Book Blog Tour Begins

Gather booklovers and authors take note. Book blog tours are a great way for authors to help publicize their work, and for readers to interact with authors. A book blog tour is a rolling event that moves from blogger to blogger. It can be as simple as a bloggers review of a book, or an interview between blogger and author, or a happy combination of both. 

The first stop for my blog tour for my book The Scent of God began on May 4 with Rachelle Gardner who introduced me to book blogs. Her blog of musings on faith, kids, marriage, books and life brings a refreshingly open perspective to  those issues. A blog tour is almost as good as attending a book reading. I hope you’ll check Rachelle's post and leave a comment that you’ve been there.

I will be updating this post every week with the next tour stop on the day it occurs and shall connect with that site throughout the day to interact with you. A number of Gatherers have agreed to act as tour hosts including Patry Francis, Kathryn Esplin Oleski, David Rochester, Diana Raabe, Jessie Voigts, Amanda W., Tonia G. with Debbie G., and Dolphi (my book traveled all the way from India to reach her).

The Scent of God is at it's core a love story—the search for God that led me into a cloistered monastery and the unraveling of that vocation twelve years later in Puerto Rico when I met and fell in love with Padre Vittorio. The book moves from cloister to Puerto Rico, to Italy as our faith and dedication to religious life collide with human love. It’s a fast-paced and diligently researched memoir that best-selling author Ann Patchett found "impossible to put down."

The Scent of God was just nominated by booksellers for a Midwest Booksellers Book Award and the Minneapolis Star Tribune named her as a "Best of 2006 Minnesota Authors."