Tour Stop, Excerpt & Giveaway: Sideshow by Amy Stilgenbauer

Title: Sideshow by Amy Stilgenbauer
Publisher: Interlude Press
Genre: Historical, Lesbian Romance
Length: 224 pages/Word Count: 61,000

Summary:

Abby Amaro wants to sing at La Scala Opera House, but she’s a good girl, and in 1957 good girls get married. Still, when she receives her first marriage proposal, she freezes, knowing the way her suitor makes her feel bodes trouble. When he won’t take no for an answer, she flees, joining up with a traveling carnival.

Thanks to a burlesque trapeze artist and the world’s saddest clown, Abby bides her time and fits in until she can rejoin the world she knows. She doesn’t expect a sideshow strongwoman named Suprema, who captures her imagination. As the carnival makes its way across the Midwest, Abby learns much more than she had ever imagined—about herself, about her identity, and, most importantly, about love.

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Excerpt

Abby couldn’t remember falling asleep. She only remembered the dark night and how, outside the window of Della’s trailer, the rolling slopes of Eastern Ohio slowly flattened into the farmland of the western side of the state and faded into darkness. She didn’t say much during the trip, but her mind was spinning, unable to process what she had done.

Once, when she had been a little girl, barely older than Annette was now, her mother had taken her and Natale to visit their aunt in Chicago for a week. It had been a nice visit. They had embarked on the train with a great deal of ceremony, and Za Teresa had spoiled the pair rotten, loading them up with peach-shaped marzipan and pizzelle until they were both sick. She hadn’t left Cleveland for any extended period of time since. Oh, sure, she’d talked and dreamt about it. Nonna often wistfully mentioned taking a trip back to her girlhood home one more time now that the war was over and taking Abby along to look after her, and then, if her opera career took off as she had once hoped, she would be visiting all the great cities. In her scrapbook, clippings of Palais Garnier, La Scala, and The Met were decorated with carefully drawn hearts and hopeful stars and the scrawled word: someday. Still, she had never imagined that when she departed the Coventry neighborhood again, it would be in a burlesque dancer’s trailer.


Author Bio

Amy Stilgenbauer is a writer and aspiring archivist currently based in southeast Michigan. She is the author of the novelette series, Season of the Witch, as well as the Young Adult novel, The Legend of League Park. Her short story, The Fire-Eater’s Daughter, was included in Summer Love, an LGBTQ Young Adult collection published by Duet, an imprint of Interlude Press. When she isn’t writing, Amy enjoys all things bergamot and tries to keep her cats away from her knitting.

Author Links: Website * Tumblr * Facebook * Twitter * Goodreads


Giveaway

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5 Comments

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5 Responses to Tour Stop, Excerpt & Giveaway: Sideshow by Amy Stilgenbauer

  1. Trix

    Hi, Amy! Good luck with the release!

  2. Thank you so much for hosting a stop on the tour! I would be happy to answer any questions about the book.

  3. Regencyfan93

    Hello Amy. Opera singers aren’t often MCs. Thanks for the unusual profession.

  4. Timitra

    Thanks for sharing the excerpt

  5. Suzanne Edwards

    Hi Amy! Congrats on your new book 🙂 I can only imagine what Abby sees in/with a traveling Carnival! Thanks for the chance!