Review Tour: The Ghosts of Pebble Brook Lodge by Linda Covella

Congratulations to Ally S., winner of the tour prize and to Fictionzeal and The Reading Addict, the host winners.

Goddess Fish Promotions is organizing a Virtual REVIEW ONLY Tour for The Ghosts of Pebble Brook Lodge by Linda Covella, a 199 page Middle grade mystery available now from Beau Coup Publishing. The tour will run every Tuesday for 4 weeks starting on June 28, and the book is available in PDF format. Print copies are available to US reviewers.

Linda Covella will be awarding a $25 Amazon or Barnes and Noble GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour, and a $15 Amazon or Barnes and Noble GC to a randomly drawn host.

In the rainy forest of the Santa Cruz Mountains, in the small town of Brookdale, in the long-uninhabited Pebble Brook Lodge...exist four ghosts who stand in the way of Pepper’s search for the truth. In this sequel to the award-winning book The Castle Blues Quake, Pepper Connelly’s chef parents have taken Pepper and her little sister Sage on another restaurant venture to renovate the Pebble Brook Lodge.

One of the unique features of the lodge is a creek running through the large dining room. Pepper learns that, in 1966, a thirteen-year-old girl, Karen, drowned in the creek. Her ten-year-old brother, Willie Hullett, was accused of causing her death. , and his mother and townspeople still believe he was responsible. Willie, now middle-aged, lives with his mother in a cabin in the woods. Mrs. Hullett has never forgiven Willie for her beloved daughter’s death.

As Pepper secretly becomes acquainted with Willie and sees his gentle nature and his beautiful life-like carvings, she’s convinced he was not responsible for his sister’s death.

With the help of her friend Ally Cressman, Pepper sets out to prove Willie’s innocence. With Ouija board sessions, hauntings by four different ghosts, and time travel to 1939 and 1966, Pepper discovers there’s more to Karen’s death than she—or anyone in Brookdale—would have ever guessed.

June 28: Stormy Nights Reviewing and Bloggin'
July 12: The Reading Addict
July 12: LibriAmoriMiei
July 19: Hope. Dreams. Life... Love
July 26: FictionZeal
July 26: Journey of a Bookseller

Review Tour: Cryptogram Chaos: A Virtual Reality Adventure by Linda Covella

Congratulations to Shadow K., winner of the tour prize and to Natural Bri and HarmonyKent, the host winners.

Goddess Fish Promotions is organizing a Virtual REVIEW ONLY Tour for Cryptogram Chaos: A Virtual Reality Adventure by Linda Covella, a 332 page Middle grade adventure available now. The tour will run every Wednesday for 4 weeks starting on June 15, and the book is available in PDF format. In addition to the files attached, the author will gift copies of the book via Amazon for any host who need mobi format. Additionally, a print copy is available to US reviewers.

Linda Covella will be awarding a $25 Amazon or Barnes and Noble GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour, and a $20 Amazon/BN GC to a randomly drawn host. Because this is a review tour, GFP will award a randomly drawn host a $5 Amazon GC.

What if you were 8, or 11, or 14, and you could race cars at 150 mph, bungee jump, fly, eat all the ice cream and candy you wanted, or become powerful avatars such as Robobug, Kulshedra the dragon, and Altai, the gryphon avatar?

All this and more is possible in the ultimate virtual reality game The Cryptogram Connection created by 14-year-old computer whiz Cody Reynolds and his two classmates, Nicole Nash and Kerry McCorkle. To advance to different levels in the game, players must solve cryptograms, or secret codes. (Readers also get to solve the cryptograms.)

They create their game to be used with the latest VR technology developed by local game manufacturer NuVision Games–a headset with biosensors that transmit signals to the brain, fooling it into tasting, hearing, feeling, seeing, and smelling what was programmed into the game. The games are as close to reality as reality itself.

The game becomes every kids’ virtual dream, and Cody, Nicole, and Kerry, besides becoming national celebrities, make more money than they ever imagined. But The Cryptogram Connection turns into “cryptogram chaos” when an evil presence inhabits Zazar, the laser avatar and the most powerful, and takes control of the game. It’s up to the three partners to enter the game and fight Zazar to save the gamers from virtual—and real—disaster.

June 15: The Reading Addict
June 22: Deal Sharing Aunt
June 29: Straight from the Library
July 13: HarmonyKent
July 13: Natural Bri