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Hello,

I am a book blogger who enjoys featuring talented authors and newer books on my blog. I actually have two linked blogs, each with over 1000 friends/followers.  One blog focuses on books which have paranormal elements and the other on books without significant paranormal elements. While I am supportive of all authors, Indies and small press authors hold a special place in my heart.  My focus is on Fiction.

I would be delighted to feature you and your book on my blog with a blurb, cover image and/or excerpt, and post an interview, character Interview, or guest post. A giveaway would be welcome, as well.  To get the details I need to schedule and set up your date, and to make it as easy as possible for you to request a feature spot, I’ve put together a google doc form. To request a Feature spot on my blog, just fill out and submit the form.  You may, of course,  email me directly if you would like more information, or have other questions about setting up a feature spot on my blog. Lauriej170(at)gmail(dot)com.

I am currently scheduling spots for July and later (and I've saved a few June spots for those who need a spot quicker).  If you have a particular time frame in mind, let me know, and depending on what I already have scheduled, I will make every effort to accommodate special requests.  At this time, I most especially need to add more books to my schedule that have paranormal elements in them.

Best Regards,

Laurie

http://lauriethoughts-reviews.blogspot.com

Direct Link to My Feature Request Form - I generally reply back within 24 hours (usually sooner)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&formkey=dHh1RmtJSlBKbkZUdVRwSDJDVjVnNmc6MQ#gid=0

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Interest in your site for a blog tour

Hi Laurie:

I'm a visionary author, and I just noticed you did an interview with Michael Sussman who is also a writer in that genre.  I thought your site would be a good fit for my up-and-coming science-fiction novel, Unison. It's now being proofread, and I plan on releasing in July. It would be great to be featured on your site.   

Here is the link to my book:

http://philophrosyne-publishing.com/books-2/books/

Warmest Regards,

Eleni Papanou

 

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Would be thrilled to host you and your book

Hi Eleni,

Certainly!  I would love to have you as a guest.  We can set the date close to your release date if you like....It's very helpful for me if you will submit the request form because it helps to keep me organized and captures the info and data I need for scheduling purposes.

One thing...I most likely would have to decline being part of an organized blog tour because of a possible conflict of interest.  I currently have a paid, admistrative position with Nurture Book Tourz and as part of my employment agreement I can not be a tour host for any other virtual tour companies.  I can, however, independently host authors on my blog.

Thanks so much for your interest.

 

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Hi Laurie: I appreciate your

Hi Laurie:

I appreciate your quick response and your  iterest as well. I did submit the form as requested, and I completely understand you not wanting an organized blog tour.  Being a featured author is more than enough for me. From what I saw on your blog site,  I think we're a good match. I'll contact you with the details when I have an exact date. 

Thanks again,

Eleni 

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I'm Interested

Hi from me Laurie

 

I'm Athanasios. Looking to be featured or reviews for any of the three works in my book series: Predatory Ethics. A unique and engaging story that re-imagines myth & gods. 

It explores the occult, paranormal and supernatural throughout history in innovative, alternative ways. 

There are three in the series:

Mad Gods, Commitment, and I Am Eternal, are all available in .doc, .mobi, .epub or .pdf formats.

 

What Predatory Ethics is all about is @:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNv1Sg3yfqU&feature=g-upl

 

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Mad Gods is Book I

Synopsis

Kosta is a man with a dark past, and lives life on the run: wanted dead or alive

by Satanists, Dark Nobility and the Catholic Church.

 

He has abducted a child destined to enslave the world and given him a life more ordinary.

Together they are pursued by those who want the child returned to his destiny and the Church

that wont give up its power.

 

Prophesy and free will collide when the child must finally choose his own path

or the fate set out in Revelation.

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Commitment is Book II

Synopsis

Adam watched Mad Gods drag his father to Hell.

 

Melusine Rothschild, Grande Dame of the Black Nobility wants to raise him

by Predatory Ethics and guide him in wielding the power and influence

of his dark birthright. Adam wants none of this.

 

He watches his TV shows in one of Danvers Mental Hospital's nice padded rooms,

snugly dressed in his own long sleeved, buckled, canvas jacket.

 

He is safe, away from a hostile, ravaging outside world. He's horribly wrong.

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I Am Eternal is a standalone vampire story

Synopsis

Simeon Magus has been alive... undead nearly two millennia.

 

He has watched the undead go from myth to adored celebrity and he exists,

hiding from a determined and lethal group of hunters who do not listen to reason

and won't stop until he's destroyed.

 

Simeon witnessed and lived history and he doesn't know if he wants any more of it.

He wants to connect with someone again, to feel close to another, but when he meets

somebody on a train who knows too much about him, Simeon cannot trust that

he isn't another of the Slayers.

 

Is his new friend sent to eliminate him or the hoped for salvation from the tedium of eternity.

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Hope to hear from you soon.

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Predatory Ethics

Hello,

I apologize for the delay in replying back to your post. I just now saw this. Your series sounds different and interesting.  Normally, I prefer to focus a Feature on a single book at a time - I can set up 3 different dates, one for each book over the course of a couple of months, if you like?  Please complete the request form for the book you would prefer to have featured first, if you are still interested, and we can go from there.

Best Regards,

Laurie

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&formkey=dHh1RmtJSlBKbkZUdVRwSDJDVjVnNmc6MQ#gid=0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Hi Laurie, I just submitted a

Hi Laurie,

I just submitted a form application to you.

I selected traditionally published but my publisher is a small indie press.

I would love the opportunity to work with you Laurie.

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Hi!!  I got it and will reply

Hi!!  I got it and will reply with an invitation very soon!  Thanks!

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FLYING SOLO book feature

Hi, Laurie:

I am a newly published author in women's fiction.   My new release is called FLYING SOLO.  It has about 3000 copies in circulation now.  Getting great reviews.  In a nutshell, it features a 1960s New Orleans housewife who defies convention and learns to fly a plane on the sneak.  In a messy divorce, she steals that plane as leverage.  Based on a true story!

Would love to have you review it or interview me or whatever you like.   My blog is:

www.jeanettevaughan.com

Twitter is:  http://www.twitter.com/VaughanJeanette

Facebook is:  www.facebook.com/jeanette.b.vaughan

Or   www.facebook.com/AgeViewPress

Please contact me! 

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Hello

Hello Laurie

I'm not published yet, but really would love to have this set up for around the time of the tour. I have one site that is willing to do a tour a month in advance for pr purposes. However, I want to fill out the request form, but because I'm not published yet, I wanted to ask your opinion first. Should I go ahead and submit the form with all the other necessary links and in the box that asks for buy links place a note there that informs you that I will be publishing soon or would you prefer that I'm already published?

Thanks!

~Sam

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would love a spot on your blog

Hi Laurie, My novel, The Persecution of Mildred Dunlap, is a historical fiction which centers around the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde and the impact it has on a lesbian couple in a small Nevada ranching town in 1895. It's a chronicle of hatred and prejudice and how love and friendship heal. I'll include its blog and facebook page for you to have a look at the synopsis, some reviews, news/magazine articles, or general information if you'd like. If you need any more information from me to help you decide, I'm here for the asking and happy to work with you to satisfy anything you'd like to do with me/the book.  Thanks, Paulette
http://thepersecutionofmildreddunlap.wordpress.com/

https://www.facebook.com/ThePersecutionOfMildredDunlap

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