Wednesday, June 13, 2018

#GiveAway ~ Nothing Is Predictable by Adalina Mae ~ @AdalinaMae @GoddessFish


Nothing Is Predictable
by Adalina Mae 

Adalina Mae will be awarding a $20 Amazon/BN GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour. Please use the Rafflecopter below to enter. Remember you may increase your chances of winning by visiting the other tour stops. You may find those locations here.  

BLURB: 
Zara is eight years old, her father, in a drunken rampage, accidentally shoots himself dead.
 
Her childhood memories leave her struggling with romantic attachments and hinder her from developing healthy relationships.

Seeking answers, She meets a monk for wisdom, and a gypsy for insight.
The journeys Adalina Mae takes us on are interspersed with heartbreaking moments as well as hilarious escapades.

This is life and nothing is predictable. The story keeps you on your toes and offers mysteries to solve.

Why does Zara have recurrent nightmares of her last night with her father?

Why does she struggle with love?

GENRE: Autobiographical Novel - Memoir - AutoFiction




Excerpt:

“Please, try your best, then when you are ready, come to the pavilion and find me. This discussion is not over. I need you to do this first, okay?” She stood up, nodded humbly, and started walking down the hill.

“Don’t forget, drop it like a sack of potatoes, and focus on your breathing!” she called back politely.

She wanted me to grasp the moment, and to focus on cultivating the art of a controlled mind, to increase wisdom and mental awareness. In return, that should give me the ability to focus on my childhood years with controlled thoughts that would no longer affect my emotions, if I learnt to have empathy and to forgive.

“Oh God, how on earth am I going to forgive? Okay, let’s try,” I mumbled to myself.

“Drop it like a sack of potatoes, drop it like a sack of potatoes, sack of potatoes, potatoes. Oh my God, I feel like French fries.” Clearly, meditating about the sack of potatoes wasn’t helping. I tried again, closed my eyes and began to focus on my breathing. Then I took myself back to my childhood years to try to find a way to forgive all that had happened to me. I failed endlessly with that task; a minute of silence seemed like an hour. I kept getting distracted, thinking about French fries and what bills I’d forgotten to pay.


AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Adalina Mae is the author of the published novel Nothing Is Predictable and soon to be released Nothing Can Last Forever.

After leaving the corporate world of management, she decided to pursue her lifelong passion to write.

She's also a lover of movies and hopes that her novels become a motion picture.

Adalina wrote Nothing Is Predictable to inspire optimism and positive thoughts, reminding us we are strong and can overcome life’s challenges. Particularly those who suffered childhood trauma like she has.

She is determined to spread the inspirational message of her story.
Her life's incidents have taught her that,

Nothing Is Predictable and Nothing Can Last Forever.






11 comments:

  1. I enjoyed getting to know your book and thanks for the chance to win :)

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  2. Congrats on the tour and thanks so much for the opportunity to win. I enjoy getting to hear about new books that my family would enjoy reading.

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    1. Thank you James. I do hope you get to read my story.
      Adalina xx

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  3. What is your favorite all time book? Congrats on the book release. Bernie Wallace BWallace1980(at)hotmail(d0t)com

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    1. I have two actually one Fiction and Non Fiction.
      Non-Fiction: The Power Of The Subconscious Mind by Joseph Murphy
      Fiction: the one and only Jane Austen Pride And Prejudice. Yes I am hopeless romantic ❤❤❤❤

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    1. Thank you Victoria. I hope you get to read Nothing Is Predictable. You will enjoy getting to know Zara on her journey.
      xx

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  5. Thank you for hosting
    Adalina xx

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