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  Join us for this tour from Oct 29 to Nov 19, 2024! Book Details: Book Title: DEAR HERO by Alyssa Roat & Hope Bolinger Category: YA Fiction (Ages 13-17), 394 pages Genre: YA Romance, Greek Myths, Chat Fiction, Humor Publisher: Torchflame Books Release date: October, 2024 Tour dates: Oct 29 to Nov 19, 2024 Content Rating: PG-13 for MCU-level superhero violence; PG when it comes to language and sexual content (kissing). Book Description: There's an app for everything--even meeting a new nemesis. Up-and-coming teen superhero Cortex is on top of the world—at least, until his villain dumps him. If he’s going to save his reputation, he needs a new villain to fight, and fast. Meanwhile, the villainous Vortex has once again gotten a little overeager and taken out a hero prematurely. Will any young hero be able to keep up with her? Maybe she should work on finding a steady relationship with an enemy she won’t kill in the first round. Enter Meta-Match, a nemesis pairing site for heroes and villains. The two match right away, and after throwing punches at each other behind coffee shops, practicing their fight choreography, and hiring henchmen to do their bidding (mostly just getting them coffee), they realize they have a lot more in common than names that annoyingly rhyme. After all, they're still rising through the ranks in their respective circles, and their reputations need good press. But not everything in the superhero world is as it seems. Can a hero really trust a villain to do the right thing? And can a villain trust a hero not to screw them over? As darkness from the past threatens them both, they may need each other for the fight to come—one with much higher stakes than their choreographed meet-ups on weekends. Told entirely through texts, transcriptions, and direct messages, this darkly humorous chat fiction rom-com goes behind the scenes of the superworld.  Alyssa Roat Meet the Authors: Alyssa Roat lives in the cornfields of Indiana, but she hopes to soon discover a portal to a fantasy world where she will run a bookshop for magical creatures. For now, she is an award-winning multi-published author and has worked in a wide variety of roles within the publishing industry as an editor, agent, writer, and publicist. She and her partner have four black cats who allegedly have never been fed in their lives and occasionally help her write by walking across the keyboard. Her name is a pun, which means you can learn more about her at www.alyssawrote.com or on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook as @alyssawrote. connect with the author: website ~ X/Twitter ~ instagram ~ facebook ~ goodreads  Hope Bolinger Hope Bolinger is the author of more than 25 books, including the award-winning Blaze trilogy, and has contributed to many more. She has worked for various publishing companies, magazines, newspapers, and literary agencies and has edited the work of 300+ authors. She has won awards for her essays, poetry, children’s books, novels, and plays. She’s a theater nerd and spends too much time hiking and petting her fat cats, Freya and Odin. She can be found online @hopebolinger and @hopekbolinger. connect with the author: website ~ X/Twitter ~ instagram ~ facebook ~ goodreads Tour Schedule: Coming Soon! Enter the Giveaway:
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  Join us for this tour from Oct 28 to Nov 22, 2024! Book Details: Book Title: How to Dream: A Motivational Guide to a Life of Hope Success and Freedom by Deedee Cummings Category: Adult Non-Fiction (18+) , 150 pages Genre: Inspirational/ Self-Help Publisher: Make A Way Media Release date: October 1, 2024 Format available for review: print-softback (USA), ebook (PDF) Tour dates: Oct 28 to Nov 22, 2024 Content Rating: PG. Just a couple words you can't say in school- no f-bombs Book Description: How do you dream in a world that actively crushes dreams? Everything you’ve been told about dreams is wrong. Our dreams have been hijacked. Dreams aren’t just fanciful thoughts; dreams are the very reason we’re here. Yet, we’re constantly told they’re impractical, a waste of time. How to Dream, by best-selling author, therapist, and entrepreneur Deedee Cummings, is your guide to reclaiming the power of your dreams. In this inspiring and practical book, Deedee uses her expertise and the art of storytelling to help you turn your dreams into reality. Whether you're just getting started or are well on your way, How to Dream offers doable steps and momentous mindset shifts that will make you unstoppable. Drawing from her own journey and years of experience helping others achieve their goals, you will learn:
Packed with affirmations, strategies, and practical advice, How to Dream is the essential toolkit for anyone ready to take their life to the next level. If you're struggling to find direction, seeking to reignite your ambition, or need encouragement to stay the course, this book will inspire you to dream bigger, push harder, find freedom, and create the life you've always imagined. Don't let another day pass without pursuing your true potential. It's time to make your dreams a reality—starting now. Buy the Book: (scheduled for release Oct 1, 2024!) Amazon add to goodreads  Meet the Author: Deedee Cummings is a professional dreamer. She is also an author of eighteen books, therapist, attorney, and mom from Louisville, Kentucky. Cummings founded Make A Way Media in 2014 after struggling to find books with characters who looked like her own children and an extreme lack of stories that reflected their life experiences. Books published by Make A Way focus on hope, diversity, social justice, and therapeutic skills for children and adults. Her work has been featured in HuffPost, Forbes, NPR, USA Today, Essence Magazine, Psych Central, Well+Good, and The EveryGirl, among other media outlets. In 2021, she was appointed to the Kentucky Early Childhood Advisory Council by Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear acknowledging her decades long service to the children and families of Kentucky. Deedee is also the founder of The Louisville Book Festival which celebrates its fifth year in 2024 and hosts over 150 authors and presenters from all over the country. She was inspired to work to highlight and celebrate a culture of reading in her community after working as an in-home therapist and visiting homes of children who had no books. Cummings believes literacy is a fundamental human right. Her work highlights inspiring messages that remind us all it is never too late to begin again. She is currently working to adapt her latest children’s series inspired by the life of her daughter, Kayla Pecchioni (a Broadway actress) to a Broadway musical. Deedee recently founded the Make A Way Mindset program to teach the unshakable mindset she has developed as an entrepreneur of thirty years. Her next book is her first book written for adults called How to Dream and will be released in October 2024. connect with the author: website ~ make a way media ~ facebook ~ facebook ~ pinterest ~ instagram ~ instagram ~ goodreads Tour Schedule: Coming Soon! Enter the Giveaway:
Coming Soon!   Join us for this tour from Oct 21 to Nov 15, 2024! Book Details: Book Title: MY WAY HOME by Holly Heaton Category: Children's Fiction (Ages 3-7), 32 pages Genre: Children's Fiction Publisher: Holly Heaton Release date: August 11, 2024 Formats Available for Review: print-softback (USA and Canada) and ebook (MOBI for Kindle and PDF) internationally. Tour dates: Oct 21 to Nov 15, 2024 Content Rating: G: The book follows Kit on a whirlwind of an adventure trying to reclaim a precious item and return it home all while facing external dangers. Book Description: Enter the hidden realm of the Little Folk and follow Kit on a thrilling adventure. Can he reclaim an object precious to his people and return home to the Hollow Chestnut? Using his wits and environment, Kit embarks on this miniature odyssey through a lushly illustrated world.  Meet the Author: Whether through pictures, words, or her dad’s castoff camcorder, Holly has spent her life telling stories. She can usually be found chasing exciting bits of history and spending time with her husband, sons, and dog, Wesser, in metro Atlanta. connect with author: instagram ~ goodreads Tour Schedule: Coming Soon! Enter the Giveaway:
Coming Soon!   Join us for this tour from Oct 21 to Nov 15, 2024! Book Details: Book Title: The Bad Luck Nickel by Matthew Leslie Category: YA Fiction (Ages 13-17), 370 pages Genre: YA Fiction Publisher: Ausable Books Release date: August 11, 2024 Formats Available for Review: print-softback (USA and Canada) and ebook (EPUB and PDF) internationally. Tour dates: Oct 21 to Nov 15, 2024 Content Rating: PG: The book is a YA novel that touches on mature themes. There are profanities in the dialogue, and the story touches on themes of addiction, drug abuse, mental health, sexuality, underage drinking, but there are no descriptive sex scenes, and while there is some mild violence there are no guns. Book Description: When Blair Matthews, teen celeb and son of rock legend, The Blade, shows up at a high school in Montreal amidst rumors of a drug-fueled sex scandal, it’s the most excitement the students at Trudeau High have seen in years. And when Marco and his twin sister Julianna become fast friends with Blair, it seems like a dream. For Marco, Blair lifts him out of his post-breakup funk, and joins his band, The Bad Luck Nickel, instantly making it one of the hottest groups in town. And for Jules, Blair is her celebrity crush come to life in her living room. But can Blair leave his past behind and start fresh at Trudeau High? Or will his infamy follow him from LA to MTL?  Meet the Author: Matthew Leslie grew up in Windsor, Ontario, where he played bass in bands during high school and university. He reckons himself a writer, musician, and lover of lovely things. He lives in Montreal, where he teaches his favourite books to teens with the goal of inspiring a love of reading... connect with author: website ~ X/Twitter ~ instagram ~ goodreads Tour Schedule: Coming Soon! Enter the Giveaway:
Coming Soon!   Join Us for this Tour: October 21 to November 8, 2024 Book Details: Book Title: SUNNY GALE: A NOVEL by Jamie Lisa Forbes Category: Adult Fiction 18+, 268 pages Genre: Historical Fiction, Literary Novel Publisher: Pronghorn Press Release date: May, 2024 Formats Available for Review: print-softback (USA only) and ebook (PDF, NetGalley download) Tour dates: Oct 21 to Nov 8, 2024 Content Rating: PG-13 +M: There is no profane language. There are some sexual scenes, non explicit. There is one instance of sexual abuse that is more recollected than described. My specific reason for giving this rating was two scenes where animals are harmed intentionally. Book Description: It's 1895 and fourteen year old Hannah Brandt is struggling with the hard life on a new Nebraska homestead. When her imagination is captured by a wild filly she becomes obsessed with horses, which opens the door to her destiny. Just four years later she enters the first Cheyenne Frontier Day rodeo where she wins the relay race and her fate is sealed. She gives herself a new name, Sunny Gale, and pursues a rodeo career, much to the disgust of her young husband and her very proper mother. Sunny defies convention with every move as the drive to compete takes over her life, leaving everything else behind, including husbands and children. It is a rough life she has chosen, but she craves the glory of the spotlight and refuses to bow to the expectations for a woman in her time. Award winning author Jamie Lisa Forbes has once again brought us complex characters in a story based on real women and the early days when rodeo was wide open for them to become stars. It is a story of the social mores of the times and of a woman determined to defy them no matter how high the personal cost or where that choice might take her.  Meet the Author: Jamie Lisa Forbes was raised on a ranch in the Little Laramie Valley near Laramie, Wyoming. She attended the University of Colorado where she obtained degrees in English and philosophy. After fourteen months living in Israel, she returned to her family’s ranch where she lived for another fifteen years. In 1994, she moved to Greensboro, North Carolina. In 2001, she graduated from the University of North Carolina School of Law and began her North Carolina law practice. Forbes’ first novel, Unbroken, won the WILLA Literary Award for Contemporary Fiction in 2011. Her collection of short stories, The Widow Smalls and Other Stories, won the High Plains Book Awards for a short story collection in 2015. Forbes’ novel of rural North Carolina in the segregation era, entitled Eden, was published in 2020. Her historical novel about women bronc riders in the early days of rodeo, entitled Sunny Gale, was published in May 2024 by Pronghorn Press. Ms. Forbes continues to live—and write—in North Carolina. Connect with the author: website ~ facebook ~ pinterest ~ X ~ goodreads Tour Schedule:
Oct 21 – Cover Lover Book Review – book spotlight Oct 21 - @this.human.reads * – book review Oct 21 - @stars.and.embers * - book review Oct 21 - @acourtofspinesnpages * - book review Oct 21 - @bearyintobooks * - book review Oct 22 – Oct 23 – @bookscape__ * - book review Oct 24 – Deborah-Zenha Adams – book spotlight / author interview Oct 25 – Oct 28 – Sharing Life’s Moments – book review Oct 28 - Gina Rae Mitchell – book review / guest post Oct 28 - @jilljemmett * - book review Oct 28 - @onceuponamaltesereader * - book review Oct 29 – @bookameme * – book review Oct 30 – Locks, Hooks and Books – book review / guest post Oct 30 - @kiv_coffeeandpages * - book review Oct 31 - Cheryl's Book Nook – book review Oct 31 - @alwaysreadingxo * - book review Nov 1 – @Leannebookstagram – book review Nov 2 - @readsandmusic * - book review Nov 4 – FUONLYKNEW – book review / guest post Nov 5 – Books R Us – book spotlight / guest post Nov 5 - Country Mamas With Kids – book review Nov 6 – Bigreadersite – book review Nov 7 – Connie's History Classroom – book review / author interview Nov 8 – Liese's Blog – book spotlight   Join Us for This Tour from October 7 to October 25, 2024 Book Details: Book Title: Sometimes When I'm Jealous by Deborah Serani, Psy.D Category: Children's Non-Fiction (Ages 3-7), 40 pages Genre: Children's Picture Book Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing Release date: September 2024 Formats Available for Review: print-hardback USA, PDF Tour dates: October 7 to October 25, 2024 Content Rating: G. Rated G. Book Description: Sometimes When I'm Jealous helps young children work through the complicated emotions of jealousy. As with other books in the "Sometimes When" series, Dr. Deborah Serani, Psy.D, grounds every page in research with gentle prose, while illustrator Kyra Teis brings textured illustrations to deepen the reading experience. A special section at the back of the book provides more information and tips for adults to help little ones work through the jealous feelings.  Meet the Author: Deborah Serani, Psy.D. is psychologist in practice over 30 years. She is an award-winning author of numerous books on the subject of psychology. She is also a senior professor at Adelphi University. Connect with the author: website ~X/twitter ~ instagram ~ facebook ~ goodreads Tour Participants:
@this.human.reads @nissa_the.bookworm @acourtofspinesnpages @stars.and.embers @KimBartosch @junebug_reads Cheryl's Book Nook @bookscape__ Country Mamas With Kids @Leannebookstagram @onceuponamaltesereader @readsandmusic @bookameme @ginaraemitchell @amybooksy @regallywritten @onceuponafrida @lottesbookcorner @kiv_coffeeandpages   Join us for this tour from Oct 7 to Oct 25, 2024! Book Details: Book Title: WHO SAVED WHO by Roslyn Cohn Category: Adult Non-Fiction (18+), 151 pages Genre: memoir Publisher: Amazon Release date: November 2023 Format available for review: print-softback (USA only); ebook (GIFTED KINDLE (available only via Amazon.com), EPUB, PDF). Tour dates: Oct 7 to Oct 25, 2024 Content Rating: PG-13: The author uses the F-Word. Book Description: Growing up in beautiful Bohemian 1970s Marin County, the daughter of a funny pawnbroker-jeweler with vision who knew the streets and a warm, independent Mom turned Naturalist-Animal Rights Activist, Roz is an award winning actress who spent 20 years in NYC where she worked on stages from the size of a postage stamp to Broadway. She left NYC and relocated to Los Angeles striving for work in TV and Film and, more importantly, to be closer to her Marin folks. Roz takes us on a quick re-cap of the next 20 years, drawing us into her journey of 2022 full of desperate twists where she didn’t feel there was much purpose left to her life, to the messages from The Other Side and an ultimate life affirming turn that will warm your heart. Who Saved Who is a book for the dog lover in all of us with the purpose of getting them out of Shelters and into your loving homes. It’s a book you will get a kick out of, possibly recognize parts of your own journey in loving dogs and in finding her own ultimate higher mission. It’s a an utterly enjoyable, captivating, and moving read told through words, pictures and video.  Meet the Author:
Roslyn Cohn is an actress who has worked from stages the size of a postage stamp to Broadway with the likes of Tony Randall, Jack Klugman, Jerry Stiller, Ellen Greene, and Julie Hagerty, as well as appeared in TV, film, and commercials. Roz has won awards in Intimate Theatre (known as 99 Seat) in Los Angeles; awards for her Short “Essential Tremors” about her neurological disorder; and in 2013, with Jake Anthony and Joshua Finkel, co-wrote and stars in the groundbreaking, Broadway World Award-nominated “diffiCult to leave,” about her 23 years in the Cult of Scientology. The entire show lives on her YouTube channel: RoslynCohn. You can visit her at: www.RoslynCohn.com. #WhoSavedWho #ShelterDogsRock #AdoptDontShop Connect with the author: website ~ facebook ~ instagram ~ X ~ goodreads |
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