{"id":3160,"date":"2019-08-02T06:00:19","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T10:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/?p=3160"},"modified":"2019-08-01T21:44:19","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T01:44:19","slug":"blog-tour-a-touch-of-gold-by-annie-sullivan-guest-post-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/blog-tour-a-touch-of-gold-by-annie-sullivan-guest-post-giveaway\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Tour: A Touch of Gold by Annie Sullivan (Guest Post + Giveaway!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ubb-blog-tour-banner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fantasticflyingbookclub.blogspot.com\/2019\/06\/tour-schedule-blink-summer-reading-tour.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/BLINKSummerReading-Banner.png\" alt=\"Blog Tour: A Touch of Gold by Annie Sullivan (Guest Post + Giveaway!)\"><\/a><\/p><p>Happy Friday and welcome to my stop on the <em>A Touch of Gold<\/em> blog tour!! I&#8217;m so excited to be on this tour, and I&#8217;m even more excited for you to read about what piece of magic didn&#8217;t make it into the final book! Read on to find out more about the book, author, and tour, plus enter a HUGE Blink YA giveaway!!!<!--more--><\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/a-touch-of-gold.png\" alt=\"Blog Tour: A Touch of Gold by Annie Sullivan (Guest Post + Giveaway!)\" title=\"Blog Tour: A Touch of Gold by Annie Sullivan (Guest Post + Giveaway!)\" class=\"ubb-cover-image alignleft\"><strong>A Touch of Gold<\/strong> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/authors\/annie-sullivan\/\">Annie Sullivan<\/a> <br><strong>Series:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/series\/a-touch-of-gold\/\">A Touch of Gold #1<\/a> <br><strong>Published on<\/strong>  August 14, 2018 by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/publishers\/blink\/\">Blink<\/a> <br><strong>Genres:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/retellings\/\">Retellings<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/mythology\/\">Mythology<\/a> <br><strong>Pages:<\/strong> 313 <br><strong>Add to <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/36575823-a-touch-of-gold\" target=\"_blank\">Goodreads<\/a> <br><blockquote class=\"ubb-synopsis\"><p>King Midas once had the ability to turn all he touched into gold. But after his gift\u2014or curse\u2014almost killed his daughter, Midas relinquished The Touch forever. Ten years later, Princess Kora still bears the consequences of her father\u2019s wish: her skin shines golden, rumors follow her everywhere she goes, and she harbors secret powers that are getting harder to hide.<\/p>\n<p>Kora spends her days locked in the palace, concealed behind gloves and veils, trying to ignore the stares and gossip of courtiers. It isn\u2019t until a charming young duke arrives that Kora realizes there may be someone out there who doesn\u2019t fear her or her curse. But their courtship is disrupted when a thief steals precious items from the kingdom, leaving the treasury depleted and King Midas vulnerable. Thanks to her unique ability to sense gold, Kora is the only one who can track the thief down. As she sails off on her quest, Kora learns that not everything is what it seems\u2014not thieves, not pirates, and not even curses. She quickly discovers that gold\u2014and the power it brings\u2014is more dangerous than she\u2019d ever believed.<\/p>\n<p>Midas learned his lesson at a price. What will Kora\u2019s journey cost?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n\t\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n\t\"@type\":\"Review\",\n\t\"datePublished\": \"2019-08-02T10:00:19+00:00\",\n\t\"description\": \"Happy Friday and welcome to my stop on the A Touch of Gold blog tour!! 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There was actually an enchanted object that I did use, but it got cut out in revisions. In the original version of <em>A\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Touch<\/span>\u00a0of\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Gold<\/span><\/em>, there was a balcony called The Balcony of Truth that was attached to the palace walls. It was said that if anyone stood on the balcony and told a lie, the balcony would crumble beneath their feet. It actually played a key role in several scenes. However, my editor didn\u2019t feel like the enchantment lined up well with the other magic in the book, so we ended up cutting it out.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3382\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/diamond-divider.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"775\" height=\"35\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/diamond-divider.png 775w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/diamond-divider-300x14.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/diamond-divider-768x35.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3318\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/all-about-the-author-002-1024x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/all-about-the-author-002.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/all-about-the-author-002-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/all-about-the-author-002-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3725 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/AnnieSullivan-atog-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/AnnieSullivan-atog-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/AnnieSullivan-atog.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Annie Sullivan is a Young Adult author from Indianapolis, Indiana. Her work has been featured in Curly Red Stories and Punchnels. She loves fairytales, everything Jane Austen, and traveling and exploring new cultures. When she\u2019s not off on her own adventures, she\u2019s teaching classes at the Indiana Writers Center and working as the Copy Specialist at John Wiley and Sons, Inc. publishing company, having also worked there in Editorial and Publicity roles. You can follow her adventures on Twitter and Instagram (@annsulliva).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3364\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/follow-the-author-001-1024x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/follow-the-author-001.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/follow-the-author-001-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/follow-the-author-001-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/annsulliva\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/annsulliva\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3382\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/diamond-divider.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"775\" height=\"35\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/diamond-divider.png 775w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/diamond-divider-300x14.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/diamond-divider-768x35.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3322\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/enter-the-giveaway-002-1024x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/enter-the-giveaway-002.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/enter-the-giveaway-002-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/enter-the-giveaway-002-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rafflecopter.com\/rafl\/display\/d9681b86375\/?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Enter here to win One of Five Blink YA Bundles, Including <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rafflecopter.com\/rafl\/display\/d9681b86375\/?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Touch of Gold<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rafflecopter.com\/rafl\/display\/d9681b86375\/?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> by Annie Sullivan, <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rafflecopter.com\/rafl\/display\/d9681b86375\/?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Meet the Sky<\/a><\/em><a 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noreferrer\"> by Kwame Alexander!<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>(US Only!)<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3382\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/diamond-divider.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"775\" height=\"35\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/diamond-divider.png 775w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/diamond-divider-300x14.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/diamond-divider-768x35.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fantasticflyingbookclub.blogspot.com\/2019\/06\/tour-schedule-blink-summer-reading-tour.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3321\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/follow-the-tour-002-1-1024x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/follow-the-tour-002-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/follow-the-tour-002-1-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/follow-the-tour-002-1-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3382\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/diamond-divider.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"775\" height=\"35\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/diamond-divider.png 775w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/diamond-divider-300x14.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/diamond-divider-768x35.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3328\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/lets-talk-001-1024x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/lets-talk-001.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/lets-talk-001-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/lets-talk-001-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What mythological story would you like to see a retelling of? Let me know in the comments and have a splendiferous day!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3401\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/well-wishes-kait-july-2019.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/well-wishes-kait-july-2019.png 600w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/well-wishes-kait-july-2019-300x160.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Friday and welcome to my stop on the A Touch of Gold blog tour!! I&#8217;m so excited to be on this tour, and I&#8217;m even more excited for you to read about what piece of magic didn&#8217;t make it into the final book! Read on to find out more about the book, author, and tour, plus enter a HUGE Blink YA giveaway!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[484,27,632],"tags":[1114,1115,974,537,489,552,488,540,641,462],"reading-challenges":[],"class_list":["post-3160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-tours","category-giveaways","category-guest-post","tag-a-touch-of-gold","tag-annie-sullivan","tag-august-2019","tag-blog-tour","tag-book-tour","tag-cover-love","tag-ffbc","tag-giveaway","tag-guest-post","tag-kait-plus-books","book-author-annie-sullivan","book-publisher-blink","book-genre-historical-fantasy","book-genre-mythology","book-genre-retellings","book-genre-ya"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/A-Touch-of-Gold-Featured-.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3160"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3748,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3160\/revisions\/3748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3160"},{"taxonomy":"reading-challenges","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reading-challenges?post=3160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}