November 2011

Book Review: Remembering You

November 29, 2011

Welcome to Litfuse Publicity’s Blog Tour for Remembering You Synopsis: Ava is hanging on by a thread. Nothing seems to be going right at work lately and she is concerned about keeping her job as the producer of a popular morning news and variety television program in Seattle. She remains lonely and heartbroken a few months […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: It’s Simple

November 28, 2011

Welcome to Pump Up Your Book’s Virtual Book Tour for It’s Simple Synopsis: Chase Daniels and Tia Madisson dated in high school, but their friendship was always most important to them and remained strong throughout their college years. Now they have both graduated and embarked upon high-powered careers. Chase was the Los Angeles Lakers’ number […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Absolute Obsession

November 21, 2011

Welcome to Pump Up Your Book’s Virtual Book Tour for Absolute Obsession Synopsis: Rose Gerbaldi has a loving husband, grown children, and a couple of grandchildren. Still, she experiences periods of time when, as she describes it, she shuts down and needs “me” time. At the age of forty-two, she suspects that she may be […]

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Book Review: Triangles

November 20, 2011

Synopsis: Three women — Holly, Andrea, and Marissa — all stand at crossroads in their lives and relationships. Holly has long been a stay-at-home wife and mother, dabbling in various hobbies that she quickly abandons. Her latest? Writing erotica. She has recently dropped sixty pounds and become obsessed with her physique and new-found ability to […]

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Gratitude Giveaways Blog Hop 2011

November 17, 2011

Welcome to the Gratitude Giveaways Blog Hop 2011! Thanksgiving is just one week away and once again a wonderful group of bloggers are saying “thank you” to their loyal readers by offering book-related prizes. This year more than 300 sites are participating! Inspired Kathy at I am a Reader, Not a Writer is again hosting! […]

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Guest Post: Why I Write

November 15, 2011

My special guest today is first-time author C. Elizabeth! Her recently published novel, Absolute Obsession, is the story of Rose Gerbaldi who, at the age of 42, becomes obsessed with a handsome, charismatic British actor named Michael Terrance who is twelve years her junior. She writes him a letter — figuring that he will never […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Conversations and Cosmopolitans

November 14, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for Conversations and Cosmopolitans Synopsis: Robert Rave was just twenty-one years old when he struck out on his own in New York City after growing up in the Midwest, the youngest of three children raised by typical middle-class parents. He could no longer hide the truth of who he […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Her Sister’s Shadow

November 12, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for Her Sister’s Shadow Synopsis: George and Blythe Niles were raising their four daughters — Bea, Charlotte, Lilli, and Dori — just outside the small town of White Head on the Massachusetts coast in a beautiful house where Blythe tended the lush gardens and painted vines running up the […]

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Guest Post and Giveaway: Are You Ready to Breakthrough?

November 9, 2011

My special guest today is Shea Vaughn, creator of SheaNetics, a program combining strength, flexibility, core stabilization, and balance exercises in a single workout and embracing five living principles — commitment, perseverance, self-control, integrity, and love. Shea is the author of Breakthrough: The 5 Living Principles to Defeat Stress, Look Great, and Find Total Well-Being in […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Saint Sebastian’s Head

November 8, 2011

Synopsis: Weeble grew up in a home that she was ashamed to bring friends to after hearing her cousins complain that it always smelled of cat urine. Her motorcycle mechanic father, Frank, spent a lot of time in his recliner drinking beer and watching television. Her mother, Mona, expected her family to fend for themselves. […]

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Guest Post: Counterbalancing Darkness and Light

November 7, 2011

I am delighted to welcome LeAnn Neil Reilly back to Colloquium! LeAnn is the author of The Mermaid’s Pendant, her re-imagined version of The Little Mermaid. Saint Sebastian’s Head, her just-released novel, is a much darker, more haunting tale about childhood incest and abuse, and survivor guilt. Weeble’s childhood was so characterized by pain and […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: The Smartest Woman I Know

November 4, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for The Smartest Woman I Know It is said that there’s nobody as smart as an old woman. The old woman at the center of author Ilene Beckerman’s delightful memoir, The Smartest Woman I Know, is her grandmother. This story is mostly about Ettie, all 4’10″ of her. She was […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: The Pub Across the Pond

November 3, 2011

Welcome to Pump Up Your Book’s Virtual Book Tour for The Pub Across the Pond Synopsis: Carlene Rivers has never been lucky. That’s what her brutally honest best friend, Becca, tells the gentleman selling raffle tickets at the Irish fair. But Carlene is undeterred, so she throws in twenty dollars on the chance to win Jimmy’s […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Everything We Ever Wanted

November 2, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for Everything We Ever Wanted Synopsis: Silvie Bates-McAllister has lived her life steeped in family history. For many years, she has served on the Board of Directors of Swithin, the private school that her grandfather rebuilt and reestablished after it was destroyed by a fire. Both of her sons, […]

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Guest Post: Surprises I’ve Had Since Publishing “The Pub Across the Pond”

November 2, 2011

Mary Carter, author of The Pub Across the Pond, is my special guest today! The Pub Across the Pond is the story of Carlene Rivers, who decides to purchase a raffle ticket. The prize is a pub in Ballybeog, a small town on the western coast of Ireland near Galway Bay. Carlene is completely shocked when […]

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