We are in need of 7 bookstagrammers to help us promote Hiddensee: A Tale of the Once and Future Nutcracker by Gregory Maguire which releases October 31, 2017. The tour will run from November 7- November 13 and there will be one stop each day. Your job will be to take an original photo that clearly promotes Hiddensee. A copy of the book will be provided. We will send information for your captions closer to the tour dates. If you’d like to be considered to be a stop on this tour, please first sign up as a tour host and then fill out the sign-up form [gravityform id="143" title="true" description="true"]

***Signups will close on Oct 15th at 12 pm MST***

Please note that signing up for a tour does not guarantee a spot on the tour.  We will choose the hosts within a few days and we will email all the chosen hosts. You will be required to reply to the email confirming that you are still interested in the tour with in 24 hours. If you don’t reply we will pick another host.  After everything is finalized we will post the tour schedule here and on our social media so you can follow along.

About the Book:

Title:  Hiddensee: A Tale of the Once and Future Nutcracker

Author: Gregory Maguire

Publisher:  William Morrow In this imaginative novel rooted in the rich soil of early-nineteenth-century German Romanticism, beloved New York Times bestselling author Gregory Maguire twins an origin legend of the famous Nutcracker with the life of Drosselmeier, the toymaker who carves him Gregory Maguire’s novels have been called “bewitching”, “remarkable”, “extraordinary”, “engrossing”, “amazing” and “delicious.” Having brought his legions of devoted readers to Oz in Wicked, Wonderland in After Alice and Dickensian London in Lost, Maguire now takes us to the Black Forest of Bavaria and Munich of the Brothers Grimm and E. T. A. Hoffman. Hiddensee recreates the backstory of the Nutcracker, reimaging how this entrancing creature came to be carved and how it magically guided an ailing little girl named Klara through a dreamy paradise on a snowy Christmas Eve. It also brings to life the mysterious godfather Drosselmeier—the ominous, canny, one-eyed toymaker made immortal by Petipa and Tchaikovsky’s ballet—who presents the once and future Nutcracker to Klara, his goddaughter. But Hiddensee is not just a retelling of a classic story. Maguire discovers in the flowering of German Romanticism a migrating strain of a Hellenic mystery-cult, and ponders a profound question: how a person who is abused by life, short-changed and challenged, can access secrets that benefit the disadvantaged and powerless. Ultimately, Hiddensee offers a message of hope. If the compromised Godfather Drosselmeier can bring an enchanted Nutcracker to a young girl in distress, perhaps everyone, however lonely or marginalized on the eve of a winter holiday, has something precious to share.