Beauty and Dynamite

Price: $15.95

Once upon a time, a young girl walked into a world of wonder and delight. But that’s not where this story starts. 

The young woman she became published a nationally recognized children’s book and edited a star-filled collection of stories to benefit the tsunami relief effort. But that’s not where this story ends. 

Meet Alethea Kontis, a self-proclaimed Genre Chick whose life is an adventure that tears through these pages like a hurricane. Carrot-a-day cancer cures and Murphy as a guardian angel (yes, that Murphy, the guy with all those irritating laws) are just a part of the daily routine for the Incredible Whirlwind of Beauty and Dynamite, the force of nature masquerading in human form. 

Through essays, poetry, and commentary from family, friends, and famous authors alike, a world of Blood Oaths and road trips, broken hearts and mended cars, comes alive with the strength of one woman’s conviction that the world is there to be befriended. 

You have now been introduced. Let your adventure begin. 

Blurbs:
“Alethea Kontis has already more than proven herself as both a fiction writer and editor, but this collection of non-fiction pieces shows her to be an essayist of the first order; funny, angry, insightful, and eloquent, Alethea’s essays are what all non-fiction should be: a feast for the mind and the soul. Beauty & Dynamite, indeed.”
—Five-time Bram Stoker Award winner Gary A. Braunbeck, author of Mr. Hands and Coffin County 

“Alethea’s essays are a delight. Warm, witty, and wise, they never fail to bring a smile to my face.”
—Tim Waggoner, author of Pandora Drive and Darkness Wakes 

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280 pages
ISBN-13: 978-0977668175 

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About the Author:
Alethea Kontis is a geek, a princess, and a fairy-godmotherin-training—not necessarily in that order. She is a big fan of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and believes that everyone has the right to be awesome. (Yes, everyone.) Princess Alethea recently escaped her own life of tyranny being held captive in an Ivory Tower. She now lives Somewhere Over the Rainbow, in the land of butterflies and fairies. She is still searching for the perfect magic wand, and she writes better than your grandma.

Visit her on the web at http://www.aletheakontis.com.