
Hello and thank you for your interest in being a part of the virtual book tour for Joseph John Lee’s Historical/Epic Fantasy novel, The Bleeding Stone! We’re so excited to hold a 7-day virtual tour, consisting of 7-15 stops, and would love for you to be a part of it.
For this tour, we’re looking for 7+ bloggers, bookstagrammers, TikTokers, or YouTubers to show some love for The Bleeding Stone through reviews, guest features, spotlights, interviews with the author, or any other creative posts. The tour will run from June 19th – June 25th and hosts will be given complimentary eBooks, with limited physical copies available upon request (US only). This tour is open internationally.
Please note that filling out the following form will not guarantee you a place on the tour schedule, as the spots are limited. However, we want you to know how much we appreciate your interest and hope you’ll consider joining us as we roll out the “read” carpet and celebrate amazing SFF.
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The Bleeding Stone by Joseph John Lee
Published: December 13, 2022
Series: The Spellbinders and the Gunslingers
Genre: Historical/Epic Fantasy
Intended Age Group: Adult
Pages: 387
Publisher: Self Published
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61201387-the-bleeding-stone

Book Blurb:
The island nation of Ferranda is the jewel of the Acrarian Kingdom, and its Founder, Aritz a Mata, is revered as a god amongst men. But twenty-five years ago, Aritz was merely a man, a colonizer, an Invader seeking glory and fame in the name of his King and Queen, and Ferranda was a nameless union of indigenous Tribes, reverent of the heightened powers and aptitudes granted to them by their Animal Deities, but sundered by the foreigners claiming their lands to the south.
In the unconquered north, the Stone Tribe has for fifteen years offered a safe haven for the southern Tribes displaced by Aritz’s Invaders, whose occupying march north has been ostensibly halted by a dense forest barrier dividing north and south. Among the Stone people lives Sen, an outcast for the circumstances of her birth, preserved in society only by her status as daughter of her Tribe’s Chief. Forever relegated to the fringes of society, she is forced to watch as countless of her kin, including her sister and brother, complete their rites of passage into adulthood and accordingly earn their aptitudes by the Deity to whom they share an affinity – the Bear, the Wolf, or the Owl.
Despite this, Sen finds comfort in her life of forced solitude with her close inner circle, but hers is a comfort in days of waning tenuous peace. When Aritz’s technologically-advanced forces push north, Sen is thrust into a singular quest to rescue one of her precious few captured in the ensuing struggle. While her goal is earnest – save someone dear to her and prove her worth to her Tribe – her people’s goal is far more dire: survival in the face of uncertainty.
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Content/Trigger Warnings:
Shown on Page (things clearly told to the reader):
- Violence (including gun violence)
- War
- Blood/Gore
- Racism
- Child harm/Child murder
- Alcoholism
- Depression
- Anxiety
- PTSD
- Vomiting
- Death/Murder (including parental death)
- Hallucinations
- Slavery
- Profanity
- Religion
- Bullying
- Emotional/verbal abuse
- Kidnapping
- Gaslighting
Alluded to (things only mentioned in passing or hinted at):
- Genocide
- Invasion
- Colonization
- Censorship
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