Open Thread for Authors (Author Promo) for August 2011

Welcome to the August Promotional Thread for Authors. What's this you say? I read quite a few blogs outside the romance blogosphere and many of the big ones have a daily open thread where the commenters drive the bus.

The rules for Author Promo Night Open Thread are as follows:

The book has to be released in that month (i.e., anything released during the last week of July would be a August release)
You can post for yourself or you can have a friend post for you if the idea of posting about...