RABT Book Tours Reviews: March 2021

Monday, March 29, 2021

Tour Wrap Up: I Love You Very Muchly! by Rick Marino #blogtour #wrapup #bookreview #giveaway #childrensbook #nonfiction #rabtbooktours

Children’s Nonfiction

Date Published: November 14, 2019

I Love You Very Muchly is a true story about Nika, a Shih-Tzu puppy who was abandoned in a crate with no one to take care of her. Her new mommy and daddy found her and decided to adopt her. They did not know how it would work out because they had two large golden retrievers, but they wanted to try anyway. This the heartwarming story of a beautiful, fun, sweet, (and sometimes bossy) puppy who needed the love of her parents and the skills of the surgeons to save her life.

Currently a 5* Rating on Amazon

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Did you miss any of the stops on this Tour?

March 8 - RABT Book Tours - Kick Off

March 8 - Lisa's Reading - Excerpt

March 9 - Momma Says to Read or Not to Read - Spotlight

March 10 - Nesie's Place - Review

March 11 - Literary Gold - Review

March 12 - B for Book Review - Excerpt

March 13 - Nana's Book Reviews - Spotlight

March 15 - Lady Hawkeye - Excerpt

March 16 - Teatime and books - Spotlight

March 17 - The Avid Reader - Interview

March 18 - Book Junkiez - Spotlight

March 19 - Just a Secular Homeschooler - Review

March 20 - Dina Rae's Write Stuff - Spotlight

March 22 - Book Review Virginia Lee - Spotlight

March 23 - Texas Book Nook - Review

March 24 - Sylv Net - Spotlight

March 26 - A Life Through Books - Interview

March 28 - Jazzy Book Reviews - Excerpt

About the Author

Rick Marino and his wife, Teresa have been raising rescue dogs and cats for decades. They share their time between their home in Ohio and New Jersey. Nika inspired Rick with her personality and braveness to write the two books about her, her bother Marco and her sister Penelope Purr.

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Thursday, March 25, 2021

Tour Wrap Up: The Leadership Development Tool Kit by Michael Sampson and Faswilla Sampson #blogtour #wrapup #giveaway #nonfiction #business

Redesigning Your Leadership Development

Template to Drive Individual and Organizational Change

Business; Management; Human Resources

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Are you a CEO in a small business or start-up company interested in aligning business and talent strategy to inspire your employees?

Are you an HR “Department of One” professional looking to create a legacy project and be recognized as a more strategic partner?

This book is for you!

• Practical steps to implement immediately

• A set of tools for effective people leadership

• Real-life examples of how a leadership development program gives rise to self-motivated, high- performance individuals (and teams) that produce long-term results and a competitive advantage for your business.

With The Leadership Development Tool Kit, you’ll learn how to create a fool-proof talent-building process to impact productivity and help your people thrive in the 21st century.

Shape Organizational Culture * Measure Outcomes * Monitor Employee Satisfaction * Optimize Critical Processes

Currently a 4.5* Rating on Amazon

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Did you miss any of the stops on this Tour?

March 8 - RABT Book Tours - Kick Off

March 9 - Lady Hawkeye - Excerpt

March 10 - Book Reviews by Virginia Lee - Spotlight

March 11 - Momma and Her Stories - Excerpt

March 12 - Book Junkiez - Spotlight

March 13 - Jazzy Book Reviews - Excerpt

March 15 - Teatime and Books - Spotlight

March 16 - Texas Book Nook - Review

March 18 - The Avid Reader - Interview

March 20 - Dina Rae's Write Stuff - Spotlight

March 20 - Nana's Book Reviews - Spotlight

March 22 - Novel News Network - Review

March 23 - Momma Says to Read or Not to Read - Spotlight

March 24 - The Indie Express - Review

March 25 - Sylv Net - Spotlight

About the Authors

Michael Sampson is an author, lecturer, certified coach and former United States foreign service officer who has studied and led international development programs and cross cultural relations since 1979. Michael has over 30 years of leadership and management experience in government and corporate environments. Since retiring from national service, Michael has been CEO of LMI Kenya, a master licensee of Leadership Management International (LMI) Inc., which ranked #1 in Leadership Development Programs in North America by Entrepreneur magazine. Michael continues to promote self-reliance and facilitate leadership development programs which drive results, quality and customer satisfaction around the world. Michael started LMI Kenya because of his desire to be more active in promoting leaders and next generation leadership in Africa. Michael is active in civic organizations including American Chamber of Commerce Kenya. He lives in Kenya with his wife, Alma, and enjoys spending time with his three adult daughters (including Faswilla, with whom he co-authored this book) and two grandchildren. Michael holds a BA in International Studies from the School for International Training and an MBA from the Thunderbird School of Global Management.

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Faswilla Sampson is an author, certified coach and co-master licensee of Leadership Management International (LMI) Inc., a performance improvement company specializing in personal leadership and organizational development. As an experienced CEO confidant, Faswilla’s mission is to develop leaders and organizations to their full potential. With more than a decade working in the non-profit healthcare sector in Washington D.C., Faswilla’s strategic planning, program management, leadership and executive coaching experience, make her an organizational change agent. She believes that for any organization to be truly impactful in the 21st century requires developing leaders within all levels of the organization now. She enjoys speaking and presenting on a variety of business topics from leadership to workforce planning to talent management. Faswilla holds a BA from University of Mary Washington and a master’s degree in International Administration from Central Michigan University.

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Friday, March 19, 2021

Tour Wrap Up: Dead in a Dumpster by B.L. Blair #blogtour #wrapup #cozymystery #mystery #giveaway #rabtbooktours

Leah Norwood Mysteries, Book #1

Cozy Mystery

Date Published: September 23, 2014

When Leah Norwood finds the body of Isabel Meeks in the dumpster behind her store, she can’t believe the police consider her a suspect. Sure, she didn’t like Isabel, but then again, neither did anyone else. Isabel had a condescending attitude and a bad reputation. As manager of the antique store, Patina, she had made a lot of enemies.

There is Patina’s assistant manager, the handsome and charming Trent. Isabel was blackmailing him. There is Patina’s owner, the aloof and influential Anthony Thorpe. Isabel was smuggling drugs through his store. And there is the entire drug dealing Cantono family. Isabel had lost a box containing heroin from one of their shipments. That is just to name a few and didn’t even include the stranger who was seen arguing with Isabel just hours before her death.

The police have too many suspects and too many soft alibis. Leah needs to prove to the sexy new chief of police that she had nothing to do with Isabel’s death.

Leah loves a good mystery. Can she find the killer before the police arrest her for murder?

Currently a 4.4* Rating on Amazon

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Did you miss any of the stops on this Tour?

March 7 - RABT Book Tours - Kick Off

March 8 - Caroline Clemmons - Excerpt

March 9 - Logikal Blog - Excerpt

March 10 - Literary Gold - Review

March 11 - Sylv Net - Spotlight

March 12 - B for Book Review - Excerpt

March 13 - Lynn Romance Author - Review

March 14 - Kelly P's Blog - Excerpt

March 14 - Cassidy's Bookshelves - Review

March 15 - Nana's Book Reviews - Spotlight

March 16 - Jazzy Book Reviews - Review

March 17 - Nesie's Place - Excerpt

March 19 - Our Town Book Reviews - Review

About the Author

B. L. Blair writes mystery/romance stories. Like most authors, she has been writing most of her life and has dozens of books started. She just needs the time to finish them.

She is the author of the Leah Norwood Mysteries and the Lost and Found Pets Mystery Novellas. She loves reading books, writing books, and traveling wherever and as often as time and money allows. She is currently working on her latest book set in Texas, where she lives with her family.

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Tour Wrap Up: Old Mrs. Kimble's Mansion by George T. Arnold #blogtour #wrapup #bookreview #giveaway #suspense #drama #rabtbooktours

Suspenseful Drama

Date Published January 2021

Publisher: Speaking Volumes

Forty-four-year-old Forrest Alderson isn’t at all sure of his motives for returning from self-imposed exile to Asher Heights, West Virginia, to see his hometown for the first time since he graduated from college. All he knows for certain is it’s something he has to do if he is to find out whether he can break free from the tragedy that compelled him to flee or whether he is forever doomed to be imprisoned by it.

He has spent the intervening twenty-three years in sacrificial preparation, striving obsessively to become enormously wealthy with one exclusive goal: to at long last take possession of Old Mrs. Kimble’s mansion, no matter the cost, and let that magnificent structure he has coveted since he was a poor boy stand as proof to one and all that native son Forrest Walker Alderson has done himself proud.

Or could it be his return is motivated – as his attorney, Olivia Fillmore, fears – by revenge, an evil desire to rub his great wealth and success into the face of the one person who caused him to hermit himself away all those years without a wife, children, or even a close friend?

To have any chance of finding the answers he so desperately needs, Forrest will have to struggle through a challenging new romance, an addiction to a perilous old love, a sensational murder trial, and the inevitable decision about what to do with the rest of his life.

Currently a 4.9 Rating on Amazon

Did you miss any of the stops on this Tour?

March 8 - RABT Book Tours - Kick Off

March 8 - Book Review Virginia Lee - Spotlight

March 9 - Nana's Book Reviews - Spotlight

March 10 - Readers Alley - Excerpt

March 11 - Sylv Net - Spotlight

March 12 - B for Book Review - Excerpt

March 13 - Jazzy Book Reviews - Excerpt

March 15 - Texas Book Nook - Review

March 15 - Lady Hawkeye - Excerpt

March 16 - Book Junkiez - Spotlight

March 17 - Nesie's Place - Excerpt

March 17 - On a Reading Bender - Review

March 18 - So Many Books - Spotlight

About The Author

George T. Arnold, Ph.D., is a professor emeritus in the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Marshall University where he taught news and feature writing, language skills, ethics, and media law for 36 years. He worked full-time for seven years as a newspaper reporter to finance bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Marshall, and he has a doctorate in journalism and mass communications from Ohio University.

His textbook/resource book, Media Writer’s Handbook, a Guide to Common Writing and Editing Problems, is in its seventh edition and third decade of continuous publication. It has been purchased at more than 300 colleges and universities in the United States and abroad.

Dr. Arnold is the author of more than 50 professional and academic articles and has written a short story, One Minute Past Christmas, and two novels, Wyandotte Bound, and Old Mrs. Kimble’s Mansion.

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Tour Wrap Up: The Black Candle Killings by Andrew Segal #blogtour #bookreview #wrapup #detectivethriller #thriller #rabtbooktours

Conspiracy Series, Book 3

Detective Thriller

Date Published: March 1st 2021

Publisher: Happy London Press

A church going district of North London and a neighbourhood where friendly residents know each other. But when a brutally murdered woman is found next to a burned-out black candle, a strange mark etched deep into her back, the locals became afraid.

Her old boss, a Chief Superintendent in the Met, calls for PI, Tammy Pierre’s assistance. He’s aware of her Caribbean links, and knowledge of Obiah, a voodoo curse found in Trinidad, and used, some claim, to commit bizarre murders. So, is it voodoo? Or just superstition?

A trip to the West Indies reveals some disturbing facts, new evidence of child abuse and murders going undetected for over twenty years.

Returning to London, her situation becomes dangerous – is it all more than Tammy had bargained for?

Currently a 4.5* Rating on Amazon

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Did you miss any of the stops on this Tour?

February 15 - RABT Book Tours - Kick Off

February 16 - Book Review Virginia Lee- Spotlight

February 17 - Silver Dagger Book Tours - Spotlight

February 18 - Nana's Book Reviews - Spotlight

February 19 - Teatime and Books - Spotlight

February 22 - Dina Rae's Write Stuff - Spotlight

February 23 - Sandra's Book Club - Excerpt

February 24 - Lady Hawkeye - Spotlight

February 25 - Crossroad Reviews -Spotlight

February 26 - Texas Book Nook - Review

February 27 - Nesie's Place - Excerpt

March 1 - Salt and Novels - Guest Post

March 2 - A Life Through Books - Interview

March 3 -The Avid Reader - Interview

March 4 - Momma and Her Stories - Excerpt

March 5 - Book Corner News and Reviews - Spotlight*

March 8 - Sylv.net - Spotlight

March 9 - Momma Says to Read or Not to Read - Spotlight

March 10 - Novel News Network - Review

March 11 - Jazzy Book Reviews - Excerpt

March 12 - Book Junkiez - Spotlight

March 15 - Sapphyria's Books - Spotlight

March 16 - The Indie Express - Review

March 17 - A Slice of Orange - Guest Post

March 18 - On a Reading Bender - Review

March 19 - RABT Reviews - Wrap Up

About the Author

Having never written a dramatic word in my life some thirty years ago, an idea for a short story popped into my head. With the encouragement of my wife and daughter I wrote a tale about a timid and ineffectual man and his pet cat, called Cat and Mouse. Wife and daughter approved so I produced more stories and then joined a writers’ group who also liked what I wrote.

Sir George Everest said, they climbed that mountain, ‘Because it is there.’ The same might be said of writing. Why do we write? because of the idea, the notion, the thought. ‘Because it is there,’ and the irresistible urge to put it down in print.

My inspirations have come from real people, events or situations that have presented themselves. Titles like, I am a Contract Killer, Beads of Blood, Death Zone, License to Kill, are all based on my own lifetime experiences, questions asked, incidents occurring. So far, nobody has been murdered on my watch. But the notion gave rise to the impetus to write my first murder mystery, The Lyme Regis Murders. Could I make the jump after years of writing macabre short stories to a full-length drama? That familiar beating in the gut, said, ‘Yes, try it. Give it a go.’

And so to that cosy coastal town where nothing untoward ever happens. Or perhaps it does. The author seeks to shatter notions, change people’s perceptions, spoil long held views. That was my intention in entering into the world of crime thrillers. I’ve found that ‘nice’ people are not always what they seem. The helpless can be transformed into the most dangerous, the most dangerous become the most harmless. It’s all up to the writer and what they’re hoping to achieve. For me, so far, there have been several children’s books, one collection of short stories, with three more planned and three novels completed, plus a fourth in the mixer.

Whilst a short story might be written with a flurry of adrenalin in the space of a few hours, a book will need more than just a flash of creativity. It will need, perseverance, discipline and dogged determination. But then, isn’t that what is required of every ambition?

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