BBNYA Semi-Finalist Spotlight Tour
This is my first year on the BBNYA Panel and I’m so excited to also be part of the Semi-Finalist Spotlight Tour!
Even though you’ve probably seen all our posts on joining the Panel, you haven’t seen much else! That’s because we don’t want to tell anyone which books we’re reading and how we liked them! We do that to keep things fair because it’s interesting to see how many authors we interact with online, especially on twitter and instagram and we wanted to be as fair and unbiased as possible!
However, for the next few weeks you’ll see a lot of BBNYA Panelist posts! This is because instead of just touring our finalists, we’ll be celebrating the 55 books that made it into Round Two with a mini spotlight blitz tour for each title.
A Bit About BBNYA
BBNYA is a yearly competition where book bloggers from all over the world read and score books written by indie authors, ending with 15 finalists and one overall winner.
If you want some more information about BBNYA, check out the BBNYA Website or take a peek over on Twitter @BBNYA_Official. BBNYA is brought to you in association with the @Foliosociety and the book blogger support group @The_WriteReads.
The Hurtle of Hell by Simon Edge
Publisher: Lightning Books
Length: 272 Pages
Genre: Commercial Fiction, LGBTQ+
Age Category: (New) Adult
Date Published: 1 November 2018
Amazon: https://www.amazon.ca/Hurtle-Hell-Atheist-Featuring-Confused-ebook/dp/B07G32YX5L (Canada)
https://www.amazon.com/Hurtle-Hell-Atheist-Featuring-Confused-ebook/dp/B07G32YX5L (USA)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hurtle-Hell-Atheist-Featuring-Confused-ebook/dp/B07G32YX5L (UK)
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39305396-the-hurtle-of-hell
Blurb:
When gay, pleasure-seeking Stefano Cartwright is almost killed by a wave while at the beach, his journey up a tunnel of light convinces him that God exists after all, and he may need to change his ways if he is not to end up in hell. When God happens to look down his celestial telescope and see Stefano, he is obliged to pay unprecedented attention to an obscure planet in a distant galaxy, and ends up on the greatest adventure of his multi-eon existence. The Hurtle of Hell combines a tender, human story of rejection and reconnection with an utterly original and often very funny theological thought-experiment, in an entrancing fable that is both mischievous and big-hearted.
About the Author:
Simon Edge was born in Chester and read philosophy at Cambridge University.
He was editor of the pioneering London paper Capital Gay before becoming a gossip columnist on the Evening Standard and then a feature writer and critic on the Daily Express. He has an MA in Creative Writing from City University, London, where he also taught literary criticism.
He is the author of five novels, all published by Lightning Books: The Hopkins Conundrum, longlisted for the Waverton Good Read Award, The Hurtle of Hell, A Right Royal Face-Off, Anyone for Edmund? and The End of the World is Flat.
He lives in Suffolk.
Twitter/Insta: @simonjedge
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