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Book Tour & Giveaway: Incurable by E.C. Moore

Posted by Teddyrose@1 on August 20, 2015
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E.C. MooreIncurable
by E.C. Moore


Publication Date: July 6, 2015
BookTrope Publishing
eBook; 360 Pages

Genre: Historical Suspense/Literary

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Her menacing past was loose and in close pursuit. The fear of the thing lived in her eyes, and trepidation sounded with each step her heels made as she fled…

Los Angeles 1956—Marilyn Palmer is a beauty with a deep dark secret. After a threatening note from a blackmailer arrives she hires a private eye to help keep her unsavory past under wraps.

Incurable is a story wrought with impetuous and regrettable decisions made by a desperate young woman. Barely eighteen years old, and a gifted seamstress, she makes the ill-fated decision to run away from her Detroit home with a wily friend. Bound for Hollywood, and seeking stardom, the girls set out on an incredible journey.

This splendidly imagined debut explores the tumultuous life and times of a woman who suffered the ultimate betrayal as a child during the Great Depression. A story of survival set against the backdrop of early Hollywood, misery on Hotel Street in Honolulu before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and heartbreak in Los Angeles during WWII, Incurable delivers an emotional intensity rarely found.

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Read the Excerpt for Incurable by E.C. Moore

Her eyes were green and definitely her best feature. He had to admit those gorgeous emerald pools held a huge claim to fame, because they were in competition with flawless skin, a perfect nose, and full lips, all framed with long silky auburn hair begging to be touched. Never had he laid eyes on such a lovely head so up close and personal. Reg did his best not to let his hungry eyes travel south. He recognized what was happening. He felt like a breathing cliché, a private eye in a seedy office facing a beautiful dame in need of his know-how.

#2 She would be back. Marilyn Palmer’s menacing past was on the loose and in close pursuit. The fear of the thing lived in her eyes, and trepidation sounded with each step her heels made as she fled out the door, through the dark hallway, down the steps, and out the building. It seemed to Reg as if she thought that placing enough real estate between her shapely body and the Western Detective Agency would cause the reality of what was surfacing to elude her for a brief spell.

#3 When Marilyn pulled out of her driveway and into the cul-de-sac, she spotted a mysterious blue car parked across the street. The very same car had been parked up the way the day before, and she wondered if it meant anything. On her way to meet Lillian at Flynn’s Fish-n-Steak, Marilyn thought she spotted the blue car in her rearview mirror, but when she turned around she realized it was a different vehicle altogether. Her mind must be playing tricks; she had jumped to an absurd conclusion. So what if a strange car showed up two days in a row? Her normally reclusive neighbors must have company—that’s all.


PRAISE for Incurable by E.C. Moore


“Incurable will have you flipping through its word-painted images, and thinking about its characters long after you’ve read the last line.” – Anita Kovacevic

ABOUT E.C. MooreE.C. Moore


When E.C. Moore’s not writing feverishly, you will find her out walking or sightseeing. She’s wild about coffee, books, cooking, good wine, cairn terriers, miniature ponies, historical houses, and witty people.

She resides in a fifties bungalow in Southern California, with her creative-director husband, a yappy blonde dog, and one feisty Chihuahua.

For more information visit E.C. Moore’s website. You can also find her on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Amazon, Google+, and Goodreads.

Giveaway of Incurable by E.C. Moore


This giveaway is for a ebook copy and is open internationally.  This giveaway ends on September 3, 2015.  Entries are accepted via Rafflecopter only.

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BLOG TOUR SCHEDULE for Incurable by E.C. Moore


Monday, August 10
Review at Book Nerd

Tuesday, August 11
Review at A Fold in the Spine
Spotlight & Excerpt at Curling Up By the Fire

Wednesday, August 12
Guest Post & Giveaway at Unshelfish

Thursday, August 13
Review at With Her Nose Stuck in a Book
Spotlight & Excerpt at A Literary Vacation
Spotlight & Excerpt at What Is That Book About

Sunday, August 16
Review at History From a Woman’s Perspective
Spotlight & Excerpt at Please Pass the Books

Monday, August 17
Guest Post at Passages to the Past

Thursday, August 20
Review at Bookramblings
Spotlight & Giveaway at Teddy Rose Book Reviews Plus More

Friday, August 21
Tour Wrap-Up & Giveaway at Passages to the Past

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Aug 15

18

Giveaway: Sea Lovers by Valerie Martin

Posted by Teddyrose@1 on August 18, 2015
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Valerie MartinThanks to Lauren Weber of Doubleday, I am giving away one print copy of Sea Lovers by Valerie Martin.

Description of Sea Lovers by Valerie Martin:


From the bestselling author of Mary Reilly and the internationally acclaimed Property, a brilliant collection featuring Valerie Martin’s finest short stories to date.

For four decades Valerie Martin has been publishing novels and stories that demonstrate her incredible range as a writer, moving between realism and fantasy while employing a voice that is at once whimsical and tragic. The twelve stories in this collection showcase Martin’s enviable control, precision, and grace and are organized around her three fictional obsessions—the natural world, the artistic sphere, and stunning transformations.

In “The Change,” a journalist watches his menopausal wife, an engraver, create some of her eeriest and most affecting works even as she seems to be willfully destroying their marriage. In “The Open Door,” an American poet in Rome finds herself forced to choose between her lover and a world so alien it takes her voice away. “Sea Lovers” conjures up a hideous mermaid whose fatal seduction of a fisherman provides better reason than Jaws for staying out of the water. In “The Incident at Villedeau” a respected gentleman confesses to killing his wife’s former lover, an event that could be construed as an accident, an impulsive act, or a premeditated crime. Exploring themes of obsession, justice, passion, and duplicity, these drolly macabre stories buzz with tension.

Read An Excerpt from Sea Lovers by Valerie Martin:


Read the short story, ‘Spats’, here.

Praise for Sea Lovers by Valerie Martin:


“An insightful look into the evolution of Martin’s writing and her talent for depicting our darker natures. Varied, engaging, and often shocking”-. Kirkus

Praise for Valerie Martin:


“A wonderful novel, vivid, revealing”-Carol Shields

“The writing – so prised and clean-limbed” – is a marvel-Toni Morrison

“Wonderfully ingenious, compelling, convincing and exciting”-John Banville

“A writer of immense talent and insight”-Yann Martel

“Fluently written, vividly imagined, moving and genuinely, chillingly spooky”- Daily Mail

About Valerie Martin:


VALERIE MARTIN is the author of ten novels, including The Ghost of the Mary Celeste, The Confessions of Edward Day, Trespass, Mary Reilly, Italian Fever, and Property; three collections of short fiction; and a biography of Saint Francis of Assisi, titled Salvation. She has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as the Kafka Prize (for Mary Reilly) and Britain’s Orange Prize (for Property).

Giveaway of Sea Lovers by Valerie Martin:


This giveaway is open to the U.S. only and ends on September 1, 2015.  Entries accepted only via Rafflecopter.

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Jun 15

12

Giveaway: THE APPETITES OF GIRLS by Pamela Moses

Posted by Teddyrose@1 on June 12, 2015
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Pamela MosesThanks to Danielle Dill of  Berkley & NAL, I am giving away one print copy of ‘The Appetites Of Girls’ by Pamela Moses.

Description of ‘The Appetites Of Girls’ by Pamela Moses:


For the audience that made Commencement a New York Times bestseller comes a novel about women making their way in the world.

Self-doubting Ruth is coddled by her immigrant mother, who uses food to soothe and control. Defiant Francesca believes her heavy frame shames her Park Avenue society mother and, to provoke her, consumes everything in sight. Lonely Opal longs to be included in her glamorous mother’s dinner dates—until a disturbing encounter forever changes her desires.

Finally, Setsu, a promising violinist, staves off conflict with her jealous brother by allowing him to take the choicest morsels from her plate—and from her future. College brings the four young women together as suitemates, where their stories and appetites collide. Here they make a pact to maintain their friendships into adulthood, but each must first find strength and her own way in the world.

Praise for ‘The Appetites Of Girls’ by Pamela Moses:


“Moses’s debut is perfectly timed for summer.”—Publisher’s Weekly

 “I so enjoyed this intelligent novel. At times it seemed to double as a riveting sociological study as it delved into the complex relationship between women and food. An important book for our times—and for our friends, daughters, and ourselves.”—Sarah Pekkanen, author of The Best of us

“I think this is such an important novel for women to read. It is a vivid, multilayered portrayal of friendship and the earnest, often heartbreaking search for a true sense of self.  I enjoyed it immensely.”—Heather Gudenkauf, New York Times bestselling author of The Weight of Silence

About Pamela Moses:


Pamela Moses

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Pamela Moses grew up in New Jersey.  She attended Brown University and received a master’s in English from Georgetown.  After graduating, she moved to Manhattan to teach English at a girls’ school.  She now lives outside New York City with her husband and two children.  The Appetites of Girlsis her first novel.

This giveaway is open to the U.S. only and ends on June 26, 2015.  Please use Rafflecopter to enter.

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