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Queen of the Owls by Barbara Linn Probst – Book Tour and Giveaway

11 Friday Sep 2020

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Join us for this tour from Sep 9 to Sep 25, 2020!

Book Details:

Book Title:  Queen of the Owls by Barbara Linn Probst
Category:  Adult Fiction (18 +),  307 pages
Genre:  Upmarket Women’s Fiction
Publisher:  She Writes Press
Release date:   April 2020
Tour dates: Sep 9 to Sep 25, 2020
Content Rating:  PG-13: Includes situations and discussions of adult subject matter.

“A stunner” — Caroline Leavitt, best-selling author

“A must-read”
— Barbara Claypole White, best-selling author

“Nuanced and insightful” — Christina Baker Kline, #1 New York Times best-selling author

Book Description:

A chance meeting with a charismatic photographer will forever change Elizabeth’s life. Until she met Richard, Elizabeth’s relationship with Georgia O’Keeffe and her little-known Hawaii paintings was purely academic. Now it’s personal. Richard tells Elizabeth that the only way she can truly understand O’Keeffe isn’t with her mind―it’s by getting into O’Keeffe’s skin and reenacting her famous nude photos. In the intimacy of Richard’s studio, Elizabeth experiences a new, intoxicating abandon and fullness. It never occurs to her that the photographs might be made public, especially without her consent. Desperate to avoid exposure―she’s a rising star in the academic world and the mother of young children―Elizabeth demands that Richard dismantle the exhibit. But he refuses. The pictures are his art. His property, not hers. As word of the photos spreads, Elizabeth unwittingly becomes a feminist heroine to her students, who misunderstand her motives in posing. To the university, however, her actions are a public scandal. To her husband, they’re a public humiliation. Yet Richard has reawakened an awareness that’s haunted Elizabeth since she was a child―the truth that cerebral knowledge will never be enough. Now she must face the question: How much is she willing to risk to be truly seen and known?

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Meet the Author:

BARBARA LINN PROBST is a writer of both fiction and non-fiction, living on an historic dirt road in New York’s Hudson Valley. Her debut novel QUEEN OF THE OWLS (April 2020) is the powerful story of a woman’s search for wholeness, framed around the art and life of iconic American painter Georgia O’Keeffe. Endorsed by best-selling authors including Christina Baker Kline and Caroline Leavitt, QUEEN OF THE OWLS was selected as one of the twenty most anticipated books of 2020 by Working Mother, a debut novel “too good to ignore” by Bustle, and “one of the best new novels to read during the quarantine” by Parade Magazine and Entertainment Weekly. It won the bronze medal for popular fiction from the Independent Publishers Association, placed first runner-up in general fiction for the Eric Hoffer Award, and was short-listed for the $2500 Grand Prize. Barbara has a PhD in clinical social work and blogs for several award-winning sites for writers.

Connect with the Author:  website  ~ facebook  ~ instagram ~ goodreads

 
Tour Schedule:

Sep 9 – Rockin’ Book Reviews – book spotlight / guest post / giveaway
Sep 9 – Locks, Hooks and Books – book spotlight / giveaway
Sep 9 – Working Mommy Journal – book spotlight / giveaway
Sep 10 – My Fictional Oasis – book spotlight
Sep 10 – Bookish Paradise – book spotlight / author interview / giveaway
Sep 10 – Book Corner News and Reviews – book spotlight / giveaway
Sep 11 – Elizabeth McKenna – Author – book spotlight / giveaway
Sep 14 – Pen Possessed – book spotlight / giveaway
Sep 15 – Lamon Reviews – book spotlight / author interview / giveaway
Sep 15 – fundinmental – book spotlight / giveaway
Sep 16 – I’m Into Books – book spotlight / giveaway
Sep 16 – Jazzy Book Reviews – book spotlight / author interview / giveaway
Sep 17 – Gina Rae Mitchell – book spotlight / giveaway
Sep 17 – Library of Clean Reads – book spotlight / giveaway
Sep 18 – Hall Ways Blog – book spotlight / guest post / giveaway
Sep 21 – Sefina Hawke’s Books – book spotlight
Sep 22 – Literary Flits – book spotlight / guest post / giveaway
Sep 22 – Deborah-Zenha Adams – book spotlight / guest post / giveaway
Sep 22 – Sylv.net – book spotlight / giveaway
Sep 23 – StoreyBook Reviews – book spotlight / author interview / giveaway
Sep 23 – Alexis Marie Chute Blog – book spotlight / author interview / giveaway
Sep 23 – Books for Books – book spotlight
Sep 24 – Mystery Suspense Reviews – book spotlight / guest post
Sep 25 – Novel Escapes  – book spotlight
Sep 25 – 100 Pages A Day – book spotlight / giveaway

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Casting Call for a Corpse by Heather Haven – Book Tour and Giveaway

03 Thursday Sep 2020

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Casting Call for a Corpse: A Fun Detective Cozy (The Alvarez Family Murder Mysteries)
by Heather Haven

About Casting Call for a Corpse


Casting Call for a Corpse: A Fun Detective Cozy (The Alvarez Family Murder Mysteries)
Cozy Mystery
7th in Series
Publisher: The Wives of Bath Press (August 1, 2020)
Print Length: 295 pages
Digital ASIN: B08BR6H1GV

A DETECTIVE AGENCY WITH HEART.
AND A WEDDING ANNIVERSARY!

Super sleuth, Lee Alvarez, finds a dead man wearing a tuxedo in a friend’s bathtub during a soiree for San Francisco’s VIPs. And not just any friend, but an internationally acclaimed actress who recently came to live in San Francisco. And not just any bathtub, but a bathtub residing inside one of Alamo Square’s famed Painted Ladies, recently bought by said actress.

The police believe it’s the actress friend who done the man in. After all, it’s her house and her tub. And another man died under suspicious circumstances around her recently. Both romantic encounters, doncha know. The actress must be guilty.

Or is she?

For ace detective Lee Alvarez, the timing couldn’t be worse. She is supposed to go off in celebration of her 6-month wedding anniversary with her hunky hubby. Paris is calling!

Or is it?

Her long-time friend, plus her mother – She Who Must Be Obeyed – thinks she should stick around and find out who the real killer is. So Lee, family, handsome hubby, and Tugger, the cat, are on the job. But Lee’s nose is itching. Which means not one of the suspects is telling the truth.

Or not all of it. Lee soon uncovers threatening letters, sullen playwrights, dead bodies, and a criminal web of jewel thieves, all treading the boards of her friend’s latest musical. This is showbiz?

Author Haven pulls out all the stops in a cozy fan’s delight about a charming, and unconventional Palo Alto detective family who get their man or woman, as the case may be. Book Seven follows its tradition of the Bay Area’s favorite PI, who rolls over with all four paw in the air when it comes to her darn near perfect mother. But with the help of her computer geek brother and handsome hubby, Lee works to solve the case in time to celebrate her own 6-month wedding anniversary.

About Heather Haven

Heather moved to the Bay Area and studied creative writing at Stanford University. Previously, several of her comedy acts and plays were performed in NYC. Her novels include the humorous Silicon Valley-based Alvarez Family Murder Mysteries, Manhattan-based Persephone Cole Vintage Mysteries, Love Can Be Murder Novellas, Snow Lake Romantic Suspense Series and standalone mystery noir, Murder under the Big Top, based upon her mother’s stint as a performer with Ringling Brothers’ Circus. There is also her anthology, Corliss and Other Award-Winning Stories. Her favorite protagonist is in Corliss, one of the featured short stories, but don’t tell anyone!

Author Links

Website – http://heatherhavenstories.com/

Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/HeatherHavenStories/

Purchase Link – Amazon

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TOUR PARTICIPANTS

August 24 – I’m All About Books – SPOTLIGHT

August 24 – My Reading Journeys – REVIEW

August 25 – Reading, Writing & Stitch-Metic – SPOTLIGHT

August 26 – Hearts & Scribbles – SPOTLIGHT

August 26 – Books a Plenty Book Reviews – REVIEW

August 27 – Sneaky the Library Cat’s blog – CHARACTER INTERVIEW

August 27 – ebook addicts – SPOTLIGHT

August 28 – Christy’s Cozy Corners – GUEST POST

August 29 – My Journey Back – CHARACTER GUEST POST

August 30 – Cassidy’s Bookshelves – REVIEW

August 31 – Christa Reads and Writes – GUEST POST

August 31 – Baroness’ Book Trove – REVIEW

August 31 – StoreyBook Reviews – SPOTLIGHT

September 1 – Cozy Up With Kathy – AUTHOR INTERVIEW

September 1 – I Read What You Write – GUEST POST

September 2 – Ascroft, eh? – AUTHOR INTERVIEW

September 2 – Island Confidential – SPOTLIGHT

September 3 – CelticLady ‘s Reviews – SPOTLIGHT

September 3 – Elizabeth McKenna – Author – SPOTLIGHT

September 4 – MJB Reviewers – SPOTLIGHT

September 5 – Literary Gold – CHARACTER GUEST POST

September 5 – fundinmental – SPOTLIGHT

September 6 – Readeropolis – SPOTLIGHT

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Three Treats Too Many by Debra H. Goldstein – Book Tour and Giveaway

28 Friday Aug 2020

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Three Treats Too Many (A Sarah Blair Mystery)
by Debra H. Goldstein

About Three Treats Too Many


Three Treats Too Many (A Sarah Blair Mystery)
Cozy Mystery
3rd in Series
Publisher: Kensington (August 25, 2020)
Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages
ISBN-10: 1496719492
ISBN-13: 978-1496719492
Digital ASIN: B082WRV78G

When a romantic rival opens a competing restaurant in small-town Wheaton, Alabama, Sarah Blair discovers murder is the specialty of the house . . .

For someone whose greatest culinary skill is ordering takeout, Sarah never expected to be co-owner of a restaurant. Even her Siamese cat, RahRah, seems to be looking at her differently. But while Sarah and her twin sister, Chef Emily, are tangled up in red tape waiting for the building inspector to get around to them, an attention-stealing new establishment—run by none other than Sarah’s late ex-husband’s mistress, Jane—is having its grand opening across the street.

Jane’s new sous chef, Riley Miller, is the talk of Wheaton with her delicious vegan specialties. When Riley is found dead outside the restaurant with Sarah’s friend, Jacob, kneeling over her, the former line cook—whose infatuation with Riley was no secret—becomes the prime suspect. Now Sarah must turn up the heat on the real culprit, who has no reservations about committing cold-blooded murder . . .

Includes quick and easy recipes!

About Debra H. Goldstein

Judge Debra H. Goldstein writes Kensington’s Sarah Blair mystery series (One Taste Too Many, Two Bites Too Many, Three Treats Too Many). She also wrote Should Have Played Poker and IPPY winning Maze in Blue. Her short stories, including Anthony and Agatha nominated The Night They Burned Ms. Dixie’s Place and Derringer Finalist Pig Lickin’ Good, have appeared in numerous publications. Debra serves on the national boards of SinC and MWA and is president of SEMWA.

Author Links

  • Website – www.DebraHGoldstein.com
  • Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/DebraHGoldsteinAuthor/
  • Twitter – @DebraHGoldstein
  • Goodreads – https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4906340.Debra_H_Goldstein
  • Bookbub – https://www.bookbub.com/search/authors?search=debra%20h.%20goldstein

Purchase Links – Amazon – B&N – Google Play

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TOUR PARTICIPANTS

August 18 – I’m All About Books – SPOTLIGHT

August 18 – The Pulp and Mystery Shelf – GUEST POST

August 19 – Maureen’s Musings – SPOTLIGHT

August 19 – Socrates Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT

August 20 – Celticlady’s Reviews – SPOTLIGHT, RECIPE

August 20 – FUONLYKNEW – SPOTLIGHT

August 21 – Reading, Writing & Stitch-Metic – SPOTLIGHT

August 22 – Mystery Thrillers and Romantic Suspense Reviews – SPOTLIGHT

August 22 – Books a Plenty Book Reviews – REVIEW, GUEST POST

August 23 – Christy’s Cozy Corners – CHARACTER GUEST POST

August 23 – Baroness’ Book Trove – REVIEW

August 24 – Gimme The Scoop Reviews – SPOTLIGHT, RECIPE

August 25 – Cozy Up With Kathy – REVIEW, CHARACTER GUEST POST

August 25 – Sneaky The Library Cat’s Blog – CHARACTER INTERVIEW

August 26 – Island Confidential – SPOTLIGHT

August 26 – My Journey Back – CHARACTER GUEST POST

August 27 – Mysteries with Character – REVIEW

August 27 – Readeropolis – SPOTLIGHT

August 28 – Elizabeth McKenna – Author – SPOTLIGHT

August 29 – Jane Reads – GUEST POST

August 29 – Diane Reviews Books – REVIEW

August 30 – Brooke Blogs – REVIEW

August 31 – Literary Gold – SPOTLIGHT

August 31 – My Reading Journeys – REVIEW

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