Chessie Bligh and the Scroll of Andelthor    AUTHOR

 

 

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I'm honored that Chessie Bligh has won the GOLD YA 2008 Mom's Choice Award.   Wuggbert is too!

Thora Gabriel was interviewed at Book Expo America by Tara Peterson, founder of the Mom's Choice Award.  Click this link to listen / after the link opens click the forward arrow to begin:

  Thora Gabriel Mom's Choice Award Interview (This interview is 15 minutes long and will take time to load)

 

Thora was interviewed by Today's Author on 5/29- LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Circle-Of-Seven/blog/2008/05

 
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Past Events    
Barnes and Noble - Book Signing 11/9/08 The Grove, 189 Grove Dr., Los Angeles, CA

http://www.pa-la.org/cgi-bin/gt/tpl_page.html,template=1&content=1&nav1=1&

Thora signed books at 11 am to noon.

ALA Convention, Anaheim Conv. Center, CA

BOOTH  411

6/28 - 7/1 http://www.ala.org/

Thora signed copies of her book each day from 10-11 in Booth 411.

 

Book Expo -(LA Cnvt Cntr) PMA Booth # 732 - book signing 6/1 from 9 to 10 am http://www.bookexpoamerica.com/en-us/autographing.cfm
Book Expo -(LA Cnvt Cntr) BEA Table #6 - book signing 6/1 from 11:30  to 12:30 http://www.bookexpoamerica.com/en-us/autographing.cfm
Book Expo - (LA Cnvt Cntr) Booth # 5430 Mom's Choice - book signing 5/30 from 9 to 10 am

http://www.bookexpoamerica.com/en-us/autographing.cfm

http://www.momschoiceawards.com/testimonials.php

 

Today's Author interview with David K. Ewen

(646) 200-4071

5/29 from 8:30 to 9:30 PM EST

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Circle-Of-Seven/2008/05/30/Thora-Gabriel-author-of-Chessie-Bligh-and-the-Scroll-of-Andelthor-wwwChessieBlighcom

(There is some feedback in the beginning when he spells the website - then it clears up)

InDepthYOU - interview with Corey Burke

646-378-1277

5/19, 7 PM EST http://www.indepthyou.com/listen/ontheair.html
Fullerton Railroad Days 5/3 & 4 http://www.scrmf.org/rrdays/
P.I.V.T.R. - Passionate Internet Voice Talk Radio - Thora Gabriel Interview and Book Trailer 12/25/07

 

www.pivtr.com

 

 

Pictures taken at Book Expo America - Los angeles, June '08 1. (I'm way behind all those people in line to buy my book.)  Sheesh!  2. The tall picture is my book displayed with the Mom's Choice Award books  3. My book signing in the Mom's Choice Booth

                  

Pictures of Fullerton Railroad Days - May '08

               

Thora and Wuggbert had a great time at the Orange County Children's Book Festival - September '06!  She sold lots of books!  Check out the real Wuggbert!

Here are some snapshots of the booth.

           

           

           

And here is a picture of Thora on top of Superstition Mountain in Arizona.  The peak behind her is Weaver's Needle. 

 Thora was born in a little town in Illinois on a warm day in August. Her parents were hoping for a boy, but hey, at least they didn’t get an alien from outer space.  I was the youngest of three in a rural part of America that is fading from the scene.  The family farm.

 My dad worked on the farm while my mother raised us kids and worked at the nearby hospital.  Living on a farm is lots of fun.  You can raise your own zoo!  I had lambs and colts being born in the spring.  WOW!  What a wonderful life.  I began my imaginative career by riding my horse Topsy in the woods and pretending I was an Elf. . . . . a wizard Elf.  I could shape shift, fly up into trees, change the weather, and fight evil wizards that were lurking about behind bushes.

Then I got older.  Well, life has a way of rearranging your plans.  My plan was to become an Elf Wizard and run my own kingdom.  That's when a job and a mortgage woke me out that dream.  I did get to run my own tractor, do my own house cleaning, wash my own car, and hang out my own laundry on the clothesline.  In the meantime, my two boys were busy riding their dirt bikes.  Then when I moved from Illinois to California, THAT’S when things started happening.  I started hiking in the nearby mountains and canyons and fell in love with the wilderness.  I haven’t looked back once.  Well, I take that back, I had to look back a couple of times when I was hiking in order to figure out where the heck I was.  It is an important part of navigation. . . . . landmarks.  Keeps you from getting lost.  By the way, if you run into any trolls while you're out hiking and they offer to give you directions, don't believe them.  Trolls love it when you get lost.  Plus they like to send you to creepy places like. . . muddy bogs, stinky slews, and mosquito infested swamps.

 I hope you enjoy Chessie Bligh and the Scroll of Andelthor.  It is the first of many books in the series to come.

 Kindest Regards,

Thora Gabriel

                           

 
 

Thora Gabriel is the author of Chessie Bligh and the Scroll of Andelthor - a fantasy.  Copyright  © 2006.