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A Bewitching Wednesday

A Round-Up of Daily Tour Stops

In the Kitchen with Lee Matthew Goldberg #InTheKitchen #BrusselsSprouts #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/ORJr50Gemxi

Guest Blog- A Few Good Elves by Diane Morrison #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/bIbF50Gemvg

INTERVIEW - YA HUMOR FANTASY - TALES FROM THE FOXES OF FOXHAM (ZANI's Tales Trilogy) by Matteo Sedazzari
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A Few Good Elves by Diane Morrison Virtual Book Tour #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/apcI50GemwC

The Top 10 Books that Inspired Tales from The Foxes of Foxham by Matteo Sedazzari #Fantasy #YoungAdult #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/F6Ph50GcR6D

Author Advice with Lee Matthew Goldberg #AuthorAdvice #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/FBaX50GcR86

A Bewitching Tuesday

A Round-Up of Daily Tour Stops

A Few Good Elves by Diane Morrison [Blog Tour with Excerpt] #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/IT0E50GdCzj

The Top 10 Books that Inspired Tales from The Foxes of Foxham by Matteo Sedazzari #Fantasy #YoungAdult #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/F6Ph50GcR6D

Author Advice with Lee Matthew Goldberg #AuthorAdvice #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/FBaX50GcR86

A Few Good Elves Toy Soldier Saga Book One by Diane Morrison - Science fantasy, military science fiction, space opera, epic fantasy, dark fantasy, blackpowder fantasy #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/fhLg50GcR03

Tales from The Foxes of Foxham by Matteo Sedazzari Virtual Book Tour #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/dLJt50GdCEs

Beyond the Song by Carol Selick - Autobiographical Fiction - A classic tale of a girl-gone-wrong-gone right.
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Grenade Bouquets by Lee Matthew Goldberg #YoungAdult
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A Bewitching Monday

A Round-Up of Daily Tour Stops

Author Advice with Lee Matthew Goldberg #AuthorAdvice #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/FBaX50GcR86

The Top 10 Books that Inspired Tales from The Foxes of Foxham by Matteo Sedazzari #Fantasy #YoungAdult #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/F6Ph50GcR6D

A Few Good Elves Toy Soldier Saga Book One by Diane Morrison - Science fantasy, military science fiction, space opera, epic fantasy, dark fantasy, blackpowder fantasy #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/fhLg50GcR03

This Morbid Life, No Rest for the Morbid, Book 1 by Loren Rhoads #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/Jipb50GcRbX

Book Spotlight ~ Tales from The Foxes of Foxham: ZANI’s Tales Trilogy by Matteo Sedazzari ~ Light Fantasy, Humour, Young Adult #YA #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/MBqu50GcRaZ

Beyond the Song by Carol Selick #AutobiographicalFiction #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/jO8D50GcR34

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Control your present, manage your future.
Intentional: How to Live, Love, Work and Play Meaningfully
David Amerland
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#livewithmeaning #newbook #mustread #mindfulness #seekemeaning #understandyourself #liveintentionally

GUEST POST - NONFICTION - This Morbid Life (No Rest for the Morbid, #1) by Loren Rhoads #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/UD2G50GbKb0

A Bewitching Friday

A Round-Up of Daily Tour Stops

GUEST POST - NONFICTION - This Morbid Life (No Rest for the Morbid, #1) by Loren Rhoads #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/UD2G50GbKb0

INTERVIEW WITH LEE MATTHEW GOLDBERG
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Spotlight & #Giveaway ~ Beyond the Song Carol Selick ~ Autobiographical Fiction #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/SRxG50GbJTo

Grenade Bouquets Runaway Train Book Two by Lee Matthew Goldberg #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/9Zfb50GbK7m

Poetry Corner - Beyond the Song by Carol Selick #AutobiographicalFiction #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/Rpwu50Gal2C

Pumpkins and Party Themes: 50 DIY Designs to Bring Your Halloween Extravaganza to Life
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Control your present, manage your future.
Intentional: How to Live, Love, Work and Play Meaningfully
David Amerland
https://davidamerland.com/.../1415-in......
#livewithmeaning #newbook #mustread #mindfulness #seekemeaning #understandyourself #liveintentionally

Grenade Bouquets by Lee Matthew Goldberg #YoungAdult

Grenade BouquetsRunaway TrainBook Two Lee Matthew Goldberg
Genre: Young AdultPublisher: Wise Wolf BooksDate of Publication: August 5, 2021ISBN: 978-1953944078ASIN: B093G4T9PLNumber of pages: 286Word Count: 70,000
Tagline: “I’m a time bomb, a cannonball, I destroy everything around me.”
Book Description:
I had stars in my eyes and I couldn't see around them...
The year is 1995 and my parents have finally allowed me to take the summer to tour in a VW van across the country with my boyfriend Evan and our band. Yes, my dream to be a singer became reality. Even with Clarissa, Evan's jealous ex-girlfriend, as the lead singer, it's my presence on stage that led us to a major record deal. There are moments you'll always remember in life, but I can't imagine anything more cool than hearing your song on the radio for the first time.
But being a Rockstar isn't as easy as it sounds. Using alcohol and drugs as coping mechanisms, nothing but tension surrounded me, hurting my still blossoming relationship, and continued grieving over my sister's death.
A love letter to the nineties and a journey of a girl becoming a woman, Grenade Bouquets charts the rollercoaster ride of a band primed to explode on the scene, as long as they keep from actually exploding.
Amazon

Excerpt:

I’m barefoot on a roof deck, maybe it’s my own, I dunno. Life has been a series of tour buses and motels recently, but I think this is that place the band rented down on the Lower East Side. Everyone hates me and I’m left alone in a huge railroad apartment with a fire escape that twists up to a roof and barely any railing to keep me safe. I have a joint in one hand that’s surprisingly still lit in the rain and a trusty bottle of Absolut Citron in the other. I’m wearing a baby doll pale blue dress, the one I rocked during the Grenade Bouquets set when the A&R manager said he was gonna make us stars. I once heard that when you’re looking at stars in the sky, you’re already looking at the past and they’re already dead. I’m seventeen and I can completely relate.

I’m over myself and have been looking into the past so much, I might as well be dead.

I chug from the bottle, the excess liquid spilling down my cheeks like hot tears. What lands in my throat, burns and my eye twitches...I’m so bombed. My makeup has run all over my face and made me into a clown. I pity whoever will find my ghastly remains. I bring the joint to my lips and suck as the cherry flares, the smoke streaming through my nostrils. I’m a dragon in pursuit. Three stories down below, a sea of umbrellas await. I think of Kristen.

Her spirit no longer visits and I understand. She has better things to do than deal with the living. My sister has been gone now for over a year, and sometimes I forget the sound of her voice. I wake up in the middle of the night frantic that I’ve lost it, and then a glimmer reappears—a whisper in her high pitch calling me back to sleep, aware of how my insomnia can plague me. She would be so proud of my success as a singer and for me to live my dream, not realizing that it was killing me as well. I don’t remember the last time I went to bed sober. I feel distant from everyone I used to care about. Evan can’t even look at me anymore. I’m Nico the Beast, a whirlwind intent to destroy.

If you heard me on the radio, you’d be jealous. I’m that girl you wish you could be. My song like a spit in the face, a baby Courtney Love with scabbed knees, dark red lipstick, hairdyed so much it’s fried, a scowl for a smile. And then in the next song, I’m scrubbed clean, my dress full of flowers rather than ripped, my bruises bandaged, my makeup a light touch rather than an onslaught, singing about love and hope and everything that grunge is not. Because grunge is dying. Kurt Cobain solidified its end and the record companies can smell it. A future of sugary happy pop awaits. What will they do with me, with any of us? We’re already that dying star. Might as well help give them a push.

The rain has risen in tempo, a drumbeat on my skull. The joint has gone out and I toss it into the crowd. It disappears into the ether, like I will soon. I picture my obituary, the phrase ‘One Hit Wonder’ highlighted. All I’ll ever be. But I don’t have any more songs in me. My quill is broken, my heart has followed—I’m sick of myself.

I raise my arms like Brandon Lee in The Crow. Evan and I saw that at the Angelika, an artsy movie theater down on Houston St., which I mispronounced like it was the city Houston. We toured Manhattan that day, the first time either of us had been: hand in hand through The Met and wandering down paths in Central Park, sneaking through the Plaza and pretending I was Eloise, hot chocolates at a place called Serendipity, his blue eyes never letting me out of his sight. I never imagined I could be so in love. Only a short time ago but might as well be a lifetime, those blues will never look at me in the same way again. I’m tarnished, I’m filth. I heard a song called “Only Happy When It Rains,” and it couldn’t be truer. Miserable people feed off misery and that’s all I have to give.

I wonder what my mom and dad will say when they have to identify my body. They’ve both found new lives with new loves that will be a shoulder for them. Maybe they’ll be relieved.

Back home, my friend Winter has her own shit to deal with and brought Jeremy into her drama, so they’ll mourn but are preoccupied enough to only think of me in passing. I know that’s what they do now. They are still in high school and I’ve dropped out, promising my folks I’d get my GED, but I never did. And high school seems so pointless and far away. I’ve lived in the real world. I’ve skipped down New York City streets with crack vials crunching under my feet. Out of spite I’ve let a man inside of me whose name I didn’t even know. I’ve crowd surfed over a hundred bodies chanting my name. I thought I was in love and never want the pain of it ending ever again. I’d rather be numb. I’d rather be gone.

My feet are cold against the tar of the roof, the toenail polish chipped and starting to fade. I give another swig until the bottle is empty. I aim to launch it into the sky, not caring who I’d hit down below. I climb onto the edge, wobbling, teeth chattering, knees knocking, singing a Matthew Sweet song to the world, to this dark city where I never belonged, so far from a home. “But I’m sick of myself when I look at you, something is beautiful and true. World that’s ugly and a lie, it’s hard to even want to try.”

My vocal chords are raw from the vodka and pot, my tears make everything blurry. I go to pitch the bottle and my foot slips from a slick of water. I lose my heart as it leaps out of my throat and I think I’ve gone over the edge, plummeting headfirst to my death. But I fall backwards, smacking my head on the tar. The grey clouds above go in and out of focus until they disappear entirely. My eyes have shut but I can see the night sky, and one little star, so dead but so bright, guiding me not to slip into unconsciousness, praying for my survival. Like a diamond it glows brighter, and I think that maybe it’s Kristen’s eye, somewhere up in heaven, winking at me to stay on Earth for a little longer because I haven’t finished all I intended to do, as the rain washes me pure, its drumbeat now playing Letters to Cleo’s beautiful, simmering song, “Here and Now,” while I travel back to what led me to become these twisted remains once called a girl. 

About the Author: 
Lee Matthew Goldberg is the author of seven novels including THE ANCESTOR and THE MENTOR, currently in development as a film off his original script, and the YA series RUNAWAY TRAIN. He has been published in multiple languages and nominated for the Prix du Polar. After graduating with an MFA from the New School, his writing has also appeared in The Millions, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, LitReactor, Monkeybicycle, Fiction Writers Review, Cagibi, Necessary Fiction, Hypertext, the anthology Dirty Boulevard, The Montreal Review, The Adirondack Review, The New Plains Review, Underwood Press and others. His pilots and screenplays have been finalists in Script Pipeline, Book Pipeline, Stage 32, We Screenplay, the New York Screenplay, Screencraft, and the Hollywood Screenplay contests. He is the co-curator of The Guerrilla Lit Reading Series and lives in New York City. 
Follow him at: http://leematthewgoldberg.com/
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INTERVIEW WITH LEE MATTHEW GOLDBERG
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Beyond the Song by Carol Selick - Book Tour + Giveaway
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This Morbid Life, No Rest for the Morbid Book One, by Loren Rhoads #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/VSlK50Gb2U3

Poetry Corner - Beyond the Song by Carol Selick #AutobiographicalFiction #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/Rpwu50Gal2C

Grenade Bouquets (Book 2 of the Runaway Train series) #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/6pdR50Gb2QC

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Control your present, manage your future.
Intentional: How to Live, Love, Work and Play Meaningfully
David Amerland
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#livewithmeaning #newbook #mustread #mindfulness #seekemeaning #understandyourself #liveintentionally

A Bewitching Wednesday

A Round-Up of Daily Tour Stops

Poetry Corner - Beyond the Song by Carol Selick #AutobiographicalFiction #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/Rpwu50Gal2C

INTERVIEW - YA - GRENADE BOUQUETS (Runaway Train, #2) by Lee Matthew Goldberg
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Obsession with death or desperate romance with life?
Loren Rhoads's new death-positive memoir spends days in a cadaver lab, eats bugs, chases ghosts, etc
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Control your present, manage your future.
Intentional: How to Live, Love, Work and Play Meaningfully
David Amerland
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#livewithmeaning #newbook #mustread #mindfulness #seekemeaning #understandyourself #liveintentionally

INTERVIEW - AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL - BEYOND THE SONG by Carol Selick #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/sAx850G6V3s

This Morbid Life by Loren Rhoads Virtual Book Tour #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/h0eQ50G8O6q

Pumpkins and Party Themes: 50 DIY Designs to Bring Your Halloween Extravaganza to Life
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Control your present, manage your future.

Intentional: How to Live, Love, Work and Play Meaningfully
David Amerland

Genre: Non-fiction/smart book
Publisher: New Line Books
Date of Publication: 23rd June 2021
ISBN: 978-1844811694
Number of pages: 218
Word Count: 75,000
Book Description:

Live your life the way you want to. Manage stress better. Be more resilient and enjoy meaningful relationships and better health. We all want that. Such life leads to better choices, better jobs, loving romantic partners, more rewarding careers and decisions that are fully aligned with our aims.

What stops us from getting all that is the complexity of our brain and the complicated way in which the external world comes together. The misalignment between the internal states we experience and the external circumstances we encounter often leads to confusion, a lack of clarity in our thinking and actions that are not consistent with our professed values.

Intentional is a gameplan. It helps us connect the pieces of our mind to the pieces of our life. It shows us how to map what we feel to what has caused those feelings, understand what affects us and what effects it has on us and determine what we want, why we want it and what we need to do to get it.

When we know what to do, we know how to behave. When we know how to behave we know how to act. When we know how to act, we know how to live. Our actions, each day, become our lives. Drawn from the latest research from the fields of neuroscience, behavioral and social psychology and evolutionary anthropology, Intentional shows you how to add meaning to your actions and lead a meaningful, happier, more fulfilling life on your terms.

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A Bewitching Monday

A Round-Up of Daily Tour Stops

Grenade Bouquets by Lee Matthew Goldberg Virtual Book Tour #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/lnJb50G8O88

INTERVIEW - AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL - BEYOND THE SONG by Carol Selick #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/sAx850G6V3s

This Morbid Life by Loren Rhoads Virtual Book Tour #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/h0eQ50G8O6q

Pumpkins and Party Themes: 50 DIY Designs to Bring Your Halloween Extravaganza to Life
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#pumpkins #pumpkinsandpartythemes #HalloweenParty #HalloweenPartyThemes #HalloweenDIY #pumpkinsdesigns #diypumpkindecor #50DIYPumpkinDesigns #Halloween

Grenade Bouquets by Lee Matthew Goldberg #YoungAdult #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/1wWJ50G8O4N

The Accidental Psychic
Annie Prior Series
Book One
Carol-Anne Mason #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/b93v50G8Oah


Beyond the Song by Carol Selick #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/a6v650G8O3d