Gem City Gypsy Tour & Giveaway: Character Guest Post with Neci Stans!
We are so excited to be part of Kristin Kuhns Alexandre's Gem City Gypsy tour! Today we have a very special guest post by one of her characters, Neci Stans. Don't forget to enter the $100 Amazon Gift Card giveaway at the bottom of the post!
Guest Post by Neci Stans
It’s 1917 and the world is changing before my eyes. We
gypsies used to be important to everyone in Dayton
because we trained their horses. Now everybody wants a motorcar. Then there’s
the war. America
has been sucked into the war.
I’m 19 but I feel older. So much has happened in the last
two years. My experiences have made me
feel old. Like all those voices crying out as the ship went down. That’s the
moment Lord Pool leaned over and pulled me out of that freezing ocean. He
pulled Ezra’s dog Theda out too. Theda and I were so grateful to be alive.
I was on deck when the German torpedo struck our ship, The
Lusitania. It was frightening. The first blast tore through the bottom of the
ship and you could feel the deck heave. By then, everyone knew we were in trouble.
My hosts, Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard told me to jump into the water and swim for my
life. They were so calm as they explained that they were going to go down with
the ship. They wanted to make sure they died together. But before they walked
into the cabin holding hands they made sure my dog and I jumped over safely.
For the first time ever I felt completely, frighteningly
alone, far away from my wonderful mom and my clan of gypsy horse trainers from Dayton,
Ohio. We are respected in our hometown and
consider ourselves royal. When my grandma Miltilda died, thousands of gypsies from all over America
came to her gravesite and stood in the rain for hours. Some even jumped in her
grave.
But those are the old days. We are still gypsies and not
considered good enough for upper class people in Oakwood. They think of us a a novelty
and watch us leave with our caravans for Tennessee.
But their sons and daughters stay far away.
About the Book:
Gypsies.
Socialites.
The Wright Brothers.
The KKK.
Industrialization leading to WWI.
So many vivid elements. The story is about a gypsy girl who must leap
over bodies to survive the sinking Lusitania and escape
murderous Germans who kill her mentor in Ireland. She later
returns to her hometown, recreated as a wealthy woman trying to meld into the
upper class. Neci Star captures our imagination and heart as she claws
her way out of one class and into the abyss of another.
Purchase your copy at AMAZON.
About the Author:
Kristin Alexandre was raised in Dayton, Ohio
where she worked as a feature columnist for The Dayton Journal Herald and the
Kettering Oakwood Times. She has written two previous books: Nuncio and the Gypsy Girl in the Gilded Age,
a graphic novel that was featured at the 2011 NY City Comic Con; and Find a Great Guy:
Now and Forever.
Alexandre was a co-founder of Earth Day 1970 and
worked on staff with House Beautiful Magazine and as a contributor to Town
& Country Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor and The Daily News. Her
celebrity luncheon series for the Chairman of Ammirati & Puris Advertising
at The New York Yacht Club was acclaimed, and she has also worked as a co-host
and producer of Enough Is Enough a syndicated talk show for WLIW-TV, a PBS
affiliate in NYC. Alexandre has worked as a publicist for The Economic
Development Association of Puerto Rico and Champion International U.S. Plywood.
She is a NJ Board Member of The Humane Society of America and resides in Delray
Beach, Fl. and Nantucket ,
Ma. with her husband DeWitt.
Her latest book is the new adult fiction, Gem
City Gypsy.
You can visit Kristin’s website at:
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