For my stop on the Toby and the Silver Blood Witches blog tour I will be doing a spotlight of the book.

This book won first place in the BBNYA 2022. BBNYA is a yearly competition where book bloggers from all over the world read and score books written by indie authors, ending with 15 finalists and one overall winner.  If you are an author and wish to learn more about the BBNYA competition, you can visit the official website http://www.bbnya.com or Twitter @bbnya_official. BBNYA is brought to you in association with the @Foliosociety (if you love beautiful books, you NEED to check out their website) and the book blogger support group @The_WriteReads.

The main character of, Toby and the Silver Blood Witches, is twelve year old Toby who has little time for friends or football since his mum fell ill. All he wants is to stay at home and keep an eye on her. But mysterious things are happening beyond his garden hedge. Who is the figure at the window behind the barbed wire fence? And why is there a strange woman in his attic with a broken broom and bothersome pet bat?

Toby becomes entangled in an adventure of flying dogs, sparking hiccups and dangerous escapes. An innocent, young witch has been captured by a secretive organisation which will stop at nothing to find out how magic works. Toby must rescue her and time is running out.

Toby and the Silver Blood Witches by Sally Doherty was also the winner of the Book Blogger Novel of the Year Award 2022 and Writeblend Award 2022. Finalist in The Wishing Shelf Awards 2021. Shortlisted for The Selfies Book Awards 2022 and Rubery Book Awards 2022. The book is illustrated by Sarah Jan Docker @sarahjdocker

Sally writes middle grade novels. Her debut novel Toby and the Silver Blood Witches was published in July 2021. She lives in Surrey, UK, with her husband and three-legged Labrador. When not resting in bed due to chronic M.E. she can be found writing, reading or editing, searching for a sunny spot in the garden or providing a good scratch behind the ears.

Sally writes articles about living with chronic illness which have been published by MSN, Yahoo News, Metro UK, The Mighty, ME Association and Action for ME.

She dabbles in flash fiction with pieces published by Reflex Fiction, Spelk Fiction, Funny Pearls and Ellipsis Zine. She has won Retreat West’s Micro Fiction competition four times. And she is WriteMentor’s flash fiction judge.

You can discover more about Sally Doherty and her books on Twitter @Sally_writes and Facebook @sallydohertywrites.