Indefinite Hiatus

Crazy Book Tours will be on an indefinite hiatus for the time being. Thank you for being part of the tours!
Jen and Lori

March Tour: Lone Wolf by Jodi Picoult (Limited)

Lone Wolf
by Jodi Picoult
Publication Date:  March 2012
Atria Books

(from the author's website)
Edward Warren, 23, has been living in Thailand for five years, a prodigal son who left his family after an irreparable fight with his father, Luke. But he gets a frantic phone call: His dad lies comatose in a NH hospital, gravely injured in the same accident that has also injured his younger sister Cara.

Cara, 17, stll holds a grudge against her brother, since his departure led to her parents’ divorce. In the aftermath, she’s lived with her father – an animal conservationist who became famous after living with a wild wolf pack in the Canadian wild. It is impossible for her to reconcile the still, broken man in the hospital bed with her vibrant, dynamic father.

With Luke’s chances for recovery dwindling, Cara wants to wait for a miracle. But Edward wants to terminate life support and donate his father’s organs. Is he motivated by altruism, or revenge? And to what lengths will his sister go to stop him from making an irrevocable decision?

LONE WOLF looks at the intersection between medical science and moral choices. If we can keep people who have no hope for recovery alive artificially, should they also be allowed to die artificially? Does the potential to save someone else’s life with a donated organ balance the act of hastening another’s death? And finally, when a father’s life hangs in the balance, which sibling should get to decide his fate?

• Tour Dates:  March 1 - 14, 2012
• Tour signups will close on December 15
• This book will be available in PRINT format only (10 copies).
• To sign-up - please leave a comment with your name, e-mail address, blog name, and the date you would like to post your review (check calendar below - first come, first-serve.  Please click the arrow to move over to the correct month as it is set to the current month automatically).  
• This tour is open to USA bloggers only. 
• There are only 10 copies of this book available so please only sign-up if you can commit to touring in March.  Books will not be shipped until February, so there may not be much time to read and review the book.
• If more than 10 bloggers sign-up, we will randomly draw names to select who participates.  You should still select a date for your review (even if it's already taken).  We can adjust later as needed.

Available Dates:
March -
1 - Lisa - Casual Reader's Blog
2 - Andrea - So Many Books, So Little Time
5 - JHS - Colloquium
6 - Kristin - Kritter's Ramblings
7 - Jasmine - Bookish Mama
8 - Tiffany - A Cozy Reader's Corner
9 - Cheryl - Sherri's Reading Jubilee
10 - Heather - Proud Book Nerd
13 - Karen - Practical Frugality
14 - Lisa - Books In The Burbs



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April Tour: Comeback Love by Peter Golden

Comeback Love
by Peter Golden
Publication Date:  April 2012
Washington Square Press/Atria Books

A debut novel about a man and his romantic quest to find the woman he loved and lost years before.

Like Nicholas Sparks and Robert James Waller, first-time novelist Peter Golden knows how to write the kind of nostalgic fiction that men and women alike fall for. In Comeback Love, a universal story about lost love, he offers an evocative debut that begins in the tumultuous 1960s and ends in the feverish thrill of present-day New York City.

Over thirty-five years ago, Gordon Meyers, an aspiring writer with a low number in the draft lottery, packed his belongings and reluctantly drove away, leaving Glenna Rising, the sexy, sharp-witted med student he couldn’t imagine living without.

Now, decades later, Gordon is a former globetrotting consultant with a grown son, an ex-wife, and an overwhelming desire to see Glenna again. Stunned when Gordon walks into her Manhattan office, Glenna agrees to accompany him for a drink. As the two head out into the snow-swept city, they become caught up in the passions that drew them together before tearing them apart. And as the evening unfolds, Gordon finally reveals the true reason for his return.

Comeback Love is a bracing journey into the hearts of two lovers who came of age in the 1960s. Plumbing the depths of youth, regret, and desire, Peter Golden deftly illuminates the bonds that mysteriously endure in the face of momentous change.

• Tour Dates:  April 2 - April 23, 2012
• Tour signups will close on January 3, 2012
• This book will be available in PRINT and EBOOK (via Netgalley) formats.
• To sign-up - please leave a comment with your name, e-mail address, blog name, format preference, and the date you would like to post your review (check calendar below - first come, first-serve.  If a date is already taken, you must pick a different date.  Please click the arrow to move over to the correct month as it is set to the current month automatically).  
• This tour is open to USA and CANADA bloggers (print) and anyone worldwide who has access to Netgalley titles. 
• The author is available for interviews also.  Please indicate in your comment if you would love to interview the author in conjunction with your review.

Available Dates:
April -
2
3 - Kritters Ramblings
4
5
6 - Psychotic State
9 - Book Bags and Cat Naps
10 - A Casual Reader's Blog
11 - BookSpark
12 - Practical Frugality
13 - Reflections with Coffee
16 - Colloquium
17 - The Bookish Mama
18 - Books in the Burbs
19 - Seaside Book Nook; Alexa Loves Books
20 - Laurie Here Reading and Writing Reviews
23 - CelticLady's Reviews



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February Tour: Crazy in Paradise by Deborah Brown

Crazy in Paradise
by Deborah Brown
Publication Date:  July 2011
Publisher:  Paradise Books, LLC

Dying in the middle of the summer in the Florida Keys is sweaty business. Welcome to Tarpon Cove. Madison Westin inherits her aunt’s beachfront motel along with a variety of colorful tenants - drunks, ex-cons and fugitives. Only one problem: First she has to wrestle control from her lawyer and conniving motel manager. She enlists the help of her new best friend who’s motto is never leave home without your Glock. Only in South Florida, land of hot tan lines, drugs on demand – not to mention blackmail and murder.

• Tour Dates:  February 6 - 27, 2012
• Tour signups will close on December 13
• This book will be available in PRINT (10 copies) and EBOOK (unlimited) formats.
• To sign-up - please leave a comment with your name, e-mail address, blog name, format preference, and the date you would like to post your review (check calendar below - first come, first-serve.  If a date is already taken, you must pick a different date.  Please click the arrow to move over to the correct month as it is set to the current month automatically).  
• This tour is open to USA/CANADA bloggers for the print copy and internationally for the ebook copy.
• The author is available for guest posts and interviews in conjunction with your review.  Please indicate in your comment if you would like either of these options. 

Available Dates:
February -
21  --  Laurie Here Reading and Writing Reviews
22  --  Book-Spark
23  --  Book Bags and Cat Naps
24  --  Practical Frugality

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Jan/Feb Tour: Sinners & Saints: A Novel by Victoria Christopher Murray and ReShonda Tate Billingsley

Victoria Christopher Murray has made Jasmine Cox Larson Bush infamous four times over with Sin and a Shame (2006); Lady Jasmine (2009); Too Little, Too Late (2008) and Sins of the Mother (2010).  ReShonda Tate Billingsley’s Rachel Jackson Adams has frustrated and charmed readers in Let the Church Say Amen (2004); Everybody Say Amen (2009) and Say Amen, Again (2011).

Now for the first time, bestselling, award-winning authors Victoria Christopher Murray and ReShonda Tate Billingsley, bring their favorite heroines together in SINNERS & SAINTS: A Novel (Touchstone Books / Simon & Schuster Paperback; January 10, 2012) which is bound to delight their fans.

Victoria Christopher Murray’s Jasmine Cox Larson Bush and ReShonda Tate Billingsley’s Rachel Jackson Adams are not your typical First Ladies. But they’ve overcome their scandalous and drama-filled pasts to stand firmly by their husbands’ sides for the coveted position of President of the National Baptist Association. But when a coveted position opens up—the President of the National Baptist Association—each woman thinks her husband is perfect for the job.  As Jasmine and Rachel’s husbands are both nominated, the scheming begins and both women are back to their old ways. 

• Tour Dates:  January 23 - February 6 (2012)
• Tour signups will close on December 9
• This book will be available in PRINT format only. 
• To sign-up - please leave a comment with your name, e-mail address, blog name, and the date you would like to post your review (check calendar below - first come, first-serve.  If a date is already taken, you must pick a different date.  Please click the arrow to move over to the correct month as it is set to the current month automatically).  
• This tour is open to USA bloggers only.

January Tour: It Takes a Witch by Heather Blake

It Takes a Witch
Book 1 in the all-new Wishcrafter Cozy Mystery Series!
by Heather Blake
Publisher:  Signet
Publication Date:  January 2012

Darcy Merriweather has just discovered she hails from a long line of Wishcrafters--witches with the power to cast spells by making a wish. She's come to Enchanted Village to learn her trade but finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation.

"A bewitching tale that will quickly cast a spell on you."

-Lori's Reading Corner

• Tour Dates:  January 2 - January 11
• Tour signups will close on December 9
• This book will be available in PRINT (8 copies) format ONLY.
• To sign-up - please leave a comment with your name, e-mail address, blog name, and the date you would like to post your review (check list below - first come, first-serve.  If a date is already taken, you must pick a different date).  
• This tour is open to USA bloggers only. 

Note: This tour is coming up VERY quickly. Please only sign up if you can commit to reviewing in a very short time-frame. Due to the limited number of copies available, we want bloggers who can review this book soon, despite the upcoming holiday season. If more than 8 bloggers sign-up, we will randomly draw names to select who participates.

Available Dates:
Monday January 2 - Gimme the Scoop
Tuesday January 3 - Book Spark
Wednesday January 4 - So Many Books, So Little Time
Thursday January 5 - Reading With Tequila
Friday January 6 - Sherri's Reading Jubilee
Monday January 9 - WV Stitcher
Tuesday January 10 - Sinnful Books
Wednesday January 11 - Between the Covers



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CANCELED: February Tour: My Sweet Saga by Brett Sills (International)

My Sweet Saga
by Brett Sills
Publisher:  Admiral J Press
Publication Date:  September 2011

At 30 years old, Brandon is barely able to make it through life, much less enjoy it. He is weeks away from what should be one of the happiest days of his life, his wedding day to his fiancée, Clarissa, but his attention is distracted when his estranged, erratic and oddly eccentric father suddenly reappears with a bizarre demand: to accompany him to Stockholm, Sweden, where they will meet a man who he claims will change their lives.

Desperate for even a brief escape from his reality, Brandon reluctantly goes with his father, ready for a disaster. But his life changes completely the moment his eyes meet the mysterious Swedish man's daughter, Saga. On a cobblestone street in the middle of Stockholm, Brandon reawakens to life, though struggles to navigate the messy love triangle with Saga and his fiancée, which includes multiple arrests, hospital stays, terrorist bombs, acts of heroism and foolishness, family secrets and even a bit of public nudity.

"I aimed to capture that unmistakable feeling: just when you think your life is over, you fall in love, feel invigorated, do the stupidest crap imaginable and find the absolute beauty in both the happiness and pain of the entire experience," Sills says.

Sills believes that though his work may come off as solely entertaining at first, the story and struggles of Brandon have more heart than readers might expect. He hopes that it not only allows readers to realize that there is more to life than just suffering through it, but also gives them a romantic, American point of view of Sweden: a country that has had a sudden boom in interest and popularity due to the extreme recent success of crime novels like "Girl With The Dragon Tattoo."

"I want readers to fall in love with Sweden as much as I did," Sills says.

• Tour Dates:  February 1 - February 15
• Tour signups will close on December 7
• This book will be available in PRINT (8 copies) and EBOOK (Kindle - 5 copies) formats.
• To sign-up - please leave a comment with your name, e-mail address, blog name, format preference, and the date you would like to post your review (check calendar below - first come, first-serve.  If a date is already taken, you must pick a different date.  Please click the arrow to move over to the correct month as it is set to the current month automatically).  
• This tour is open INTERNATIONALLY. 
• The author is open for interviews or guest posts.  Please indicate if you would like this option when you sign-up or if you want REVIEW ONLY.