Friday, December 5, 2025

Tour Wrap Up: Early Snow by Kevin Wolf

 




Mystery
Date Published: 11-15-2025

Odyssey Pruit paints pictures of the ghosts and spirits she saw in the halls of an old hotel where she worked ten years before. GUY HOGAN doesn’t believe in ghosts. Hogan is hired to guard Odyssey’s pictures for her first art show in the same old hotel. When an early blizzard closes the roads, knocks out the power and telephone, Hogan is trapped in the hotel with Odyssey’s quirky fans. When imps and ghouls make their presence known, Hogan questions his doubts, and the answer could be murder.




Currently a 4.2* Rating on Amazon





Did you miss any of the stops on this Tour?


November 17 - RABT Book Tours - Kick Off

November 17 - Books 1987 - Spotlight

November 18 - Sarandipity's - Excerpt

November 19 - The Faerie Review - Spotlight

November 20 - Nana's book Reviews - Spotlight

November 21 - The Avid Reader - Interview

November 24 - Texas Book Nook - Review

November 25 - Iron Canuck Reviews - Review

November 26 - Always Reading - Interview

November 27 - Tea Time and Books - Spotlight

November 28 - Sandra's Book Club - Review

December 1 - Book Corner News and Reviews - Spotlight

December 2 - Book Junkiez - Excerpt

December 3 - Boys Mom Reads - Review

December 4 - Crossroad Reviews - Spotlight

December 5 - Liliyana Shadowlyn - Spotlight


About the Author


Kevin Wolf is an award-winning Mystery and Western author. His books include Trailridge (2024), The Homeplace, winner of the 2015 Tony Hillerman Prize and the 2016 Strand Critics Award finalist for Best Debut Mystery. His short story Belthanger received the 2021 Spur Award for Best Short Fiction and his novel, The Bootheel was a 2024 Peacemaker Award finalist.


The legends and landscape of the West are evident in everything he writes. His newest novel, Trailridge, is set against the grandeur of Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park and the 1982 Lawn Lake Flood. Those who visit Rocky often or have chosen the national park for their once-in-a-lifetime destination will recognize the mountains, valleys, rivers, and the twists and turns of Trailridge as this story races to its climax.In The Homeplace, a schoolboy hero returns after sixteen years to solve a murder in a windswept, dying town on the eastern plains of Colorado. In his short story Belthanger, readers are given a glimpse of a 1950s small town, soon to be bypassed by the new Interstate Highway System, and the drama that unfolds on the town’s darkened streets one night. The BootHeel is a coming-of-age tale of a teenage orphan and an aging gunman as they follow a treasure map into Mexico as the nineteenth century draws to its end.


Kevin Wolf is a member of Western Writers of America, Mystery Writers of America, and serves as Vice President of Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers. He facilitates a weekly critique group for other writers. The great-grandson of Colorado homesteaders, he enjoys fly fishing, old Winchesters, and almost every 1950’s Western movie. He lives in Estes Park, CO with his loving and patient wife.

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Tour Wrap Up: Kennedy Sloane Gets Scooped by Caila Klaiss

 




Contemporary Women's Fiction/Contemporary Romance

Date Published: November 6th, 2025

Publisher: Acorn Publishing



Faster than details break in a news story, Kennedy Sloane gets scooped.

On a rainy Manhattan afternoon, career-obsessed writer and news producer Kennedy loses the interview that was guaranteed to catapult her to senior producer status. Hours later, revered and feared book editor Muffin Evans, aka the Manuscript Eater, shelves the publication of her promising debut novel.

Over a night of tears and too many glasses of wine, Kennedy responds to an internet ad for a villa on the picturesque island of Hilton Head. She books a five-week “hiatus from life,” to focus on herself, free from distractions.

However, soon after arriving on the island, J.P. Long catches Kennedy’s hesitant eye. Despite a series of serendipitous encounters around the romantic oasis, Kennedy knows there’s no room in her life for a charming professional golfer turned businessman who is battling his own personal and professional insecurities.

But maybe he’s worth the trouble.

If there’s one thing Kennedy’s learned, it’s that life rarely happens as expected, and sometimes, the best stories unfold when you stop chasing the perfect headline.

 



Currently a 5* Rating on Amazon






Did you miss any of the stops on this Tour?


November 7 - RABT Book Tours - Kick Off

November 8 - Books 1987 - Spotlight

November 9 - Nana's Book Reviews - Spotlight

November 11 - My Reading Addiction - Interview

November 12 - Crossroad Reviews - Spotlight

November 13 - Book Junkiez - Excerpt

November 14 - Always Reading - Interview

November 16 - Brittany's Book Blog - Spotlight

November 17 - Momma and Her Stories - Excerpt

November 18 - Sandra's Book Club - Review

November 19 -According to Madelyn - Spotlight

November 20 - Novel News Network - Review

November 21 - Tea Time and Books - Spotlight

November 24 - The Faerie Review - Spotlight

November 25 - Sarandipity's - Interview

November 26 - Liliyana Shadowlyn - Spotlight

November 28 - Lisa's Book Krewe - Excerpt

December 1 -Texas Book Nook - Review

December 2 - The Avid Reader - Interview

December 3 - The Indie Express - Review

December 4 - On a Reading Bender - Review

 

About the Author

 


 A graduate of Fordham University, Caila Klaiss is an award-winning network news producer who spent seventeen years crisscrossing the country to cover breaking and developing stories for platforms across ABC News. The bulk of her career was spent producing true crime documentaries for 20/20.

Since making the difficult decision to leave a career she loved, Caila has pursued her other life-long dream of becoming a writer. When she is not reading, writing, or researching, Caila recharges by practicing yoga.

Born, raised, and currently living in northeastern Pennsylvania, Caila is a New Yorker at heart whose happy place is a warm sandy beach, under a palm tree.


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Tour Wrap Up: Earth's Last Encore by Logan Peterson

 




Science Fiction

Date Published : 07-24-2025



Saddled with a dying sun, humanity has no time to catch its breath after barely fighting off alien invaders. A defective yet determined super-soldier, Lieutenant ‘Duck’ Diaz shoulders the task of proving humanity’s worth to the Stellarans, an advanced alien species offering salvation.

Haunted by his failures and mistrusted by those he fights to save, Duck finds an unexpected ally in Hannily, the Stellaran princess who believes in the potential for unity. Together, they must bridge the divide between two fractured worlds, confronting betrayal, cultural rifts, and their own doubts to give humanity a second chance at survival—or risk losing everything to the void.

 




Currently a 5* Rating on Amazon






Did you miss any of the stops on this Tour?


November 7 - RABT Book Tours - Kick Off

November 8 - Nana's Book Reviews - Spotlight

November 9 - Books 1987 - Spotlight

November 10 -Momma and Her Stories - Excerpt

November 11 - Crossroad Reviews - Spotlight

November 12 - Novel News Network - Review

November 13 - Tea Time and Books - Spotlight

November 14 - My Reading Addiction - Interview

November 15 - A Dragon's Fated Heart - Spotlight

November 17 - Chapter Break - Guest Post

November 18 - Book Corner News and Reviews - Spotlight

November 19 - Texas Book Nook - Review

November 21 - My Bookmarked Reads - Spotlight

November 24 - A Life Through Books - Interview

November 25 - The Avid Reader - Interview

November 26 - The Faerie Review - Spotlight

November 28 - Book Junkiez - Excerpt

December 1 - Liliyana Shadowlyn - Spotlight

December 3 - On a Reading Bender - Review

December 4 - The Indie Express - Review


About the Author


I am a working new father and served in the US Army where I drew inspiration for Earth’s Last Encore. I am a nerd at heart for Anime, Kpop, TCG’s, you name it. When I’m not writing overly introspective work I’m playing with my Corgi and new son. I currently reside in the Minnesota Twin Cities.


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Tour Wrap Up: The Pink Dress by Jane Little Botkin

 



Memoir of a Reluctant Beauty Queen


Memoir

Date Published: September 30, 2025

Publisher: She Writes Press/Tantor

Narrator: Ann Marie Gideon

Run Time: 8 hours and 4 minutes



For fans of Little Miss Sunshine and Secrets of Miss America, this memoir from a national award-winning author reveals the reality of being the first Guyrex Girl in the 1970s. Beauty pageant stories have never been this raw, this real.

Growing up in West Texas, Jane Little Botkin didn't have designs on becoming a beauty queen. But not long after joining a pageant on a whim in college, she became the first protégé of El Paso's Richard Guy and Rex Holt, known as the "Kings of Beauty"—just as the 1970's counterculture movement began to take off.

A pink, rose-covered gown—a Guyrex creation—symbolizes the fairy tale life that young women in Jane's time imagined beauty queens had. Its near destruction exposes reality: the author's failed relationship with her mother, and her parents' failed relationship with one another. Weaving these narrative threads together is the Wild West notion that anything is possible, especially do-overs.

The Pink Dress awakens nostalgia for the 1960s and 1970s, the era's conflicts and growth pains. A common expectation that women went to college to get "MRS" degrees—to find a husband and become a stay-at-home wife and mother—often prevailed. How does one swim upstream against this notion among feminist voices that protest "If You Want Meat, Go to a Butcher!" at beauty pageants, two flamboyant showmen, and a developing awareness of self? Torn between women's traditional roles and what women could be, Guyrex Girls evolved, as did the author.

 



Currently a 4.8* Rating on Amazon







Did you miss any of the stops on this Tour?

November 3 - RABT Book Tours - Kick Off

November 4 - Momma and Her Stories - Excerpt

November 5 - Books 1987 - Spotlight

November 6 - Texas Book Nook - Review

November 7 - Book Corner News and Reviews - Spotlight

November 10 - My Bookmarked Reads - Spotlight

November 11 - Tea Time and Books - Spotlight

November 12 - On a Reading Bender - Review

November 13 - Nana's Book Reviews - Spotlight

November 14 - A Life Through Books - Interview

November 17 - Crossroad Reviews - Spotlight

November 18 -My Reading Addiction - Interview

November 19 - The Indie Express - Review

November 21 - Ella English - Excerpt

November 24 - Always Reading - Interview

November 25 - Sapphyria's Books - Spotlight

November 26 - The Faerie Review - Spotlight

November 28 - The Avid Reader - Interview

December 2 - Book Junkiez - Excerpt

December 3 - Liliyana Shadowlyn - Spotlight

December 4 - Novel News Network - Review


About the Author

A NATIONAL AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR, JANE...

melds personal narratives of American families often with compelling stories of western women. Jane is a late bloomer as an author. After teaching for thirty years, she was honored by the Texas State Legislature by formal resolution for her work with local history and education in 2008. She edited and directed publishing fifteen volumes of Texas local history with her former students before she decided to write on her own. Jane's first book propelled her membership on the Western Writers of America board and later as its vice president. Jane continues to judge entries for the WWA's prestigious Spur Award; reviews new book releases; authors articles for various magazines; and speaks to groups in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas.

JANE'S FIRST TWO WORKS HAVE WON NUMEROUS AWARDS IN HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY AND WOMEN'S STUDIES...

including two Spur Awards, two Caroline Bancroft History Prizes, the Texas Book Award, and the Barbara Sudler Award for the best book written on the West by a woman. Jane was also a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award, High Plains Book Award, two Women Writing the West’s Willa Literary Awards, Independent Book Award, Foreword Indies Book Awards, and Sarton Book Award.

Released in fall 2024, Jane’s third book—what she calls her Covid book—is The Pink Dress, A Memoir of a Reluctant Beauty Queen, a Foreword Indies Book Award winner in pop culture and Women Writing the West's Willa Literary Award finalist in creative nonfiction. The narrative brings far West Texas to life during the 1970s’ American Counterculture era.

Jane's newest book, The Breath of a Buffalo, A Biography of Mary Ann Goodnight, will be released from the University of Oklahoma Press tentatively in fall 2026.

Today Jane blissfully escapes into her literary world in the remote White Mountain Wilderness near Nogal, New Mexico, when she is not speaking at various events or preparing for her next nonfiction book.


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Tour Wrap Up: Living Under the Influence by Todd W. Schultz

 

 


How Grace Sets Us Free from the Performance Mindset


Christian Living / Spiritual Growth / Inspirational

Date Published: September 2, 2025

Publisher: Lucid Books Publishing



The performance mindset leaves many Christians feeling stuck—working hard to please God but never quite feeling at peace. Doubts creep in, making the peace of God feel just out of reach, as if we’re playing an endless if/then game: If I do everything right, then maybe I’ll be okay with God.

Living Under the Influence shows how grace frees us from that cycle. It invites us to confront five common myths we often believe about God and ourselves:

If I pray and read the Bible more, then God will change how I feel about myself.

If I live a holy life and make good choices, then God will be pleased with me.

If my life is messy, then God won’t choose or accept me.

If I clean up my act first, then God can use me in His kingdom.

If I become a better person, then God will bless me with a better life.

If you’re a Christ-follower who genuinely wants to love God through how you live, this book offers a different lens—a way of thinking rooted not in performance, but in grace. And grace changes everything.






Currently a 5* Rating on Amazon






Did you miss any of the stops on this Tour?


November 3 - RABT Book Tours - Kick Off

November 4 - Books 1987 - Spotlight

November 5 - Nana's Book Reviews - Spotlight

November 7 - Crossroad Reviews - Spotlight

November 11 - Book Junkiez - Excerpt

November 12 - The Avid Reader - Interview

November 13 - Tea Time and Books - Spotlight

November 14 - My Bookmarked Reads - Spotlight

November 17 - A Life Through Books - Interview

November 19 - On a Reading Bender - Review

November 20 - Texas Book Nook - Review

November 21 - Momma and Her Stories - Excerpt

November 24 - My Reading Addiction - Interview

November 25 - Book Corner News and Reviews - Spotlight

November 26 - Sapphyria's Books - Spotlight

November 28 - Liliyana Shadowlyn - Spotlight

December 1 - Always Reading - Excerpt

December 2 - Novel News Network - Review

December 3 - The Faerie Review - Spotlight

December 4 -The Indie Express - Review

 

About the Author

 

 Todd Schultz is an experienced writer and educator with a passion for communicating the transformative power of the grace of God. His years of teaching and ministry provides scriptural insight for growing as a believer and practical application for living out the Christian life. Todd teaches doctoral students at Liberty University and lives in Chattanooga, TN, where he and his wife Jackie enjoy photographing the historic and natural landscapes of the southeast.


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Tour Wrap Up: Lost by LM Preston

 



The Mistfits Series, Book 1


Fantasy

Date Published: October 1, 2025

Publisher: Phenomenal One Press



Penelope Pawn had an addiction. She liked candy, sword-fighting shadows, and boys. Still, something was seriously wrong and she couldn’t put her finger on it. Being homeless wasn’t as bad for her as it was for most. She had a way of collecting kids that turned into family, like brothers and sisters. Unfortunately, every time another kid agreed to come with her to the hiding place she’d created, a rush of power would surge through her like she’d consumed a drug, sealed a deal, or done something wrong. There was one guy, though, who wouldn’t come. When Terek showed up at her doorstep, a place well hidden from most others, and demanded she heed his warning, it was the first time she feared an enemy's strength. Was he a challenge that could become her savior, revealing the truth of her past to her? Could this boy show her how to repair the fiber of the world she’d unknowingly ripped apart, causing a catastrophic end to the home she’d built for herself and the lost ones?

 












Did you miss any of the stops on this our?

October 27 - RABT Book Tours - Kick Off

October 28 - The Faerie Review - Spotlight

October 29 - Sarandipity's - Excerpt

October 30 -Books 1987 - Spotlight

October 31 - Book Junkiez - Excerpt

November 3 - My Reading Addiction - Interview

November 4 - Nana's Book Reviews - Spotlight

November 5 - Always Reading - Excerpt

November 6 - Crossroad Reviews - Spotlight

November 7 - The Avid Reader - Interview

November 10 - Chapter Break - Interview

November 11 - Ella English - Spotlight

November 12 - Book Corner News and Reviews - Spotlight

November 13 - The Indie Express - Review

November 18 - Texas Book Nook - Review

November 20 - On a Reading Bender- Review

November 21 - My Bookmarked Reads - Spotlight

November 28 - Liliyana Shadowlyn - Spotlight

December 1 - Momma and Her Stories - Excerpt

December 2 - Novel News Network - Review

December 4 - A Life Through Books - Interview

About the Author

L.M. Preston, a native of Washington, DC. An avid reader, she loved to create poetry and short-stories as a young girl. She is an author, an engineer, a professor, a mother and a wife. Her passion for writing and helping others to see their potential through her stories and encouragement has been her life’s greatest adventures.She loves to write while on the porch watching her kids play or when she is traveling, which is another passion that encouraged her writing.


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