Category Archives: Blog tours
Blog Tour Calendar: Dog Care at Home, by Gina Harding
Of course I’m taking part in this one! Doggies! Have you met my spoilt little Hell Hounds? Snoring away at the moment, post breakfast. There is also a giveaway with this blog tour, so for those of you with or considering getting a canine companion it might be worth a gander.
Cover Reveal! ‘Snowed in at The Little Duck Pond Cafe’, by Rosie Green
I know, it’s only been two days since my last cover reveal, and we’re still three months from Midwinter, but I had to bring you this one. The name alone made me do it.
Blurb
The biggest snowfall in years has blanketed Sunnybrook, cutting the village off from the outside world. For Fen, who finds herself snowed in at The Little Duck Pond Cafe, it’s little more than a minor inconvenience. Her love life is finally running smoothly; it looks as if she’s found the perfect man for her.
But then a shocking secret threatens to destroy Fen’s new-found happiness.
Will being snowed in be the final straw? Or will Fen find a way through the snowdrifts to the perfect love?
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Cover Reveal! ‘Isolation Junction’, by Jennifer Gilmour
And the final cover reveal of the week is here.
Blurb
Rose is the mother of two young children, and finds herself living a robotic life with an abusive and controlling husband. While she struggles to maintain a calm front for the sake of her children, inside Rose is dying and trapped in ‘Isolation Junction’.
She runs an online business from home, because Darren won’t let her work outside the house. Through this, she meets other mums and finds courage to attend networking events, while Darren is at work, to promote her business.
It’s at one of these events that Rose meets Tim, a sympathetic, dark-haired stranger who unwittingly becomes an important part of her survival.
After years of emotional abuse, of doubting her future and losing all self-confidence, Rose takes a stand. Finding herself distraught, alone and helpless, Rose wonders how she’ll ever escape with her sanity and her children. With 100 reasons to leave and 1,000 reasons she can’t, will she be able to do it?
Will Tim help her? Will Rose find peace and the happiness she deserves? Can Rose break free from this spiralling life she so desperately wants to change?
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Cover Reveal! ‘Strand of Faith’, by Rachel J. Bonner
Today I’d like to present the cover of Rachel J Bonner’s new novel, Strand Of Faith.
Blurb
When the choice is between love and life, how can anyone decide?
A girl and a monk, both with extraordinary mental powers, have compelling reasons not to fall in love. But those from whom they expect support are manipulating them both because their choices will have consequences for the rest of the world.
After a stormy youth, Brother Prospero has found comfort and fulfilment in the monastery. That is, until he discovers something that forces him to reconsider his whole vocation. To follow his heart, he’ll have to face his demons again, outside the security of the monastery. Is it worth the risk? Can he beat them this time? Or will they finally destroy him?
Orphaned and mistreated, Leonie has found sanctuary and safety at the abbey. All she wants is to learn how to manage her unusual abilities so that she is not a danger to those around her. When she comes into contact with Prospero everything threatens to spiral out of her control. Whether she leaves or whether she stays, how can she possibly avoid destroying – yet again – those she has come to care about?
Abbot Gabriel is faced with an impossible choice. He can do nothing and watch the world descend into war. Or he can manipulate events and ensure peace – at the cost of two lives that he is responsible for. He knows what he has to do but is he strong enough to sacrifice those he loves?
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Blog tour calendar: ‘Mrs Bates of Highbury’, by Allie Cresswell
I’ll be reviewing this novel on the 25th, and I shall be happy to share my thoughts with you about this ‘Emma’ prequel.
Blurb
The new novel from Readers’ Favourite silver medalist Allie Cresswell.
Thirty years before the beginning of ‘Emma’ Mrs Bates is entirely different from the elderly, silent figure familiar to fans of Jane Austen’s fourth novel. She is comparatively young and beautiful, widowed – but ready to love again. She is the lynch-pin of Highbury society until the appalling Mrs Winwood arrives, very determined to hold sway over that ordered little town.
Miss Bates is as talkative aged twenty nine as she is in her later iteration, with a ghoulish fancy, seeing disaster in every cloud. When young Mr Woodhouse arrives looking for a plot for his new house, the two strike up a relationship characterised by their shared hypochondria, personal chariness and horror of draughts.
Jane, the other Miss Bates, is just seventeen and eager to leave the parochialism of Highbury behind her until handsome Lieutenant Weston comes home on furlough from the militia and sweeps her – quite literally – off her feet.
Mrs Bates of Highbury is the first of three novels by the Amazon #1 best-selling Allie Cresswell, which trace the pre-history of Emma and then run in parallel to it.
Purchase from Amazon UK – https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mrs-Bates-Highbury-prequel-inspired-ebook/dp/B07GJM2K4W
Author Bio –
Allie Cresswell was born in Stockport, UK and began writing fiction as soon as she could hold a pencil.
She did a BA in English Literature at Birmingham University and an MA at Queen Mary College, London.
She has been a print-buyer, a pub landlady, a book-keeper, run a B & B and a group of boutique holiday cottages. Nowadays Allie writes full time having retired from teaching literature to lifelong learners.
She has two grown-up children, two granddaughters and two grandsons, is married to Tim and lives in Cumbria, NW England.
You can contact her via her website at www.allie-cresswell.com or find her on Facebook
Social Media Links –
https://www.facebook.com/alliescribbler/
For the duration of the blog tour, Allie Cresswell has five hard copies of Game Show and five hard copies of Tiger in a Cage, all signed, available for £5 plus p & p to UK addresses. If you are interested then please get in touch and I’ll give you her contact email.
Cover Reveal! ‘The Stepsister’, by Jenny O’Brien
Today I’m pleased to bring you a cover reveal for a new thriller by Jenny O’Brien. It looks like a good one, so I’ve included a bit of blurb, and the links for the book and author.
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Coming up: Four cover reveals for September
Rachel, of Rachel’s Random Resources, has organised four cover reveal tours for the next week, and I’m glad to help her out. Come back during the week for more on each book.
Blog Tour Calendar: ‘Survive’, by Stephen Llewelyn
This should be fun. The book arrived a week or so ago, but I haven’t started it yet. Looking forward to it though, the blurb sounds …interesting.
Blurb
A young man and his mother fight to leave tragedy behind. Striving for a new life on Mars has cost Tim and Patricia everything, but as even their future is taken from them, their past is just beginning.
Earth: population 50 billion. Pollution, crime and scarcity are out of our control. Instantaneous travel provides hope for the terraforming of another world.
A terrorist attack. An explosion at the event horizon of a wormhole. A murder. A trail of clues, misinformation and sabotage. Nothing is as it seems as an old enemy returns from the shadows. 100 years from now, the 100 souls aboard the USS New World are thrown back 100 million years to the deadly Cretaceous Period. From there, an epic fight to save humanity begins; but first, they must survive.
A multi-national, eclectic crew; among them the good, the not so good and the no damned good at all. Loss, courage, genius and sheer bloody-mindedness bind them. NASA Captain, James Douglas, and his first officer, Jill Baines, expected a taxi run to Mars. Now they must escape a fearsome Mapusaurus pack, survive natural disasters, brutal discoveries and treachery.
September to December 2018 Review Schedule
Hello, now that the dissertation is all but done, I have some time for reading and reviewing again. September has been cleared until after hand in on the 19th and now October’s four slots are full too. November only has one scheduled review so far, and December is empty, but that’s limited to two slots anyway. I don’t really do Christmas books and an awful lot of the tours in November and December are for just that. I might actually have time to read and review some of the books Pen & Sword sent me last year! I’m pleased to be taking part in blog tours organised by Rachel’s Random Resources. The lovely ladies that run these tours are always helpful.
This is the schedule so far; any further scheduled reviews will be added as they come in and the schedule updated. It’s not all crime fiction, I’ve thrown in some memoir, historical and sci-fi for a bit of variety this time round.
September
25th
- Mrs Bates of Highbury, by Allie Cresswell
- Historical fiction
- Billed as ‘A prequel to Jane Austen’s ‘Emma”
- Rachel’s Random Resources blog tour
28th
- Survive, by Stephen Llewelyn
- Sci-fi adventure
- Authoright tour
October
4th
- The Pawlife Guide: Dog Care at Home, by Gina Harding
- Non-fiction
- Rachel’s Random Resources
10th
- Redneck’s Revenge, by Joan Livingston
- Crime fiction
- Rachel’s Random Resources
18th
- Sex Drive, by Stephanie Theobald
- Memoir
- Random Thing’s Blog Tours
25th
- Reprobation, by Catherine Fearns
- Crime Fiction
- Rachel’s Random Resources
November
15th
- Homicide in Herne Hill, By Alice Castle
- Cosy crime
- Rachel’s Random Resources
20th
- The Forth Victim, by John Mead
- Crime fiction – Police Pricedural
- Rachel’s Random Resources
December
2nd
- The Darling Dead, by Graham Smith
- Crime
- Bookouture
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