Category: Blog Tour

Reflections on the Nature of Friendship Book Tour

Post author By chronicallycontent
Post date May 11, 2021
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Join us for this tour from May 4 to May 24, 2021!

Book Details:

Book Title: Reflections on the Nature of Friendship
Author: Daniel Cantor Yalowitz, Ed.D.
Category: Adult Non-Fiction (18+), 336 pages
Genre: Psychology, Self-Help
Publisher: Booksmyth
Release date: Feb 2021
Formats Available: print-softback, ebook
Content Rating: G. No bad language, sex scenes, or anything objectionable

Book Description:

Reflections on the Nature of Friendship is a rich, nuanced journey that delves deeply into the fascinating and complex world of friendship. Psychologist and world-traveler Dr. Daniel Cantor Yalowitz takes readers on a carefully narrated tour into the heart of what human beings need and bring to their chosen relationships. Reflections examines what makes friendships work, thrive, and connect people with one another. Using quotes across place, time, and culture, this book includes salient and seminal chapters on Identity, Longing and Belonging, Boundaries, and more, including three case studies that explore primary friendships within the author’s life. Using examples from literature, poetry, film, and music,Dr. Yalowitz brings deeper understanding about building stronger, healthier, and sustainable friendships.

Buy the Book:
Amazon

Meet the Author:

Daniel Cantor Yalowitz, Ed.D., is a developmental and intercultural psychologist and an international consultant/trainer focusing on team-building, human intelligences, conflict transformation, and intercultural communication and competence. He focuses his work on building greater awareness and deeper awareness of the importance of creating sustainable relationships, especially meaningful friendships. He brings all these emphases into focus in his most recent book, Reflections on the Nature of Friendship.

connect with the author: website ~ facebook ~ goodreads

Tour Schedule:

May 4 – Cover Lover Book Review – book spotlight / giveaway
May 5 – Rockin’ Book Reviews – book review / guest post / giveaway
May 5 – What Polly Reads – book review/ giveaway
May 6 – Over Coffee Conversations – book review / giveaway
May 7 – Books Lattes & Tiaras – book spotlight / giveaway
May 10 – Splashes of Joy – book review / author interview / giveaway
May 11 – Lisa’s Reading – book spotlight / giveaway
May 12 – Jazzy Book Reviews – gook spotlight / giveaway
May 13 – A Mama’s Corner of the World – book review / giveaway
May 14 – Sefina Hawke’s Books – book spotlight / giveaway
May 17 – Deborah-Zenha Adams – book spotlight / guest post / giveaway
May 19 –Locks, Hooks and Books – book review / giveaway
May 20 – Literary Flits – book review / giveaway
May 21- Books for Books – book spotlight
May 24 – Adventurous Jessy – book review / giveaway
May 24 – Gina Rae Mitchell – book spotlight / giveaway
May 26 – Fur Everywhere – book review / giveaway
June 1 – Brittany’s Book Reviews – book review

Enter the Giveaway:

Daniel Cantor Yalowitz’s REFLECTIONS ON THE NATURE OF FRIENDSHIP Book Tour Giveaway

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Danger On The Loch Blog Tour

Post author By chronicallycontent
Post date May 10, 2021
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Welcome to the Blog Tour for Danger on the Loch by Paige Edwards, hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours!

ABOUT THE BOOK

Title: Danger on the Loch Author: Paige Edwards Publisher: Covenant Communications Release Date: April 5, 2021 Genre: Clean, Romantic Suspense Raised by a cold and distant mother, photographer Paisley Clark has spent her life daydreaming about the father she doesn’t remember. Paisley’s dream turns to reality when a DNA test brings her in contact with the mysterious man. With her financial situation a disaster and her childhood friend James Pressley-Coombes working across the pond in Scotland, Paisley is emboldened to accept her father’s invitation to visit him.She arrives in the Highlands only to discover that she isn’t Paisley Clark at all but a titled lady, the daughter of a Scottish duke. Despite the warm welcome and the comfort of James’s presence, dangerous undercurrents surround Castle Rannoch, her father’s estate. Overwhelmed, Paisley takes refuge in her camera and James’s steady presence to provide a sense of normalcy in her rags-to-riches transformation. But her once-easy relationship with James is changing, deepening beyond friendship in a surprising twist of events. Before they have time to examine their feelings, Paisley inadvertently captures a shocking image in one of her photographs—a picture worth killing for.

PURCHASE LINKS*: Goodreads | Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Bookbub

Excerpt

By the time Paisley received the green light to enter Scotland, she had blisters on her fingers from twisting her camera bag strap and was seriously considering booking the next flight back to the US of A.

Loudspeakers blared overhead, announcing a flight change. Disoriented, she glanced about, trying to figure out where her father was in the melee of moving bodies.

A kilted man in hiking boots kept pace with her while he spoke to his companion. Their lilted commentary was almost incomprehensible. Why hadn’t someone warned her that Scots English resembled something from Middle-earth?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Born and raised in Southern California, Paige Edwards is an award-winning author who thinks the color turquoise is almost as great, but not quite, as See’s Candy. A BYU-I alumna, she went back to school and graduated summa cum laude from NOVA with a degree in interior design. Her husband’s job transferred their family to the mid-Atlantic states where they have lived ever since. When she needs a break from writing, you can find her shooing deer out of her garden, biking battlefields, or kayaking on the lake.

CONNECT WITH PAIGE: Website | Facebook | Instagram

TOUR GIVEAWAY

(1) winner will receive a print copy of Danger on the Loch by Paige Edwards and a $25 Amazon gift card!

Full tour schedule linked below. Giveaway began at midnight May 10, 2021 and will last through 11:59 PM EST on May 17, 2021. Winner will be notified within 2 weeks of close of the giveaway and given 48 hours to respond or risk forfeiture of prize. US only. Void where prohibited by law or logistics.

Giveaway is subject to the policies found here.

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Blog Tour Children's Book

Danny Mann Super Fan

Danny Mann Super Fan

Danny loves Chadmouth Town Football Club more than anything, but a run of defeats and terrible luck has left them bottom of the table and looking certain to be relegated with time running out.

But then, Danny and his best friend Nelson stumble across a bizarre pre-match ritual that seems to turn their luck around, and his beloved team starts winning again. Is it too little too late though, and can he keep doing everything right before each match, even when he starts finding more and more obstacles in his way and despite the relentless teasing from his classmates? It’s going to come down to the wire.

Does Danny have what it takes to save Chadmouth’s season?

Purchase Links

UK – https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ian-Slatter/e/B01KP81G2W

US – https://www.amazon.com/Ian-Slatter/e/B01KP81G2W

Author Bio –

Ian published his debut novel, Eco Worrier, in 2020 – a middle grade adventure story with plenty of twists and turns and lots of laughs.

He has also written two non-fiction books for adults – Premier League Legends – the top 10 greatest Premier League players of all time and Incredible Moments in Sport.

Ian wrote for satirical website newsbiscuit.com for ten years, as well as writing for comedy sketch shows on ITV and BBC Radio.

Social Media Links – @slatter_ian

My Review

Does your child love football (in the US, soccer)? If they play or love watching matches, this book is going to be one of their very favorites! Danny Mann Super Fan has all the action, adventure, and drama found in a football match. Danny is obsessed with his town’s team and is hoping that they can turn their season around.

Danny Mann lived with his mom, dad, and grandmom. Their family had always supported the lower level football team, the Chadmouth Crabs. Danny and his family loved to attend the home games, and had season tickets. His grandmother hadn’t been lately because she was in the hospital. Danny loved cheering for his team, even though they weren’t very good. Every non-uniform day at school he wore his Chadmouth shirt, even though many of the boys at school made fun of him.

Danny’s best friend was Nelson, who stood by him even with all the bullying from the kids who hated Chadmouth because it wasn’t one of the top teams. With a big game approaching, Danny and Nelson agreed to try their hand at doing a dance and chant that would bring their team good luck. They made up a dance, filled with things they remembered from camp. After they performed the dance, they went to Danny’s house to get ready for the game. They went with Danny’s dad to the game and amazingly, the Crabs won!

Danny was convinced that their ritual had brought the team good luck and that they must now do everything the same way for each upcoming game. Nelson wasn’t convinced, but went along with his best friend’s plan. The boys did everything the same for the next game, even wearing the same socks and walking the same path to the stadium. The team won again!

But the problem was that Nelson wouldn’t be able to attend the last game, because his sister was getting married that day. Danny was beside himself with worry! He believed that without he and Nelson fulfilling the rituals, the team would lose. He couldn’t even sleep because he was so distraught. Your children will want to finish the final chapters of this middle-school book and see what would happen to Danny and the Crabs.

Adult Book Review Blog Tour

The Queen of Romance

About the Book

The first biography of the bestselling author and journalist Marguerite Jervis
Daughter of an officer of the Indian Medical Corps, Marguerite
Florence Laura Jarvis (1886 – 1964) was born in Burma and
became one of the most successful novelists of her time.
During the course of her 60-year career, Marguerite published over
150 books, with 11 novels adapted for film, including The Pleasure
Garden (1925), the directorial debut of Alfred Hitchcock. In her
heyday she sold hundreds of thousands of novels, but is now
largely forgotten; under numerous pseudonyms she wrote for
newspapers, women’s magazines and the silent movie screen; she
married one of Wales most controversial literary figures, Caradoc
Evans. She also trained as an actress and was a theatrical
impresario. Known variously as Mrs Caradoc Evans, Oliver
Sandys, Countess Barcynska and many other pseudonyms, who
was she really?

Author

Liz Jones has dug deep beneath the tale told in Marguerite Jervis’s own
somewhat romanticised memoir to reveal what made this driven and
determined woman. And what turned her from a spoilt child of the English
middle classes to a workaholic who could turn her hand to any literary
endeavour and who became a runaway popular success during the most
turbulent years of the 20th century.

Extract

Prologue
A Virtuoso Storyteller

Women’s popular fiction existed in its own world far beyond the literary canon, in the tradition of those storytellers who want to entertain us. (Carmen Callil, Subversive Sybils)

The chorus line. A dizzying whirl of blonde, bobbed, stocking-legged dancers rush onstage. The camera pans along the faces of the men in the front row. A toothless man leers, another mops the sweat off his forehead, one leans forward to inspect the ‘goods’ onstage, while another points his opera glass to get a close-up of the girls’ legs.

This is the opening scene of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Pleasure Garden, his silent adaptation of the bestselling novel by Oliver Sandys, the pen name of Marguerite Jervis. Part torrid melodrama, part comedy romance, The Pleasure Garden is set in the shady backstage world of a London chorus line. Both novel and film centre on two young female dancers and the near-starvation wages that push them into the beds of those ‘antiques, prowlers, gilded youths and men of the world who are out for a good time and nothing else’.2 Filmed in 1926 when Marguerite’s career was at its height, The Pleasure Garden captured the essence of her storytelling on celluloid. Its themes of murder, voyeurism, violence against women (all of which would become familiar Hitchcock tropes), its seedy London variety theatre setting and its touch of Burmese exoticism, 3 are all sprung from Marguerite’s pen.

Marguerite was writing about a world she knew well. Once an aspiring actress who couldn’t find work on the ‘respectable’ stage, she followed that well-trodden route of struggling young actresses onto the chorus line. Her experience was to spark a string of chorus girl novels: The Honey-Pot, The Ginger Jar, Vista, The Dancer, The Pleasure Garden and others. Beyond the cheerful boy-meets-girl plot that the genre required, they revealed the darker side of a chorus girl’s life: the squalor, poverty, drug abuse and sexual exploitation. In recent years, this once-forgotten film has been reassessed and its significance as the debut of that great auteur, Alfred Hitchcock, recognised.4 Yet at the time of its release, the film’s big draw was not Hitchcock, but the novel’s bestselling author. Along with its charismatic American star, Virginia Valli, the name ‘Oliver Sandys’ was emblazoned in eye-catching capitals on cinema billboards across Britain.

This lively and compelling biography… lays bare the tragedy of a woman whose
prodigious output and determination to live life to the full camouflaged repeated
exploitation by the men in her life. Angela V. John, biographer and historian

Adult Book Review Blog Tour

The Courtship of Lord Blackhurst Book Blitz

Post author By chronicallycontent
Post date May 8, 2021
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Regency Romance

Date Published: April 2021

What happens when a lady falls in love, not with her betrothed, but rather with his cousin?

Miss Priscilla Keenan has been promised to the Marquess of Blackhurst since her birth. The problem is: She has never laid eyes upon the man. So, when Blackhurst sends his cousin to York to assist Priscilla in readying Blackhurst’s home estate for the marquess’s return from his service in India, it is only natural for Priscilla to ask Mr. Alden something of the marquess’s disposition. Yet, those conversations lead Cilla onto a different path, one where she presents her heart to the wrong gentleman. How can she and Alden find happiness together when the world means to keep them apart? Inspired by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “The Courtship of Miles Standish,” this tale wants for nothing, especially not a happy ending, which it has, but that ending is not what the reader anticipates.

About the Author

Regina Jeffers, an award-winning author of historical cozy mysteries, Austenesque sequels and retellings, as well as Regency era romances, has worn many hats over her lifetime: daughter, student, military brat, wife, mother, grandmother, teacher, tax preparer, journalist, choreographer, Broadway dancer, theatre director, history buff, grant writer, media literacy consultant, and author. Living outside of Charlotte, NC, Jeffers writes novels that take the ordinary and adds a bit of mayhem, while mastering tension in her own life with a bit of gardening and the exuberance of her “grand joys.”

Contact Links

Every Woman Dreams (Blog)

Austen Authors (Blog)

Purchase Link

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Zoom Launch Party Invitation: How to Overcome Insomnia All By Yourself

Post author By chronicallycontent
Post date May 7, 2021
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Celebrate with us via Zoom as we launch Antoinetta Vogels’ new book, “How to Overcome Insomnia All by Yourself: a Healthy Sense of Self Guide to Getting a Good Night’s Sleep.”

The party will take place at 9:30 PM on May 7.

The link for the Zoom party can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/events/4431699853512264/?active_tab=discussion

BLURB:

Antoinetta has a bachelor’s in French and a master’s in music. She worked in the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra as a bassoonist, has two grown daughters, and lives in Bellevue, WA, USA.

In 2013, Antoinetta created the Sense of Self Method, a self-help program for people who want to get a good night’s sleep no matter what!

With her company, Healthy Sense Of Self, LLC, Antoinetta and her team provide education about what can be wrong in the way a person experiences their self and, consequently, others. Antoinetta has made it her life’s work to help people improve their life by reversing issues related to a negative self-image. She wants everyone to have the ability to be their most authentic self.

AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Antoinetta Vogels is the Founder and CEO of Healthy Sense of Self™ LLC, author of “How to Overcome Insomnia All by Yourself” her newest book which will release in the fall. She also wrote “Healthy Sense of Self How to be True to Your Self and Make Your World a Better Place!” (2013), as well as the Online Course: Introducing the Sense of Self Method! (found on her website, www.healthysenseofself.com), the “Sense of Self Workbook” (based on the Online Course but also to be used independently) (2014), “A Guided Journal to a Healthy Sense of Self (2014), and “The Motivation Cure” (2017).

Through many years of searching for her Self, Antoinetta has come to conclude that from early childhood on, many of us have not been acknowledged as the autonomous people we truly are. She provides insight and tools to help you enhance and/or completely restore your ability to sense your Self and correct the ill-effects of childhood conditioning that reverberate in all aspects of our lives.

Antoinetta Vogels is a graduate of the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, Netherlands and a former bassoonist of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra. She is a ballroom dancer, a mother of two and lives in Washington, USA.

https://www.healthysenseofself.com/

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7177981.Antoinetta_Vogels

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