July 2011

Guest Post: A Few Thoughts on Northwest Corner

July 31, 2011

My special guest today is John Burnham Schwartz, the acclaimed author of The Commoner, Claire Marvel, Reservation Road, and Bicycle Days. John’s new novel, Northwest Corner, has drawn rave reviews. He is currently enjoying a virtual book tour Northwest Corner, with TLC Book Tours. Northwest Corner is set twelve years after a tragic accident that […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Voices From the Land

July 30, 2011

Synopsis: It was 1860 and according to that year’s census, there were more than four million slaves in the United States. On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln would issue an executive order, the Emancipation Proclamation, applicable to more than three million of them and immediately freeing approximately fifty thousand. The United States was on […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Shut Your Eyes Tight

July 29, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for Shut Your Eyes Tight Synopsis: David Gurney is a retired New York City homicide detective who has moved upstate with his wife Madeleine to a fifty-acre country paradise complete with surrounding woods, a pond, and plenty of solitude. But retirement comes easier to some than to others and when […]

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Guest Post: The Genesis of Voices From the Land

July 29, 2011

Today Jan Marquart is my special guest author! She has penned eight books, including Echoes from the Womb, about resolving mother-daughter conflicts, complete with writing prompts, and The Mindful Writer. She is currently enjoying a successful book tour with literary publicist Stephanie Barko in conjunction with the publication of her latest work, Voices From the […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Things We Didn’t Say

July 26, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for Things We Didn’t Say Synopsis: Edna Leigh Casey prefers to be known as simply “Casey.” Named for a great-aunt, Casey is, at twenty-six, too young to be known as Edna. She is also ten years younger than her fiancee, Michael, into whose home she moved when their relationship […]

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Guest Post and Giveaway: A Father’s Prophetic Words

July 25, 2011

Emily Chenoweth is my special guest author today! She is the author of Hello Goodbye, her first novel, and just completed a successful book tour with TLC Book Tours. Hello Goodbye is a poignant look at a week in the life of eighteen-year-old Abby Hansen, whose mother, Helen is dying of brain cancer. Neither Helen […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Money Can’t Buy Love

July 22, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for Money Can’t Buy Love Synopsis: Lenora Stone is a thirty-eight-year-old photographer who has worked for Baltimore Scene, a magazine about local events and personalities, for the past ten years. Her demanding boss, Dawna, is getting closer and closer to saying the “f” word — fired — because Lenora has […]

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Guest Post: Losing Myself in My Characters

July 21, 2011

Connie Briscoe is my special guest author today! Connie is the best-selling author of seven works of fiction, one novella, and one nonfiction book. She is currently enjoying a virtual book tour for her latest novel, Money Can’t Buy Love, with TLC Book Tours. Money Can’t Buy Love is the story of Lenora Stone, a […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: When Stars Align

July 20, 2011

Welcome to Pump Up Your Book’s Virtual Book Tour for When Stars Align Synopsis: Jedidiah Rogers is the master of Moss Grove, a sprawling plantation north of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He is a kind, yet pragmatic man who has always treated his slaves well and prides himself on the fact that no slave has ever been […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Ellis Island

July 19, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for Ellis Island Synopsis: Ellie and John became friends when she was just eight years old. Two years older, John was raised by Maidy and Paud after the deaths of his own parents. Maidy and Paud were everything Ellie’s parents were not: Warm, welcoming, loving, and unconditionally supportive. Ellie’s […]

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Guest Post: The Story Behind When Stars Align

July 18, 2011

My special guest today is author Carole Eglash-Kosoff. Carole is currently enjoying a virtual book tour for When Stars Align with Pump Up Your Books Virtual Book Publicity Tours. When Stars Align is the searing story of an ex-slave, Thaddeus, and the woman he loves, Amy, who is white. It is set in nineteenth century […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Stiltsville

July 14, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for Stiltsville Synopsis: Frances traveled from her Georgia home to Miami to attend the wedding of a friend. After graduating from college, Frances had taken a job as a bank teller and moved into her own apartment. But she was really just drifting, waiting for her life to begin. […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Expiation

July 13, 2011

Welcome to Pump Up Your Book’s Virtual Book Tour for Expiation Synopsis: Expiation: 1. Definition [noun] compensation for a wrong; to make amends or reparation for (wrongdoing or guilt); atone for; satisfaction 2. To pay the penalty of: Suffer for; the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing Dan Murphy had it all as his […]

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Guest Post: My Journey Into The E-Book World

July 12, 2011

Today my special guest here at Colloquium is author Greg Messel. Greg is currently enjoying a virtual book tour for Expiation, his second novel, with Pump Up Your Books Virtual Book Publicity Tours. The action in Expiation plays out amid major news events reported by the main character, Dan. Writing for a San Francisco newspaper, […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: The Long Journey Home

July 8, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for The Long Journey Home Synopsis: Margaret Robison has lived an extraordinary life. Born in 1935, she grew up in Cairo, Georgia, the daughter of an emotionally distant mother. Margaret was a tomboy of sorts. While other girls played with baby girl dolls, she wanted to play with the […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: The Seven Year Bitch

July 7, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for The Seven Year Bitch Synopsis: Isolde “Izzy” Brilliant’s thirty-ninth birthday is rapidly approaching. A former hedge fund manager with an MBA, she was laid off, along with many colleagues, but provided a generous severance package. Her husband, Russell, is an attorney who was on partnership track until he decided […]

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Book Review: A Good Hard Look

July 6, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for A Good Hard Look Synopsis: Cookie grew up in Milledgeville, Georgia, where she was the homecoming and prom queen, and voted most popular girl in her high school. But after graduation she fled to New York City where she spent two years toiling as a retail clerk and questioning […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Stories from a Lifetime

July 5, 2011

Welcome to Pump Up Your Book’s Virtual Book Tour for Stories from a Lifetime Author Hugh Aaron’s collection of short stories certainly lives up to its name: The included works were drafted over a sixty-six-year time span, the earliest dating back to when he was serving as a Seabee in the South Pacific during World […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Down from Cascom Mountain

July 1, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for Down from Cascom Mountain Synopsis: Cascom Mountain in New Hampshire has always figured prominently in Mary Hall’s life. She spent summers there in the home that belonged to her parents, not far from the lodge where she was a summer crew member. But now both of her parents […]

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