Fabulously Fifty and Reflecting It Virtual Book Publicity Tour September & October 2011

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Join Tamara Elizabeth, author of the self-help motivational book, Fabulously Fifty and Reflecting It! Discovering My Lovable Me (Trail Blazing Press), as she virtually tours the blogosphere September 5 – October 28 2011 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book!

About Tamara Elizabeth

I am a speaker, author, self love coach, radio host, a master motivator of women in transition, conductress of motivational seminars, professional photographer, small space designer, lover of social media, mother of 5, and a fabulously loveable woman after my first 50 years. I am determined to create a revolution of women.

I empower women to look in the mirror and discover their true loveable reflection. I coach women to discover their moxie and to embrace the abundance of the universe that is rightfully theirs. I believe the journey you follow in this life is yours and only yours. You cannot change what life deals you but you can change how you deal with life.

My journey has been a rocky one of late and I have had to start my life again at fifty. I believe that if I can do this then any woman can. I decided to take the experiences in my journey this far and help others succeed like I have. From this process I wrote a book – Fabulously Fifty and Reflecting It! – Discovering My Loveable Me.

It is a book of my past, present and future reflections with the hope that each essay will inspire the women who read it to work on the worksheets that accompany each story, with the result of each reader finding a way to follow their journey without giving up.

My mentoring program – Ten Steps to Discovering and Living the Most Loveable You! (with Sass, Courage, Spunk, Determination and Attitude –aka Moxie) – will empower women in transition to work through a process with the result in them finding the fabulously loveable self. My devout enthusiasm and desire for each client to succeed more than they do will coach them to success.

Born and raised In Vancouver, BC, I have returned to the city life after 20 years away. I have moved into a 500 sq ft apartment in the heart of downtown and I am now living my online business – Every Small Space is a Living Place. I enjoy practicing what I am posting and I enjoy the challenges of small space living. As a hobby for 30 years, I decided to create a new business from it at 50 yrs of age. ESS is developing into a wonderful forum for people to come to find solutions to their small space challenges. This concept works well into my-self love coaching program – helping women in transition build their own individual living space – no matter what the size.

Handling challenges has become a passion of mine and a good thing since my journey is filled with them. Since I started on my self- love journey, I have accepted every challenge thus finding the positive in each which contributes to the person I am (and meant to be), and learning the great lessons each challenge offers me.

This journey in discovering the fabulously loveable me has brought me to the decision that my passion in life is to become a self love coach myself. Fitting in with the life’s purpose of: to use my sense of adventure and humor to encourage and nurture others individuality and potential.

It’s never too late to be what you want to be when you grow up. My intention in this life is to help others – especially women -become fully independent, self-loving creatures, living their lives to the fullest no matter what their means.

I have 4 greatest accomplishments in my life – my 4 grown children. My next greatest joy is my step son that I have had the honor of nurturing for the past 7 years.

Today, I live with my two boys – Buddy and Jackson; Bichon Frises, who everyday remind me that loving myself is the best thing I can do for myself, and then loving others unconditionally will come naturally. It is a fabulous feeling.

I have had the honor to travel throughout the world seeing life through a lens. I have met and lived in cultures that I have come to accept and embrace fully. With this passion, I have sponsored two lovely children in Africa through the Christian Children’s Fund, financed over 275 mico-finance businesses in the third world through kiva.org, and donate monthly to mywomenforwomen.org.

To date I am an esteemed member of the 2010-2011 Cambridge Who’s Who as one of 400,000 prominent net-workers in the world.

I simply adore the words: fabulous, loveable, empower, tiny, small, spunk, sass, courage, determination, attitude and (to borrow a most delightful word from my own self-love coach) – Delicious!

Have YOU finished licking your wounds? Then it’s time to get back into the ring. Overcome life’s hardships with sass, courage, spunk, determination, and attitude…GET MOXIMIZED!

Visit her website at www.moximize.me.

Follow her on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/Moximize_Me and Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/moximize.

About Fabulously Fifty and Reflecting It

This is my story, a story of a woman who has discovered how through my reflections, the truly fabulously lovable me; the authentic me that I was born to be. I have moxie like the trail blazing women of the 20’s.

Today I am a confident, lovable courageous woman who realizes that fairy-tales don’t always have the ending of children’s books, but they can have the ending and continuation of what we truly want and believe. I have sass, courage, spunk, determination and attitude.

This book is the result of hard work and perseverance on a self love journey. It is the reflection of my life and from these reflections I have created a workbook for you, the readers, to assist you on your own journey to find the most authentic loveable you. I am your voice. I speak as you. I have been where you have traveled. I have finished licking my wounds and jumped back into the ring. I am MOXIMIZED!

My reflections shared are not to place blame on anyone in my path, for I take responsibility for my reactions to every challenge I have come across in my life. I just want you to understand that I have walked in your shoes and have never given up. You can restart your life at any time you want and still succeed in whatever you desire. This is not always easy but if it was then the journey wouldn’t be quite as exciting. “Easy is never fun” – to quote my fabulously delicious self love coach.

So I invite you into my world and to reflect upon your world. Enjoy the journey – I promise you it will be the most fabulously wonderful ride of your life.

Book Excerpt:

Inner Beauty
After I realized that real hair on a head that is not made of Styrofoam was itchy, hot, and cumbersome, I decided to take it off and wear it no longer. It was time to bring my inner beauty to the surface and let it shine through. After all, if I am going to lose my hair, which is so important to us woman, ‐ then have a funky SHORT cut! So I buzzed what was left short, in fact I was pretty well bald. I gasped, no I screeched in the mirror at first look. I considered covering all mirrors with wrapping paper so they would look like birthday presents instead of windows to my superficial self. But who am I kidding, there is more to me than what is or what is not on my head; I’m actually lucky I was a C‐section birth because my head had no ugly malformations to it –wheh!
With time, this whole new look grew on me. The only change I desired first was to color the grey out because leaving it grey accentuated the bald spots, and I could only take so much change; bald might be beautiful but patchy grey, well that was just another story – that only looks good on the female canine species.
I decided that next in order was to get my makeup done to match the short hair‐do. I thought about trying to accentuate my sexy cheekbones or my luscious lips, anything to keep the focus off my head and onto my face. I settled on my eyes and accented their green and gold. My eyes have always been referred to as “sunflower eyes”. They have also had their color described as “breen” – combination of green and brown. I smile and communicate through my eyes; just ask my kids, they know the look.
Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical. ~ Sophia Loren
Letting my inner beauty radiate so large that people didn’t even notice my hair, or lack of it was extremely motivating. It was one of my steps to learning and embracing self‐love. I focused on who I am in the present instead of who I was with hair and who I would be if I had hair again. I celebrated the inner beauty that was bursting forth. It is very liberating to stay in the present and embrace who and what you are.
Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.
– Martin Buxbaum
My self‐love cup runneth over and I finally fill fulfilled. Yeah! The wrapping paper can be ripped of all polished surfaces forever! What power that feeling was and still is as I reflect on that time. When I finally said, “To hell with it, love me for the inner me that radiates from my eyes and my heart, not what’s on my head.” My perseverance and enthusiasm would shout this out to everyone who crosses my path. I am an inspiration for others ‐ I truly loved myself for that!

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. – Kahlil Gibran
Question: Are you at the stage of starting over? Reflect on the stages in your life that led you to this point. Write the positives you learned from each stage.

Book Teaser:

Fabulously Fifty and Reflecting It Book Publicity Tour Schedule

Monday, September 5

Interviewed at Barry Eva’s Blog Talk Radio Show, A Book and a Chat (pre-recorded)

Tuesday, September 6

Interviewed at Virginia Beach Publishing Examiner

“Sign up for a virtual tour. It is an awesome learning experience and so much fun – just what life is all about.”

Wednesday, September 7

Book spotlighted at Book Marketing Buzz

Thursday, September 8

Guest blogging at Literal Exposure

“As I enter this wonderful time in my life, I love the collection of recipes I have gathered over the years for the lemons thrown at me in life. I no longer duck and run out of the way or look at them as the bitter pills they once were.”

Friday, September 9

Book reviewed at 4 the Love of Books

“Since I’m pushing fifty I thought this might be a good book to review. There are some days that I feel every bit of fifty I don’t feel fabulous. This book was written with the reader in mind.”

Monday, September 12

Guest blogging at The Story Behind the Book

“The writer’s bug bit me many time but I just swatted it away never having the confidence to take my prose much farther than a file folder in a drawer somewhere safe.”

Tuesday, September 13

Interviewed at Review From Here

“Erma Bombeck was my favorite writer because I shared her passion for finding the lighter side of true life. There are so many inconsistencies and bloopers along the road to living. When they are put into print they help us to not only laugh at the situations but teach us the value of laughing at ourselves. Because when we learn not to take ourselves so seriously the healing qualities of laughter work miracles and we see instant remedies of the best medicine in the world.”

Wednesday, September 14

Guest blogging at Prill Boyl’s Defying Gravity

“In the first 50 years of my fabulous life, I wore many hats in different styles, sizes and colors. All were neatly stored in the hatbox called motherhood. I have raised a total of seven children and have loved every moment. I wouldn’t trade any of them for a paid career. But at the midpoint of my journey, with all my children grown and gone, I found myself asking one simple question: “What do I want to do when I grow up?””

Thursday, September 15

Interviewed at Working Writers

“I love to sit on my couch with my laptop looking out my picture window at the harbor in front of me. My two 4-year-old Bichon Frises keep me company. My 4 children are all grown and living their own lives so these are my babies now.”

Monday, September 19

Interviewed at Beyond the Books

“I waited to publish on my 51st birthday as a celebration for another year traveled.”

Thursday, September 22

Interviewed at Pump Up Your Book

“I love being by myself but as a writer you tend to squirrel away and let your thoughts and creativity flow to you in the quiet confounds of your space wherever that may be. With the rising need for promotion via the Internet, it is even harder to get out and meet people because even your book tour is now viral. But that is only a minor frustration. It would never blow out the flame of my creativity.”

Friday, September 23

Book reviewed at Sharon’s Garden of Book Reviews

“This is a fantastic book about facing the big 50 and how to come out with a postive attitude and a great feeling about yourself. Part workbook, part narrative, I found this slender volume to be one of the best books I’ve run across about the milestone year that everyone faces. I highly recommend it!”

Tuesday, September 27

Guest blogging at Night Owl Reviews

“The term Midlife crisis is a term made famous in 1965 by Elliott Jaques, a Canadian psychoanalyst and organizational psychologist, and is now used to describe the period of deep-seated self-doubt that is felt by some individuals in their “middle years” or middle age of life. This experience is a result of sensing the passing of their own youth and the imminence of their old age.”

Thursday, September 29

Guest participation in Literarily Speaking’s September Book Forum

“I never even considered an agent. I chose to invest my time and money in a mentor.”

Friday, September 30

Chat with Tamara at Pump Up Your Book Live! September Chat/Book Giveaway!

Monday, October 3

Book spotlighted at Literarily Speaking

Tuesday, October 4

Guest blogging at Literarily Speaking

“You know the old adage, “If I only knew then what I know now boy would things have been different”? How true the saying is. But as I enter the second half century of my journey, I have come to realize that everything that has happened to me in the past is the wind that stokes the fires to fuel my present, and gently pushes me forward to my achieving my desires.”

Wednesday, October 5

Guest blogging at Motherhoot

Friday, October 7

Book trailer spotlighted at If Books Could Talk

Monday, October 10

Interviewed at Book Marketing Buzz

“The virtual tour is a must. Not only is it fun to experience but such a wonderful learning tool. The people I have met and the writing exposure I have done is just fabulous.”

Tuesday, October 11

Interviewed at As the Pages Turn

“I decided that since my main goal of writing this book was to help one other woman get through a challenging transition, I would accomplish this best by self publishing with a print-on-demand company. This has been a wonderful experience with lots of hard work and fabulous learning experiences.”

Wednesday, October 12

Interviewed at Blogcritics

“This has nothing to do about age as a number – it has to do about coming of age. Anyone can come of age at any time in his or her life….”

Thursday, October 13

Interviewed at American Chronicle

“The most important thing to do if you desire to write a book on anything that lights a fire in your belly – get a mentor. A mentor is so valuable. A mentor will remind you of your desires and passions, A mentor will hold you accountable to your convictions. A mentor will be there through the hard times and celebrate with you through all the triumphs. A mentor looks at things in a different way than you might see them and give you the much-needed second point of view. A mentor might give tough love but love you and your vision just as much as you do. So before you worry about editing and publishing, find the perfect mentor. You will never look back no matter high steep the climb up the mountain of life is.”

Monday, October 17

Book spotlighted at Between the Covers

Tuesday, October 18

Interviewed at The Hot Author Report

“I am a certified self-love coach giving back to others and helping those that find the challenging transitions of life too debilitating to continue forward on their life’s journey. I have worn many hats in my first half century – daughter, sister, wife, mother of 7 (4 of my own and 3 I borrowed to raise just for the heck of it), fund raiser, travel photographer and globe trotter. Every hat has given me inspiration for what I want to write to help others move forward. I have walked so many paths and in reflection each one and its twists and turns have given me so much material to write about.”

Wednesday, October 19

Interviewed at The Book Connection

“I have written all my life. I was raised in a strict household of the doctrine – to be seen and not heard.”

Thursday, October 20

Guest blogging at Writing Daze

“This book is the result of hard work and perseverance on a self-love journey. It is the reflection of my life and from these reflections I have created a workbook for women traversing their own transitions to help them keep focused and heading in the direction of success. Each essay will strike a cord with the reader, as I have been where she has journeyed.”

Monday, October 24

Book reviewed at Writing in Flip Flops

Friday, October 28

Book Reviewed at Literarily Speaking

Tamara Elizabeth’s FABULOUSLY FIFTY AND REFLECTING IT VIRTUAL BOOK PUBLICITY TOUR will officially begin on September 5 and end on October 28 ’11. Please contact Dorothy Thompson at thewriterslife(at)gmail.com if you are interested in hosting and/or reviewing her book or click here to use the form. Thank you!

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