Book Launch: YA Fantasy: Above the Star by Alexis Chute

Join us for an author reading and book launch for the brand new YA fantasy novel Above the Star by Alexis Chute. There will be an author talk at 6:30PM followed by a book signing and snacks. We will also have fun activities like a scavenger hunt and meeting a character from the book, and there will be prizes.

About the Book

When frumpy senior citizen Archie goes in search of his missing son in the Spanish Canary Islands, he stumbles upon a higher mission: to locate a magical cure for his ailing fourteen-year-old granddaughter, Ella. Using a portal-jumping device called the Tillastrion, Archie and a stone-headed creature named Zeno are transported to the magnificent yet terrifying island of Jarr-Wya in a connected realm. Unbeknownst to them, Ella and her strong-willed mother, Tessa, accidentally stowaway on this not-so-secret quest.

What they find on Jarr-Wya is an island tortured by a wicked Star anchored in the sea. There, a three-way battle for dominion rages between the stone-wielding Bangols, the fiery Olearons, and the evil Millia sands. When Ella is captured, her wit and resourcefulness emerge as she fights against all odds to survive. At the same time on another part of the island, an enchanted river exposes Tessa’s long-buried secrets and forces her to confront her broken marriage and a confusing new love triangle. She and Archie―with the help of a company of peculiar allies―track Ella and seek to unravel the terrible mystery of her cure.

A mesmerizing, stay-up-all-night adventure of three unlikely heroes, Above the Star reminds us that no matter how young, or how old, even the smallest act of bravery transforms our lives and the fates of the worlds around us.

About the Author

Alexis Marie Chute is a professional artist, author, photographer and filmmaker. Her award-winning memoir, Expecting Sunshine: A Journey of Grief, Healing and Pregnancy After Loss, was released in April 2017 by She Writes Press, along with an accompanying documentary.

Alexis Marie has received over 30 noteworthy distinctions for her visual and literary work, such as The John Poole Award for promotion of the Arts, named an “Emerging Canadian Photographer” by Photo Life Magazine and a “Top 40 Under 40” by Avenue Magazine. Alexis Marie was featured in print and video as mother-expert in a Today’s Parent Magazine campaign, which won first place at the 38th Annual National Magazine Awards for Best Editorial Package on the Web. She was the 2012/2013 Artist in Residence at Harcourt House Artist Run Centre.

Alexis Marie is a highly regarded speaker and she has presented on art, writing, bereavement and the healing capacities of creativity around the world. She is widely published in anthologies, newspapers and magazines and her artwork on loss, healing and resiliency have been exhibited across North America. Her art is represented by the AR&S Gallery at the Art Gallery of Alberta.

Alexis Marie has her Bachelors of Fine Art in Art and Design from the University of Alberta and her Masters of Fine Art in Creative Writing from Lesley University in Cambridge, MA.

She is passionate about her children and husband, and loves traveling to new places, running, chocolate and stimulating conversations with a glass of good wine in hand. Alexis Marie is also a proud participant of the 3 Day Novel Contest and NaNoWriMo.

Alexis Marie is a freelance writer with knowledge and experience writing profiles and about place and travel, parenting, bereavement, visual and literary arts, and community. She welcomes any challenge, takes on large projects and small, and is an outside-the-box thinker.

Learn more about Alexis at  www.AlexisMarieChute.com.