August 15th, 2011 
cherylmalandrinos The Story Behind the Book is Literarily Speaking’s newest feature. Here we find out either the inspiration behind authors’ books or how they got published. Today’s guest is Melanie Benjamin, author of the historical novel, The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb.
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I always tell aspiring writers that the most important thing they can do for their [...]
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No Comments » June 28th, 2011 cherylmalandrinos The Story Behind the Book is Literarily Speaking’s newest feature. Here we find out either the inspiration behind authors’ books or how they got published. Today’s guest is Renee Hand, author of the children’s animal detective chapter book, Mineral Mischief, the second book in her award-winning Joe-Joe Nut and Biscuit Bill series.
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The idea for this [...]
Posted in The Story Behind the Book Tags: animal detective children's chapter book, author tour, blog tour, blog tours, book blog tour, book promotion online, book tour, book tours, children's books, Guest Blogger, Joe-Joe Nut and Biscuit Bill, literarily speaking, Mineral Mischief, online book promotion, online book tour, online book tours, Pump Up Your Book, Renee Hand, virtual author tour, virtual blog tour, virtual blog tours, virtual book tour, virtual book tours No Comments » June 26th, 2011 cherylmalandrinos The Story Behind the Book is Literarily Speaking’s newest feature. Here we find out either the inspiration behind authors’ books or how they got published. Today’s guest is Leonora Pruner, author of the historical gothic novel, In the Aerie of the Wolf.
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Composing fiction is, in a way, like composing music. It can be done [...]
Posted in The Story Behind the Book Tags: author tour, blog tour, blog tours, book blog tour, book promotion online, book tour, book tours, Guest Blogger, historical fiction, historical gothic novel, historical romance, In the Aerie of the Wolf, Leonora Pruner, literarily speaking, online book promotion, online book tour, online book tours, Pump Up Your Book, virtual author tour, virtual blog tour, virtual blog tours, virtual book tour, virtual book tours 1 Comment » June 15th, 2011 cherylmalandrinos The Story Behind the Book is Literarily Speaking’s newest feature. Here we find out either the inspiration behind authors’ books or how they got published. Today’s guest is Jane Rowan, author of the memoir, The River of Forgetting: A Memoir of Healing from Sexual Abuse.
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It may seem strange, but my book was inspired by pure [...]
Posted in The Story Behind the Book Tags: author tour, blog tour, blog tours, book blog tour, book promotion online, childhood sexual abuse, Guest Blogger, healing from sexual abuse, Jane Rowan, literarily speaking, memoir, memoirs, online book promotion, online book tour, online book tours, Pump Up Your Book, The River of Forgetting, virtual author tour, virtual blog tour, virtual blog tours, virtual book tour, virtual book tours No Comments » June 12th, 2011 cherylmalandrinos The Story Behind the Book is Literarily Speaking’s newest feature. Here we find out either the inspiration behind authors’ books or how they got published. Today’s guest is Garasamo Maccagnone, author of the literary fiction short story collection, Sentiments of Blue.
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Thirty years ago, I wrote Sentiments of Blue while attending Western Michigan University. Back in [...]
Posted in The Story Behind the Book Tags: author tour, blog tour, blog tours, book blog tour, book promotions, book tour, book tours, Garasamo Maccagnone, Guest Blogger, literarily speaking, literary fiction, online book promotion, online book tour, online book tours, Pump Up Your Book, Sentiments of Blue, short story collection, virtual author tour, virtual blog tour, virtual blog tours, virtual book tour, virtual book tours No Comments » May 23rd, 2011 cherylmalandrinos The Story Behind the Book is Literarily Speaking’s newest feature. Here we find out either the inspiration behind authors’ books or how they got published. Today’s guest is Kathi Macias, author of the international thriller, People of the Book, the fourth and final book in her Extreme Devotion series.
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People of the Book is the fourth [...]
Posted in The Story Behind the Book Tags: author tour, blog tour, blog tours, book blog tour, book promotion online, book tour, book tours, Christian international thriller, Fiction with a Mission, honor killings, Kathi Macias, literarily speaking, New Hope Publishers, online book promotion, online book tours, People of the Book, Pump Up Your Book, thriller, thriller novel, virtual author tour, virtual blog tour, virtual blog tours, virtual book tour, virtual book tours 4 Comments » May 18th, 2011 cherylmalandrinos The Story Behind the Book is Literarily Speaking’s newest feature. Here we find out either the inspiration behind authors’ books or how they got published. Today’s guest is Heather Haven, author of the humorous P.I. novel, Murder is a Family Business, the first book in her Alvarez Family Murder Mystery series.
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I’d like to think the [...]
Posted in The Story Behind the Book Tags: Alvarez Murder Mystery series, author tour, blog tour, blog tours, book blog tour, book promotion online, book tours, Guest Blogger, Heather Haven, humorous PI novel, literarily speaking, Murder is a Family Business, mystery, online book promotion, Pump Up Your Book, virtual author tour, virtual blog tour, virtual blog tours, virtual book tour, virtual book tours No Comments » May 16th, 2011 cherylmalandrinos The Story Behind the Book is Literarily Speaking’s newest feature. Here we find out either the inspiration behind authors’ books or how they got published. Today’s guest is Therese Fowler, author of the family drama novel, Exposure.
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Exposure is a story I never expected to write. I’d been working on a different book in the summer [...]
Posted in The Story Behind the Book Tags: author tour, blog tour, blog tours, book blog tour, book promotion online, Exposure, family drama novel, Guest Blogger, online book promotion, Pump Up Your Book, sexting, Therese Fowler, virtual blog tour, virtual blog tours, virtual book tour, virtual book tours 1 Comment » May 13th, 2011 cherylmalandrinos The Story Behind the Book is Literarily Speaking’s newest feature. Here we find out either the inspiration behind authors’ books or how they got published. Today’s guest is Jean Henry Mead, author of the mystery/suspense novel, Murder on the Interstate.
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Writing Mystery Novels for Older Readers
by Jean Henry Mead
I write senior sleuth novels because there’s [...]
Posted in The Story Behind the Book Tags: author tour, baby boomer fiction, blog tour, blog tours, book blog tour, book promotion online, book tours, Guest Blogger, Jean Henry Mead, literarily speaking, Logan & Cafferty, Murder on the Interstate, mystery, mystery/suspense novels, mystery/suspense series, online book promotion, online book tour, online book tours, Pump Up Your Book, virtual author tour, virtual blog tour, virtual blog tours, virtual book tour, virtual book tours No Comments » May 9th, 2011 admin The Story Behind the Book is Literarily Speaking’s newest feature. Here we find out either the inspiration behind authors’ books or how they got published. Today’s guest is Jennie Helderman, author of the nonfiction narrative, As the Sycamore Grows (Summers Bridgewater Press).
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How did I get published? I set up a publishing company and [...]
May 4th, 2011 cherylmalandrinos
The Story Behind the Book is Literarily Speaking’s newest feature. Here we find out either the inspiration behind authors’ books or how they got published. Today’s guest is Nancy Stewart, author of the bestselling children’s book, One Pelican at a Time.
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Let me begin by telling a bit about the book, One Pelican at a Time. It is [...]
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The Story Behind the Book is Literarily Speaking’s newest feature. Here we find out either the inspiration behind authors’ books or how they got published. Today’s guest is Christopher Hoare, author of the high fantasy novel, Rast.
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Many years ago my wife bought and read some of the Mervyn Peake Gormenghast gothics. I looked at a few pages and [...]
Posted in The Story Behind the Book Tags: author tour, blog tour, blog tours, book blog tour, book promotion online, book tour, book tours, Christopher Hoare, Guest Blogger, high fantasy, immersive fantasy, literarily speaking, MuseItUp Publishing, online book promotion, online book tour, online book tours, Pump Up Your Book, Rast, virtual author tour, virtual blog tour, virtual blog tours, virtual book tour, virtual book tours 1 Comment » March 13th, 2011 cherylmalandrinos
The Story Behind the Book is Literarily Speaking’s newest feature. Here we find out either the inspiration behind authors’ books or how they got published. Today’s guest is Paula McLain, author of the historical novel, The Paris Wife.
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In Ernest Hemingway’s introduction to his memoir, A Moveable Feast, he writes, “If the reader prefers, this book may be [...]
Posted in The Story Behind the Book Tags: author tour, blog tour, blog tours, book blog tour, book promotion online, Ernest Hemingway, Guest Blogger, Hadley Hemingway, historical fiction, online book promotion, Paula McLain, Pump Up Your Book, The Paris Wife, virtual author tour, virtual blog tour, virtual blog tours, virtual book tour, virtual book tours 2 Comments » March 10th, 2011 admin The Story Behind the Book is Literarily Speaking’s newest feature. Here we find out either the inspiration behind authors’ books or how they got published. Today’s guest is Barbara Barnett, author of the television nonfiction book, Chasing Zebras: The Unofficial Guide to House M.D.
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Writing Chasing Zebras: The Unofficial Guide to House, M.D. was an [...]
Posted in The Story Behind the Book Tags: Barbara Barnett, blog tours, book campaign, book events, book tour, criticism, Drama, entertainment, House, House M.D., House M.D. addiction, House M.D. authority, House M.D. expert, M.D., medicine and television, nonfiction television, pop-culture geek, promote your book, Pump Up Your Book, sell your book, television, television popular show, tv, tv guide book, tv series, virtual book tours 2 Comments » March 8th, 2011 admin The Story Behind the Book is Literarily Speaking’s newest feature. Here we find out either the inspiration behind authors’ books or how they got published. Today’s guest is Allan Leverone, author of the thriller novel, Final Vector.
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I’ve worked as an air traffic controller for nearly the last thirty years, since being hired as a [...]
February 3rd, 2011 admin The Story Behind the Book is Literarily Speaking’s newest feature. Here we find out either the inspiration behind authors’ books or how they got published. Today’s guest is David Richards, author of the women’s fiction novel, Pairs.
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Pairs has a rather motley pedigree stretching back over twenty years, but if I had to pick the [...]
February 2nd, 2011 cherylmalandrinos
The Story Behind the Book is Literarily Speaking’s newest feature. Here we find out either the inspiration behind authors’ books or how they got published. Today’s guest is Frank Scully, author of the mystery novel, Resurrection Garden (MuseItUp Publishing)
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The genesis of the story behind Resurrection Garden came to me while I was driving home during a particularly [...]
Posted in The Story Behind the Book Tags: author tour, blog tour, blog tours, book blog tour, book promotion online, book tour, book tours, Decade Mystery Series, Frank Scully, Guest Blogger, historical fiction, MuseItUp Publishing, mystery, online book promotion, online book tour, Pump Up Your Book, Resurrection Garden, virtual author tour, virtual blog tour, virtual blog tours, virtual book tour, virtual book tours No Comments » December 13th, 2010 admin The Story Behind the Book is Literarily Speaking’s newest feature. Here we find out either the inspiration behind authors’ books or how they got published. Today’s guest is Susan Wingate, author of the women’s fiction/mystery novel, Easy as Pie at Bobby’s Diner (Blue Star Books
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It’s so much fun for me to talk about how [...]
Posted in The Story Behind the Book Tags: amateur sleuth, author tour, award-winning author, blog tour, Blue Star Books, book campaign, book marketing, book promotions, book publicity, Easy as Pie at Bobby's Diner, mystery, online book promotion, online book tour, promote your book, Pump Up Your Book, sell your book, Susan Wingate, virtual book tour, women's fiction, women's fiction author 24 Comments » December 7th, 2010 admin The Story Behind the Book is Literarily Speaking’s newest feature. Here we find out either the inspiration behind authors’ books or how they got published. Today’s guest is Rolf Hitzer, author of the supernatural science fiction novel, Hoodoo Sea (Bluewater Press).
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It was a cold Canadian winter night, one of those nights where the [...]
December 6th, 2010 admin The Story Behind the Book is Literarily Speaking’s newest feature. Here we find out either the inspiration behind authors’ books or how they got published. Today’s guest is Kandy Siahaya, author of the non-fiction women’s issues novel, Making Light of Being Heavy (Northern Reprographics).
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Making Light of Being Heavy was inspired by my daily life [...]
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