Sunday, August 10, 2014

Excerpt Tour: THE BEAUTIFUL AMERICAN BY JEANNE MACKIN



Congratulations to Misha F., winner of the tour prize.

Goddess Fish Promotions is organizing a Virtual Excerpt Tour for The Beautiful American by Jeanne Mackin, an historical fiction book available now from NAL Publishing. The tour will run September 1 - 12, 2014, and this tour will not include interviews or guest blogs; however, a blurb, exclusive excerpt and author bio will be provided to every host for inclusion on their blog. Additionally, a PDF copy of this story is available for review in conjunction with a promo post.

Jeanne will be awarding a photo/postcard collection from the 1920s (US/Canada only) to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.


As recovery from World War II begins, expat American Nora Tours travels from her home in southern France to London in search of her missing sixteen-year-old daughter. There, she unexpectedly meets up with an old acquaintance, famous model-turned-photographer Lee Miller. Neither has emerged from the war unscathed.

Nora and Lee knew each other in the heady days of late 1920's Paris, when Nora was giddy with love for her childhood sweetheart, Lee became the celebrated mistress of the artist Man Ray, and Lee's magnetic beauty drew them all into the glamorous lives of famous artists and their wealthy patrons. But Lee fails to realize that her friendship with Nora is even older, that it goes back to their days as children in Poughkeepsie, New York, when a devastating trauma marked Lee forever. Will their reunion give them a chance to forgive past betrayals...and break years of silence to forge a meaningful connection as women who have shared the best and the worst that life can offer?


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September 2: Deal Sharing Aunt
September 2: TeacherWriter
September 3: Welcome to My World of Dreams
September 4: It's Raining Books
September 5: booknerd
September 8: Straight from the Library
September 9: Long and Short Reviews
September 10: Hope. Dreams. Life... Love
September 10: SBM Book Obsession
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