Susan Sloate and Kevin Finn - Forward to Camelot - Virtual Book Tour
Time-Travel / Thriller
Date Published: October 31, 2013
WHERE WERE YOU THE DAY KENNEDY WAS SAVED?
On the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination comes a new edition of the extraordinary time-travel thriller first published in 2003, now extensively revised and re-edited, and with a new Afterword from the authors.
On November 22, 1963, just hours after President Kennedy’s assassination, Lyndon Johnson was sworn in as President aboard Air Force One using JFK’s own Bible. Immediately afterward, the Bible disappeared. It has never been recovered. Today, its value would be beyond price.
In the year 2000, actress Cady Cuyler is recruited to return to 1963 for this Bible—while also discovering why her father disappeared in the same city, on the same tragic day. Finding frightening links between them will lead Cady to a far more perilous mission: to somehow prevent the President’s murder, with one unlikely ally: an ex-Marine named Lee Harvey Oswald.
Forward to Camelot: 50th Anniversary Edition brings together an unlikely trio: a gallant president, the young patriot who risks his own life to save him, and the woman who knows their future, who is desperate to save them both.
History CAN be altered …
My Review
Copy Recieved from for an honest review I really enjoyed this book and honestly was very impressed with it! Even though the shooting of JFK was before my time I know that it deeply affected the nation. It will forever remain as a part of our history. Sloate and Finn explore the what-if aspect of this time in history. I thought that the story was very well written and the plot was intriguing. The fantasy aspect completely sucked me in and I wanted to know more.
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SUSAN SLOATE is the author of 20 previous books, including the recent bestsellerStealing Fire and Realizing You (with Ron Doades), for which she invented a new genre: the self-help novel. The original 2003 edition of Forward to Camelot became a #6 Amazon bestseller, took honors in three literary competitions and was optioned by a Hollywood company for film production.
Susan has also written young-adult fiction and non-fiction, including the children’s biography Ray Charles: Find Another Way!, which won the silver medal in the 2007 Children’s Moonbeam Awards. Mysteries Unwrapped: The Secrets of Alcatraz led to her 2009 appearance on the TV series MysteryQuest on The History Channel. Amelia Earhart: Challenging the Skies is a perennial young-adult Amazon bestseller. She has also been a sportswriter and a screenwriter, managed two recent political campaigns and founded an author’s festival in her hometown of Mount Pleasant, SC.
For updates and more information about Forward to Camelot: 50th Anniversary Edition, please visit http://susansloate.com.
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His next novel, Banners Over Brooklyn, will be released in 2015.
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BUY LINKS
Barnes and Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/forward-to-camelot-susan-sloate/1116885104?ean=2940045351959
Other (Smashwords): http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/352336
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FORWARD
TO CAMELOT – Short Excerpt
It
was a famous photograph, one I’d seen many times. In the center of
the photograph was a tall, burly man, with thinning hair slicked
back, a large face, big flappy ears, right hand raised piously,
facing a small brisk woman with dark hair and glasses. On the man’s
right, crowded next to him, seeming crushed by his vitality, was
another small dark woman, her face blank with conflicting emotions.
But
the man, for all his bulk and heartiness, was not the magnetic force
in the photograph. The woman on his left was. Younger than anyone
else, with dark glossy hair, in a bulky light suit, her profile regal
even in her anguish, blood spattering her clothes, she stood watching
sightlessly. Her beauty and grief drew all eyes. Her pain was almost
visible on the photo itself.
“This
is the swearing in of Lyndon Johnson as president on Air Force One in
Dallas, on November 22, 1963. His wife is on his right. Jacqueline
Kennedy stands on his left. Sarah Hughes is the judge administering
the oath. John F. Kennedy had been assassinated only a couple of
hours before.”
“I
know the photograph, George.”
“Good
for you. Look here.” He pointed carefully at the almost invisible
edges of the book under Johnson’s massive hand. “Johnson, of
course, needed to be sworn on a Bible. Here it is, being held by
Mrs. Hughes.”
“You
want the Bible Johnson took the oath on?”
“I
do. That Bible belonged to President Kennedy. As a piece of history,
part of one of the twentieth-century’s most pivotal events… that
Bible would be beyond price. And I intend to have it.”
FORWARD
TO CAMELOT – Longer Excerpt
The man in the
doorway was yawning, and his bright chestnut hair, flecked with
threads of gray, was tousled. He wore half glasses down on his nose
and held a thick typewritten report in one hand. His navy silk tie
was pulled down, his white shirt was rumpled. His eyes, though
bloodshot, focused on us politely.
I was face to
face with President John F. Kennedy.
He looked at
us, puzzled, and glanced around the empty hallway.
I knew if I
didn’t speak that I’d never have another chance, but I couldn’t
think of a thing to say. The President looked at us, raised an
eyebrow.
Quick,
Cady, say something. “Mr. President, my name is Cady
Cuyler.” Beside me, I felt Lee start at the words. “I’ve come a
long way to speak to you. Please, it’s very urgent.”
He was still
puzzled. “Where’s my Secret Service detail?”
I took a deep
breath. In for a penny, in
for a pound. “They’re out drinking at a nightclub called
The Cellar, here in Fort Worth. They left some Fort Worth firemen to
guard you. They’ll be pretty hung over in the morning.”
Kennedy looked
down at me. His eyes were a bit brighter, though it was now close to
2:00 a.m. He looked over at Lee, who gave him a tense smile, and
stood almost at military attention. He looked back at me and asked
quietly, “And how do you know this?”
It was time.
His hand was on the doorknob. Almost imperceptibly, he was inching it
shut.
I took a deep
breath. “I’ll tell you, but you’re not going to believe me.”
I waited; he waited too. But he was listening; I still had a chance.
“I’m from
the future. I don’t live in Dallas in 1963. I live in New York in
the year 2000. I’m here to warn you, sir, and save you if I can. If
you don’t listen to me now… you’re
going to die in less than 12 hours.”
Oswald had
turned to me in alarm. Kennedy’s gray eyes never left my face while
I spoke. When I stopped, hoping, praying I had reached him, he
glanced down for a moment, then down the hall. All was quiet, the
annoying yellow lights still burning overhead. Like casinos in Vegas,
it was impossible to know from the artificial light in the hotel
whether it was noon or midnight.
“You’re
right,” the President said in that distinctive accent. “I don’t
believe you.” He started to close the door in my face.
Before he
could, I was talking again, as quickly and persuasively as I could.
“Why would I make up a story like that? It makes no sense. Unless
it was true!”
His gaze was
even and noncommittal, but at least he’d stopped closing the door.
“Can you prove it?”
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