{"id":1567,"date":"2014-02-21T06:00:56","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T14:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/?p=1567"},"modified":"2014-02-21T06:00:56","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T14:00:56","slug":"blood-and-flowers-by-penny-blubaugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/2014\/02\/21\/blood-and-flowers-by-penny-blubaugh\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood and Flowers by Penny Blubaugh"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"8465405\"<\/a>Today I’m excited to share an excerpt from Penny Blubaugh’s fantasy novel, Blood and Flowers<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Three years ago, Persia ran away from her drug-addict parents and found a home with the Outlaws, an underground theater troupe. This motley band of mortals and fey,puppeteers and actors, becomes the loving family Persia never had, and soon Persia not only discovers a passion for theater but also falls in love with Nicholas, one of the other Outlaws. Life could not be more perfect.<\/p>\n

Until an enemy with a grudge makes an unfair accusation against the group and forces them to flee the mortal world and hide in the neighboring realm of Faerie. But in Faerie, all is not flowers and rainbows\u2014with blood thirsty trolls, a hostile monarchy, and a dangerous code of magic, the fey world is not quite the safe haven the Outlaws had hoped for. And they must decide what\u2019s more important: protecting their right to perform or protecting themselves.<\/p>\n

Download\u00a0Blood and Flowers<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>on Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Excerpt<\/h4>\n

\u201cIn case you don\u2019t know, you use a thin paste of the flour water to stick the poster down. \u00a0Put them on boards, telephone poles, newspaper boxes \u2013 whatever. \u00a0The paste dries hard but clear, and it\u2019s a bitch to get off.\u201d<\/p>\n

I slapped one of our flyers on the wood covering the broken window of Clem\u2019s Furniture Store (furniture long, long gone) and demoed to Lucia. \u00a0Then I handed her the paste tub. \u00a0\u201cYour turn.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lucia worked carefully, setting her flyer next to mine. \u00a0The double whammy. \u00a0The manicured nails on her scarred hands were perfect, cream with ebony tips. \u00a0Her hands were graceful and when they moved, her scars flared in the just turning on streetlights. \u00a0She finished and looked over at me. \u00a0\u201cHow\u2019s that?\u201d<\/p>\n

I had to make myself stop watching her and look at the side-by-side flyers. \u00a0I don\u2019t know what it is about Lucia. \u00a0She always makes me wish that we weren\u2019t the same sex, or that I was attracted to women.<\/p>\n

Our flyers said:<\/p>\n

Outlaw Puppet Troupe<\/p>\n

presents<\/p>\n

The Bastard and the Beauty<\/p>\n

A play of love, dislike, and anti-corruption<\/p>\n

Place: You\u2019ll know it when you find it<\/p>\n

Date: Now and them<\/p>\n

Time: Eight o\u2019clock, usually. \u00a0At night. \u00a0But things can always change.<\/p>\n

Read the rest of\u00a0Blood and Flowers<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Find more from Penny on her website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today I’m excited to share an excerpt from Penny Blubaugh’s fantasy novel, Blood and Flowers.\u00a0 Three years ago, Persia ran away from her drug-addict parents and found a home with the Outlaws, an underground theater troupe. This motley band of mortals and fey,puppeteers and actors, becomes the loving family Persia never had, and soon Persia […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[161,162,177],"tags":[639,640,642,730],"class_list":["post-1567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-excerpt","category-excerpts","category-fantasy","tag-fairies","tag-fairy-tale","tag-fantasy","tag-ya"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}