December Book Giveaway - Books From Around the World

Enter to Win 1 Grand Prize of These Five Star

Dramatic Books from Around the World

Plus 6 additional winners of each book from Suzanne Kelman, Seumas Gallacher, Gloria Casale, 

KJ Waters, David P. Perlmutter, and Thomas J. Nichols.

Click on the link to enter: https://gleam.io/G3ZQ0/christmas-around-the-world-giveaway

The giveaway and accompanying blog tour start on December 2, 2019 and will continue until December 16.

Join us for an incredible journey around the world through the eyes of our authors and their protagonists starting in WWII Holland and continuing from to the Middle East over to Hong Kong, through the hills of Pennsylvania and deserts of Mexico, ending back in time in eighteenth century London. We are excited to share with you our own holiday traditions and what life was like for the characters featured in our books. 

On Monday December 2 we will begin our journey in 1941, Nazi-occupied Amsterdam with Suzanne Kelman in her international best-seller A View Across the Rooftops. Suzanne is a British author who lives in Seattle and delights in her English Christmas traditions every year. Please visit Suzanne’s video and blog post here: https://suzannekelmanauthor.blogspot.com.

Then we pop over to Seumas Gallacher’s blog on Tuesday, December 3 featuring is international crime novel The Violin Man’s Legacy. Seumas was born in Scotland and lives in Abu Dhabi. His main character, Jack Calder, investigates a murderous diamond heist in Holland that leads him to Hong Kong and South America. You can visit his video and blog here: https://seumasgallacher.com/2019/10/18/seumas-gallacher-writing-my-autobiography-the-best-therapy-ever/.

David P. Perlmutter takes over on Wednesday, December 4 sharing his Jewish upbringing in London, and will detail the true life and nearly deadly adventure in the hills of Pennsylvania where he spends Christmas with his boss in his book Five Weeks. David spends a decent amount of time in the #1 spot on Amazon with his soon to be movie, Wrong Place Wrong Time. You can visit his blog and video here: http://thewrongplaceatthewrongtime.blogspot.com/.

Thursday, Gloria Casale shares her holiday memories from her youth in New Jersey in a strong catholic family where they celebrated the tradition of St. Nicklaus on December 5^th every year. Her book, Bioterror: The Essential Threat,while fiction, covers an all too real situation of bioterrorism and brings us on a harrowing journey beginning in Washington, DC and carries us around the world from Russia and Eastern Europe, to Indonesia, England, Syria, and the White House, as we chase the outbreak of a mysterious small pox-like illness. You can find Gloria’s blog here: https://www.gloriacasalewrites.com/blog-1.

Chief Thomas J. Nichols is featured on Friday, December 6, where he will talk about his poor upbringing in Missouri, some of which was spent in an orphanage. As a former police chief, he writes crime fiction with teeth and will detail what Christmas is like for his characters in the dry dusty backdrop of Mexico. His book, Color of the Prism, follows an undercover agent who spearheads an investigation into a violent Mexican drug cartel. You can find Tom’s blog and video here: https://thomasjnichols.blogspot.com/.

Finally, on Monday, December 2, we end the blog tour back in time with KJ Waters and her time travel novel to 1752 London, Stealing Time. What was lifelike in England in the year they skipped 9 days to jive with Europe’s Gregorian calendar? KJ grew up in Maryland and will talk about her Christmas family traditions in the south based on her Grandmother’s love of the holiday and overabundance of gifts and family fun in a split family. You can see KJ’s blog post here: https://kjwatersauthor.blogspot.com/

An Exciting New Book Deal - For Author Suzanne Kelman

Bookouture - Are delighted to announce that historical fiction author Suzanne Kelman is joining Bookouture for a two-book deal.

Associate Publisher Isobel Akenhead acquired world rights from Andrea Hurst at Andrea Hurst & Associates, with a view to publishing A View Across the Rooftops in October 2019.

A View Across the Rooftops tells the story of an ordinary man who finds himself forced to make an extraordinary decision – one that will change his life forever. It opens in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam in 1941, where a man called Josef Held has a secret that he must keep from the people he cares about, and even the woman he is falling in love with. Because his secret is that he is not alone in his house. Since the night that the Nazis came for the Jews, and he opened his door…

Isobel Akenhead said:

“This novel hooked me from the very first page. It is a powerful story, but a personal and emotionally devastating one – that will grip readers and leave them heartbroken but ultimately uplifted. I am so thrilled Suzanne will be joining us at Bookouture and am incredibly excited to be publishing A View Across the Rooftops.” 

Suzanne Kelman said: 

"I am thrilled to be joining the Bookouture team and working with them to bring, A View Across the Rooftops, to the world. This story was a labor of love for me, and I was overjoyed that Isobel Akenhead understood and connected with the heart of the story from the very beginning. I look forward to this new publishing adventure."

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