Gail Mazourek

Samantha's Revolution: Samantha's Stubbornness Gail Mazourek

Publisher Marketing: Thirteen-year-old Samantha Crow is living near a small village not far from Yorktown, Va. in 1781, when her father and brother join the Virginia militia. Begrudgingly, she stays behind to help her mother run a small farm and care for her younger siblings. One day her life changes in an instant. She is in her tree house, day dreaming, during a rare free moment. Then she heard it, the sound of a gun shot, causing her to bolt upright to a sitting position. She listened, seemingly without breathing, as horses' hooves came to a stop. She heard a second shot, followed by one set of horse hooves galloping away. Samantha's heart was pounding as silence stretched into minutes. She climbed down and carefully made her way along the steep path leading up to the dusty road. She crept higher and came up silently behind a boulder near the road. She looked around the rock and saw legs with boots pointing toward the sky. They were not moving. As she came around, she saw a man, and his eyes held hers in a plea. His lips whispered "please" as he pulled a paper from inside his shirt. He held it out for Samantha to take and pushed his last words out. "Must...get this...to Washington." Young Adult readers and "tweens" will enjoy finding out about the freed slave/spy who gives her the note and the heart wrenching decisions she makes, which put her own life in danger to help her country during the American Revolution. Will she ever see the young Private First Class Sutter again and the beautiful brown horse with liquid eyes? Contributor Bio:  Mazourek, Gail Gail has studied independently in creative writing, literature, and is working with MFA material, with an emphasis on Creative Writing - Fiction through Empire State College. She authored her first novella, Samantha's Revolution, (Author House) for young adults in December 2012. Second in the Samantha series is Samantha's Anguish, book two, a novel, (Tharsa G Creations). They are followed by Samantha's Perseverance, third book in the series. She is a member of SCBWI, Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. http: //www.gailmart.com: Gail's website offers views of her paintings and rock art. The Rudolf Mazourek Memorial Scholarship, formed by Gail in 2000, is funded by her art. The annual scholarship goes to a student in Auto Body/Mechanics, Alfred State College, NYS. She studied fine art oil painting with Arden Von Dewitz in Southern California. Gail paints people, landscapes and all animals and writes a weekly column for Finger Lakes Publications. Gail grew up on a farm in upstate NY with seven siblings. She lives with her husband on 14 acres near Ithaca, New York.