{"id":3806,"date":"2019-10-03T06:00:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T10:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/?p=3806"},"modified":"2021-05-29T13:38:03","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T17:38:03","slug":"blog-tour-the-athena-protocol-by-shamim-sarif-guest-post-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/blog-tour-the-athena-protocol-by-shamim-sarif-guest-post-giveaway\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Tour: The Athena Protocol by Shamim Sarif (Guest Post + Giveaway!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ubb-blog-tour-banner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fantasticflyingbookclub.blogspot.com\/2019\/08\/tour-schedule-athena-protocol-by-shamim.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/TOUR-BANNER-7.png\" alt=\"Blog Tour: The Athena Protocol by Shamim Sarif (Guest Post + Giveaway!)\"><\/a><\/p><p>Happy Thursday and welcome to my stop on the <em>The Athena Protocol<\/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 Shamim&#8217;s favorite scene from the book! Read on to find out more about the book, author, and tour, plus enter a print copy of <em>The Athena Protocol<\/em>!!!<!--more--><\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Book-cover.png\" alt=\"Blog Tour: The Athena Protocol by Shamim Sarif (Guest Post + Giveaway!)\" title=\"Blog Tour: The Athena Protocol by Shamim Sarif (Guest Post + Giveaway!)\" class=\"ubb-cover-image alignleft\"><strong>The Athena Protocol<\/strong> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/authors\/shamim-sarif\/\">Shamim Sarif<\/a> <br><strong>Published on<\/strong>  October 8, 2019 by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/publishers\/harperteen\/\">HarperTeen<\/a> <br><strong>Genres:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/thriller\/\">Thriller<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/ya\/\">YA<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/queer\/\">Queer<\/a> <br><strong>Pages:<\/strong> 304 <br><strong>Add to <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/43521335-the-athena-protocol\" target=\"_blank\">Goodreads<\/a> <br><blockquote class=\"ubb-synopsis\"><p>Jessie Archer is a member of the Athena Protocol, an elite organization of female spies who enact vigilante justice around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Athena operatives are never supposed to shoot to kill\u2014so when Jessie can\u2019t stop herself from pulling the trigger, she gets kicked out of the organization, right before a huge mission to take down a human trafficker in Belgrade.<\/p>\n<p>Jessie needs to right her wrong and prove herself, so she starts her own investigation into the trafficking. But going rogue means she has no one to watch her back as she delves into the horrors she uncovers. Meanwhile, her former teammates have been ordered to bring her down. Jessie must face danger from all sides if she\u2019s to complete her mission\u2014and survive.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n\t\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n\t\"@type\":\"Review\",\n\t\"datePublished\": \"2019-10-03T10:00:31+00:00\",\n\t\"description\": \"Happy Thursday and welcome to my stop on the The Athena Protocol blog tour!! I'm so excited to be on this tour, and I'm even more excited for you to read about Shamim's favorite scene from the bo\",\n\t\"publisher\": {\n\t\t\"@type\": \"Organization\",\n\t\t\"name\": \"Kait Plus Books\"\t},\n\t\"url\": \"https:\\\/\\\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\\\/books\\\/blog-tour-the-athena-protocol-by-shamim-sarif-guest-post-giveaway\\\/\",\n\t\"itemReviewed\": {\n\t\t\"@type\": \"Book\",\n\t\t\"name\": \"The Athena Protocol\",\n\t\t\"author\": {\n\t\t\t\"@type\": \"Person\",\n\t\t\t\"name\": \"Shamim Sarif\",\n\t\t\t\"sameAs\": \"\"\t\t},\n\t\t\"isbn\": \"0062849603\"\t},\n\t\"author\": {\n\t\t\"@type\": \"Person\",\n\t\t\"name\": \"Kaity\",\n\t\t\"sameAs\": \"https:\\\/\\\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\\\/books\\\/\"\t},\n\t\"reviewRating\": {\n\t\t\"@type\": \"Rating\",\n\t\t\"ratingValue\": false,\n\t\t\"bestRating\": \"5\"\n\t}\n}\n\n\n\n\t\t<\/script>\n\t\t\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3808 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/shamim-sarif-guest-post.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/shamim-sarif-guest-post.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/shamim-sarif-guest-post-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/shamim-sarif-guest-post-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Do you have a favorite scene, quote, or moment from <em>The Athena Protocol<\/em>?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I like Jessie\u2019s humor and almost-flirtation with Amber, the head of technology at Athena. Amber is young and smart, but officious. She takes her job of guarding the weapons and tech seriously, and she and Jessie trade sarcasm, but they like each other a lot. In one scene early on, Jessie uses this trust between them to con her way back into Athena after being fired, and she steals her own IDs and equipment from Amber. Under the clever way Jessie pulls off the theft, it\u2019s also a betrayal of friendship that will take time to recover from. It\u2019s great when there\u2019s more than one thing happening in a scene.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>What would you do if you spent the day with Jessie? Where would you go to eat, hang out, relax, etc.?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jessie\u2019s an early riser. Once her brain gets going, she\u2019s up and ready. We\u2019d probably go for a run in one of London\u2019s many green parks (I might sit out the last couple of laps!) because Jessie\u2019s good about keeping in shape. Then breakfast at a caf\u00e9 in Notting Hill, where she lives. We\u2019d take in a movie if it was raining or walk through Portobello Market if it was fine. That might be enough socializing for a tech person like Jessie and a writer like me, so we\u2019d have a quiet evening in \u2013 she\u2019d code, I\u2019d write, and we\u2019d order a takeout dinner of Indian or Thai food. Jessie likes spice in everything, not just her work. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Do you write to music? If so, what were you listening to while you wrote <i>The Athena Protocol<\/i>?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I create a Spotify playlist when I write anything. These are songs are a bizarre mix, that might evoke a moment, an emotion, or a character or scene, and I\u2019ll listen when I\u2019m out for a walk or run early in the day, but not while actually writing. I need quiet for that process. The songs include \u2018Everybody Wants to Rule the World\u2019 by Lorde, \u2018I Saved the World Today\u2019 by The Eurythmics, \u2018The Boxer\u2019 by Simon &amp; Garfunkel, \u2018L\u2019anamour\u2019 by Francoise Hardy and \u2018Get Some\u2019 by Lykke Li. Make of that what you will\u2026<\/span><\/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-3812 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/author-6-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"s1\">Born in the UK, Shamim is an award-winning novelist, screenwriter, and director.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Her next book, The Athena Protocol, is an all-female YA contemporary action thriller that is published by Harper Teen in September 2019.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Her debut novel, The World Unseen, won a Betty Trask award and the Pendleton May First Novel award.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Shamim has adapted and directed the films of three of her novels including, most recently, Despite the Falling Snow. The book was published by Headline in the UK and St Martin\u2019s Press in the US. The movie stars Rebecca Ferguson and Charles Dance in a story of love and betrayal in cold war Russia. Her films have won 47 awards internationally.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Shamim\u2019s third novel, I Can\u2019t Think Straight, formed the basis of her cult hit film of the same name.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Shamim\u2019s book festival appearances include Hay-on-Wye, Cheltenham and Edinburgh.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"s1\">An accomplished speaker, Shamim has spoken at TED events worldwide, at the INK Conference in India and DLD in Munich. Corporate speaking events have included Deloitte, Goldman Sachs, Citibank and Disney.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Shamim lives in London with her wife, Hanan, and their two sons.<\/span><\/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:\/\/shamimsarif.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Website<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/374437.Shamim_Sarif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Goodreads <\/a>| <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/shamimsarif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/EnlightenmentProds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shamimsarif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/shamimsarif\/\" 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\/d9681b86411\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Enter here to win a print copy of <em>The Athena Protocol<\/em> by Shamim Sarif!<\/a><\/div>\n<div>(US Only!)<\/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=\"https:\/\/fantasticflyingbookclub.blogspot.com\/2019\/08\/tour-schedule-athena-protocol-by-shamim.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3321 size-large\" 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>OH MY GOD this sounds like such an amazing book! Are you adding it to your tbr? 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-3042\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/well-wishes-kait-june-2019-002.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/well-wishes-kait-june-2019-002.png 600w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/well-wishes-kait-june-2019-002-300x160.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Thursday and welcome to my stop on the The Athena Protocol blog tour!! I&#8217;m so excited to be on this tour, and I&#8217;m even more excited for you to read about Shamim&#8217;s favorite scene from the book! Read on to find out more about the book, author, and tour, plus enter a print copy of The Athena Protocol!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[484,27,632],"tags":[537,489,488,540,641,462,1142,1141,1140],"reading-challenges":[],"class_list":["post-3806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-tours","category-giveaways","category-guest-post","tag-blog-tour","tag-book-tour","tag-ffbc","tag-giveaway","tag-guest-post","tag-kait-plus-books","tag-october-2019","tag-shamim-sarif","tag-the-athena-protocol","book-author-shamim-sarif","book-publisher-harperteen","book-genre-queer","book-genre-thriller","book-genre-ya"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/The-Athena-Protocol-Featured-.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806","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=3806"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4261,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806\/revisions\/4261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3806"},{"taxonomy":"reading-challenges","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reading-challenges?post=3806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}