October 2011

Book Review: When No One Is Watching

October 31, 2011

Welcome to the Partners In Crime Blog Tour for When No One Is Watching Synopsis: Blair Van Howe and his partner, Danny Moran, were celebrating the biggest victory of their legal careers when both of their lives were forever changed. Danny had enjoyed a three-month period during which he managed to stay sober, but the evening’s […]

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Guest Post and Giveaway: There Can Never Be Too Much Starlight

October 30, 2011

Halloween is tomorrow, so I am delighted to welcome Pamela Jane, author of the delightful Halloween-themed children’s story Little Goblins Ten to Colloquium! Little Goblins Ten is a charming romp through a magical forest inhabited by monsters, skeletons, werewolves, mummies, zombies, and even a few witches. It is not only a charming tale about mommies […]

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Guest Post and Giveaway: That’s Not What Friends Are For

October 27, 2011

Today I welcome Greg Olear, author of father-mucker to Colloquium! Josh Lansky is a man on the brink. And father-mucker is the story of a day in his crazy life. Josh is a second-rate screenwriter, fledgling freelancer, and stay-at-home dad of two preschoolers. He has managed to keep it together until one Friday morning when […]

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Guest Post and Giveaway: Finding Trula Comfort

October 26, 2011

Mariah Stewart, whose latest book is Hometown Girl, the fourth in her popular Chesapeake Bay series, is my very special guest today. For Brooke Madison Bowers, her life has always been practically perfect and things have come easily to her. Growing up in the little town of St. Dennis, Maryland, she was not only the pretty […]

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Monster Mash and Bash Giveaway Hop

October 26, 2011

Welcome to the Monster Mash & Bash Giveaway Hop! In anticipation of the scariest, spookiest night of the year, A Book Lover’s Dream is sponsoring a monster-sized blog hop offering readers an opportunity to win book-related merchandise! From now through Halloween night, October 31, 2011, you have another chance to win a $15 Amazon gift […]

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Book Review: Baby, It’s Cold Outside

October 25, 2011

Welcome to Litfuse Publicity’s Blog Tour for Baby, It’s Cold Outside Synopsis: Dottie Morgan lost the Christmas spirit five years ago when her only son, Nelson, was killed in combat. She discontinued local traditions in the little town of Frost, such as her annual reading of a Christmas story at the library where she is the […]

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Spooktacular Giveaway Hop

October 24, 2011

Welcome to the Spooktacular Giveaway Hop! Halloween is almost here and to celebrate more than 400 blogs are participating in this year’s Spooktacular Giveaway Hop, hosted by Inspired Kathy at I am a Reader, Not a Writer and Rhiannon at The Diary of a Bookworm! From now through Halloween night, October 31, 2011, you are […]

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Book Review: Moonlight Rises

October 22, 2011

Welcome to the Partners In Crime Blog Tour for Moonlight Rises Synopsis: Dick Moonlight hasn’t had much business as a private investigator lately, so he’s been devoting his attention to his bar, Moonlight’s. That’s where he meets Peter Czech, a paraplegic who hires Moonlight to find his biological father. Czech, a nuclear engineer of Russian descent, […]

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Guest Post and Giveaway: The Goal is Goose Bumps

October 20, 2011

Mitchell Maxwell, author of Little Did I Know, is my special guest today. After an illustrious career in the entertainment industry, Mitchell is a first-time novelist. His debut work, Little Did I Know, set in the summer of 1976, is the touching, poignant, and sometimes hilarious story of young, ambitious, and inexperienced (save for college theater […]

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Book Review: Along Wooded Paths

October 19, 2011

Welcome to Litfuse Publicity’s Blog Tour for Along Wooded Paths Synopsis: Marianna Sommer reluctantly left her Indiana home to move to Montana with her family. She grew up believing that one day she would marry Aaron Zook, who has been building a home in anticipation of proposing to Marianna. But her parents’ grief over the loss […]

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Book Review: Reclaiming Lily

October 15, 2011

Welcome to Litfuse Publicity’s Blog Tour for Reclaiming Lily Synopsis: Joy Powell is an out of control seventeen-year-old, severely trying the patience of her exasperated parents, Andrew, a pastor, and Gloria. After struggling with infertility, the Powells traveled to Eastern China in 1990 to adopt a beautiful little girl who had been named Lily at birth. […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Holy Ghost Girl

October 14, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for Holy Ghost Girl Synopsis: Donna was a mere three years old and her younger brother, Gary, was barely a year old when their divorced mother left her parents’ home to travel the country with evangelist David Terrell during the 1960’s. Her children in tow, Carolyn and the other members […]

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Book Review: Little Did I Know

October 11, 2011

Synopsis: Sam August is about to graduate from college and he has a big dream. He has found an old, rundown theater in Plymouth, Massachusetts that is available for rent where he, assisted by some of his college friends, could produce and direct five musicals — Cabaret, Funny Girl, Anything Goes, Company and The Fantasticks […]

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Book Review: Heiress

October 7, 2011

Welcome to Litfuse Publicity’s Blog Tour for Heiress Synopsis: Esme Price and her younger sister, Jinx, have never known a life without luxury. It is 1896, and the privileged daughters of August Price, owner and publisher of The Chronicle, New York City’s most prominent newspaper, they have grown up in the family’s Fifth Avenue chateau. Jinx […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Little Goblins Ten

October 5, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for Little Goblins Ten Halloween will be here soon! Around town, a number of homes have already been decorated with bright orange pumpkin lights strung across their front porches, piercing the darkness that is overtaking our little city earlier and earlier each day. The first real storm of the […]

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Book Review: Flat-Out Love

October 4, 2011

Synopsis: Julie Seagle had just arrived in Boston to begin her freshman year in college when she learned that the apartment she rented — sight unseen — via an Internet advertisement did not exist. At the address where she was supposed to unpack and settle into her new apartment, she found a seedy restaurant in […]

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Book Review: The Language of Flowers

October 3, 2011

Welcome to Pump Up Your Book’s Virtual Book Tour for The Language of Flowers Synopsis: Victoria Jones does not know her actual birthday because she was abandoned by her birth parents. Court records reflect that she was about three weeks old when she became a ward of the court and Meredith Combs was appointed her […]

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Guest Post: The Impact of a Book

October 2, 2011

Hello! JHS has kindly invited us to tell you about a new blog where you get to know more about your favorite authors: Who they are, what they are like, how they think, and things that are unique to them as people. Thus, our slogan — The Writers Voice: Where you get to know the […]

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