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New Book for Review: Self-Help ‘Saying Goodbye’ by Mike O’Mary

Mike O’ Mary will be touring December 6 – 17 and January 3 – 14 with his self-help literary collection, Saying Goodbye.  Saying Goodbye is a collection of true stories about saying goodbye to the people, places and things in our lives. This is a powerful book that includes a number of sad stories, as well as some very funny ones. Taken together, the stories serve as amazing examples of people saying heartfelt goodbyes with grace, dignity, and good humor. Saying Goodbye includes stories contributed by thirty-one authors from the United States, Canada, Ireland, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany, Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere. These stories show that there
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New Book for Review: Humor Book ‘Dear Sparkle: Cat to Cat Advice from the World’s Foremost Feline Columnist’ by Sparkle the Cat

Sparkle the Cat is touring in December and January with his humor book, Dear Sparkle: Cat to Cat Advice from the World’s Foremost Feline Columnist.  Face it, kitties, your humans can’t help you untangle your problems — especially when they’re usually the ones driving you crazy! But never fear, the world’s foremost feline authority, Sparkle the Cat, is here to solve all of your kitty conundrums. With 70 Q&As, “Sparkle Says” sidebars, and full-color photos throughout, this guide is definitely NOT your usual human-written cat book. Whether you’re a confused kitty who doesn’t understand why you’re supposed to stay off the couch, a cat who’s furious because the new
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New Book for Review: Holiday Fiction ‘I Am Santa’ by Kristy Haile

Kristy Haile is touring November 15 – December 17 with her holiday fiction, I Am Santa. One day little Nicholas wondered away from his mom and his sister while they were out shopping because he has always felt mostly invisible in comparison to his sister Holly.  Little Nicholas meets an old man sitting on a bench at the mall.  This old man tells Nicholas he is Santa Claus and that he is very sick and dying.  Santa Claus also tells Nicholas he will now be the new real Santa Claus and the elves would be in touch with him shortly.  Little Nicholas believes this old man a hundred and
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New Book for Review: Mystery novel ‘The Twinning Murders’ by Shelly Frome

Shelly Frome is touring November 15 – December 17 with his mystery novel, The Twinning Murders. Shelly Frome brings to life a cast of wonderful characters involved in an up-to-date development scheme that takes the life of a man and threatens the lives of two communities. Lydfield in Connecticut and Lydfield-in-the-Moor in Britain are sister towns, exquisitely realized, and both suffering the pains of modern life. 228 pages If you would like to review this book, email us by clicking here or email Dorothy Thompson at thewriterslife@yahoo.com.  Deadline for inquiries end November 25 or until the tour is filled. Thank you!


New Book for Review: Women’s Fiction ‘Pairs’ by David Richards

David Richards will be touring in January and February ‘11 with his women’s fiction novel, Pairs.  Pairs is the story of Kayley and Adam, a single mom who makes her living writing greeting cards and a young carpenter; and Alexandra and Henry, a former stripper with dual identities and a math teacher with some unusual gender issues. The couples are connected through Henry and Adam, who are cousins, and through Kayley’s friend Helen, who is also Henry’s step-sister. As each couple builds a connection, the joint friendship turns into family. Kayley’s daughter, Terra, becomes a central focus of both relationships; she is loved and nurtured by the village that
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New Book for Review: Mystery ‘The Killing Storm’ by Kathryn Casey

Kathryn Casey will be touring December 6 – 17 with her mystery novel, The Killing Storm.  On a quiet afternoon in the park, four-year-old Joey Warner plays in the sandbox, when a stranger approaches looking for his puppy. While Joey’s mom, Crystal, talks on her cell phone, the stranger convinces the child to help search. By the time Crystal turns around, her son has disappeared. Yet her reaction is odd, not what one would expect from a distraught mother. Is Crystal somehow involved in her son’s abduction? Meanwhile, on a ranch outside Houston, Texas Ranger Sarah Armstrong assesses a symbol left on the hide of a slaughtered longhorn, a
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New Book for Review: Christmas Fiction ‘The Christmas Chronicles’ by Tim Slover

  In this new holiday classic, Tim Slover crafts a marvelous, magical novel about how Santa Claus became the man he is today. After reading The Christmas Chronicles, you’ll believe all over again in the magic of the season. 176 pages You can find out more about Tim by visiting the publisher’s website at http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780553808100 UPDATE: This tour is now full and we are no longer seeking blog hosts. Thank you for your interest in Tim’s book. We hope you’ll follow his tour to learn more about The Christmas Chronicles.


New Book for Review: Romantic Suspsense Novel ‘All’s Fair in Love and Law’ by K.M. Daughters

During an outing with his sister’s twin girls, Patrick Sullivan, a new captain at the Chicago Police Department, comes face-to-face with a woman who gets his body tingling all over. C.J. Demarco, also known as, Charlie, is a shining star of a defense attorney at Schotz, Pearson and Freemont. When she gets a perp off on a technicality, Patrick’s department isn’t looking too good. But he has much bigger issues to deal with. Someone is brutally killing prostitutes and dumping them in the trash in the city’s alleys. Despite working on seemingly opposite sides of the law, Charlie and Pat can’t deny their attraction to each other. When Charlie
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New Book for Review: Chapbook for Tweens ‘Tiny Angel’ by Nancy Carty Lepri

When her dad is transferred to a new town, Macy Carver leaves behind her best friend and everything she knows. Suddenly she is the new girl…alone and bullied. An unexpected flash announces guardian angel Jody, who teaches her how to fit in and become a forever friend. 100 pages – PDF and paperback formats available Visit the author online at http://nancycl.webs.com If you would like to review Tiny Angel in December, email us by clicking here or email Cheryl Malandrinos at cg20pm00(at)gmail(dot)com.  Deadline for inquiries is November 15 or until the tour is filled. Thank you!


New Book for Review: Children’s Picture Book ‘Babysitting SugarPaw’ by Virginia Grenier

A little bear named SugarPaw hopes to get rid of his babysitter, Bonnie Whiskers, by getting her into trouble after making changes to his rules chart. As this fun loving story unfolds, SugarPaw learns about honesty and friendship. 32 pages Visit the author online at http://vsgrenier.com This book tour is full and no longer accepting blog hosts! Thank you for your interest in Babysitting SugarPaw.


New Book for Review: Tri-lingual Children’s Book ‘Marie and Her Friend the Sea Turtle’ by Nicole Weaver

Marie and Her Friend the Sea Turtle is a delightful story about compassion and the richness of family love! This story is about the love that developed between a little girl named Marie and a stranded sea turtle.  It tells the struggles Marie had as she helped the turtle back out to sea. 31 pages You can visit the author online at http://outskirstpress.com/nicoleweaver If you would like to review Marie and Her Friend the Sea Turtle in December, email us by clicking here or email Cheryl Malandrinos at cg20pm00(at)gmail(dot)com.  Deadline for inquiries is November 15 or until the tour is filled. Thank you!


New Book for Review: Children’s Historical Narrative ‘Brave Boys of Derry or No Surrender!’ by W.S. Martin

The story of the 1689 siege of Londonderry proclaims the power of God in the incredible resistance of the City of Londonderry against the attempted Jacobite conquest of Ireland by the deposed King James II of England.  While the city leaders vacillated, thirteen bold and brave young apprentices took the initiative to close the city gates.  “No surrender!” became the rallying cry.  Faith in Christ gave the people of Derry the courage to resist in the face of extended siege, blockade, starvation, and disease.  Liberty lovers—young and old—should read this book. 96 pages You can visit the publisher’s website at http://www.nordskogpublishing.com/book-brave-boys.shtml  This tour is now full and no longer
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New Book for Review: Historical Fiction ‘Of Honest Fame’ by M.M. Bennetts

M.M. Bennetts will be touring in November and December ‘10 with his historical fiction novel, Of Honest Fame.  On a summer night in 1812, a boy sets fire to a house in Paris before escaping over the rooftops. Carrying vital intelligence about Napoleon’s Russian campaign, he heads for England. But landing in Kent, he is beaten almost to death. The Foreign Secretary, Lord Castlereagh, is desperate for the boy’s information. He is even more desperate, however, to track down the boy’s assailant – a sadistic French agent who knows far too much about Castlereagh’s intelligence network. Captain George Shuster is a veteran of the Peninsula, an aide-de-camp to Wellington,
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New Book for Review: Mystery Women’s Fiction ‘Easy as Pie at Bobby’s Diner’ by Susan Wingate

Susan Wingate will be touring in November ‘10 with her women’s fiction/mystery/amateur sleuth novel, Easy as Pie at  Bobby’s Diner.  Georgette Carlisle, lost her first husband and is about to lose her next, one Hawthorne Biggs. She’s running the diner with Roberta, her late husband’s daughter. When old friend, Helen, comes back home after a failed attempt at a writing career, she is, once again, attracted to Georgette’s man. After the two women part company Helen goes missing. While digging around, Georgette finds out that Biggs has a dangerous past. With Roberta at her side, the two women, brave separation, torture and near death at the hand of Biggs.
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New Book for Review: Romance ‘Ethan’s Chase’ by Bronwyn Storm

Bronwyn Storm will be touring in November and December ‘10 with her romance novel, Ethan’s Chase.  Still wounded from a disastrous love affair, advertising executive Ethan Phillips has spent the past five years outwitting Cupid with a series of dekes and fakes. Who knew the tricky cherub would get wise? Rather than piercing Ethan’s heart with an arrow, he douses it with amaretto-flavored milk. A quick visit to the drycleaner and a stern lecture on the dangers of gorgeous, charming women, and he figures he’s made another clean getaway. But when the sexy woman turns out to be Chase Logan, his new systems programmer, Ethan’s got nowhere to run.
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New Book for Review: Suspense Thriller ‘The 19th Element’ by John Betcher

John Betcher will be touring in November and December ‘10 with his suspense/thriller novel, The 19th Element: A James Becker Thriller. Al Qaeda plans to attack Minnesota’s Prairie River Nuclear Power Plant as a means to return the down-trodden terrorist organization to international prominence. In addition to their own devoted forces, the terrorists enlist some homegrown anarchists, and a Three Mile Island survivor with a pathological vendetta against the nuclear establishment, to assist in the assault. James “Beck” Becker is a former elite U.S. government intelligence operative who has retired to his childhood hometown of Red Wing, Minnesota – just six miles down the Mississippi from the Prairie River
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New Book for Review: Suspense/Thriller ‘Talion’ by Mary Maddox

Mary Maddox will be touring in November and December ‘10 with her suspense/thriller novel, Talion.  The dying body has a thousand voices, and all of them speak to Conrad (Rad) Sanders. Fifteen-year-old Lisa Duncan has no idea she has attracted Rad’s interest. At a mountain resort in Utah, he watches as vivacious Lisa begins an unlikely friendship with Lu Jakes, the strange and introverted daughter of employees there. Lu enters his fantasies as well. He learns she is being abused by her stepmother and toys with the notion of freeing her from her sad life and keeping her awhile as his captive. Lu seems like an easy conquest who
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New Book for Review: Self-Help ‘Life Choices: Putting the Pieces Together’ by Judi Moreo (and friends)

Judi Moreo (and friends) will be touring in November and December ’10 with her self-help book, Life Choices: Putting the Pieces Together.  If life didn’t challenge us, how could we know how strong we are?  How would we learn who we are capable of becoming?  There is no such thing as life without struggle.  No one comes out of a struggle the same as he or she was when it began.  Everyone has to make choices between giving up or growing stronger.  These authors hope that by sharing their stories, you will realize no matter how many pieces your life is in or what they look like, you can
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New e-Book for Review: Paranormal Erotic Fiction Novella ‘Halloween Fantasies’ by Katie Salidas

Katie Salidas is touring the month of October with her erotic paranormal fiction novella, Halloween Fantasies.Touted as the sexiest party of the year, the annual Halloween Fantasy Ball is the one place a girl can let loose and succumb to her wildest fantasies. Disguised as a sexy vampire huntress, Sasha captures the attention of Dante, a real life creature of the night. For Sasha, meeting bona-fide vampire is enough to fulfill one of her life long fantasies. She’s ready to go home a happy woman. But Dante has other plans. It is after all, a night of fantasies, and he has a few of his own to share. You
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New Book for Review: Science Fiction ‘The Staff of Rahgorra’ by Mark Oetjens

Mark Oetjens will be touring in November ’10 with his science fiction novel, The Staff of Rahgorra. Another time, another galaxy. The mysterious crime lord Thrull has aspirations beyond controlling the underworld in a single corner of the galaxy.  Thrull wants to bring the galaxy under one rule and build a legitimate Galactic Empire.  For years he has been training an army of his followers and building his own private Armada.  But he knows he must also find the Staff of Rahgorra, a weapon of mythic power. To keep Thrull from finding the Staff the Galactic Security Bureau, peacekeepers of the galaxy, has pressed back into service a banished
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New Book for Review: Children’s Middle Grade ‘Toto Tale’ by K.D. Hays & Meg Weidman

K.D. Hays and Meg Weidman will be touring in November and December with their children’s book, Toto’s Tale.  Everyone knows how Dorothy and Toto save Oz from the Wicked Witch of West…or do they? How will Dorothy survive in a land filled with haunted bags of straw, hollow metal men and giant smelly cats? How will she fight off killer bees, mad wolves and really annoying monkeys? How will she defeat a witch with mind control and an all-seeing eye? And how will Dorothy ever find the way home? The simple truth is that she won’t, at least not alone. Of course, she’s not alone–she has Toto, her best
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New Book for Review: Memoir ‘Everything I Never Wanted to Be’ by Dina Kucera

Dina Kucera will be touring in November with her memoir, Everything I Never Wanted to Be.  Everything I Never Wanted to Be is the true story of a family’s battle with alcoholism and drug addiction. Dina’s grandfather and father were alcoholics. Her grandmother was a pill addict. Dina is an alcoholic and pill addict, and all three of her daughters struggle with alcohol and drug addiction—including her youngest daughter, who started using heroin at age fourteen. Dina’s household also includes her husband and his unemployed identical twin, her mother who has Parkinson’s Disease, and her grandson who has cerebral palsy. On top of all that, Dina is trying to make
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New Book for Review: Literary Fiction ‘God’s Poor’ by Mike Manos

Mike Manos will be touring in November with his literary fiction novel, God’s Poor.  The sudden deaths of pregnant women rock the world. A deadly virus causes world panic. A dangerous heresy reemerges from the misty past. The Catholic and Orthodox Christian Churches face an unknown enemy. Mossant reveals dangerous secrets that threaten religious foundations. The quest for immortality leads to the first Jerusalem and incredible revelations. Finally an earthquake produced by HAARP gives a temporary solution. 307 pages ONLY PDF COPIES AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW If you would like to review God’s Poor, email us by clicking here or email Dorothy Thompson at thewriterslife@yahoo.com.  Deadline for inquiries end October
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New Book for Review: Science Fiction ‘Forbidden the Stars’ by Valmore Daniels

Valmore Daniels will be touring in November with his science fiction novel, Forbidden the Stars. At the end of the 21st century, a catastrophic accident in the asteroid belt has left two surveyors dead, but the asteroid itself is completely missing, along with their young son, Alex Manez, who was accompanying them. On the outer edge of the solar system, the first manned mission to Pluto, led by the youngest female astronaut in NASA history, has led to an historic discovery: there is a marker left there by an alien race for humankind to find. We are not alone! While studying the alien marker, it begins to react and,
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New Book for Review: Historical Fiction ‘The Sixth Surrender’ by Hana Samek Norton

Hana Samek Norton is touring in November with her historical fiction novel, The Sixth Surrender. In the last years of her eventful life, queen-duchess Aliénor of Aquitaine launches a deadly dynastic chess game to safeguard the crowns of Normandy and England for John Plantagenet, her last surviving son.  To that end, Aliénor coerces into matrimony two pawns-Juliana de Charnais, a plain and pious novice determined to regain her inheritance, and Guérin de lasalle, a cynical, war-worn mercenary equally resolved to renounce his.  The womanizing Lasalle and the proud Juliana are perfectly matched for battle not love-until spies and assassins conspire to reverse their romantic fortunes. Populated by spirited and
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New Book for Review: Thriller/Suspense ‘The Remains’ by Vincent Zandri

Vincent Zandri will be touring in November and December ’10 with his thriller/suspense novel, The Remains. Thirty years ago, teenager Rebecca Underhill and her twin sister Molly were abducted by a man who lived in a house in the woods behind their upstate New York farm. They were held inside that house for three horrifying hours, until making their daring escape. Vowing to keep their terrifying experience a secret in order to protect their mother and father, the girls tried to put the past behind them. And when their attacker was hunted down by police and sent to prison, they believed he was as good as dead. Now, it’s
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New Book for Review: Horror ‘The Black Chronicles: Cry of the Fallen’ by Joel M. Andre

Joel M. Andre will be touring in October and November with his horror novel, The Black Chronicles: Cry of the Fallen.  All around her Lauren Bruni is faced with destruction. Her marriage has ended, and her professional life is at the breaking point. For Lauren, this is only the beginning of her pain. In the small town of Cottonwood, AZ everything seems to be headed in the same direction. A serial killer is on the loose, and his trail of victims holds no connection. His rampage escalates and becomes far more brutal with each murder he commits. As Lauren attempts to prevent her own life from collapsing down around
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New Book for Review: Spiritual/Religion ‘Finding God: To Believe or Not to Believe’ by Nicholas Oliva

Nicholas  Oliva will be touring in November and December ’10 with his nonfiction/spiritual/religion/philosophy book, Finding God: To Believe or Not to Believe. Along the relatively short path of human existence our species has embraced religion, atheism, and science. Few will undertake the difficulty in understanding the history of their own particular religion and to be able to find truth and objectivity in published material about this subject is a monumental task unto itself. Then, if one tries to integrate orthodox religious dogma with the aspects of Twentieth and Twenty-first Century physics it is no wonder that many have chosen to step backwards and reinforce the beliefs of a time
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New Book for Review: Fantasy/Horror ‘A Death at the North Pole’ by Joel M. Andre

Joel M. Andre will be touring in December ‘10 with his fantasy/horror novel, A Death at the North Pole. Detective Lauren Bruni has dealt with death for her entire life. She has watched it ruin lives, and brought people closer together. Her job taught her to separate fact from fiction. But on a cold December day, all Lauren had believed in would be shattered and tossed aside. Thrust in a world unlike any she has seen before, she investigates a prominent figure’s grisly murder, and searches for answers along a strange new set of people.  All while a killer watchers her every movement from the background. He waits in
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New Book for Review: Thriller ‘Final Vector’ by Allan Leverone

Allan Leverone will be touring in February and March ‘11 with his thriller novel, Final Vector.  Air traffic controller Nick Jensen’s life is in a shambles.  His wife Lisa has died following a horrific automobile wreck and the authorities suspect foul play.  He finds evidence suggesting Lisa, a Pentagon auditor, had discovered potentially treasonous material on a fellow employee’s computer, a man who also winds up dead.  Desperate to escape the pain, Nick throws himself into his work and is on duty at the radar ATC facility serving Boston’s Logan Airport on the night U.S. President Robert Cartwright is scheduled to fly into Boston.  Armed terrorists storm the facility,
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