Virtual NBtM Tour: The Illustrious Client by Sandra de Helen

Congratulations to Elise-Maria Barton, winner of the prize for commenting.

Goddess Fish Promotions is organizing a Virtual Name Before the Masses Tour for The Illustrious Client by Sandra de Helen, a Mystery book available now.

The tour will run every Wednesday for 8 weeks starting on Febrary 12, 2014, and the book is available in PDF, Mobi and ePub format.  Sandra is available for guest posts and interviews.

Sandra will be awarding a $25 Powell's gift card to a randomly drawn commenter during the tour.

Book Two of the Shirley Combs and Dr. Mary Watson series, THE ILLUSTRIOUS CLIENT, shows us the private investigator and her sidekick sharing an office, and introduces their receptionist, Lix. They are hired to influence a young international pop star, Oceane Charles, to pry her away from her older, richer, player of a girlfriend. The cast is made up of people with various ethnicities and backgrounds, and of course the job soon includes solving a murder mystery. Along the way, Mary discovers her latent lesbianism. Set in Portland, Oregon on a superyacht, in a hospital VIP room, at Rose Festival, and other fun places.

February 12: Rose and Beps Blog - Promo
February 19: Long and Short Reviews
February 26: It's Raining Books
March 12: Straight from the Library
March 19: Long and Short Reviews
March 19: My Devotional Thoughts
March 26: Queen of All She Reads
March 26: Booker Like a Hooker
April 2: Sharing Links and Wisdom
April 2: Reviews By Molly

Virtual Book Tour: The Hounding by Sandra de Helen

Congratulations to MomJane, winner of the GC for commenting.

Goddess Fish Promotions is organizing a Virtual Book Tour for The Hounding by Sandra de Helen, a cozy mystery available available now. The tour will run October 15 - 19, 2012, and Sandra is available for guest post and interviews. A copy of the book is available in PDF and mobi formats for review in conjunction with a guest post or interview.

Sandra will be awarding the winner's choice of a backlist eBook to a randomly drawn commenter at every stop, and a $25 Amazon GC to one commenter from the tour.

Tall, thin, androgynous Shirley Combs considers herself the world’s greatest living detective because she uses the methods and casebook of Sherlock Holmes to solve crimes of the gentry of the American city most closely resembling London, England -- in terms of the weather, at least. Sidekick/narrator Dr. Mary Watson both delights in and is frustrated by her partner’s behavioral resemblance to Sherlock. Combs is unemotional, analytical, and given to pacing through the night in the streets of the almost perfectly livable city of Portland, Oregon. Her ability to observe details and understand their relationship to a case is unmatched; her demands on Watson’s time are too.

Shirley Combs bills herself as the world’s greatest living detective, and why not? Taunted and teased as a child because her name sounded so much like Sherlock Holmes's, she developed an early obsession with the adventures and methods of Sherlock himself. She considered her fate sealed when she met up with Dr. Mary Watson. Shirley adds the technology of today to Holmes’s 100-year-old casebook and solves the mysteries of her much-beloved hometown. Mary Watson assists, and - of course - chronicles their exciting exploits. The planned series of novels incorporates and explores current events, types of people, social/economic situations that occur in Portland and the Pacific Northwest.

In their first documented adventure, Shirley is hired by 19-year-old Goldenhawk Vandeleur to investigate her wealthy mother’s untimely death. Timber heiress Priscilla Vandeleur Leoni, direct descendant of Sir Charles Baskerville, decides to spend the family fortune saving the old-growth forests of Oregon. She is a product of the 1960’s - former hippie and free-love advocate who gave birth out-of-wedlock, experimented with lesbian separatism, and married late. When faced with midlife, she tries to outrun her fears and give away her huge fortune. Haunted by a phobia of dogs, she is literally frightened to death by a pair of hounds.

October 15:  Bodice Ripper Novels
October 15:  Long and Short Reviews:  Mystery Guests
October 16:  Welcome to My World of Dreams
October 16:  REVIEW Reviewing Shelf
October 17:  Lisa Haselton's Reviews and Interviews
October 18:  Tamaria Soana
October 19: The Muse Unleashed