Title: Blues Bones
Author: Rick Starkey
Genre: Middle Grade, Paranormal
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Thirteen-year-old
Rodney Becker has found the perfect cure for stage fright. Voodoo!
Armed with the stolen finger bones of a dead blues guitar player and a mishmash of voodoo spells from the Internet, he and his best friend enter a graveyard at midnight to perform their ritual. Now, all that stands in his way of winning a local guitar competition is the power of RETURN – a side effect of the voodoo that spells disaster for Rodney.
His cure has become a curse. How else can he explain jamming his finger so bad he can't hold a guitar pick, his part-time dad stealing his guitar, and his mom getting into an accident that could have taken her life?
How much is Rodney willing to risk to achieve his dream of being a guitar legend?
Armed with the stolen finger bones of a dead blues guitar player and a mishmash of voodoo spells from the Internet, he and his best friend enter a graveyard at midnight to perform their ritual. Now, all that stands in his way of winning a local guitar competition is the power of RETURN – a side effect of the voodoo that spells disaster for Rodney.
His cure has become a curse. How else can he explain jamming his finger so bad he can't hold a guitar pick, his part-time dad stealing his guitar, and his mom getting into an accident that could have taken her life?
How much is Rodney willing to risk to achieve his dream of being a guitar legend?
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Rick Starkey
is a graduate of the Institute of Children’s Literature. His main interest
is writing novels for middle grade. Rick has sold short pieces to Highlights
for Children including a game, magic tricks, and a short story. Knowing
that most writers often wish that they had started their career earlier in
life, Rick teaches a basic course for the Talented and Gifted Program (T.A.G.)
at Walter’s State Community College in Morristown Tennessee. Rick’s students
learn the basics of magazine submissions including cover and query letters,
market research, and manuscript preparation. The T.A.G. program is for students
grades 5 – 8 and come from seven counties in East Tennessee.
Rick lives
in a 200-year-old log cabin in the Great Smoky Arts and Crafts Community in
Gatlinburg, Tennessee, where he and his wife, Betty, own and run Make It
Magic, a magic shop and craft store. A day in Rick’s life includes recommending
and performing magic tricks for customers of all ages, carving a bear from a
log with a chainsaw, and working on his next novel.
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Thanks, Jasmyn, for taking time to share Blues Bones. The crew at Leap Books did a fantastic job with the cover.I love it.
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