I'm author ELLE STRAUSS and welcome to my website!

I write fun, lower Young Adult (teen) fiction to do with whimsical things like time-travel, fairies and merfolk.

When my serious side peeks out, she's called LEE STRAUSS. She likes to write upper YA about real things that have happened in the past, or made up things that could quite possibly happen in the future.

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Monday, January 30, 2012

It's a Little Haywire is Live and Free!

My middle grade IT'S A LITTLE HAYWIRE is FREE on kindle for the next three days.

This is a book that is dear to my heart for a number of reasons. I spent many of my childhood summers in a town similar to Haywire (except a Canadian prairie version). Long hot days trying to find ways to turn the mundane into adventure.

Laura Pauling says "IT'S A LITTLE HAYWIRE reminds me of Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo. It's that good."

(Thanks, Laura :)

http://www.amazon.com/Its-a-Little-Haywire-ebook/dp/B0072Z5DWQ


Owen True is eleven and eleven twelfths and has been “exiled” to the small crazy town of Hayward, WA, aka, Haywire, while his mother is on her honeymoon. All he has to whittle away the time is the company of Gramps, his black lab Daisy, and his Haywire friends, Mason and Mikala Sweet. They don’t look so hot this year, in fact, the whole town has gone to pot since the mill shut down.

Owen has his first encounter with a real life homeless man who ends up needing Owen’s help in more ways than one. But how does a rich city kid help the small town’s suffering citizens?

And what is Owen to make of the fog train and its scary, otherworldy occupants that appears out of thin air on the old tracks behind Gramps’ house? Do they have the answer Owen is looking for?


Comes with illustrations and hyperlinks to Charlie True's golden oldie playlist

Pick up your copy today!

11 comments:

  1. Yay! I put up a link on FB, too, letting all my e-reader friends and family know :-)

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  2. Yey! Been and gone and got it - thank you!!

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  3. Three Cheers for your release. This sounds like a very nice book to enjoy.

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  4. omg... was today the day I was supposed to post about this? I had Feb. 20 in my brain for some reason... I can fix this! :p SORRY!!!

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  5. Sounds like a fun and inspiring book. Congratulations on the release.

    Mason
    Thoughts in Progress

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  6. Congratulations. I love the cover!

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  7. Congratulations and thanks for sharing! It now resides in my Kindle.

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  8. Happy book birthday to It's a little haywire!

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