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New cover reveals for The Lightning Road series by Donna Galanti!
Look at these awesome new cover reveals for Donna Galanti’s Lightning Road series! Plus enter to win a $25 Amazon Gift Card at the end of this post alight
Dream Cast for Joshua and the Arrow Realm
Joshua: COLIN FORD
American. Thick, dirty blond hair. Big feet. Average height. Is an artist. An only child raised by his grandfather, Bo Chez. Loyal friend.
Ash: CHLOE GRACE
Tall girl. Leader of the Wild Childs in the Arrow Realm’s Wild Lands. Lives in tree houses with the Wild Childs, those who’ve escaped Queen Artemis’s hunt. Dresses in animal skins and uses a bow and arrow to hunt.
Bo Chez: JAMES BROLIN
Thick, spiky, white hair. Stocky but muscular, with large hands and legs and a broad chest. Booming voice. Wears faded khaki pants, worn hiking boots, and cotton button down shirts. Joshua’s grandpa.
Artemis: AVA GREEN
Queen Artemis. Ruler of the Arrow Realm. Tall and thin. Her head is covered in a crown of twisty thorns, every prickly point encrusted with blood-red jewels and tinged with gold.
Leandro: RICHARD ARMITAGE (as Thorin Oakenshield from The Hobbit)
Dark green eyes with bits of blue. His left eye is bluer than the other. Long brown hair that han gs in ropes, with one white stripe. Has a scar across his right cheek from a fight. Smells earthy, of leather and chocolate. Speaks formally. Carries bow and arrows, a knife, and a whip. Wears a brown hooded cloak that falls to the tops of his cracked, black leather boots.
Charlie: ASA BUTTERFIELD.
French. Tall, skinny with bright blue eyes. Wears skinny jeans that make him look skinnier. Shouts out French phrases when frustrated. Chews on twigs when nervous and his voice gets squeaky. A comedian. Wants to be an artist.
JOSHUA AND THE ARROW REALM EXCERPT:
A faint rumble groaned through the whistling wind.
Boom!
Thunder ripped the sky overhead.
Charlie reached the frozen pond, spinning across it. “Woohoo! I win! You Americans can’t beat us at speed!”
Lightning flashed. It zinged across the pine trees like brilliant sunlight. A seed of terror flickered inside me.
Boom! Boom!
Another flash scorched the sky.
Charlie’s smile fell to a frown as he raced across the ice, peering up into the swirling clouds.
We both knew what lightning could do.
Suddenly, sneaking outside for a moonlit sled ride before Bo Chez got home from his monthly poker game didn’t seem so smart.
The sleet turned to snow. Icicles flew off trees like glass splinters, shattering on the hard snow. As I shot toward the pond, a tree on the edge moved. Its branches swayed in the swirling snow.
It wasn’t a tree, but a girl! She stumbled through the mad flurry, arms outstretched.
“Charlie, look!”
Gusts snatched the words away as my sled hit the ice and careened out of control on the bumpy surface. The girl staggered and fell onto the pond. I twisted my sled away to avoid hitting her and smashed right into Charlie. With a yelp, he pulled me up, and we clumped toward the girl. We lifted her up, half dragging her back up the hill to the house in the pelting snow and sleet.
“Who is she?” Charlie yelled.
“No idea,” I yelled back.
He said more, but his words were lost in the wind.
My lungs burned with the cold and effort. There was only one reason someone would appear with lightning—to steal us. This girl might appear like a waif unprepared for a storm but I couldn’t trust that’s all she was.
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ABOUT JOSHUA AND THE LIGHTNING ROAD:
Twelve-year-old Joshua Cooper learns the hard way that lightning never strikes by chance when a bolt strikes his house and whisks away his best friend—possibly forever. Armed with only luck and his grandfather’s mysterious crystal, Joshua must save his friend by traveling the Lightning Road to a dark world that steals children for energy. New friends come to Joshua’s aid and while battling beasts and bandits and fending off the Child Collector, Joshua’s mission quickly becomes more than a search for his friend—it becomes the battle of his life.
PRAISE FOR JOSHUA AND THE LIGHTNING ROAD:
“Vividly imagined characters in a gripping action fantasy that never lets you go until the very last page.” —Jenny Nimmo, New York Times bestselling author of the Charlie Bone series
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ABOUT JOSHUA AND THE ARROW REALM:
Joshua never thought he’d be called back to the world of Nostos so soon. But when his friend King Apollo needs his help in the Arrow Realm, Joshua braves this dark world once more in order to save him. With Joshua’s loyalties divided between Nostos and Earth, he must rely on his courage and powers to restore magic to this desperate world and to free its people. Abandoned by his friends in his quest, unarmed, and facing great odds, can he survive on instincts alone and not only save those imprisoned—but himself?
PRAISE FOR JOSHUA AND THE ARROW REALM:
“Fast-paced and endlessly inventive, this is a high-stakes romp through a wild world where descendants of the Greek gods walk beside you, beasts abound, and not everything—or everyone—is as it seems.” –Michael Northrop, New York Times bestselling author of the TombQuest series
Joshua and the Arrow Realm is available through these book sellers:
Amazon / Barnes & Noble / Kobo / Apple iBooks
ABOUT DONNA:
Donna Galanti is the author of the bestselling paranormal suspense Element Trilogy and the children’s fantasy adventure Joshua and The Lightning Road series. Donna is a contributing editor for International Thriller Writers the Big Thrill magazine, a writing contest judge at nycmidnight.com, and regularly presents as a guest author at schools and teaches at writing conferences. She’s lived from England as a child, to Hawaii as a U.S. Navy photographer. Donna also loves teaching writers about building author brand and platform through her free training series at yourawesomeauthorlife.com. Visit her at donnagalanti.com.
CONNECT WITH DONNA:
Website: http://www.donnagalanti.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DonnaGalanti
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DonnaGalantiAuthor
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20983429-joshua-and-the-lightning-road
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MY DONNA GALANTI REVIEWS
By looking at the cover, I think the dream casting for Joshua is great.
Thanks so much for having me back on today with my new covers! It was super fun to put together a dream cast for the series. Good luck with the giveaway everyone!
It is my pleasure. I love the fabulous covers your dream team and thanks for dropping by.
Love the covers. Why, oh WHY didn’t we have good children and YA covers when we were kids? I would have read a lot more!
Priscilla, thanks so much! And I agree on covers when we were kids. We didn’t even have MG or YA categories really. I was reading wildly inappropriate books at 11 and 12 like Sydney Sheldon – murder, sex and drugs!
Those covers are stunning! I LOVE the fire breathing fox! I don’t know the younger ‘ideal cast’ but I like your choices of Richard Armitage, Eva Green and James Brolin for the adult cast. The plot sounds pretty interesting too!
Thanks so much ChucklesTheScot! (can I use your name as an upcoming character? 🙂 great name!) . Hope you enjoy reading the series if you do!
Hi Donna! Oh I plan to look at the first book which I’ve downloaded from Amazon! The name comes from me being Scottish hence ‘the scot’, and chuckles because I’m actually pretty grumpy rather than cheerful! Yes I’d be delighted for this to be a character name sometime!
I love having faces for the characters. And the covers are so exciting. Just like the stories:)
Thanks so much Laura! Yes, I am an adventure junkie 🙂