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Nancy (The Avid Reader) wrote: "I would like to review on August 8th please. Nancy @ The Avid ReaderThanks Nancy! I'll ask Joseph to send you a review copy :)
Shannon wrote: "Nancy (The Avid Reader) wrote: "I would like to review on August 8th please. Nancy @ The Avid ReaderThanks Nancy! I'll ask Joseph to send you a review copy :)"
Thank you
Thanks for the Blog Tour Banner Sheri! It looks great!
You can put me down for a date, Shannon. Judith
Judith wrote: "You can put me down for a date..."Thanks Judith! Gotcha down for a promo post on 8/5!
Starting August 4th, don't forget to check out the blog tour and enter
a Rafflecopter giveaway
for your chance to win a paperback or an eBook (winner's choice) of The Betelgeuse Oracle!
What a privilege to wander in this garden. Thanks to everybody taking the time to review my book, post interviews, and spread the Word. One and all: can't wait to hear what you think (good, bad, or indifferent). As the eminent synonymarian Friedrich J. K. Burroughs once said, "If there is anything at all I can ask, please don't hesitate to do."
Hey everyone! Don't forget to check out the Making Connections blog tour of The Betelgeuse Oracle and enter
a Rafflecopter giveaway
for your chance to win a paperback or an eBook (winner's choice) of The Betelgeuse Oracle!
Title: The Betelgeuse Oracle
Author: Joseph Macchiusi
Genre: Apocalyptic/Post Apocalyptic
Synopsis:
Every civilization has ended in collapse. Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome. All were sophisticated cultures brought low by unanticipated forces greater than themselves.
What forces hasten the collapse of our civilization? Not nuclear war, or climate change, or even an asteroid strike.
For millions of years the supergiant star Betelgeuse has waited patiently on Orion's right shoulder. Now its moment has arrived. It severs the single thread suspending Western civilization over a great abyss.
Something we take for granted disappears forever. Everything changes now that it is gone. Electronic equipment fails. Aircraft plummet from the sky. Motors cease to work. Distances that seem trifling by car become days-long slogs. Food and water are scarce. Forces awaken that have remained dormant for centuries. In a matter of hours, Western civilization teeters and falls.
James Muir is trapped in the midst of this huge calamity. Struggling to reunite with his wife and young daughters, he suffers bizarre, overpowering visions. A mysterious Voice berates him in ancient Egyptian. Amazed, he comprehends its command to embark on a quest for something it identifies only as 'the Stone.'
Hunted by cadres of well armed, highly trained militiamen, haunted by the erosion of his own sanity, James flees urban warfare, riot and pillage. He joins a group of desperate strangers, united to escape a metropolis transformed into a burning, violent wasteland.
But what awaits them beyond the fringes of the city? The further they get, the stronger is the painful tug exerted by the Voice on James's exhausted mind. As strangers grow into friends and lovers, James comes to realize that the thing called the Stone has a fanatical will of its own. Even if he survives the trek, he may not be strong enough to match the Stone's baffling power.
The Betelgeuse Oracle is a sweeping saga of loss and heroism, mysticism and visceral horror. Reading this novel will change the way you see the world.
Info about the Tour:
This blog tour will run from August 4th – August 10th. The dates are on a first come, first serve basis.
We are looking for hosts for reviews, interviews, and/or promo posts (these are limited to 3 total promo spots for the tour- first come, first serve). There will be a blog tour-wide giveaway that all participants may include in their post.
If interested in hosting a stop during this tour, please leave your email with your preferred date, type of stop (review/promo/interview/guest post) and link to your website/blog.
Reviewers will be gifted a Kindle through Amazon. All review posts will be eligible for the tour-long Giveaway.
If you sign up, I will send a confirmation email to everyone along with the schedule. A reminder of the scheduled stops will be sent to everyone 1 week in advance. If, at that time, any blogger is scheduled for a review on the tour and finds themselves rating the work under 3 stars, we request that the tour stop become promo only (your review may be posted after the tour stop), or that blogger will be asked to excuse themselves from the tour.
Thanks to all who join the Blog Tour!!!