Author Glenda de Vaney

on Tour

January 15-19

with

Journeys Through France and Life

(memoir)

 Release date: March 23, 2013
at Journeys Press

296 pages

ISBN: 978-0615660875

Website | Goodreads

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SYNOPSIS

Month-long trips to France twice a year – that was the life! Until real life intervenes and everything changes. Come on a journey through France with the author and her husband, eating delicious cuisine, seeing fabulous sights, mixing it up with the French. Stay on the journey as a crisis reveals that her son from a previous marriage has schizophrenia, and that her husband is not only unsympathetic, but something more.

Travel with the author as she faces her fears, and finds a way back to her true self. Through her experience, others may find insight regarding dark corners of their own lives. She puts a human face on the stigmatized illness of schizophrenia, while sharing her love of France, where she finds frustration, humor, and joy.  [provided by the author]

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Smitten with France, Glenda de Vaney has traveled there
over thirty times to photograph châteaux, gardens,
villages and whatever is beautiful.
She presents slide shows on France and sells framed pictures.
The author is a former volunteer for the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill
and an advocate for those suffering from mental illness.
She is also an avid table tennis player
who strikes fear in her opponents’ hearts,
or at least wishes she did.
Glenda lives in a historic home
in a suburb of San Diego with the younger of her two sons.

Visit her website.

Buy the book | on  Amazon 

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 Thursday, January 15
Review + Giveaway at The Discerning Reader

Friday, January 16
Review + Giveaway at Mirasol Press

Saturday, January 17
Review + Interview + Giveaway at The Fictional 100

Sunday, January 18 Monday, January 19
Review Spotlight + Excerpt at With Her Nose Stuck in A Book

Monday, January 19
Review + Giveaway at Words And Peace

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You can enter the giveaway here
or on the book blogs participating in this tour.
Be sure to follow each participant on Twitter/Facebook,
they are listed in the entry form below.

Entry-Form

Visit each blogger on the tour:
tweeting about the giveaway everyday of the Tour
will give you 5 extra entries each time!
[just follow the directions on the entry-form]

Giveaway open to US/Canada residents:
kindle copy of this book
4 winners

Author Jennifer Coburn

on Tour

November 28-December 7

with

We’ll Always Have Paris:
A Mother/Daughter Memoir

[memoir]

 Release date: April 8, 2014
at Sourcebooks

400 pages

ISBN: 978-1402288630

Website | Goodreads

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SYNOPSIS

How her daughter and her passport taught Jennifer to live like there’s no tomorrow.

Jennifer Coburn has always been terrified of dying young. So she decides to save up and drop everything to travel with her daughter, Katie, on a whirlwind European adventure before it’s too late. Even though her husband can’t join them, even though she’s nervous about the journey, and even though she’s perfectly healthy, Jennifer is determined to jam her daughter’s mental photo album with memories—just in case.

From the cafés of Paris to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Jennifer and Katie take on Europe one city at a time, united by their desire to see the world and spend precious time together. In this heartwarming generational love story, Jennifer reveals how their adventures helped vanquish her fear of dying…for the sake of living.  [provided by the author]

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Jennifer Coburn is a USA Today best selling author of six novels
and contributor to four literary anthologies.
Over the past two decades,
Coburn has received numerous awards from the Press Club
and Society for Professional Journalists for articles that appeared in Mothering,
Big Apple Baby, The Miami Herald, The San Diego Union-Tribune
and dozens of national and regional publications.
She has also written for Salon.com, Creators News Syndicate and The Huffington Post.
Coburn lives in San Diego with her husband, William, and their daughter, Katie.
We’ll Always Have Paris is her first memoir.

Visit her website.

Buy the book | on Amazon | on Barnes & Noble

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VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR SCHEDULE

Friday, November 28
Review + Giveaway at The Discerning Reader

Saturday, November 29
Review at BookNAround

Monday, December 1
Review at With Her Nose Stuck In A Book

Tuesday, December 2
Review at Lisa’s Yarns

Wednesday, December 3
Review at I Wished I Lived In a Library

Thursday, December 4
Review + Excerpt + Giveaway at Book Nerd

Friday, December 5
Review + Interview at Jorie Loves A Story

Saturday, December 6
Review + Guest-Post + Giveaway at Griperang’s Bookmarks

Sunday, December 7
Review + Giveaway at Bookish Wanderlove
Review + Giveaway at Mirasol Press

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You can enter the giveaway here
or on the book blogs participating in this tour.
Be sure to follow each participant on Twitter,
they are listed in the entry form below.

Entry-Form

Visit each blogger on the tour:
tweeting about the giveaway everyday of the Tour
will give you 5 extra entries each time!
[just follow the directions on the entry-form]

5 copies:
print for US residents only.

Author Stephanie Dagg

on Tour

February 24 – 28

with her

Heads Above Water:
Staying Afloat in France

[nonfiction]

 Release date: November 10, 2012
at Smashwords

ISBN-13: 978-1301646401

SYNOPSIS

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 I’m Stephanie Dagg, married to Chris for 27 years and mum to Benj (22), Caiti (19) and Ruadhri (12). We live on a 75 acre farm in rural Creuse with llamas, alpacas, pigs, sheep, poultry and three lakes full of carp. We run a fishery and gite, and also a llama trekking business. We moved here in 2006 from Ireland, where we’d lived for 15 years. Before that we lived in England. You can follow our French adventures at http://www.bloginfrance.com.

I’m an English graduate (Somerville College, Oxford) and Publishing Studies postgraduate (Stirling). I began a career in publishing in 1985 as a desk editor with Hodder and Stoughton, then I deviated from the path to become a sales rep for a couple of years for some academic presses and then an accountant. This is what meeting and marrying a guy who has a job in Newcastle does for you! Anyway, in 1992 I got back on track by becoming a freelance editor and indexer, working from home part-time around the kids. The same year we moved to Ireland.

I began to write stories for Benj, and then Caiti, and I won second prize in a contest in a magazine with one of my tales. That prompted me to begin contacting publishers. I got plenty of rejections but finally hit the right place at the right time with Mentor Press and O’Brien Press in Ireland in 1998. For the next eight years I wrote prolifically and spent many happy hours visiting schools and libraries to do workshops with kids.

Then we moved to France and I stopped writing for a while due to sheer exhaustion! Renovating a 200 year old farm that is falling apart takes a lot of effort, and so does running two businesses (running a holiday cottage and fishing lakes, and freelance editing). Life is interesting and full of challenges and we’re so glad we took the plunge and moved to France.

I have Twitter accounts @llamamum @bookeditorsteph and facebook https://www.facebook.com/stephanie.dagg

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VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR SCHEDULE

Monday, February 24
Review + Guest-Post + Giveaway
at Mommasez…

Tuesday, February 25
Review at Just One More Chapter

Wednesday, February 26
Review + Excerpt + Giveaway
at Words And Peace

Thursday, February 27
Review at An Accidental Blog

Friday, February 28
Review at Booksie’s Blog
Interview + Giveaway at The French Village Diaries

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