Ilsa J Bick

White Space Ilsa J Bick

Publisher Marketing: In the tradition of "Memento" and "Inception" comes a thrilling and scary young adult novel about blurred reality where characters in a story find that a deadly and horrifying world exists in the space between the written lines. Seventeen-year-old Emma Lindsay has problems: a head full of metal, no parents, a crazy artist for a guardian whom a stroke has turned into a vegetable, and all those times when she blinks away, dropping into other lives so ghostly and surreal it's as if the story of her life bleeds into theirs. But one thing Emma has never doubted is that she's real. Then she writes "White Space," a story about these kids stranded in a spooky house during a blizzard. Unfortunately, "White Space" turns out to be a dead ringer for part of an unfinished novel by a long-dead writer. The manuscript, which she's never seen, is a loopy "Matrix" meets "Inkheart" story in which characters fall out of different books and jump off the page. Thing is, when Emma blinks, she might be doing the same and, before long, she's dropped into the very story she thought she'd written. Trapped in a weird, snow-choked valley, Emma meets other kids with dark secrets and strange abilities: Eric, Casey, Bode, Rima, and a very special little girl, Lizzie. What they discover is that they and Emma may be nothing more than characters written into being from an alternative universe for a very specific purpose. Now what they must uncover is why they've been brought to this place a world between the lines where parallel realities are created and destroyed and nightmares are written before someone pens their end. " Review Citations: Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 03/01/2014 (EAN 9781606844205, Other) Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2013 (EAN 9781606844199, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 12/09/2013 (EAN 9781606844199, Hardcover) School Library Journal 02/01/2014 pg. 100 (EAN 9781606844199, Hardcover) Booklist 02/01/2014 pg. 66 (EAN 9781606844199, Hardcover) Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 03/01/2014 (EAN 9781606844199, Hardcover) Voice of Youth Advocates 08/01/2014 (EAN 9781606844199, Hardcover) Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2014 pg. 99 (EAN 9781606844199, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Bick, Ilsa J Ilsa J. Bick is a child psychiatrist, as well as a film scholar, surgeon wannabe, former Air Force major and an award-winning author of short stories, e-books and novels. She has also written for several long-running sci-fi series, and her original stories have been featured in numerous anthologies, magazines and online venues. Isla currently lives with her family and several furry creatures in rural Wisconsin, near a Hebrew cemetery. One thing she loves about the neighbors: They re very quiet and only come around for sugar once in a blue moon. Follow her blog at www.ilsajbick.com. Contributor Bio:  McInerney, Kathleen Kathleen McInerney has narrated numerous audiobooks by bestselling authors such as Emily Giffin, Danielle Steel, Jeffrey Stepakoff, Mary Kay Andrews, and Linda Castillo. Her narration of "Just One Day" by Gayle Forman won an "AudioFile "Earphones Award. In reviewing Mary Kay Andrew's "Ladies' Night", "AudioFile" magazine said, "McInerney makes each of the characters distinct and recognizable and gives each the perfect voice, accent, and vocal mannerisms. Most enjoyable and well performed." She has appeared onstage in New York and around the United States in both classical and contemporary theater. Her credits also include television commercials, daytime drama, radio plays, and animation voice-overs.