Shades of the Future Blog Tour Week Two!

Posted by Suzanne Lilly
Twitter @suzannelilly



Shades of the Future is still cruising around the Internet on its zippy blog tour with all kinds of fun topics planned for the upcoming week. Here's a sampling of what's on the calendar:

• July 23: 
What was your first car, and whatever happened to it? I'm warning you right now, this post at My Pathway to Books isn't pretty. It isn't about the cute little Volkswagen or sexy Camaro some of you might have driven as a first car. No, it's quite hideous. I hope you'll come by and share in the misery of my first car.

• July 24: 
The Dream Seekers Adventures blog is the sensational stop of the day. I'm chatting about how to get kids reading and how to get them to love it. I'm going to tell you about my Magic Bullet for creating readers. 

• July 25:
Today I’ll be at the TeacherWriteBookaholic blog sharing a story about the intersection of dreams and waking life.

• July 26: 
Today we're going to lighten up and have some fun with an interview on the Aside from Writing blog. I'll tell some little known facts about myself, including my favorite candy, my favorite social media, and the book I always wish I'd written.

• July 27:
I'm thrilled to be on The Daydreamer blog talking about what your daydreams can tell you about yourself. 

Don't forget, you could win a pair of designer sunlasses!
In honor of the sunglasses Mariah Davis uses to see the future, I'll be giving away a pair of designer aviator sunglasses from Shoebuy.com to a commenter at the end of July's tour stops. I'll do the giveaway again at the end of August's tour stops.

In case you missed them, here are the Blog Tour attractions from July 16 - 20, 2012. You can still stop by and comment for a chance to win those glasses!

• July 16: I'll was at Taryn Rae's website, doing an interview. Taryn Rae is the author of Castaway Hearts, also from Turquoise Morning Press.
• July 17: I'm did a guest post about pets, and my mostly adorable granddog at Doctor's Notes. Since Mariah, my main character, works at the Happy Paws Pet Rescue, I'm giving 10% of the royalties from this book to a pet rescue organization.
• July 18: I posted an exclusive new excerpt from Shades of the Future at the TeacherWriter blog. It's all about Nothing Beats Chocolate Beet Cake, a specialty of Bess Beale, owner of the White Cottage Restaurant in Honey Creek.
• July 19: The Selkie Reads Stories was Thursday's stop on the book tour. You'll get to know Mariah Davis better in this creative interview.
• July 20: I visited Jo Ramsey's blog, with a post about what it's like to have a premonition. Have you ever known about something before it happened? Come by and chat about it.

Book blurb for Shades of the Future to give you a hint of what the story is about:

What would you give to see the future? Would you make your dreams come true? Would you change the things you didn’t like?

Mariah Davis loves animals, running, and her hunk of a boyfriend, Kevin Creamer. Everything looks bright for her until the day she finds a pair of sunglasses that allow her to see the future.

When she glimpses a disaster looming, she tries to avoid it but fails. She has a car accident that lands her in a wheelchair, smashing her hopes for a running scholarship to the veterinary program at Ohio State University. She pushes Kevin away, thinking he’ll want to end their relationship now that she can’t walk.

Will she ever learn to trust and love again? She could search for an answer in the sunglasses. But she’s afraid what they reveal might destroy her.

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Thanks for stopping by today. I hope to see you on the blog tour stops.

Purchase Shades of the Future at  Amazon for Kindle, Barnes and Noble for Sony Nook, Smashwords, and Turquoise Morning Press for all digital formats including Apple.