mind for now since she had to get ready for school. She
would ponder over it when she got home in the afternoon.
About
the Author:
Erica
Tucci had a full life as a corporate manager of a Fortune 500
company, a healing arts business owner and an author. It all came to
a screeching halt in June 2011 when she had a stroke. During her
recovery, she gained much wisdom about what’s really important in
life. Although she was a Reiki master, massage therapist and life
coach as well as a corporate cog, she realized that her passion was
her books. Her hope now is that the messages of her books will be an
inspiration for others, young and old. Her most recent venture has
been her Sarah’s Gift series, chapter books for 7-12 year olds
about a young girl with psychic abilities, which speak to the
children with special gifts, helping them deal with different life
situations. Her other books include Moms and Their Young Spirited
Boys (1998), Anything is Possible, a novel based on a true love story
(2011), Zesty Womanhood at 40 and Beyond (2011), Radiant Survivor
(2013 - Amazon bestseller), and most recently the first book of the
Sarah’s Gift series Standing Up for Yourself (2016 - Amazon
bestseller). The second book Believing In the Magic will be available
for pre-order June 30 and is being released July 18.
Interview
Houston, TX. Been here all my life!
But I have been a city girl for far too long. One of my dreams is to move out
to the country, own a piece of property of about 10 acres with an off-the-grid
small house with a separate cottage office to do my writing, a red convertible
volkswagen beetle, and an organic garden where I grow my own produce. I would
also like to set up a family compound where each family member (my two sons, my
mom and my brother and his family) has a parcel of land and their own house on
my acreage. I know this is a far cry from my current city existence, but this
is what I am striving for, for the latter part of my life.
Tell us
your latest news?
Well, my second book of my Sarah’s Gift series has been
released as of July 18. But the most exciting news is that a publisher
contacted me a few weeks ago wanting to publish my books. Soon, we will be
talking about me, as a self-publisher, transitioning to her publishing company.
What is fascinating is that a dear psychic friend of mine who does psychic
readings for me told me about a year or so ago that a publisher would someday
get in touch with me to publish my books. So, it seems that her prediction is
manifesting into reality. :-)
When and
why did you begin writing?
My first foray into writing was in the summer of my 16th
year. I and an 18-year old student of my mom’s (Mom was a college professor)
were spending the summer at my house while my parents were away. We filled
notebooks with poems and short stories and anything else we desired to write
about, and there was a heck of a lot to write about considering the things we
did that summer. We had such fun! :-) Quite honestly, I don’t recall why I
began writing then, since it wasn’t until I had kids that I really took writing
seriously. Perhaps it was an unconscious “prelude” to what would become my
passion over the years.
When did
you first consider yourself a writer?
As I said above, it was when I had my two sons that I
started writing seriously. I was a technical writer/editor working for companies
such as IBM and Compaq Computer, but my entry into the self-publishing arena
where I could use my creative license as an author began when my boys were five
and eight.
What
inspired you to write your first book?
My two wonderful sons who are soon to be 24 and 27 years
old.
Do you
have a specific writing style?
Yes, I am very conversational when I write, both fiction and
non-fiction. I guess with my professional work as a “dry and boring” technical
writer, I wanted my creative works to be more upbeat and alive and easy to
read. So I write in “stream of consciousness” mode often, making my prose
informal and intimate.
How did
you come up with the title?
My Sarah’s Gift series is based on Dr. Steven Farmer’s Children’s Spirit Animal Cards, which
are a set of 24 oracle cards, each of an animal and its “spirit” message that
helps children in different life circumstances. Believing In the Magic is the message of the Crow, the animal that
becomes Sarah’s spirit animal guide in the book. FYI, Bear was the spirit animal
guide in the first book Standing Up for
Yourself.
Is there a
message in your novel that you want readers to grasp?
Crow teaches that there is magic all around and that our
thoughts have incredible power. It teaches that you can manifest anything you
desire through good thoughts that come from a pure heart.
How much
of the book is realistic?
It is based on my childhood. Sarah is based on me. Some of
the main characters are based on some of the people in my childhood: my mom and
Becky. The school was based on my elementary school. I did have a secret hiding
place behind my house. And Crow did come to me, but in my adulthood.
Are
experiences based on someone you know, or events in your own life?
See above. :-)
What books
have most influenced your life most?
I read a lot of spiritual books and anything that helps me
further my personal and spiritual development. I also like love stories (read
my novel Anything is Possible, which
is a love story based on a true story - my story).
If you had
to choose, which writer would you consider a mentor?
I don’t have any particular author that I would consider a
mentor. I just write from my heart in my own style. If there are any
similarities in my writing with others’ writing, it is coincidental and
unintentional. But if I had to choose, I would say J. K. Rowling for the
fantasy and magic genre and Nicholas Sparks for the love and romance genre.
There aren’t any for my non-fiction books Moms
and Their Young Spirited Boys, Zesty
Womanhood at 40 and Beyond and Radiant
Survivor.
What book
are you reading now?
To be truthful, I am not reading anything right now since my
time is taken up completely with the Sarah’s Gift series and all the work that
it takes to write and publish it. Since my stroke in 2011, I don’t have as much
energy as before so I really have to pace myself as to how much I can do in a
day. Unfortunately, that includes sacrificing reading. I’m sure I’ll get back
to reading in the near future since I truly love to read. There is just so much
to learn!
Are there
any new authors that have grasped your interest?
Not at the moment.
What are
your current projects?
I’ll be starting to work on the third book of Sarah’s Gift
series, and working with the publisher I mentioned on the transition.
What would
you like my readers to know?
If you are interested in any of what I have said today,
please check out my books on Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/Erica-Tucci/e/B004KHWYOO.
You can also find out more about me at:
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more information, visit
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