Congratulations to tour winner Mya M. and to host winner Fabulous and Brunette.
Thank you for your interest in hosting this tour, but all stops are filled.
Goddess Fish Promotions is organizing a Virtual Book Tour for The Girl from the Lighthouse by Willard Thompson, a Historical Literary Romance available March 20 from Rincon Publishing. The tour will run March 25 - April 12, and Willard Thompson 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.
Willard Thompson will be awarding a $25 Amazon/BN GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour, and a $25 Amazon/BN GC to a randomly drawn host.
The Girl From the Lighthouse tells the compelling story of Emma Dobbins.
Abandoned by her mother at an early age, she was raised by her father, a lighthouse keeper at Point Conception in California, where early on she discovers her artistic talent. At the age of 17, Emma travels to Paris with a chaperone, to attend art school but is separated from the chaperone when the woman becomes ill. Emma arrives alone in Paris with no money, no language skills, and no friends. A chance meeting with a young working girl in the train station becomes her first Parisian friend.
The setting is Paris in the 1860s-70s, the start of the Belle Èpoque. France soon is involved in the Franco/Prussian War and the Commune Uprising; difficult times for Emma and all Frenchmen. Initially rejected by art schools, her determination keeps her moving toward her goal in the art world, where the Impressionists are starting to change the world. Frenchmen fall in love with her beautiful face and lustrous dark hair. Some wanted to paint her, others to court her, but either way, she does not abide by the rules they try to impose on her because she never learned them. She grows into an accomplished artist but never gives up her own principles... even when someone steals something precious to her and she fights to get it back.
The story is told in the first person, present tense, allowing the reader to enter the story and feel a part of it as it unfolds, sharing with Emma her highs and lows, loves and rejections, all focused in the art world of Paris. The novel is filled with vivid characters, both fictional and real people, and the story unfolds gracefully from the 1870s until 1912, just prior to the start of WWI.
March 25: Rogue's Angels
March 26: Romance Novel Giveaways
March 27: Edgar's Books
March 28: The Reading Addict
March 29: Fabulous and Brunette
April 1: Candrel's Crafts, Cooks, and Characters
April 2: BooksChatter
April 3: Laurie's Thoughts and Reviews
April 4: Our Town Book Reviews - review only
April 4: Long and Short Reviews
April 5: All the Ups and Downs
April 8: Straight From the Library
April 9: T's Stuff
April 10: Locks, Hooks and Books - review only
April 11: Viviana MacKade
April 12: It's Raining Books
