December | 2008 | TLC Book Tours

Wednesday, December 17th: Lesley’s Book Nook

Thursday, December 18th: Bloggin’ ‘Bout Books

You Lost Him At Hello: A Saleswoman’s Secrets to Closing the Deal with Any Guy You Want by Jess McCann

Monday, December 15th: Stefanie Says

Tuesday, December 16th: Adventures of a Wanderlust Gyrl

Wednesday, December 17th: Savvy Verse and Wit

Thursday, December 18th: Life in Pink

Friday, December 19th: Kristabella- Full of Snark Since 1977

December 8, 2008

TLC Tour Stops for the week of Dec. 8th – Dec. 12th

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Please stop by our tour stops this week and check out these great books and blogs!

You Lost Him At Hello: A Saleswoman’s Secrets to Closing the Deal with Any Guy You Want by Jess McCann

Monday, December 8th: As Life Flutters By

Wednesday, December 10th: The Girl From the Ghetto

Thursday, December 11th: Random Ramblings About My Crazy Life

Friday, December 12th: Starting Over at 24

Keeping Kids Out of the Middle: Child-Centered Parenting in the Midst of Conflict, Separation, and Divorce by Dr. Benjamin D. Garber, PhD

Monday, December 8th: The 3R’s: Reading, Riting, and Randomness

Tuesday, December 9th: Their Wicked Stepmother

Thursday, December 11th: No One’s The Bitch

The Alchemy of Loss by Abigail Carter

Monday, December 8th: Widows Quest

Tuesday, December 9th: A Novel Menagerie

Wednesday, December 10th: Anniegirl1138

Thursday, December 11th: Learning To Live

The Green Beauty Guide by Julie Gabriel

Monday, December 8th: Red Lady’s Reading Room

Monday, December 8th: She is Too Fond of Books

Tuesday, December 9th: Savvy Verse and Wit

Wednesday, December 10th: Bookopolis (will also be posted as

a Guest Review at Books on the Brain)

Thursday, December 11th: B & B ex libris

Two Brothers – One North, One South by David H. Jones

Monday, December 8th: Civil War Literature

December 5, 2008

MJ Rose, author of The Memorist, on tour in January/February 2009

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To keep the momentum going for her fabulous new book, The Memorist, author MJ Rose is doing another TLC tour early in 2009.

About M.J. Rose

M.J. Rose is the international bestselling author of 10 novels; Lip Service, In Fidelity,Flesh Tones, Sheet Music, Lying in Bed,The Halo Effect, The Delilah Complex, The Venus Fixand The Reincarnationist. She is also the co-author with Angela Adair Hoy of How to Publish and Promote Online, and with Doug Clegg of Buzz Your Book. Her latest novel, The Memorist, will be released November 1st.

She is a founding member and board member of International Thriller Writers and the founder of the first marketing company for authors: AuthorBuzz.com. She runs two popular blogs; Buzz, Balls & Hype and Backstory.

Rose has been profiled in Time magazine, Forbes, The New York Times, Business 2.0, Working Woman, Newsweek and New York Magazine. She has appeared on The Today Show, Fox News, The Jim Lehrer NewsHour, and features on her have appeared in dozens of magazines and newspapers in the U.S. and abroad, including USAToday, Stern, L’Official, Poets and Writers and Publishers Weekly.

Rose graduated from Syracuse University and spent the ’80s in advertising. She was the Creative Director of Rosenfeld Sirowitz and Lawson and she has a commercial in the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. She lives in Connecticut with Doug Scofield, a composer, and their very spoiled dog, Winka.

Visit M.J. Rose’s website HERE

About The Memorist:

The Dreads are back.

As a child, Meer Logan was haunted by memories of another time and place always accompanied by the faint strains of elusive music. Now the dreads are back. The past has reached out again in the form of a strange letter that sets her on a search to unlock the mystery of who she once was.

“THE MEMORIST is a riveting and suspenseful page-turner that throws open a magical door to the past, revealing how history may influence not just our individual destinies, but the future of us all.”

– NYT Bestselling Author, Steve Berry

The Memorist was released Nov. 1st, 2008. You can read an excerpt of The Memorist HERE

MJ Rose’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Monday, January 19th: The Bluestocking Society

Tuesday, January 20th: She is Too Fond of Books

Wednesday, January 21st: Chain Reading

Thursday, January 22nd: A Striped Armchair

Monday, January 26th: Savvy Verse and Wit

Tuesday, January 27th: Paranormality (guest post and giveaway)

Monday, February 2nd: Dolce Bellezza

Tuesday, February 3rd: Lit Chick Cafe – The Read Feed

Monday, February 9th: A Reader’s Respite

December 3, 2008

Ingrid Cummings, author of The Vigorous Mind, on tour mid-January to mid-February, 2009

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About Ingrid

Ingrid Cummings is a journalist, essayist, independent scholar, communications expert, and international speaker. A Contributing Editor at Indianapolis Monthly magazine and an award-winning newspaper columnist, she also teaches college courses at Indiana University, produces a radio show called Rubicon Salon, and runs a PR/Media business called Rubicon Communications LLC. She calls upon all 20 years of her teaching and coaching experience to animate the Creative process through a variety of original workshops. Named one of “Eight to Watch in ’08” by The Indianapolis Star, her first book, “The Vigorous Mind,” is due out in Jan. 2009.

About The Vigorous Mind: Cross-Train Your Brain to Break Through Mental, Emotional, and Professional Boundaries

The Vigorous Mind proposes that the way to health and happiness is to “cross-train your brain” by intentionally diversifying the portfolio of your activities. Using historical as well as contemporary “Renaissance people” as inspiration, the book argues for a return to a generalist gestalt during the hours of the day when we’re not pursuing ever-narrower career specialties. With a distinctive approach to time management, The Vigorous Mind puts a contemporary spin on what it meant to be “well rounded,” a notion that sounds delightfully quaint today.

The book taps into one of today’s hottest trends: The application of neuroscience to everyday brain health. Scientists are proving that strategically pursuing a broad spectrum of sometimes-counterintuitive activities can actually strengthen your brain and make you better at everything you undertake.

The secret is consistent, incremental “baby steps,” in the spirit of the newly popular Japanese belief system called Kaizen. Kaizen is an ancient Japanese Zen philosophy that advocates taking small, even trivial steps to accomplish large goals. The intention is for the reader to make accelerative progress toward their cross-training goals by committing just 20 minutes of concentrated attention per day (what the author calls “Triumph in Twenty”) applied to any topic of their choice.

Ingrid Cummings makes the case that through knowledge of seemingly unrelated fields and interests, readers can fortify themselves against burn-out, become more fulfilled, better at their jobs, and more creative — in short, develop a truly vigorous mind.