Deb Cushman
Press/Media Kit 2022
Contact Information
Deb Cushman, Fantasy Author
Email debcushman@debcushman.com
Website https://www.debcushman.com
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Author Biography
Deb Cushman is the author of fantasy adventure tales for children and teens. She spent her early years reading and listening to stories and writing her own. She wrote, produced, and directed a historical play in the third grade, and in the sixth grade, she amused her classmates with her adventurous spelling-word stories, which often included commercial breaks and songs.
Deb is married and has three sons. She loves spending time with her granddaughters, who have inspired her to write stories about strong kids finding their way in the world. Her work in libraries at the elementary, middle, high school, and college levels, assisted her in eventually creating a library in a school of the arts.
Deb's short stories have been featured in children's magazines. Her debut middle-grade novel, Frigg's Journey to Anasgar, will be published in September 2022 and is the first book of an exciting new fantasy-adventure series Chronicles of Nadavir.
She lives in the Pacific Northwest where the formidable forests, majestic mountains, and blustery beaches provide ample inspiration for fantasy settings. She loves imagining what it would be like to encounter a faery, travel to Narnia, and fight orcs in Middle Earth, so long as she doesn’t have to leave her living room.
Frigg’s Journey to Anasgar
By Deb Cushman
A Middle Grade Fantasy Adventure
Series: Chronicles of Nadavir, Book 1
Publication Date: September 8, 2022
Copyright 2022, Debra Cushman
Cover Design by Adrian DKC
Ebook ISBN 979-8-9864924-0-7
Paperback ISBN 979-8-986492-1-4
Hardcover ISBN 979-8-9864924-2-1
Available at Vintage Books (Vancouver, WA), Amazon, Barnes & Noble Press, Apple Books, Google Play Books, and Kobo
Short Blurb
After trolls attack Frigg’s dwarf colony, the young female dwarf, who has only lived below ground, must take a perilous journey through her mountain home and across the unfamiliar surface world in an attempt to find the legendary dwarf colony of Anasgar and appeal to them for help.
Synopsis Blurb
As humans scatter across the land, magical folk find refuge with dwarves inside their mountain colony of Nadavir. This angers the trolls living in the other half of the mountain. When the trolls invade and enslave the inhabitants of the colony, a headstrong young dwarf named Frigg escapes with her friends and travels in search of a legendary dwarf colony of Anasgar for help to fight the trolls.
Blundering Bloodstones! When she’d dreamed of adventure instead of the domestic duties expected by her patriarchal society, she’d not anticipated capture by ogres, exhibition in a freak show, or an encounter with hostile dwarves. Can she convince these defiant dwarves to help, or will her colony be enslaved forever?
Description & Advertising Blurb
Is there such a thing as too much adventure?
When dreams come true . . .
They may not be all you imagined!
Captured by ogres! Exhibited in a freak show! When Frigg dreamed of adventure, this is NOT what she expected.
After trolls attack Frigg’s colony, the young dwarf and her friends escape and embark on a perilous journey to locate the legendary dwarf colony of Anasgar for help.
Blundering Bloodstones!
Can a dwarf, a faery, an elf, and a unicorn convince the defiant dwarves of Anasgar to help fight the trolls?
Or will her friends and family be enslaved forever?
Frigg’s Journey to Anasgar is the first book of an exciting new middle-grade fantasy series, Chronicles of Nadavir, that will follow a group of magical friends on journeys of adventure and discovery.
Link to Request a Review Copy
https://storyoriginapp.com/reviewcopies/db936298-0e25-11ed-915c-b793d8812855
Nadavir Kids Club
FREE CLUBHOUSE ACTIVITIES
Members have FREE access to games, puzzles, crafts, stories, and other fun activities!
SIGN UP FOR THE CLUB at https://debcushman.com
Parents, Grandparents, Guardians, Aunts, Uncles, and Educators will receive a FREE newsletter with a new activity every month and updates on Deb's books and events to share with the children and students in their lives.
Examples of Kids Club Activities
· List of Nadavir characters and their role in the book
· Fill-it-in Fun Story "A Party in Nadavir"
· Frigg 3-Chapter Sample
· Frigg Book Trailer
· Frigg Coloring Bookmarks
· Frigg Word Search
· Official Membership Certificate
· Nadavir Gratitude Journal
· Nadavir Jokes
· Nadavir Word Scramble
· Nordic Runes and what they mean in Nadavir
· Nordic Rune Activities
· Nordic Rune Secret Code
· Guess What Will Happen Next
· Unicorn Maze
· Your Adventure Awaits!
WHAT IS NADAVIR? Nadavir is the home of the magical folk who live in the world of the Chronicles of Nadavir Books!
