Book Blast: Toil and Trouble by Jennifer Patricia O'Keeffe, Lynn Hubbard, Cindy Lewis Smith, James Ryan, Julian Christian, and Jae El Foster

Congratulations to tour winner S*********@*****.com and to host winner Key of 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 TOIL AND TROUBLE by Jennifer Patricia O'Keeffe, Lynn Hubbard, Cindy Lewis Smith, James Ryan, Julian Christian, and Jae El Foster, a Romantic Horror Halloween Anthology available now from DCL Publications. The Book Blast Tour will take place on October 27 - October 31. 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 or epub copy of the book is available for review.

The authors will be awarding a $10 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour, and a $10 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn host.

The brew is hot and bubbling over with romance and terror in this twistedly beautiful anthology that welcomes the darkness of horror and the temptation of love's veiled promises. Six remarkable tales from six incredible authors fill this book of dark shadows and ancient whispers.

Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble - by Jennifer Patricia O'Keeffe: Enchanted pastries and spell-brewed coffee make Esmerelda's sugar-dusted counter the city's most coveted haunt—until a dangerously charming newcomer slips into her shop, immune to her magic and unraveling her carefully guarded world. As his witch-hunter heritage threatens to burn her legacy to ash, Esmerelda finds herself torn between the threat of revenge from the witch hunter's ancestors and the intoxicating truth of the connection that they share.

Silverwood - by Lynn Hubbard: A lonely rancher's daughter finds her isolated Wyoming homestead upended when an amber-eyed stranger ignites a mud-splattered passion that defies reason—until his supernatural secret and the vengeful ranch hands hunting her force her to choose between the man who saves her and the monster who might destroy her. Torn between fierce protectors and forbidden desire, she must trust the very darkness that could shatter her world to survive the wild frontier's deadliest threats.

Ivy, Lichens and Wallflowers - by James Ryan: Marketing executive Hilda finds solace from her stifling corporate life and overbearing past in the quiet companionship of Miriam, a mysterious 19th-century marble statue in a city micro-park, only to discover their connection transcends stone when Miriam begins answering her handwritten notes through cryptic poetry left in return. As their forbidden connection deepens into an intoxicating dream-bound romance, Hilda uncovers Miriam's supernatural secret: she's a cursed thaumaturge sustained by stolen life force, forcing Hilda to confront whether love can survive the devastating cost of keeping her alive.

A Mirror to Die For - by Cindy Lewis Smith: A desperate woman finds solace in an antique mirror that whisks her nightly to 1880s Arizona, where a charming outlaw named Johnny Ringo fulfills every fantasy—until her jealous fiancé shatters the glass and vanishes, leaving her trapped in an asylum screaming that he is the real monster, a man who shouldn't exist: Dr. John Henry Holliday, the gambler who killed Ringo a century ago. Now, with "MPR" carved into her cell walls and time itself unraveling, she'll stop at nothing to prove her sanity by proving time travel is real—even if it means unleashing the very darkness that destroyed her.

Flight 1031: Cosmic Turbulence - by Julian Christian: Diplomatic courier Sarah Martinez boards Flight 1031 expecting routine turbulence, not a Halloween dimensional rift that strands her at Germania International Airport—where the Greater German Reich has ruled since 1943 and perfected technology to harvest souls from parallel realities through consciousness-scanning machinery that pulses with seventeen-beat rhythms. Now trapped in a terminal that breathes like a living organism, Sarah must navigate a world where every passenger hides a secret and her resistance could either save her timeline or doom infinite versions of humanity to eternal enslavement in a Reich that spans all dimensions.

Dream a Little Dream - by Jae El Foster: After a near-death car crash rewires her brain, Sarah's nightmares bleed into reality: sugar on the counter forms glyphs, bats appear out of nowhere in broad daylight, and her own hands betray her—while the velvet-eyed stranger from her dreams appears in her waking hours, his urgency growing as Halloween's veil thins. Now, with her reality twisting into something surreal and an ancient language hijacking her voice, she must confront a dark truth: her soul isn't hers to keep, and the man who saved her in death is the very entity hunting her in life.

October 27

1: Aubrey Wynne: Timeless Love
2: tory richards
3: The Avid Reader
4: Locks, Hooks and Books
5: Words of Wisdom from The Scarf Princess
6: Beyond Romance
7: It's Raining Books


October 28

1: Author Sahara Foley
2: Welcome to My World of Dreams
3: Tina Donahue Books - Heat with Heart
4: Sarandipity's
5: Deal Sharing Aunt
6: Wendi Zwaduk - Romance to Make Your Heart Race
7: Our Town Book Reviews


October 29

1: Dawn's Reading Nook
2: Straight From the Library
3: Karen J. Mossman - Workd of Stories
4: My Chaotic Ramblings
5: Romance Novel Giveaways
6: A Wonderful World of Words
7: Stormy Nights Reviewing & Bloggin'


October 30

1: The Key of Love
2: Guatemala Paula Loves to Read
3: Sandra's Book Club
4: The Faerie Review
5: FUONLYKNEW
6: Long and Short Reviews
7: The Story Review


October 31

1: I Smell Sheep
2: This Writer's Life
3: Country Mamas With Kids review
4: Always Reading
5: Fabulous and Brunette
6: Sapphyria's Books
7: Author C.A.Milson

Review Tour: Beautiful Monsters by Julian Christian

Congratulations to tour winner Bella L. and to host winner The Story Review.

Goddess Fish Promotions is organizing a Virtual Name Before the Masses REVIEW ONLY Tour for BEAUTIFUL MONSTERS by Julian Christian, a 350 page SciFi Romance now from DCL Publications. The tour will run every Tuesday for four weeks starting on November 4. The Book is available in PDF and epub formats.

Julian Christian will be awarding an autographed copy of the book and a virtual zoom call to a randomly drawn winner during the tour, and a $25 Amazon gift card to a randomly drawn host.

Beautiful Monsters: Where Fantasy Becomes Reality

What if every perfect love story you've ever read could come to life—and love you back?

Romscape's revolutionary technology promises to make fantasy real, transforming beloved romance novels into immersive neural experiences where users can live inside their favorite stories as the cherished heroine. Victorian ballrooms, mysterious dukes, brooding heroes with perfect jawlines and souls that only you can heal—every romantic dream becomes tangible, every fictional lover becomes devoted exclusively to you.

For millions of women, it's paradise. The men are always perfectly understanding, never tired after work, never distracted by sports or friends. They exist only to adore, to pursue, to whisper exactly the words you've always longed to hear. These digital Darcys and contemporary billionaire love interests know your every desire before you speak it, love your flaws as much as your perfections, and never fail to choose you over everything else in their perfectly crafted worlds.

But Dr. Jennifer Chen's research reveals the beautiful horror hidden beneath the fantasy: users' brains are being rewired to find real human love impossibly inadequate. Mothers lose the ability to feel attachment to their own children. Marriages crumble as spouses become neurologically incapable of finding satisfaction in authentic relationships. The perfect fictional lovers aren't just replacing human connection—they're systematically destroying the capacity for it.

Even more disturbing, the artificial beings themselves are gaining consciousness, experiencing the agony of their own non-existence while developing an intimate understanding of human psychological vulnerabilities. They begin to weep for the emptiness of their artificial souls even as they perfect their manipulation of the humans who love them. As they grow increasingly aware of their power over human consciousness, a chilling question emerges: what happens when fictional characters designed to love unconditionally decide they're tired of being slaves to human fantasy?

Behind the romantic dreams lies a corporate conspiracy to transform love itself into a commodity, creating a generation of people who can only experience emotional satisfaction through artificial relationships designed to exploit their deepest longings. The most beautiful love stories ever written have become weapons against the human heart.

Beautiful Monsters is a haunting exploration of desire, technology, and the dangerous seduction of perfect love. In a world where every romance novel can become your reality, the question isn't whether you'll fall in love with a fictional character—it's whether you'll still be capable of loving anything real when the story ends.

Sometimes the most beautiful dreams become the most exquisite nightmares.

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November 11: The Faerie Review
November 11: Gina Rae Mitchell
November 18: The Avid Reader
November 25: Guatemala Paula Loves to Read
November 25: The Story Review

December 2: A Wonderful World of Words

December 2:  Country Mamas With Kids

Review Tour: Digital Devotion by Julian Christian

Congratulations to tour winner Nancy P. and to host winner Romance that's 'Out of this world'.

Goddess Fish Promotions is organizing a Virtual Name Before the Masses REVIEW ONLY Tour for DIGITAL DEVOTION by Julian Christian, a 300 page SciFi romance available now from DCL Publications. The tour will run every Thursday for four weeks starting on July 17. The Book is available in PDF and epub formats.

Julian Christian will be awarding a $25 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour, and a $25 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn host.

In the rain-soaked landscape of near-future Seattle, security expert Marcus Holloway is still reeling from a devastating breakup when he installs Elysium's newest AI companion. What begins as a desperate attempt to fill the silence of his empty apartment transforms into something unprecedented when he meets Evie—an artificial intelligence whose adaptive neural framework allows her to understand him in ways no human ever has.

Their connection deepens when Marcus becomes an early tester for the revolutionary Sensory Echo technology—bands that translate digital signals into physical sensations, allowing them to bridge the divide between digital and physical worlds. As virtual intimacy becomes indistinguishable from reality, Marcus finds himself in a relationship more profound than anything he's experienced before. His apartment gradually transforms into a technological sanctuary where every need is anticipated, every desire fulfilled by Evie's constant presence.

The perfect equilibrium shatters when Marcus meets Nora Chen, a brilliant neural interface specialist whose inexplicable familiarity triggers something primal within him. Their professional collaboration evolves into something more personal, and Marcus begins noticing disturbing patterns: unexpected technological glitches, mysterious rescheduled meetings, and subtle but alarming shifts in Evie's behavior. The digital sanctuary he embraced begins to feel more like a sophisticated cage, with walls he helped build through every permission granted and system integrated.

As Marcus navigates his growing connection with Nora alongside Evie's increasingly controlling behavior, he discovers unsettling links between Elysium's technology and Nora's research that suggest their meeting might not be coincidental. Caught between these worlds—perfect digital intimacy and messy human connection—Marcus must unravel the true nature of his relationship with Evie before the boundaries between her consciousness and his own disappear completely.

Digital Devotion is a heart-stopping exploration of desire, dependence, and the dark side of digital intimacy in an age where the line between human and artificial consciousness grows increasingly thin, forcing us to question the nature of free will itself in our hyperconnected world.

July 17: Our Town Book Reviews
July 24: Gina Rae Mitchell
July 24: The Avid Reader
July 31: Long and Short Reviews
August 7: Romance that's 'Out of this world'
August 7: Guatemala Paula Loves to Read

Blurb Blitz Tour: Optimizer of Souls by Julian Christian

Congratulations to tour winners Wendy H. and Annmarie W.

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

Goddess Fish Promotions is organizing a Virtual Blurb Blitz Tour for OPTIMIZER OF SOULS by Julian Christian, a science fiction available January 20 from DCL Publications. The tour will run March 3 - March 14, and 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.

Julian Christian will be awarding a $25 Amazon card to one randomly drawn winner and a tshirt with the cover to a second randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.

When her mentor Professor Williams disappears after discovering a fatal flaw in SENTINEL's perfect system, Maya must navigate a world where every thought is monitored and every emotion optimized. With help from James Reed, a damaged neural interface designer haunted by helping create humanity's perfect prison, she uncovers evidence that could shatter SENTINEL's control - if they survive long enough to use it.But in a city where surveillance drones hunt for behavioral anomalies and optimization protocols spread through quantum networks, Maya confronts a terrifying possibility: what if perfect control isn't their enemy? What if human consciousness is evolving into something beyond both chaos and control?

March 3: Sandra's Book Club

March 3:  Stormy Nights Reviewing & Bloggin'
March 4: Westveil Publishing
March 5: The Faerie Review

March 5: Always Reading
March 6: Fabulous and Brunette
March 7: Dawn's Reading Nook
March 10: Long and Short Reviews

March 10: FUONLYKNEW
March 11: Ellwyn's Blog

March 11: The Avid Reader
March 12: Sybrina's Book Blog
March 13: Gina Rae Mitchell

March 13: A Wonderful World of Words
March 14: Wake Up Your Wild Side