Sunday, August 25, 2013

Virtual NBtM Tour: AL CAPONE AT THE BLANCHE HOTEL BY LINDA BENNETT PENNELL


Thank you for your interest, but htis tour is now full.
Goddess Fish Promotions is organizing a Virtual Name Before the Masses Tour for Al Capone at the Blanche Hotel by Linda Bennett Pennell, an Historical Suspense with Romantic elements available now in eBook, from Soul Mate Publishing, and in print December, 2013.

The tour will run every Thursday for 16 weeks starting on October 3, 2013, and Linda is available for guest post and interviews. A PDF copy of the book is available for review in conjunction with a guest post or interview.

Linda will be awarding a $15 Amazon or BN GC to a randomly drawn commenter during the tour (Rita, and a $25 Amazon or BN GC to a randomly drawn host (Dalene's Book Reviews.


Lake City, Florida, June, 1930: Al Capone checks in for an unusually long stay at the Blanche Hotel, a nice enough joint for an insignificant little whistle stop. The following night, young Jack Blevins witnesses a body being dumped heralding the summer of violence to come. One-by-one, people controlling county vice activities swing from KKK ropes. No moonshine distributor, gaming operator, or brothel madam, black or white, is safe from the Klan's self-righteous vigilantism. Jack's older sister Meg, a waitress at the Blanche, and her fiancĂ©, a sheriff’s deputy, discover reasons to believe the lynchings are cover for a much larger ambition than simply ridding the county of vice. Someone, possibly backed by Capone, has secret plans for filling the voids created by the killings. But as the body count grows and crosses burn, they come to realize this knowledge may get all of them killed.

Gainesville, Florida, August, 2011: Liz Reams, an up and coming young academic specializing in the history of American crime, impulsively moves across the continent to follow a man who convinces her of his devotion yet refuses to say the three simple words I love you. Despite entreaties of friends and family, she is attracted to edginess and a certain type of glamour in her men, both living and historical. Her personal life is an emotional roller coaster, but her career options suddenly blossom beyond all expectation, creating a very different type of stress. To deal with it all, Liz loses herself in her professional passion, original research into the life and times of her favorite bad boy, Al Capone. What she discovers about 1930’s summer of violence, and herself in the process, leaves her reeling at first and then changed forever.


DATES AVAILABLE:

October 3: The Hedonistic Minimalist
October 10:Fantasy Powered by Love
October 17: Room With BooksPROMO ONLY
October 24: Bunny's Review
October 31: Live To Read ~Krystal
October 31 SECOND STOP Andi's Book Reviews
November 7: Long and Short Reviews
November 14: Lisa Haselton's Reviews and Interviews
November 21:It's Raining Books
November 28:Sharing Links and Wisdom
December 5: Kit 'N Kabookle
December 12: The Write to Read
December 12 SECOND STOP: Mommasez...
December 19: Straight from the Library
January 2: Welcome to My World of Dreams
January 9: Booklover Sue
January 16: Dalene's Book Reviews