VBT Shyla's Initiative by Barbara Casey

Thank you for your interest in hosting this tour, but all stops have been filled.

Goddess Fish Promotions is organizing a Virtual Book Tour for SHYLA'S INITIATIVE by Barbara Casey, a Fiction available now from Speaking Volumes Publishing. The tour will run September 29 - October 10, and Barbara Casey 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.

Barbara Casey will be awarding a $20 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn winner during the tour, and a $20 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn host.

Thirty-five-year-old novelist, Shyla Wishon, fears that her life is spinning out of control since her recent marriage to Carl Cores. First, her overbearing new mother-in-law moves to Florida in order to be close to her son, followed by a steady stream of visiting relatives who become a constant intrusion on what was once her time to write. To make matters worse, Carl’s two grown daughters refuse to have anything to do with her, and even though Carl has a good job, bills are starting to pile up.

Shyla tries to cheerfully accept the responsibilities that come with a new marriage and the inevitable adjustments, but the stress is leaving her with constant migraines, a lack of energy, and, worst of all, a loss of creativity.

Shyla leaves her home in West Palm Beach to spend two weeks in Naples where she teaches creative writing each summer at the Ibis Institute of Writing. When she arrives, her friend, Jayne Sinclare, president of Ibis, invites Shyla to join her for lunch. Mariela Fanjul, whose family has just donated $100,000 to the Institute, and the Fanjul family attorney, Terry Sawyer, who is a big fan of Shyla’s published work, are also invited. Mariela Fanjul has signed up for Shyla’s course, and is writing a novel based on her family’s Cuban heritage and their Santerian beliefs.

As Shyla works with Mariela, she becomes entangled in the ancient Regla de Ocha involving soul transference and animal sacrifice. It is through these beliefs and a remarkable series of events that eventually allow Shyla to escape her present life and become a totally new person.

September 29: Read Your Writes Book Reviews
September 30: Lisa Haselton's Reviews and Interviews
October 1: Sandra's Book Club
October 2: The Avid Reader
October 2: The Pen and Muse Book Reviews
October 3: The Key Of Love
October 3: Long and Short Reviews
October 6: Always Reading
October 7: Gina Rae Mitchell - review
October 8: Guatemala Paula Loves to Read
October 9: Dawn's Reading Nook
October 9: A Wonderful World of Words
October 10: Sarcastically Yours, Jen

Book Blast: Slightest in the House by Barbara Casey

Congratulations to tour winner Joy F. and to host winner Hope. Dreams. Life... Love 

Thank you for your interest in hosting this tour, but all the stops have now been filled.

Goddess Fish Promotions is organizing a Virtual Book Blast Tour for SLIGHTEST IN THE HOUSE by Barbara Casey, a Young Adult fiction available now from Speaking Volumes Publishing. The Book Blast Tour will take place on August 14 - August 18. This tour will not include interviews or guest blogs; however, a blurb, excerpt and author bio will be provided to every host for inclusion on their blog. A PDF copy of the book is available for review.

Barbara Casey will be awarding a $20 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour, and a $20 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn host.

On some level she was aware that an elderly woman had come out of the darkness and put her arms around her. Meredith heard her say that everything would be all right. But on another, more conscious level, the one where all of her senses saw, felt, processed and recorded what was happening, Meredith watched two black body bags being loaded into the back of an ambulance. Then she watched the ambulance turn around and drive off in the opposite direction. Her long, tumbling mass of blond curls hung loosely over her face, shielding it. For Beth, the reality of what had taken place would come later. But Meredith had seen what had happened and understood. That knowledge was now seeping through every pore of her body.

Seventeen-year-old Meredith and her four-year-old stepsister, Beth, face the numbing reality of suddenly losing their parents in a freak accident. With no other family, they are taken from their mobile home in Georgia to go live with a grandmother they have never met in a mansion in Palm Beach, Florida. Beth soon adjusts to her new environment; but Meredith withdraws from everyone and everything, unable to blot out the image of the horrible crash that killed her parents. It is only when she reaches out to a homeless woman that Meredith is finally able to find herself and face her demons. With the help of her grandmother’s long-employed staff, a family doctor, a museum curator, an attorney who is more than just her grandmother’s legal advisor, and, of course, her conniving grandmother who is dealing with her own guilt for having been estranged from her son and his wife (Meredith’s and Beth’s parents), Meredith is able to pull herself from the depths of despair into a life filled with faith, hope, and generosity.

Slightest in the House is a contemporary novel with strong, interesting characters from different walks of life, brought together because of life’s difficult and often unexpected circumstances, and bonded together by their faith and belief that everything works out as it should.

August 14:

1: FUONLYKNEW
2: fundinmental
3: Locks, Hooks and Books
4: Hope. Dreams. Life... Love
5: Stormy Nights Reviewing & Bloggin'
6: Long and Short Reviews
7: Coffee and Wander Book Reviews


August 15:

1: Sandra's Book Club
2: The Faerie Review
3: Read Your Writes Book Reviews
4: Our Town Book Reviews
5: Jazzy Book Reviews
6: Straight from the Library
7: A Wonderful World of Words


August 16:

1: Andi's Young Adult Books
2: Candlelight Reading
3: Candrel's Crafts, Cooks, and Characters
4: Fabulous and Brunette
5: Momma Says: To Read or Not to Read
6: My beauty my books
7: The Avid Reader


August 17:

1: Kenyan Poet
2: Books in the Hall
3: Westveil Publishing
4: Welcome to My World of Dreams
5: Author C.A.Milson
6: Country Mamas With Kids
7: Girl with Pen


August 18:

1: Gina Rae Mitchell review
2: It's Raining Books
3: Joanne Guidoccio
4: Literary Gold
5: travel the ages
6: The Pen and Muse Book Reviews
7: Cats in the Cradle Blog

Book Blast: The Airs of Tillie by Barbara Casey

Congratulations to tour winner Wendy H. and to host winner Sybrina's Book Blog.

Thank you for your interest in hosting this tour, but all the stops have now been filled.

Goddess Fish Promotions is organizing a Virtual Book Blast Tour for The Airs of Tillie by Barbara Casey a Young Adult Fiction available July 1, 2023. The Book Blast Tour will take place July 10 - July 14, 2023. This tour will not include interviews or guest blogs; however, a blurb, excerpt and author bio will be provided to every host for inclusion on their blog. A PDF copy of the book is available for review.

Barbara Casey will be awarding a $20 Amazon or B/N GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour, and a $20 Amazon or B/N GC to a randomly drawn host.

Tillie, the young daughter of a sugarcane field foreman, lives in an imaginary world that is filled with beautiful horses, polite people, and luxurious homes. Her real world, however, includes living in a cane foreman’s small tenant house with her over-worked mother, an autistic sister, and a rebellious older brother who is searching for answers within a radical Muslim group. When Tillie is unexpectedly forced to assist in the difficult birth of a new foal, she proves that her determination and belief in herself will allow her to accomplish anything she sets out to do.

*****

The spectators in the stands applauded politely as the beautiful Arabian horse named Arabesque was coaxed onto the stadium field by its young rider, Tillie Turpning.

"That girl won't even make it over the first jump," a man whispered to his wife.

"Why do you say that?" The woman studied the small figure sitting astride the large black animal.

"She's never ridden in competition before," he answered. "And look at her. She's so small. There's no way she can handle a horse the size of Arabesque, and especially one as temperamental." The woman nodded.

A gentle breeze stirred, scattering red and white petals from the potted geraniums that were decorating the field. The crowd noises softened. Arabesque picked up her gate into a slow gallop around the outer edge of the jumping field in response to Tillie's silent command, settling into her own pace, her natural rhythm.

July 10:
1. The Faerie Review
2. Locks, Hooks and Books
3. Sandra's Book Club
4. Guatemala Paula Loves to Read
5. Westveil Publishing
6. Gina Rae Mitchell review

July 11:
1. The Avid Reader
2. Momma Says: To Read or Not to Read
3. Long and Short Reviews
4. The Pen and Muse Book Reviews
5. ReaderBarn 
6. Indie Author Book Reviews
7. Hope. Dreams. Life... Love


July 12:
1. Read Your Writes Book Reviews
2. fundinmental
3. Straight from the Library
4. Author C.A.Milson
5. Cats in the Cradle Blog
6. Girl with Pen


July 13:
1.  Fabulous and Brunette
2. Candlelight Reading review
3. Books in the Hall
4. InkSpired: Musings On All Things Literary
5. Coffee and Wander Book Reviews
6. The Obsessed Reader


July 14:
1. Travel the Ages
2. Readers Roost
3. Our Town Book Reviews
4. FUONLYKNEW
5. Country Mamas With Kids
6. Sybrina's Book Blog
7. Eye-Rolling Demigod's Book Blog
8. Joanne Guidoccio

9: Literary Gold

VBT: Just Like Family by Barbara Casey

Congratulations to tour winner Linda F. and to host winner Fabulous and Brunette.

Thank you for your interest in hosting this tour, but all stops have been filled.

Goddess Fish Promotions is organizing a Virtual Book Tour for Just Like Family by Barbara Casey, a contemporary romance available now from Speaking Volumes Publishing. The tour will run October 24 - October 28, and Barbara Casey 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. 

Barbara Casey 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. 

All in one day, thirty-five-year-old Hallie Marsh learns that the man she loves, works for, and is living with has found someone else and that she no longer has a job or a place to live.  She is also involved in a car accident.  She retreats to her parents' home in the northern part of Florida to be consoled and to decide what to do with the rest of her life only to find out that her mother is planning to leave her father for another man.  Embittered, filled with anger, and wanting revenge, Hallie decides to take a year's sabbatical and write a novel that would reveal the unethical, if not illegal, real estate business practices of her former boss and lover.

Determined and focused, Hallie buys a house in the neighborhood where her two best friends and former co-workers live:  Carol Mathews and Gordon Sebastian Cooney.  It is through Gordon and Carol that Hallie comes to know four neighbors, one of whom is Carol's Vietnamese mother who carries a doll and talks into reflective surfaces.  These four neighbors--Cora, Suong, Charlie, and Vince--are all elderly, peculiar, and alone at this stage in their lives until Vince comes up with a plan:  The four of them will form an alliance, buy the old Braswell estate which is located just down the road, fix it up, and live in it almost like family.  Hallie is fascinated by these four people, and rather than write a tell-all book she begins writing about their alliance.  With this new focus and the friendship of Carol and Gordon, Hallie overcomes her feelings of rage, she is able to cope with her mother's sudden death, and she finds true love.

October 24: Fabulous and Brunette
October 25: Splashes of Joy
October 26: Hope. Dreams. Life... Love
October 26: Sandra's Book Club - review only
October 27: Novels Alive - spotlight
October 27: Long and Short Reviews
October 28: Literary Gold
October 28: All the Ups and Downs

Review Tour: The Seraphim's Song by Barbara Casey

Congratulations to tour winner Cali W. and to host winners Our Town Book Reviews and Enchanting Reviews.

Goddess Fish Promotions is organizing a Virtual REVIEW ONLY Tour for The Seraphim's Song by Barbara Casey, a 213 page Fiction/Mystery available now from Gauthier Publications. The tour will run every Monday for 4 weeks starting on August 15, and the book is available in PDF format.

Barbara Casey will be awarding a $20 Amazon/BN GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour, and a $20 Amazon/BN GC to a randomly drawn host. Additionally, Goddess Fish Promotions will be awarding a $5 Amazon GC to a randomly drawn host.

When a powerful ancient artifact – a key - falls into the wrong hands and disaster begins to strike around the globe, the F.I.G.s must find the artifact and return it to its rightful home. With odds stacked against them, and only their unique intellectual gifts to rely on, they are in a race against time to save the world. Join the F.I.G.s - females of intellectual genius - as they solve mysteries of historic and universal proportions. Dara Roux with her mastery of foreign, ancient, and obsolete languages; Mackenzie Yarborough with her ability to solve complicated math formulations; and Jennifer Torres with her talents in musical composition and painting are all recent graduates of Wood Rose Orphanage and Academy for Young Women. As the F.I.G.s embark on their own personal journeys, their bond with each other becomes unbreakable in the knowledge that Wood Rose will always be their home. Included in that bond is Carolina Lovell, the young teacher with a gypsy heritage who was tasked with supervising the F.I.G.s their senior year at Wood Rose. Because of her love and understanding, she will always be like a big sister to the three girls.

As the F.I.G.s travel to different countries around the world exploring some of history’s greatest mysteries, they begin to understand the reason for their uniqueness, accept why they are so different, and learn how to use their intellectual genius in this world and beyond.

August 15: Travel the Ages
August 15: Enchanting Reviews
August 22: Sandra's Book Club - promo
August 22: Cassidy's Bookshelves
August 29: Our Town Book Reviews
August 29: Bibliomanaic Aza
September 5: The Avid Reader

VBT: The Seraphim's Song by Barbara Casey

Congratulations to tour winner Danielle M. and to host winner fundimental.

Thank you for your interest in hosting this tour, but all stops have been filled.

Goddess Fish Promotions is organizing a Virtual Book Tour for The Seraphim's Song by Barbara Casey, a Fiction/Mystery available April 19 from Gauthier Publications. The tour will run May 9 - May 20, and Barbara Casey 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. 

Barbara Casey will be awarding a $20 Amazon/BN GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour, and a $20 Amazon/BN GC to a randomly drawn host. 

THE SERAPHIM’S SONG

Book 5 – The F.I.G. Mysteries

Many changes have taken place at Wood Rose Orphanage and Academy for Young Women while Carolina and Larry were on their honeymoon in Frascati, Italy, on the Granchelli farm. The newlyweds have been given a larger bungalow; Ms. Alcott, niece of the founder of Wood Rose, and Mrs. Ball, assistant to the headmaster, have moved into a bungalow together; and Jimmy Bob, caretaker and night watchman at Wood Rose has moved from his family home down the road a bit into a small bungalow on the orphanage property with his hound dog Tick, as well as his new cat and her litter of kittens. Most important, thanks to the persuasive powers of Ms. Alcott and Mrs. Ball, the F.I.G.s have been given a forever home at Wood Rose.

Summer is coming to an end and the F.I.G.s will soon return to the universities to complete their special projects. They are starting to feel anxious, and the coping mechanisms they have used their entire lives are starting to work overtime. Dara’s thoughts turn to an unknown language, possibly from another world; Mackenzie focuses on the relationship of math to music; and Jennifer keeps hearing the note of B flat minor and is drawing dark swirls on her canvas board.

Deadly forces and natural disasters are unleashed into the world when Milosh, the evil young man who placed a curse on Carolina when she searched for her mother, steals an ancient artifact—a “key”—from an archaeological site near Puli, China on the Yellow Sea where he is working. This artifact, when paired with a certain note—B flat minor known as the Seraphim’s song—opens a portal that enables man to communicate with the gods.

When the key gets lost in a storm, Carolina comes into possession of it through Jimmy Bob’s dog, Tick, and when she does, she hears Lyuba, her gypsy mother, tell her that time is running out. The F.I.G.s and Carolina must go to the forbidden cave on the Yellow Sea, the place where the early gypsies are believed to have settled before travelling into Europe. For it is there where the key must be returned before all is destroyed.

May 9: Fabulous and Brunette
May 10: Christine Young
May 11: Independent Authors
May 12: All the Ups and Downs
May 13: The Key Of Love
May 16: Long and Short Reviews
May 17: Candrel's Crafts, Cooks, and Characters
May 18: The Avid Reader
May 18: Westveil Publishing
May 19: fundinmental
May 20: Gina Rae Mitchell

FS VBT: The F.I.G. Mysteries by Barbara Casey

Congratulations to tour winner Paula S. and to host winner Novels Alive.

Thank you for your interest in hosting this tour, but all stops have been filled.

Goddess Fish Promotions is organizing a Virtual Book Tour for The F.I.G. Mysteries by Barbara Casey, a Mystery available now from Gauthier Publications.

The tour will run July 12, 2021 - August 6, 2021. Prewritten guest blogs and interviews, along with promo posts, and reviews are available. Please specify which type of stop you’d like when you ask to host this tour. The book is available in PDF format for review.

Prizes for the tour are as follows:
• One randomly chosen winner via rafflecopter will win a $50 Amazon/BN.com gift card.
• One randomly chosen host will receive a $25 Amazon/BN.com gift card.

THE F.I.G. MYSTERIES

Dara Roux, abandoned when she was 7 years old by her mother. Exceptionally gifted in foreign languages. Orphan.

Mackenzie Yarborough, no record of her parents or where she was born. Exceptionally gifted in math and problem-solving. Orphan.

Jennifer Torres, both parents killed in an automobile accident when she was 16. Exceptionally gifted in music and art. Orphan.

THE CADENCE OF GYPSIES: Book 1

Known as the F.I.G.s (Females of Intellectual Genius), three high-spirited 17 year olds with intelligent quotients in the genius range, accompany their teacher and mentor, Carolina Lovel, to Frascati, Italy, a few weeks before they are to graduate from Wood Rose Orphanage and Academy for Young Women. Carolina's purpose in planning the trip is to remove her unusually gifted, creative students from the Wood Rose campus located in Raleigh, North Carolina, so they can't cause any more problems ("expressions of creativity") for the headmaster, faculty, and other students – which they do with regularity. Carolina also wants to visit the Villa Mondragone where the Voynich Manuscript, the most mysterious document in the world, was first discovered and attempt to find out how it is related to a paper written in the same script she received on her 18th birthday when she was told that she was adopted.

THE WISH RIDER: Book 2

When Carolina and the F.I.G.s return to Wood Rose, Dara decides that she wants to try to locate her birth mother when she learns that she might be living in New York City. Carolina, Mackenzie, and Jennifer accompany her and their search leads them to a secret dangerous shadow world hidden deep beneath Grand Central, constructed in what Mackinzie identifies as chevroned magic squares—N X N matrixes in which every row, column, and diagonal add up to the same number—and cloaked in the discordant B flat minor key music that only Jennifer can hear.

THE CLOCK FLOWER: Book 3

The three FIGs—Females of Intellectual Genius—graduate from Wood Rose Orphanage and Academy for Young Women after returning from New York City where Dara learned why her mother abandoned her all those years ago, and they are now attending universities where they can further their special talents. This means they will be separated from each other and from Carolina, their much-loved mentor and teacher who is “one of them,” for the first time in their young lives. They vow to try living apart for one semester, in the so-called real world that doesn’t include the orphanage; but if things don’t work out, they will come up with another plan—a plan where they can be together once again. Dara is invited through Yale University to take part in an exciting archeological project in China. Jennifer, once again visualizing black and white images and the unusual sounds of another cadence that seem to be connected to Mackenzie, is engrossed in creating her next symphony at Juilliard. Mackenzie, because of her genius at problem-solving, is personally chosen by a US Senator to get involved in a mysterious, secret research project involving immortality that is being conducted in a small village in China—not too far from where Dara is involved with the archeological site. Once there, however, she finds herself facing a terrifying death from the blood-dripping teeth of an ancient evil dragon. Her best friends, the FIGs and Carolina, rely on their own unique genius and special talents to save her as she discovers the truth of her birth parents.

THE NIGHTJAR’S PROMISE: Book 4

Jennifer Torres, one of the three FIGs (Females of Intellectual Genius) who is a genius in both music and art, is the last to leave the closed rehearsal for her upcoming performance over Thanksgiving break at Carnegie Hall when she hears something in the darkened Hall. Recognizing the tilt of the woman’s head and the slight limp of the man as they hurry out an exit door, she realizes it is her parents who were supposedly killed in a terrible car accident when she was 15 years old. Devastated and feeling betrayed, she sends a text to Carolina and the other two FIGs—THURGOOD. It is the code word they all agreed to use if ever one of them got into trouble or something happened that was too difficult to handle. They would all meet back at Carolina’s bungalow at Wood Rose Orphanage and Academy for Young Women to figure it out. As soon as they receive the text, because of their genius, Dara starts thinking of words in ancient Hebrew, German, and Yiddish, while Mackenzie’s visions of unique math formulae keep bringing up the date October 11, 1943. And as Carolina waits for the FIGs to return to Wood Rose, she hears warnings from Lyuba, her gypsy mother, to watch for the nightjar, the ancient name for the whip-poor-will. In their search for “The Nightjar’s Promise” and the truth surrounding it, Carolina and the FIGs come face to face with evil that threatens to destroy not only their genius, but their very lives.

July 12: Christine Young
July 12: Hope. Dreams. Life... Love
July 13: Literary Gold
July 14: Andi's Young Adult Books
July 14: Aubrey Wynne: TImeless Love
July 15: The Avid Reader
July 16: Novels Alive
July 16: Sea's Nod
July 19: FUONLYKNEW
July 20: All the Ups and Downs
July 20: Nickie's Views and Interviews
July 21: Cover To Cover Cafe
July 22: Beyond Romance cancelled
July 22: The Obsessed Reader
July 23: Fabulous and Brunette
July 26: Momma Says: To Read or Not to Read
July 26: Lisa Haselton's Reviews and Interviews
July 27: Becoming Extraordinary
July 28: The Faerie Review
July 28: Stormy Nights Reviewing & Bloggin'
July 29: Long and Short Reviews
July 30: Jazzy Book Reviews
July 30: Girl with Pen
August 2: Straight From the Library
August 3: Westveil Publishing
August 3: Ascroft, eh?
August 4: Iron Canuck Reviews & More
August 5: Our Town Book Reviews - review book 4
August 5: Author C.A.Milson
August 6: Independent Authors

Book Blast: The Gospel According to Prissy by Barbara Casey

Congratulations to tour winner Tracy L. and to host winner Andi's Book Reviews.

Thank you for your interest in hosting this tour, but all the stops have now been filled.

Goddess Fish Promotions is organizing a Virtual Book Blast Tour for The Gospel According to Prissy by Barbara Casey, a Mystery available now from Strategic Media Books. The Book Blast Tour will take place May 10 - 14, 2021. This tour will not include interviews or guest blogs; however, a blurb, excerpt and author bio will be provided to every host for inclusion on their blog. A PDF copy of the book is available for review.

Barbara Casey will be awarding a $25 Amazon or B/N GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour, and a $25 Amazon or B/N GC to a randomly drawn host.

 

 Three Army veteran misfits, a college dropout, an unmotivated high school graduate accused of murder, a controversial warden of a women's prison, and a little girl with the gift of prophesy – these are the people 31-year-old Lara Kruger invites into her life after suffering a miscarriage, a divorce from an abusive husband, and unemployment.

May 10:
1: Literary Gold
2: Novels Alive
3: Our Town Book Reviews
4: Edgar's Books
5: Tina Donahue Books - Heat with Heart
6: Wendi Zwaduk - Romance to Make Your Heart Race
7: Welcome to My World of Dreams

May 11:
1: Sandra's Book Club
2: Jazzy Book Reviews
3: Travel the Ages
4: The Obsessed Reader
5: The Faerie Review
6: Long and Short Reviews

May 12:
1: Independent Authors
2: Rogue's Angels
3: It's Raining Books
4: Hope. Dreams. Life... Love
5: All the Ups and Downs
6: Andi's Book Reviews
7: Candrel's Crafts, Cooks, and Characters

May 13:
1: Straight From the Library
2: Stormy Nights Reviewing and Bloggin' review
3: fundinmental
4: The Avid Reader
5: Lisa Everyday Reads

May 14:
1: Harlie's Books
2: Westveil Publishing
3: Fabulous and Brunette
4: Iron Canuck Reviews and More
5: Aubrey Wynne: Timeless Love
6: Nickie's Views and Interviews
7: Deborah-Zenha Adams
8: Beyond Romance

Book Blast: The Coach's Wife by Barbara Casey

Congratulations to tour winner Amanda W. and to host winner Notes From a Romantic's Heart

Thank you for your interest in this tour, but all the stops have now been filled.

Goddess Fish Promotions is organizing a Virtual Book Blast Tour for THE COACH'S WIFE by Barbara Casey, a mystery available this month from Speaking Volumes Publishing. The Book Blast Tour will take place on April 19 - April 23 This tour will not include interviews or guest blogs; however, a blurb, excerpt and author bio will be provided to every host for inclusion on their blog. A PDF copy of the book is available for review.

Barbara Casey 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 Cinderella Coyotes of State University are in the Final Four, poised to win the NCAA National Championship in basketball—the culmination of March Madness. For Marla Conners, she's proud of her husband Neal, and his achievement of coaching a collegiate team to the pinnacle of his career and the ultimate victory for his team. Yet, Marla's idyllic life is about to be viciously attacked and torn apart by a different madness—her husband's reputation ruined, a university disgraced, and she finds herself on trial accused of first-degree murder.

The Coach’s Wife is rife with spine-tingling suspense, conspiracy, deceit, and murder, sizzling and seductive passion, right down to the last second buzzer-beating heroics. This is also a candid and vivid behind-the-scenes portrait of Division One college basketball, university politics, money and corruption, and all the lives that are blessed and ruined by it all.

NOTE:  this book has an R rating – explicit sex scenes (between husband and wife), and profanity since it involves men’s locker rooms and the underbelly of collegiate sports.

April 19:

1: Nickie's Views and Interviews
2: Rogue's Angels
3: Edgar's Books
4: The Avid Reader
5: Locks, Hooks and Books
6: Iron Canuck Reviews and More
7: Joanne Guidoccio
8: Independent Authors

April 20:

1: Novels Alive review
1a: Novels Alive
2: Our Town Book Reviews review
3: Becoming Extraordinary
4: Aubrey Wynne: Timeless Love
5: fundinmental
6: Straight From the Library
7: Travel the Ages
8: The Faerie Review

April 21:

1: Hope. Dreams. Life... Love
2: Lamon Reviews
3: Notes From a Romantic's Heart
4: Westveil Publishing
5: The Phantom Paragrapher
6: Stormy Nights Reviewing and Bloggin'
7: It's Raining Books
8: Readeropolis

April 22:

1: Literary Gold
2: Wake Up Your Wild Side
3: Harlie's Books review
4: Sandra's Book Club
5: Books to Light Your Fire II
6: Long and Short Reviews
7: Wendi zwaduk - romance to make your heart race

April 23:

1: The Obsessed Reader
2: Welcome to My World of Dreams
3: Dawn's Reading Nook
4: Archaeolibrarian - I Dig Good Books!
5: Fabulous and Brunette
6: Jazzy Book Reviews

VBT: The Nightjar's Promise by Barbara Casey

Congratulations to tour winner Angelo A. and to host winner Joanne Guidoccio.
Thank you for your interest in hosting this tour, but all stops have been filled.

Goddess Fish Promotions is organizing a Virtual Book Tour for The Nightjar's Promise by Barbara Casey, a Fiction/Mystery available April 22 from Gauthier Publications. The tour will run May 4 - May 15, and Barbara Casey 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.

Barbara Casey will be awarding a $20 Amazon or Barnes and Noble GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour, and a $20 Amazon or Barnes and Noble GC to a randomly drawn host.

Jennifer Torres, one of the three FIGs (Females of Intellectual Genius) who is a genius in both music and art, is the last to leave the closed rehearsal for her upcoming performance over Thanksgiving break at Carnegie Hall when she hears something in the darkened Hall. Recognizing the tilt of the woman’s head and the slight limp of the man as they hurry out an exit door, she realizes it is her parents who were supposedly killed in a terrible car accident when she was 15 years old.

Devastated and feeling betrayed, she sends a text to Carolina and the other two FIGs—THURGOOD. It is the code word they all agreed to use if ever one of them got into trouble or something happened that was too difficult to handle. They would all meet back at Carolina’s bungalow at Wood Rose Orphanage and Academy for Young Women to figure it out.

As soon as they receive the text, because of their genius, Dara starts thinking of words in ancient Hebrew, German, and Yiddish, while Mackenzie’s visions of unique math formulae keep bringing up the date October 11, 1943. That is the date during World War II when the Nazis—the Kunstschutz—looted the paintings of targeted wealthy Jewish families and hid them away under Hitler’s orders. And as Carolina waits for the FIGs to return to Wood Rose, she hears warnings from Lyuba, her gypsy mother, to watch for the nightjar, the ancient name for the whip-poor-will.

As they search for “The Nightjar’s Promise” and the truth surrounding it, Carolina and the FIGs come face to face with evil that threatens to destroy not only their genius, but their very lives.

May 4: Fabulous and Brunette
May 5: Rogue's Angels
May 6: All the Ups and Downs
May 7: Viviana MacKade
May 8: Long and Short Reviews
May 11: Independent Authors
May 11: Andi's Book Reviews
May 12: Archaeolibrarian - I Dig Good Books!
May 13: Our Town Book Reviews
May 14: Locks, Hooks and Books - review only
May 15: Joanne Guidoccio

VBT: Velvalee Dickinson: The Doll Woman Spy by Barbara Casey

Congratulations to tour winner Michelle L. and to host winner Lisa Haselton's Reviews and Interviews.
Thank you for your interest in hosting this tour, but all stops have been filled.

Goddess Fish Promotions is organizing a Virtual Book Tour for Velvalee Dickinson: The Doll Woman Spy by Barbara Casey, a Nonfiction/Biography/True Crime available April 1 from Strategic Media Books. The tour will run April 1 - April 12, and Barbara Casey 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.

Barbara Casey will be awarding a $20 Amazon/BN GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour, and a $20 Amazon/BN GC to a randomly drawn host.

Velvalee Dickinson was born in Sacramento, California, graduated from Stanford University, married three times, and then in the early 1930s moved to New York City where she eventually opened her own exclusive doll shop on the prestigious Madison Avenue. It was there that she built her reputation as an expert in rare, antique, and foreign dolls. She traveled extensively around the country lecturing and exhibiting her dolls while building a wealthy clientele that included Hollywood stars, members of high society, and other collectors.

When medical bills started to accumulate because of her husband’s poor health and business started to fail with the onset of World War II, she accepted the role as a spy for the Imperial Japanese Government. By hiding coded messages in her correspondence about dolls, she was able to pass on to her Japanese contacts critical military information about the US warships. After surveilling Velvalee for over a year, the FBI arrested her and charged her with espionage and violation of censorship laws. She became the first American woman to face the death penalty on charges of spying for a wartime enemy.

Velvalee Dickinson: The “Doll Woman” Spy is a carefully researched glimpse into the “Doll Woman’s” life as a collector of dolls, and as the highest paid American woman who spied for the Imperial Japanese Government during World War II.

April 1: Lisa Haselton's Reviews and Interviews
April 2: Rogue's Angels
April 3: Fabulous and Brunette
April 4: All the Ups and Downs
April 5: Edgar's Books
April 8: Our Town Book Reviews - review only
April 8: It's Raining Books
April 9: Locks, Hooks and Books - review only
April 11: BooksChatter
April 11: This and That Book Blog
April 12: Kit 'N Kabookle - review only

Book Blast: The Clock Flower by Barbara Casey

Congratulations to tour winner Vasyl P. and to host winner Sharing Links and Wisdom.
Thank you for your interest, but this tour is now closed.

Goddess Fish Promotions is organizing a Virtual Book Blast Tour for The Clock Flower by Barbara Casey, a Mystery/Suspense available now from Gauthier Publishers. The Book Blast Tour will take place on July 23 - 27, 2018. This tour will not include interviews or guest blogs; however, a blurb, excerpt and author bio will be provided to every host for inclusion on their blog. A PDF copy of the book is available for review.

Barbara Casey will be awarding a $20 Amazon or B/N GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour, and a $20 Amazon or B/N GC to a randomly drawn host.

Mackenzie Yarborough, one of the three FIGs—Females of Intellectual Genius—finds herself facing a terrifying death of an ancient evil dragon while in China working on a secret research project and trying to discover the truth of her birth parents.

July 23:
1: Rogues Angels
2: Edgar's Books
3: Fabulous and Brunette
4: Laurie's Paranormal Thoughts and Reviews
5: Mythical Books
6: Nickie's Views and Interviews

July 24:
1: Author C.A.Milson
2: Independent Authors
3: Let me tell you a story
4: FUONLYKNEW
5: Long and Short Reviews

July 25:
1: Stormy Nights Reviewing & Bloggin'
2: Casey's Corner
3: Just Books
4: Mixed Book Bag
5: T's Stuff
6: Readeropolis
7: Danita Minnis


July 26:
1: Andi's Book Reviews
2: BooksChatter
3: Bookaholic
4: fundinmental
5: Iron Canuck
6: Paranormal and Romantic Suspense Reviews
7: It's Raining Books
8: Welcome to My World of Dreams

July 27:
1: Hope. Dreams. Life... Love
2: Jazzy Book Reviews
3: Kimmi Love
4: Straight From the Library
5: Tina Donahue Books - Heat with Heart
6: Sharing Links and Wisdom
7: The Avid Reader
8: Bri's Book Nook

Virtual Super Book Blast Tour: THE COACH'S WIFE BY BARBARA CASEY

Goddess Fish Promotions is organizing a Virtual Super Book Blast Tour for The Coach's Wife by Barbara Casey, a Mystery/Suspense book available now from Archebooks Publishing. The Super Book Blast Tour will take place on Friday, May 2, 2014 and is limited to the first 50 people who sign up. This tour will not include interviews or guest blogs; however, a blurb, 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.

Casey will be awarding a $25 Amazon GC to a randomly drawn commenter during the tour. Congratulations to bn100

Another deafening roar exploded from the coliseum, and when it did Marla threw down her partially smoked cigarette and ground it into the polished tile floor with the toe of her shoe. Quickly she reached for another cigarette from the opened pack in her small red handbag. She lit it, sucked the smoke into her mouth, held her breath, coughed, and then slowly released it. Marla didn't smoke, but when she paced up and down the hallways of basketball coliseums, puffing on cigarettes seemed appropriate. It gave her something to do with her hands, and it helped keep her sane.

Marla Connors, recently married to head basketball coach Neal Connors, travels with her husband to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where the Piedmont State University Coyote team is playing in the NCAA Finals. Marla has not been accepted by the Coyotes, that loyal bunch of fans who follows the university team, partly because she is almost twenty years younger than Coach Connors and a divorcée, but also because the fans are afraid she will distract her husband from his duties as head coach. They see her as someone who married Coach Connors just for his money. Only Gale, the older wife of assistant coach Stu Simmons, goes out of her way to be a friend to Marla.

The Coyote team is plagued with problems from the very beginning of the season, and when they finally manage to reach the NCAA Finals, it's even worse. Their center is caught using drugs, Athletics Director Charlie Morgan, who is also in Albuquerque for the games, makes a pass at Marla in her hotel room, and Coach Connors comes down with the flu. No one believes that State can win the big game.

With so much happening, Marla can't shake the feeling that something evil is taking over her life. She tries to convince herself that it is emotional anxiety left over from the abuse she experienced during her first marriage to Dr. Martin Andrews and that the stress from the tournament has brought it once again to the surface. She soon learns, however, that the evil is real and it threatens not only everything she loves, but her very life.

Illegal drugs, illicit affairs, murder, and scandal that shakes the entire university system are woven inextricably into Marla’s life until eventually she comes face to face with her real tormentor. It is only then that she realizes the full depth of her love for her husband--and his love for her.

1: Laurie's Thoughts and Reviews
2: Our Families Adventure REVIEW
3: Books Direct
4: The Book Review REVIEW
5: Room With Books
6: Paranormal Romance and Authors That Rock REVIEW
7: Beckstar Reviews REVIEW
8: Deal Sharing Aunt
9: Welcome to My World of Dreams
10: Beer, Books and More
11: My Devotional Thoughts
12: The Pen and Muse Book Reviews
13: Brooke Blogs
14: Book Bling
15: Booklover Sue
16: Book 'Em North Carolina
17: The Write to Read
18: Sexy Adventures Passionate Tales
19: Writer Wonderland
20: Andi's Book Reviews
21: Literary Lunes Magazine
22: Reviews by Crystal
23: Bookgirl Knitting
24: Blood Moons and Nightscapes
25: The Cerebral Writer
26: My Odd Little World
27: Tina Donahue Presents
28: Hope. Dreams. Life... Love
29: Dawn's Reading Nook
30: Queen of the Night Reviews
31: It's Raining Books
32: Straight from the Library
33: Long and Short Reviews
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Virtual Super Book Blast Tour: THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO PRISSY BY BARBARA CASEY

Goddess Fish Promotions is organizing a Virtual Super Book Blast Tour for The Gospel According to Prissy by Barbara Casey, a Contemporary Suspense/Women's Fiction book available now from Strategic Media Books. The Super Book Blast Tour will take place on Thursday, November 21, 2013 and is limited to the first 50 people who sign up. This tour will not include interviews or guest blogs; however, a blurb, 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.

Barbara will be awarding a $25 Amazon GC to a randomly drawn commenter during the tour. Congratulations to Taylor D.

Three Army veteran misfits, a college dropout, an unmotivated high school graduate accused of murder, a controversial warden of a women's prison, and a little girl with the gift of prophesy – these are the people 31-year-old Lara Kruger invites into her life after suffering a miscarriage, a divorce from an abusive husband, and unemployment.

1: Bunny's Review
2: Farm Girl Books
3: fundinmental
4: Queen of All She Reads
5: The Hedonistic Minimalist
6: My Devotional Thoughts
7: Deal Sharing Aunt
8: Full Moon Dreaming
9: Reviews by Crystal
10: Renee Luke
11: Kit 'N Kabookle
12: My Odd Little World
13: Wake Up Your Wild Side
14: Wicked Readings by Tawania
15: Margay Leah Justice
16: Tina Donahue Presents
17: Hope Dreams. Life... Love
18: Sharing Links and Wisdom
19: Serenity Reviews
20: Curse of the Bibliophile
21: The Women's Fiction Review
22: The Write to Read
23: Book 'Em North Carolina
24: Hello Romance
25: Long and Short Reviews
26. Welcome to My World of Dreams
27: It's Raining Books
28: Straight from the Library
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SUPER BOOK BLAST: THE CADENCE OF GYPSIES BY BARBARA CASEY

Goddess Fish Promotions is organizing a Virtual Book Blast Tour for THE CADENCE OF GYPSIES by Barbara Casey, a contemporary mystery available now from Gauthier Publishing. The Book Blast Tour will take place on Wednesday, August 28, and is limited to the first 50 people who sign up. This tour will not include interviews or guest blogs; however, a blurb, 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.

Barbara will be awarding a $25 Amazon or BN.com gift card to a randomly drawn commenter during the tour. Congratulations to Rita W.

Three high-spirited 17 year olds, with intelligent quotients in the genius range, accompany their teacher and mentor, Carolina Lovel, to Frascati, Italy, a few weeks before they are to graduate from Wood Rose Orphanage and Academy for Young Women. Carolina's purpose in planning the trip is to remove her gifted, creative students from the Wood Rose campus located in Raleigh, North Carolina, so they can't cause any more problems ("expressions of creativity") for the headmaster, faculty, and other students – which they do with regularity. Carolina also wants to visit the Villa Mondragone where the Voynich Manuscript, the most mysterious document in the world, was first discovered and search how it is related to a paper written in the same script she received on her 18th birthday when she was told that she was adopted – a search that will take them into the mystical world of gypsy tradition and magic, more exciting and dangerous than any of them could have imagined.

HOSTS:

1 Blood Red Shadows
2 Full Moon Dreaming
3 LizaOConnor
4 Out of the Lockbox
5 Danita Minnis
6 Writer Wonderland
7 Reading In Twilight
8 Andi's Young Adult Books
9 Sexy Adventures, Passionate Tales
10 Reviews by Crystal
11 Cabin Goddess
12 Lisa Haselton's Reviews and Interviews
13 You Gotta Read Reviews
14 On the Broomstick
15 My Devotional Thoughts
16 Dawn's Reading Nook Blog
17 Deal Sharing Aunt
18 My Odd Little World
19 Hope Dreams. Life... Love
20 Dalene's Book Reviews
21 The Cerebral Writer
22 Chris Redding Author
23 The (Mis)Adventures of a Twenty-Something Year Old Girl
24 Red Wine and Books
25 A Writer's Life
26 The Simple Things in Life
27 Bunny's Review
28 Farm Girl Books
29 Renee Luke
30 Nickie's Views and Interviews
31 Who's Reviews
32 Fiction Writing and Other Oddities
33 Andi's Book Reviews
34 Wake Up Your Wild Side
35 Hope Dreams. Life... Love
36 fuonlyknew
37 Musings and Ramblings
38 Sharing Links and Wisdom
39 Becky Flade Author