Archive for November, 2011

Pump Up Your Books Promotions Tour Stop – Interview with April Pohen for Blogcritics

Interviews are a new concept for me, but as an author, it comes with the territory. Today’s Pump Up Your Books Promotions tour stop is for an interview with April Pohen of  Blogcritics. I am learning so much more about myself as a person and I hope you will find this Q & A as entertaining as I did! Click here for details.

November 14, 2011 – Pump Up Your Books Tours: Interview on the Virginia Beach Publishing Examiner by Dorothy Thompson

My first stop of the Pump Up Your Book Tours Promotion begins with an interview by Dorothy Thompson for the Virginia Beach Publishing Examiner. Dorothy is the CEO and Founder of Pump Up Your Book Promotions and has over 10 years experience in online marketing. I really enjoyed this interview immensely, as it was not your typical bio and synopsis type of questions. Click here for the full interview.

Deborah Barnes Announces Virtual Book Tour With “Pump Up Your Books Promotions” – November 14, 2011 – December 16, 2011

I am excited to announce that The Chronicles of Zee & Zoey will be participating in a month long virtual book tour with “Pump Up Your Books Promotions.”  I have a variety of interviews, guest posts, giveaways, and  book reviews scheduled from Monday, November 14th through Friday, December 16th. For those of you that would like to follow the tour, I will provide a blog post with the “live” link when they are available, as dates are subject to schedule changes.  This is going to be a lot of fun, so I hope you will join me on this tour and share the links with all of your cat loving friends and family. Be sure to go to Goodreads as well to register to win a free copy of the book – the contest is open from November 15th through December 15th – click here for details. I will also be attending “Pump Up Your Book’s 1st Annual Holiday Extravaganza Facebook Party” on December 16.  More than 50 books, gifts and cash awards will be given away including a copy of The Chronicles of Zee & Zoey!  I will update you on details as they become available.

Mark your calendars and I hope to see you stop by to say hello as I make new friends at the following blogs and review sites: Read more

Review of The Chronicles of Zee & Zoey by Carolyn and Austin of CATachresis

Austin and his buddy, Tigger

I absolutely love everything about the blog, CATachresis. Carolyn, the human author of the blog, is British and her dry wit and keen sense of humor ranks her at the top of my list as favorite blogs to visit. Her cat, Austin, is a handsome tuxedo of mixed lineage and his bored take on his own blog always leaves me in stitches. He constantly has Carolyn in one predicament after another looking after him, and he just does not seem to care when he is ruffling her feathers!

When she offered to review The Chronicles of Zee & Zoey for me, I was instantly intrigued, as I wondered what brilliant new words and catch phrases I would learn from her this time! Well, here it is – read it for yourself as Carolyn and Austin share their views on the book! Click here for review.

Lessons Learned

Crocheting with my beautiful Zoey on my outstretched legs

If there is any one more beloved in the cat blogosphere than Mr. Puddy, I would be quite surprised. I do not think there is a single person in my circle of human and feline friends who does not know who this handsome tuxedo kitty is. So, when I stopped by his blog the other day, I was quite taken aback and moved by the very courageous and honest post he did about his human Mom and her addiction to the computer that was affecting him adversely. Read more