Book Tour: Character Guest Post + GIVEAWAY for <i>Carousels and Characters</i> by Elizabeth Pantley

February 23, 2025

Book Tour: Character Guest Post + GIVEAWAY for Carousels and Characters by Elizabeth Pantley

Carousels and Characters: Magical Mystery Book Club by Elizabeth Pantley

About Carousels and Characters

Carousels and Characters: Magical Mystery Book Club #9

Paranormal Cozy Mystery

January 15, 2025

249 pages

This book club is whooshed right into the pages of a cozy mystery. The quirky group of brave members must solve the mystery and reach The End to get out of the book.

In each book of the series, they travel to a different world and meet paranormal characters. It could be shifters, fairies, genies, ghosts, or anything else! It’s so much fun, you’ll wish for a book club like this!

In this book journey, they travel to an enchanted amusement theme park. It’s a magical, wonderful place, but something is disturbing the park. Robberies are occurring from every ride. It began with little things, like props or costumes, but now the stakes are rising.

The book club has entered this story so that they can find out who is behind the thefts and stop the problem. Hopefully, they can do it before chaos strikes the entire theme park and closes it down, leaving hundreds of workers jobless and thousands of park visitors disappointed.

Character Guest Post

When a Character Gets Downright Pushy
- From an Author's Point of View

by Elizabeth Pantley

When I embarked on writing my first novel, I was excited to know that I was my own boss, and I could write whatever I wanted and make all my own decisions. But I was shocked to discover that was not entirely true...

I was deep into writing a scene in my first book way back then, and my main character was heading out for a day-long mountain hike with a friend. I felt that I needed to have a third person along for the adventure. I spent a day pondering the right choice of character to fill this spot. I reviewed all my options and had a few possibilities in mind, but no one seemed exactly right.

The next morning, I woke up and it was as if one of my characters was standing in the room saying “Pick me! I want to go on the hike.” But it made absolutely no sense. Why on earth would this character be hiking with the main character?

I went downstairs to breakfast and the character met me in the kitchen, again tickling my brain: “Pick me! I’m the one who should tag along on the hike!” I started to consider how this might work, but kept shaking my head, nope. It doesn’t make any sense.

But my character would not leave my head! She was very persistent, and then got downright pushy. Slowly, the scene unfolded in my mind. Oh, my goodness, Yes! Not only did it make sense – it was absolutely the right direction for the story. I’d been led to the perfect person to tag along!

I headed to my office and began to type. The chapter flowed so quickly I could barely keep up. This character was not only the perfect choice, she was the only choice!

About Elizabeth Pantley

Elizabeth writes well-loved cozy mysteries in two series: The Destiny Falls Mystery & Magic book series and the Magical Mystery Book Club series. Elizabeth lives in the Pacific Northwest and Arizona, two very different places. Both are rich, gorgeous, natural places, and inspire the settings in many of her books.