Category: Women's Literary Fiction

SPOTLIGHT BOOK TOUR: Beverly Bonnefinche is Dead by Kristen Seeley

9/6/2023

BEVERLY BONNEFINCHE IS DEAD by Kristin Seeley

Join us for this tour from Oct 2 to Oct 20, 2023!
Book Details:

Book Title:  Beverly Bonnefinche is Dead by Kristen Seeley
Category:  Adult Fiction (18 +), 388 pages
Genre: Women's / Book Club Fiction
Publisher:  Rising Action Publishing
Release date: September 5, 2023
Tour dates: Oct 2 to Oct 20, 2023
Content Rating: PG + M Please review content warnings in blurb.

Author's Note: Books should always bring pleasure, and never cause harm, for this reason if you have any content that may be harmful to your mental wellbeing, I encourage you to visit https://mariestill.com/contentwarnings to ensure Beverly’s story is one you wish to read.

Please know that you are never alone. If you are in crisis or in need of someone to speak with, please reach out for help.

Below are the crisis lines. US readers dial 988 UK readers, text SHOUT to 85258 Canadian readers (youth) call 1-888-668-6810 or text WELLNESS to 686868; Canadian readers (adults) call 1-866-585-0445 or text WELLNESS to 741741. Wherever you are, there are people who care, I encourage you to reach out when in need.

Beverly’s story, more than any of my other stories, is a personal one. As a society we get physicals annually, we talk openly about physical diseases, and support those battling them. Mental health isn’t treated with the same care and openness. While we have taken great strides, there is still more work to do. Preventative mental health is a lifesaver. You deserve to be happy just like you deserve to be physically and mentally healthy.

Each person’s journey with a mental health crisis or disorder is different. This story, while completely fictional, has been my way of processing one of the hardest battles I’ve had to fight.

Please show empathy for each other, you never know what demons someone is fighting internally, or if they are fighting a battle for someone they love very much.

Take care of yourself and those around you. No matter how different and unique your mind is, you, like Beverly, are perfect the way you are.

XOXO, Marie (aka Kristen Seeley)

"Beautifully written, Seeley delivers a brave and poignant tale that is unforgettable." - Kim Michele Richardson, NYT bestselling author of The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek series.

Book Description:
Socially awkward, anxiety-riddled Beverly Bonnefinche only loves three things in life: her parents, books, and a homeless man named Bill. Without them, the only way Beverly manages to get by each day is with the help of a peculiar coping mechanism that allows her to dissolve her feelings. Yet everything changes for Beverly when she meets Henry, a persistent, friendly man who sees something in Beverly most people have missed. As their relationship develops, despite her best intentions, Beverly soon finds herself stepping outside of her carefully controlled life and forging new friendships.

It’s only when a series of twists and turns threatens to unravel her new life, and her mind, that Beverly must determine if she’s got it in her to stop trudging through life—and finally start living it.

Emotional, witty, and uplifting, Beverly Bonnefinche Is Dead is an unforgettable story of love, loss, friendship, and what it means to ultimately find the courage to be who you are.

Content Warnings: stillbirth, pregnancy loss, mental health, attempted suicide, suicidal ideation

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Meet the Author:

Lover of books, Kristen spends her time overly caffeinated in front of her computer in the Tampa Bay area with her husband and four children.

Kristen's debut novel, Beverly Bonnefinche is Dead was selected by Barnes & Noble as a Top Indie Favorites August/September 2023 Kristen Seeley is the pen name of Marie Still (which she writes suspense/thrillers under)

connect with the author: website ~ newsletter ~ X ~ facebook ~ instagram ~ tiktok
~ pinterest ~ goodreads

Tour Schedule:

Oct 2 – Book Reviews by Linda Moore – book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 2 - Cover Lover Book Review – book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 3 –Liese's Blog – book spotlight
Oct 4 – Rockin' Book Reviews – book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 4 –dogmombooklover – book spotlight
Oct 5 –Leanne Bookstagram – book spotlight
Oct 6 – acg41213 on Bookstagram – book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 9 – Black Coffee, Brown Cow – book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 10 – From the TBR Pile – book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 10 -MacKade/ V V Strange – book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 11 –Celticlady's Reviews – book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 11 - My Reading Getaway – book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 12 – Kim's Book Reviews and Writing Aha's – book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 12 - Diane’s Book Journal - book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 13 –StoreyBook Reviews – book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 16 –Lady Hawkeye – book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 16 -Stephanie Jane – book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 17 – The Sexy Nerd Revue – book spotlight
Oct 17 –fundinmental – book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 18 – Locks, Hooks and Books – book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 18 - Lisa Everyday Reads - book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 19 – FUONLYKNEW – book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 20 - JB's Bookworms with Brandy Mulder – book spotlight / giveaway

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BOOK TOUR: THE GOLDEN MANUSCRIPTS (Between Two Worlds, Book 6) by Evy Journey

6/21/2023

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Join Us for This Tour: September 5 to October 2
Book Details:
Book Title: The Golden Manuscripts: A Novel (Between Two Worlds, Book 6) by Evy Journey
Category: Adult Fiction 18+, 340 pages
Genre: Women's Literary Fiction
Publisher: Evy Journey
Release date: April 2, 2023
Format available for review: print - softback, e-book (Gifted Kindle, EPUB, PDF)
Tour dates: Sept 5 to Oct 2
Content Rating: PG: Some kissing, no bad language, no sex scenes

TheGoldenManuscripts-FIN.mp4 from Evy Journey on Vimeo.

Book Description:

Clarissa, an Asian/Caucasian young woman has lived in seven different countries and has no lasting connection to any place. She thinks it’s time to settle somewhere she could eventually call home. But where?

She decides to live in the city of her birth. There, she joins a quest for the provenance of stolen illuminated manuscripts—a medieval art form that languished with the fifteenth-century invention of the printing press—hoping it would give her the sense of belonging she craves. But will it be enough?

For her, these ancient manuscripts elicit cherished memories of children’s picture books her mother read to her, nourishing a passion for art.

The trail of the manuscripts leads to an American soldier who served in World War II. Clarissa is anxious to know what motivated him to steal and keep the artwork for fifty years. But instead of easy answers, she finds bigger questions.

Immersed in art, but naïve about life, she’s disheartened and disillusioned by the machinations the quest reveals of an esoteric, sometimes unscrupulous art world. What compels individuals to steal artworks, and conquerors to plunder them from the vanquished? Why do collectors buy artworks for hundreds of millions of dollars? Who decides the value of an art piece and how?

The Golden Manuscripts: A Novel is inspired by the actual theft of medieval manuscript illuminations during the second world war.

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SUGAR AND SPICE AND ALL THOSE LIES by Evy Journey

Book Details:

Book Title: Sugar and Spice and All Those Lies (Between Two Worlds, Book 4) by Evy Journey
Category: Adult Fiction, 300 pages
Genre: Literary / Women's Fiction / Crime / Mystery
Publisher: Evy Journey
Release date: January 2018
Format available for review: print - paperback (USA only); ebook (gifted Kindle copy, PDF)
Tour dates: Sept 5 to Oct 2, 2023
Content Rating: R (Two bedroom scenes)

Book Description:

Chanterelles garnished with cream and mayhem.

Tantalizing…alluring…satisfyingly luscious Women’s Fiction—San Francisco Book Review

Cooking a sumptuous meal is an act of love. An act of grace. An art and passion Gina inherits from her grandfather —a French chef felled by a robber’s bullet.

Raised in a marginal neighborhood, she’s keen to taste life in the world where she’s been chosen to cook. A scintillating world of wealth and privilege, great food, new challenges and fascinating friends.

But beneath this new world, unexpected danger lurks. Gina’s passion for cooking is all she has to help her navigate it.

Amidst her culinary adventures, she befriends the pastry chef, worldly loyal Marcia. She falls in love in different ways with two very different men. Leon, a playboy, is rich, charming, and carefree but honest, complicated, and devoted to his legacy.

Serious and idealistic Brent is a lawyer turned brooding detective. Haunted by the many violent crimes he has worked on, he prefers to be alone.

Can the lessons Gina learned about cooking and life help her survive and thrive in this other world of privilege, pleasure, and menace?

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Book Details:
Book Title: The Shade Under the Mango Tree (Between Two Worlds, Book 5) by Evy Journey
Category: Adult Fiction 18+, 400 pages
Genre: Women's Fiction-Literary; Contemporary Multicultural Fiction
Publisher: Evy Journey
Release date: November 2, 2020
Format available for review: print - softback, e-book (Gifted Kindle, Mobi file for Kindle, epub, pdf ); audiobook (Audible download code)
Tour dates: Sept 5 to Oct 2
Content Rating: PG13 & M: There is suicide and mention of sexual encounters that are not described--nothing explicit

Book Description:

Gold Medal, Contemporary Fiction, 2021 Global Book Awards (formerly New York City Book Awards)
Finalist, 2021 SPR (Self Publishing Review) Book Awards
Finalist, Multicultural Fiction, 2021 International Book Awards
Finalist, 2022 Wishing Shelf Book Awards

Luna hungers for adventure. Lucien has chosen a solitary professional life. She’s breaking away from her sheltered existence while he’s a widely-traveled but disillusioned young architect.

Drawn together by an intimate journal that he found abandoned in a café, these two strangers begin to shed the shackles of their painful pasts.

Lucien opens himself up to Luna. But she isn’t ready. She travels far, into a world steeped in ancient culture and the ravages of a deadly history. Can she survive unscathed? And will she be the soulmate he has been searching for?

Book 5 in the series Between Two Worlds is an epistolary tale of courage, resilience, and the bonds that bring diverse people together.

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Kobo ~ Apple iBooks
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Meet the Author:
Evy Journey writes. Stories. Blogs (three sites). Cross-genre novels. She’s also a wannabe artist, and a flâneuse (an ambler).

Evy studied psychology (M.A., University of Hawaii; Ph.D. University of Illinois) initially to help her understand herself and Dostoevsky. Now, she spins tales about multicultural characters dealing with problems and issues of contemporary life. She believes in love and its many faces.

Just as she has crossed genres in writing fiction, she has also crossed cultures, having lived and traveled in various cities in different countries. Find her thoughts on travel, art, and food at Artsy Rambler.

She has one ungranted wish: To live in Paris where art is everywhere and people have honed aimless roaming to an art form. She visits and stays a few months when she can.

connect with the author: website ~ blog ~ facebook ~ pinterest ~ bookbub ~ goodreads

Tour Schedule:

Sep 5 – Gina Rae Mitchell – book review of THE GOLDEN MANUSCRIPTS / guest post / giveaway
Sep 5 - Liese's Blog – book spotlight of SUGAR AND SPICE AND ALL THOSE LIES
Sep 6 -Locks, Hooks and Books – book review of SUGAR AND SPICE AND ALL THOSE LIES / giveaway
Sep 6 -Liese's Blog – book spotlight of THE SHADE UNDER THE MANGO TREE
Sep 7- Liese's Blog – book spotlight of THE GOLDEN MANUSCRIPTS
Sep 7 – Deborah-Zenha Adams – books spotlight / author interview / giveaway
Sep 8 –Stephanie Jane – books spotlight / guest post / giveaway
Sep 11 –Diane’s Book Journal – books spotlight / giveaway
Sep 11 - @fiction_vixen18 - book review of SUGAR AND SPICE AND ALL THOSE LIES
Sep 12 – Locks, Hooks and Books – book review of THE SHADE UNDER THE MANGO TREE / giveaway
Sep 12 - @fiction_vixen18 - book review THE SHADE UNDER THE MANGO TREES
Sep 13 - My Reading Getaway – book review of SUGAR AND SPICE AND ALL THOSE LIES / giveaway
Sep 13 –Olio by Marilyn – book review of THE GOLDEN MANUSCRIPTS / author interview / giveaway
Sep 14 – Ilovebooksandstuffblog – books spotlight / giveaway
Sep 14 - Leanne Bookstagram – book review of SUGAR AND SPICE AND ALL THOSE LIES
Sep 15– Rockin' Book Reviews – book review of SUGAR AND SPICE AND ALL THOSE LIES / giveaway
Sep 15 - @fiction_vixen18 - book review of THE GOLDEN MANUSCRIPTS
Sep 18– fundinmental – books spotlight / giveaway
Sep 19 - Rockin' Book Reviews – audiobook review of THE SHADE UNDER THE MANGO TREE / giveaway
Sep 19 - Cover Lover Book Review – book review of THE GOLDEN MANUSCRIPTS / giveaway
Sep 20 - My Reading Getaway – book review of THE SHADE UNDER THE MANGO TREE / giveaway
Sep 20 - Locks, Hooks and Books – book review of THE GOLDEN MANUSCRIPTS / giveaway
Sep 21 – Leanne Bookstagram – book review of THE SHADE UNDER THE MANGO TREE
Sep 21 - FUONLYKNEW - book review of SUGAR AND SPICE AND ALL THOSE LIES / giveaway
Sep 22 – Rockin' Book Reviews – book review of THE GOLDEN MANUSCRIPTS / guest post / giveaway
Sep 25 – Westveil Publishing – books spotlight / guest post / giveaway
Sep 25 – Olio by Marilyn – book review of SUGAR AND SPICE AND ALL THOSE LIES / giveaway
Sep 26 – Reading is My Passion - book review of SUGAR AND SPICE AND ALL THOSE LIES / giveaway
Sep 26 – Olio by Marilyn – book spotlight of THE SHADE UNDER THE MANGO TREE / giveaway
Sep 26 - Splashes of Joy - book review of THE GOLDEN MANUSCRIPTS / giveaway
Sep 27 –My Reading Getaway – book review of THE GOLDEN MANUSCRIPTS / author interview / giveaway
Sep 27 – Reading is My Passion - book review of THE GOLDEN MANUSCRIPTS / giveaway
Sep 28 – Welcome To MLM Opinion’s Reviews – book review of SUGAR AND SPICE AND ALL THOSE LIES
Sep 28 -- Leanne Bookstagram – book review of THE GOLDEN MANUSCRIPTS
Sep 28 - FUONLYKNEW - book review of THE SHADE UNDER THE MANGO TREE / giveaway
Sep 29 – Welcome To MLM Opinion’s Reviews – book review of THE SHADE UNDER THE MANGO TREE
Sep 29 - FUONLYKNEW - book review of THE GOLDEN MANUSCRIPT / guest post / giveaway
Oct 2 - Welcome To MLM Opinion’s Reviews – book review of THE GOLDEN MANUSCRIPTS
Oct 2 - @fierymermaidbooks - book review of THE GOLDEN MANUSCRIPTS

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