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July 7, 2022
Dark Drink Blog Tour Links
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Dark Drink’s Blog Tour: Day One
Book launch day. Exciting! Nerve-wracking! Roller-coaster ride!
I’m talking about my feelings, those aren’t book reviews. 
But here’s what the first reviewers said:
“An entertaining read! I was never sure who could really be trusted and there were quite a few surprises along the way.”
—jessicaxbelmont.com
“I read Dark Drink in one sitting — wow! The story is exciting and character-driven. It’s so refreshing to see such a realistic female friendship on the page.”
—lecari.co.uk
The most important aspect to me was this feedback:
“Dark Drink has LGBTQ+ representation, too — Mercedez is a transgender black woman and Jude is Asexual. While it is mentioned, it wasn’t the focus of both character’s stories. Both characters have lots more to them than their sexuality or gender, it’s just another aspect of who they are, it’s not token representation, and I thought this was great!”
—lecari.co.uk
I took a risk and worried that it wasn’t done correctly, respectfully. I rewrote until Mercedez had a voice – a real voice. But she did not tell me her secrets. That wasn’t what this book was about. The research was heart-breaking. You can’t look up transgender black without reading horrible tales of murder.
So, I’ll spoil it kinda, Mercedez lives. She prevails. I had to give her a good story—a sense of strength. Writers, have that responsibility, to write the world we want to see. Sure, this story has horrible things in it. But it also has acceptance, friendship, strength, hope.
And Jude, well. She’s who I would want to grow up to be (minus the stalkers). A lot of her is my own voice. But she’s bad ass.
I’m exhausted and it’s only 10 am. Also, I’m sick of hearing my voice already. Introvert problems.
Blog Tour Day One Links:
https://bforbookreview.wordpress.com/2022/07/07/dark-drink-by-tina-ohailey-interview-blogtour-rararesources-tohailey/Book Review: Dark Drink, by Tina O’Hailey
Get your copy today:
US Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Drink-Tina-OHailey/dp/1684339774
US KINDLE: https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Drink-Absolutely-Gripping-Psychological-ebook/dp/B09VMBWVG9
US AUDIBLE: TBD
Barns & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dark-drink-tina-ohailey/1141066715
UK Paperback: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dark-Drink-1-Tina-OHailey/dp/1684339774
UK KINDLE: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dark-Drink-Absolutely-Gripping-Psychological-ebook/dp/B09VMBWVG9
#BLOGTOUR | Dark Drink – Tina O’Hailey @tohailey @rararesources @gilbster1000 #amreading #darkdrink #bookreview
Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for Dark Drink by Tina O’Hailey. Thank you to Rachel’s Random Resources for the invite. Read on for more info and my review!Blog tour: day one
Jude and Mercedez have kept deadly secrets from each other.
Jackson’s suicide haunts Jude. She burned all evidence of her brother’s depravity. One less monster in the world, right? Tech-savvy Mercedez is the last living witness to a teenage amateur horror film that ended with a gruesome death. She never told.
A viral video (thanks, Whiskers) brings internet fame—forcing flip-phone wielding Jude to choose between her job as the second female in the VP motorcycle motorcade or her mixologist hobby.
Global visibility brings naked vulnerability—someone has subscribed to Jude’s channel.
Missing neighbors found dead in side-by-side freezers, viral drunk “I quit” videos, spammed porn magazine subscriptions, snail mail severed fingers, sabotaged cave trips, cryptic social media comments, and stalking…
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July 6, 2022
Dark Drink by Tina O’Hailey / #Interview #BlogTour @rararesources @tohailey
Blog tour: day one.
Jude and Mercedez have kept deadly secrets from each other.
Jackson’s suicide haunts Jude. She burned all evidence of her brother’s depravity. One less monster in the world, right? Tech-savvy Mercedez is the last living witness to a teenage amateur horror film that ended with a gruesome death. She never told.
A viral video (thanks, Whiskers) brings internet fame—forcing flip-phone wielding Jude to choose between her job as the second female in the VP motorcycle motorcade or her mixologist hobby.
Global visibility brings naked vulnerability—someone has subscribed to Jude’s channel.
Missing neighbors found dead in side-by-side freezers, viral drunk “I quit” videos, spammed porn magazine subscriptions, snail mail severed fingers, sabotaged cave trips, cryptic social media comments, and stalking photos push the codependent friends over the edge (literally, off the side of a bluff) when best friends find out secrets can kill.
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Tomorrow: Book Launch & Blog tour!!
It is time. Time to unleash this creepy book. Right now, I apologize for the bad words and the nightmares. Welcome to my brain.
Here’s the run down for the book launch:
The paperback and kindle version become available for purchase tomorrow on Amazon, Barnes & Noble all around the world! Squeeeeee!!!!US Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Drink-Tina-OHailey/dp/1684339774US KINDLE: https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Drink-Absolutely-Gripping-Psychological-ebook/dp/B09VMBWVG9US AUDIBLE: TBDBarns & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dark-drink-tina-ohailey/1141066715UK Paperback: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dark-Drink-1-Tina-OHailey/dp/1684339774UK KINDLE: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dark-Drink-Absolutely-Gripping-Psychological-ebook/dp/B09VMBWVG9
3. The blog tour has 18 stops on it. I’ll start posting those links every day, and then not shutting up for the rest of the day thanking the bloggers for their reviews. They might hate it. You might hate it. It also might get some love! https://www.rachelsrandomresources.com/dark-drink
4. Other reviews are out there for various publications. I’ll post those when they roll in.
5. What am I forgetting? A launch party. Soon.
Okay. Back to writing. Working on the sequel (Jude) and a sci-fi book (Alexander’s daughter 300,000 years from now, don’t-you-know.)
Seriously – thank you for all of your support. Writing and animation are long, drawn-out passions that seriously need encouragement. Hugs to you.
June 30, 2022
Storytelling Workshop & Book Signing on Saturday, July 2
Hello. My name is Tina. I am an introvert. Book signings are difficult for me as an introvert. Until I’m standing there. Then I realize I love talking to people about books. I get excited when introducing them to my characters. But, it’s getting to that point which takes careful negotiation of my introverted soul.
Put a workshop attached to it, and I’m much more in my element. I LOVE to teach. Hold still, I’ll teach to you from this huge bucket of things I know. Even jog a little, I can keep up and show you this nifty method for designing characters or making a maquette. How about creative thinking? 3D animation, modeling, rigging, lighting? Neuroscience of creativity? Too nerdy. Uh, programming? Definitely, very nerdy. I’ve run out a breath and you can jog away. Luckily, I have a classroom with a university where I can teach people. They don’t even jog away!
So, for this year’s book release, I am doing a storytelling workshop along with a book signing event. Where? At this wonderful place in town called, “Arts in the Burg” in South Pittsburg, Tennessee. The place has studios for artists and a gallery. There are art workshops, gallery installations, art openings, music sometimes, and special events. Below you can find the info on it. Come out and join in on the fun. All workshops proceeds go to Arts in the Burg. I’ll have my fiction books there (all three) available for purchase.
https://arts-in-the-burg.ticketleap.com/storytelling-worshop-and-book-signing/
https://arts-in-the-burg.ticketleap.com/storytelling-worshop-and-book-signing/
Storytelling Workshop and Book Signing
July 2, 2 pm – 3:30 pm
Bring your imagination. Tina will bring the crayons.
Let’s create a story! We’ll uncover ways to develop unique stories for animation, games, films or graphic novels. Then, we’ll learn how to support those story ideas with visual language. In this workshop we will create thumbnailed storyboards (stick figures are a-okay!) and pitch our ideas to the class. Team up for even more fun.
Signed copies of Dark Drink, Absolute Darkness, and When Darkness Begins will be available for purchase.
Tina O’Hailey is an author and animation professor.
MATERIALS PROVIDED
Class Location:
Arts in the Burg, 207 S. Cedar Ave., South Pittsburg, TN 37380
You must be 13 or older to attend without being accompanied by an adult.
June 8, 2022
Giving away 100 copies of Dark Drink on Goodreads!
Be one of the first to win 1 of 100 first edition digital copies of “Dark Drink” by award-winning author Tina O’Hailey! Enter today! https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/347452-dark-drink
So the kick-off for the new book is starting. This time a Goodreads giveaway for the month of June, a pre-release book signing, then a blog tour on launch week. This book is very different than the others: Thriller. Straight up.
I’m giving away 100 copies of my book Dark Drink.
Enter by 7.6.22 for a chance to win!
“Quirky, Creepy, and Crafted to ooze into your head and never leave!”
—Joseph Lewis, author of Blaze In, Blaze Out“
Jude and Mercedez have kept deadly secrets from each other.
Jackson’s suicide haunts Jude. She burned all evidence of her brother’s depravity. One less monster in the world, right? Tech-savvy Mercedez is the last living witness to a teenage amateur horror film that ended with a gruesome death. She never told.
A viral video (thanks, Whiskers) brings internet fame -forcing flip-phone wielding Jude to choose between her job as the second female in the VP motorcycle motorcade or her mixologist hobby.
Global visibility brings naked vulnerability-someone has subscribed to Jude’s channel.
Missing neighbors found dead in side-by-side freezers, viral drunk “I quit” videos, spammed porn magazine subscriptions, snail mail severed fingers, sabotaged cave trips, cryptic social media comments, and stalking photos push the codependent friends over the edge (literally, off the side of a bluff) when best friends find out that secrets can kill.
May 2, 2022
Dark Drink Blog Tour is open
Things are starting to gear up for the July release!
Blog tour is open!Blog tour is scheduled and signing up bloggers. https://www.rachelsrandomresources.com/dark-drinkARCS are circulating to get editorial reviews. I’m working on the sequel with my ITW writing group.
This is going to be fun.
Dark Drink Launches July 7, 2022!
*bubbles from Videezy.com*
March 26, 2022
Unboxing Dark Drink!
We had planned on dragging this box down the bluff to the wee cave below our house and making an unboxing video – but man, it is WINDY outside. Where to open the boxes and unveil the new book? Jude, the main character, loves motorcycles – – so why not open the box in the garage? Sounds like a plan. Click here for the unboxing video: https://fb.watch/b-gdd0dAiZ/
If you are wondering about the bike — well, she’s old but still has guts. (Same.) BMW R1200C – my favorite bike. I’ve had many over the years: cruisers, sport bikes, dirt bikes, the Connie (Kawasaki Concours) which I had to admit was too big and tall for me. I gave it to my hubby after I dropped it at a stop sign–twice. This BMW gal, she fits me perfectly and we’ve been together a very long time. She did get dropped once when she stalled on a hill — and that’s in the book. Hell fire, it was hilarious.
Dark Drink comes out July 7, 2022. You are going to love Jude and Mercedez. Sorry about the nightmares and the bad words.
…tina
Amazon Paperback (US):https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Drink-Tina-OHailey/dp/1684339774Amazon Paperback (UK):
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dark-Drink-1-Tina-OHailey/dp/1684339774Paperback from Barnes & Noble:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dark-drink-tina-ohailey/1141066715
January 17, 2022
Where to get YOUR copy of Dark Drink
Book one in the Dark Series
Part of the Darkness Universe
7.7.22
Use the code: PREORDER2022 to receive a 15% discountAmazon Paperback (US):Amazon Kindle (US):
Amazon Paperback (UK): Amazon Kindle (UK):Audible: Paperback from Barnes & Noble:
Jude and Mercedez have kept deadly secrets from each other.
Jackson’s suicide haunts Jude. She burned all evidence of her brother’s depravity. One less monster in the world, right? Tech-savvy Mercedez is the last living witness to a teenage amateur horror film that ended with a gruesome death. She never told.
A viral video (thanks, Whiskers) brings internet fame—forcing flip-phone wielding Jude to choose between her job as the second female in the VP motorcycle motorcade or her mixologist hobby.
Global visibility brings naked vulnerability—someone has subscribed to Jude’s channel.
Missing neighbors found dead in side-by-side freezers, viral drunk “I quit” videos, spammed porn magazine subscriptions, snail mail severed fingers, sabotaged cave trips, cryptic social media comments, and stalking photos push the codependent friends over the edge (literally, off the side of a bluff) when best friends find out secrets can kill.
Reviews from blog tour & advance readers:(https://coffeediem.wordpress.com/interviews-excerpts/)
COMING SOON
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