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February 4, 2013

Another Monday...

News:

In case you missed Saturday's post, I reviewed a book that anyone who blogs should take a look at - My Blog Traffic Sucks! by Steve Scott

The Guardians, Inc Tour kicks off today. You can see the full schedule, pick up a free ebook of The Cypher by Julian Rosado-Machain, and enter to win a $75 Amazon Gift Card.

Today, I have a Meet the Author double feature. Come back to the blog at noon EST to meet R. E. Hargrave, author of To Serve is Divine, and again at 3 pm EST to learn more about Liss Thomas, author of Finding Monsters.

Giveaways:

Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles by Ron Currie, Jr. (hardcover) - LAST DAY
Bird jewelry for The Forever Girl tour
$50 Amazon Gift Card from Terri Morgan - FINAL DAYS
$75 Amazon Gift Card from Julian Rosado-Machain

Bloggers Wanted: Book Blasts & Tour


Pub Day Blast - Wildflowers by Schledia Benefield (Feb. 8). Join the celebration and offer your readers a chance to win a $50 Amazon Gift Card

Sign up for the Nate Rocks Tour Kick-off Book Blast (March 4 - unlimited space) *Prize for bloggers and readers!


Let your readers get a peek of Playing the Genetic Lottery by Terri Morgan during the Excerpt Tour (Feb. 18 - 22).  Sign up here. 

I had a head cold all week and was wrapping up the Guardians, Inc Tour prep, so there wasn't much time for reading. I did make progress on both books this week.


Reading:


Gen Y has been picked apart by analysts, statistics, and trend reports, which often portray 20-somethings in negative, one-dimensional terms like "entitled" and "whiners". In this thought-provoking new book that aims to dispel these stereotypes, journalist Hannah Seligson chronicles the lives of seven individuals who embody this generation, exploring their challenges and ambitions in vivid detail and sketching a picture, through their eyes, of what life is actually like for young adults. Through these first-hand stories, readers will discover the transformational effect this enterprising, open-minded, innovative, and diverse generation is having on society. From Goodreads.com
Find Mission: Adulthood at Goodreads, Amazon, and IndieBound.

Seattle, 2010. When her entrepreneur husband dies in an accident, Michelle Preston Richardson, 48, finds herself childless and directionless. She yearns for the simpler days of her youth, before she followed her high school sweetheart down a road that led to limitless riches but little fulfillment, and jumps at a chance to reconnect with her past at a class reunion. But when Michelle returns to Unionville, Oregon, and joins three classmates on a spur-of-the-moment tour of an abandoned mansion, she gets more than she asked for. She enters a mysterious room and is thrown back to 1979.

Distraught and destitute, Michelle finds a job as a secretary at Unionville High, where she guides her spirited younger self, Shelly Preston, and childhood friends through their tumultuous senior year. Along the way, she meets widowed teacher Robert Land and finds the love and happiness she had always sought. But that happiness is threatened when history intervenes and Michelle must act quickly to save those she loves from deadly fates. Filled with humor and heartbreak, THE JOURNEY gives new meaning to friendship, courage, and commitment as it follows an unfulfilled soul through her second shot at life.
Find The Journey at Goodreads and Amazon

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4 comments:

  1. You've certainly been busy. Hope you feel better soon.

    Here's my It's Monday! What Are You Reading? Hope you'll stop in!

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    1. Thanks! I do feel better. If we would have an extended period of sun and warmth I would feel a ton better.

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    1. Unfortunately I wasn't sick enough to stay in bed. Just sick enough to make doing anything take twice as long.

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