Scheduling: Book Tour for This Bird Flew Away by Lynda Martin

Mar 19, 2011 by Majanka

I’m currently scheduling a two-week long tour for This Bird Flew Away by Lynda Martin. The tour runs from April 4th till April 18th. I am currently working on a media kit for everyone interested in hosting, including a tour banner, author bio and picture, etc.

The author is looking for book reviews, author interviews, guest blog posts, giveaways and live chats. I have .pdf copies for everyone who wants to review the book.

This is the tour banner. You can choose to put this on your website, even if you’re not a host for this tour. Of course, you don’t have to, but you would make me very happy! Of course, you can resize it to fit your website design.

Genre: women’s fiction, literary fiction. The book isn’t exactly an adult novel, and it can be read by mature young adults as well.

Author’s Note: This Bird Flew Away was written for women and mature girls. I should tell you the subject matter I think. First, you need to know why I wrote it. I have thirty years experience as an outreach worker in child protection, having worked with a number of exploited girls. Some years ago, I attended an international conference on child protection to learn that world-wide, the real figures for such abuse is 7 out of 10 girls and 4 out of 10 boys. This means that less than one third of all survivors get any help. It also means that 70% of the females in the world are survivors. My novel is a road map of healing disguised as a novel. Although the subject matter is dark, the book is not. It is optimistic, even amusing at times as we learn the story from two narrators — Bria, who we meet at age nine and travel with until she is 29 and Mary, who becomes her foster mother. The third main character, Jack, we meet only through the eyes of these two women.

We begin by learning of the circumstances that leave Bria open to exploitation and leave her poised to enter the world as a children’s advocate and professional. She is not overwhelmed by her history. Quite the contrary — which has been my experience with those girls I worked with.

Synopsis: What is real love? The whole world wants to know. They should ask Bria Jean, because she has it all figured out. Opinionated, stubborn and full of woe, Bria would tell you real love is having one person you can always count on through thick and thin. For her, that’s Jack. And it doesn’t matter to her that she’s nine and he’s twenty-three-not one bit. When, at the age of twelve, Bria disappears, he and his Aunt Mary search for her, and when she surfaces, injured, abused and traumatized, Jack fights to become her guardian with no idea of the trials ahead of him. By then, Bria is thirteen going on thirty, full of her own ideas on how her life should run and with some very fixed notions about who is in charge.

Goodreads | Author Website

This Bird Flew Away is published by Black Rose, ISBN 9781935605928

If you’re interested in being a host for this tour, just shoot me an email. The schedule so far:

Monday April 4th
at Literary Endeavors

Wednesday April 6th
Review and Author Interview at Butterfly Feet Walking on Life

Thursday April 7th
Review at Courtney’s Reads and Reviews.

Friday April 8th
Review and Live Chat at Author’s Book Corner.

Saturday April 9th
Review at A Mother’s Touch Bookshelf.

Sunday April 10th
Review and Author Interview at I Heart Reading.

Monday April 11th
Guest Blog Post at Darlyn and Books

Thursday April 14th
Review and Author Interview at BookBelle.

Friday April 15th
Review at Seeing Night Reviews.

Sunday April 17th
Review and Author Interview at The Australian Bookshelf

Monday April 18th
Guest Blog Post at Amy Jones Young Adult Fantasy Fiction

All other dates are still available, so if you feel like reading this novel, or if you would just like to host a guest post, author interview or anything else, then please sign up for this tour!