Tour Stop/Giveaway: The Angel Scroll

 

Discover the book The Angel Scroll by Penelope Holt today. Make sure to check out all the other tour stops HERE and enter the tour wide giveaway in the posts for a chance to win a $25 Amazon/BN.com gift card from the author. The tour is sponsored by Goddess Fish Promotions.

Talking with Penelope Holt

Can you describe your dream home?

We built it in the Outer Banks of North Carolina as a vacation and rental home. It was six bedrooms on a beach with a third-floor great room overlooking spectacular sunsets on the Pamlico Sound and a spit across the island to the Atlantic Ocean. Hurricanes, COVID lockdowns, constant upkeep, and rental headaches led us to sell it to make life simpler. I don’t miss the headaches but I do miss that dream house.

If we were to come to your house for a meal, what would you give us to eat?

Beef bourguignon that includes shallots, carrots, mushrooms, and cooked in red wine, served with mashed potatoes and burgundy wine. Key lime pie for dessert or fruit pie with vanilla ice cream with a nice cheese plate and fruit.

Tell us about the absolute BEST fan letter you have received.

A former film producer who said she loved my book so much that she wanted to share it with her network to see if there was interest in adapting the novel for film because the world needs another great spiritual novel that’s also a rollicking good story.

Say your publisher has offered to fly you anywhere in the world to research an upcoming book, where would you most likely want to go?

I would love to spend a few months in the Greek Islands and Capri, one of the five small islands that make up the Gulf of Naples, off Italy. I love books that have a rich historical setting, ancient culture, stunning landscape, distinctive culture, and intriguing local lore that establishes a great vibe, and sets up fascinating subplots.

Who designed the book cover for the book you are touring?

I recommended the cover’s sacred geometry image, which represents the flower of life. The publisher’s designer then worked to set in an exquisite shade of blue, drenched in shafts of brilliant light, with a font that invokes angels and ancient text.

THE ANGEL SCROLL

AUTHOR: Penelope Holt

GENRE:  Spiritual Romance, Mystery/Thriller

Available at Amazon 

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ONE ANCIENT PROPHECY, TWO HEARTBROKEN LOVERS, AND A WORLDWIDE SCAVENGER HUNT FOR THREE MIRACULOUS PAINTINGS.

 

After her husband’s death, New York artist Claire Lucas has baffling dreams and waking visions as she channels an enigmatic and healing painting of a holy man in India at the deathbed of a young woman. When widowed antiquarian Richard Markson announces that Claire’s canvas is one-third of three paintings prophesied by the Angel Scroll, a recently discovered Dead Sea parchment, she is pulled into an international scavenger hunt to find the stolen scroll and the paintings it predicts.

 

As she pursues the paintings with Richard across historic and holy sites in America, Israel, and Europe, Claire encounters a series of remarkable teachers. A Buddhist, a Benedictine monk, and a professor of early goddess worship all provide rich explanations for the artist’s compelling and perplexing psychic experiences — until she assembles the incredible triptych and deciphers its inspirational message for the modern world.

Excerpt One:

 

In Benares, India, the sweltering night dragged on. Moonlight slid through the bedroom window and bathed the young, Christlike figure who sat cross-legged on the floor. Only a loincloth covered his slender hips, and his long, coarse hair was coiled in a topknot on his crown. He’d been watching the young woman on the low bed for hours. She was feverish, her breathing shallow, as she squinted at him now through half- closed lids. Her husband held her hand and shot the young man a pleading look. “Please let her live. I’m a rich man. I can pay you. I can help the poor of Benares, the poor of India.”

 

“To thwart death is not to conquer it,” the young master said, and the husband buried his head in the bed’s embroidered cover. In a single, fluid movement, the holy man rose and stroked his host’s bent head, His long, graceful fingers raking the dark hair, slick with perfumed oil, revealing a channel of pale, moist scalp.

 

Beyond the bedroom, in the narrow hallway, the master found his three companions propped against a wall and dozing. He tapped the closest with a calloused foot, and one by one the sleeping men awoke. “Is she well now?” the tall one asked, stretching.

 

“She will be dead come dawn,” his master whispered, as the four men stepped into the dusty and deserted Indian night.

 

The phone rang. Claire woke up and realized her face was wet. She’d been crying again. She eyed the clock—9 a.m. She cleared her throat, picked up the phone, and tried to sound awake. “Hello?”

 

“You still sleeping?” Claire held the phone away from her ear to stop Deirdre Vetch’s whine from piercing her brain. “You’re coming to the gallery to talk about the painting, right? We must talk.” Deirdre’s verbal pummeling began. 

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AUTHOR Bio and Links: 

Penelope Holt was born and educated in England and now lives in New York. She is a novelist, playwright, business writer, and marketing executive, whose work has been performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, York Arts Center, and New York’s American Folk Theater. In addition to writing fiction,  The Angel Scroll, and The Apple, based on the controversial Herman Rosenblat Holocaust romance, Holt is a prolific writer, editor, and co-author of non-fiction, including Business Intelligence at Work A Personal Operating System for Career Success, Singing God’s Work, the story of the Harlem Gospel Choir, and many other works. She is married with two children.