October 19, 2015
Blog Tour: The Book of Names by Royce Leville – Spotlight and Giveaway
Hello readers, and welcome to our Tour Stop for
The Book of Names by Royce Leville!
Be sure to enter the giveaway found at the end of the post!
Strange situations, unsolvable problems, secret lives, redemption and revenge.
Who are the people behind the names? Frankie, Pavel, Willard, Esmeralda, Milo, Shannon ... these are just some of the stories in The Book of Names. There’s a benevolent locksmith with keys to every lock in town. There’s a serial-killing vet who harvests his victims’ organs. A paediatrician battling her own imaginary friends. A group of men locked inside a container, stranded at a harbour somewhere. A performance artist who can open a bottle of champagne in an extraordinary way. And more. Royce Leville’s second book is a mesmerizing collection of the bizarre, the off-kilter, the strangely normal and the cleverly humorous.
Winner of the Australia/New Zealand category in the 2015 IPPYs.
About Royce Leville
Royce Leville is a pseudonym of the Australian writer Cam Jefferys. Leville’s second book is a mesmerizing collection of the bizarre, the off-kilter, the strangely normal and the cleverly humorous.
Cam is a prolific author, journalist and advertising writer who has published three books under his own name and two as Royce Leville. He has won four independent publishing awards and received three prestigious writing residencies. Cam, born in Australia and residing in Germany, took second place in the 2012 Next Generation Indie Book Awards for his first Leville book, A Little Leg Work. His articles have featured in numerous magazines and newspapers, while his short stories have appeared in Australian Reader, Spotlight Magazine, Italy from a Backpack and the Fellowship of Australian Writers (WA) compilation, Lines in the Sand.
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4 Comments
10/19/2015
This sounds like a really unique short story collection. It sounds like it will be good for a laugh but also has some creepiness and peculiar stories too!
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10/20/2015
I would love to read this because the author is new to me and I love to read.
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10/21/2015
This sounds like a kooky book, and I need more of those to read.
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10/30/2015
The books sounds like it is a little quirky but also very interesting and I have a feeling I won’t get bored.
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