Kiss and Tell: Emphasis on the Tell

What if your lip gloss told the truth. Would you want it to?

Loaded questions. Loaded questions indeed. 

The lip gloss I'm wearing today would tell me that I really need more than lip gloss in order to make myself presentable. It would tell me to not eat this Valentine's Day fudge. It would tell me to take the time to flat iron my hair--it's worth it. It would tell me that I'm doing alright as a momma and to not be so hard on myself (or my family) because perfection is unattainable. 

My lip gloss when I was a younger girl, high school young, would have totally different truths to tell me. Some would be helpful--I can see that now as an adult. Some would hurt to hear, of course. The teen years are loaded with these emotions. 

In Kiss and Tell, a novella by Sandy Green, Jenna is a contemporary teen who encounters Verity, a former ancient water spirit paying penance as Jenna's truth-telling lip gloss. And Verity now has a mission: To save Jenna from deadly harm and to find redemption and peace in the present day.

Author of Kiss and Tell, Sandy Green is a choreographer and former ballet dancer, chapbook author and YA/MG author, whose work has appeared in such places as Bitter Oleander, Chicken Soup for the Child's Soul, Highlights for Children, and U.S. 1 Worksheets. She has a BFA in dance from Florida State University and currently leads the liturgical dancers at her church in Virginia where she lives with her husband and two children.

Kiss and Tell and Sandy Green can be found in the following arenas. Magical, truthful lip gloss can only be found in Kiss and Tell. Get it today! 

Amazon

Barnes and Noble 

Goodreads 

Sandy Green's Website
 

So, I'm interested: What would your lip gloss tell you TODAY?

#NaBloPoMo: Judging Books By Their Covers

I would make the world's worst eye witness to a crime or an accident.

What was the perp wearing? Ummm ... black or maybe white. Long sleeves or ... short sleeves.

What color was his hair? He was either bald or had a mullet. Maybe he had a 'fro.

What did he do? He robbed that woman. Unless he was petting a dog. Or wait, I'm sure he helped that  Boy Scout across the busy street.

I'm horrible when it comes to immediately remembering details. But, I totally judge books by their covers. It's probably what drew me to Buzz Books USA first and foremost.

I like book covers that make me stop in my tracks and think, "WOW! What's that about?"

I like book covers that pop, and I kinda hafta blink.

I like book covers that catch my eye and make me smile or laugh or giggle or sigh.

But, I really, really like my book covers.

A Buzz-y Fairy Tale

Once upon a time, there was a little girl (OK, it was me) who loved to write.  After reading every single Encyclopedia Brown book she could get her hands on, she attempted to write a mystery. The attempt was a miserable failure, even for a 10 year old. But she didn't stop writing.  As a joke in college, she wrote a fictional piece for her Advanced Comp II class in which she claimed to be psychic.  The professor thought her story was real and asked her to read his aura. Somehow, she kept a serious face, and she "read" it. She predicted  he would have a long life and would retire soon. He died two years later. She knew then that she had a gift for writing but her psychic powers were sorely lacking.