IT’S BLOG TOUR DE TROOPS, BABY!

What’s this Blog Tour de Troops all about anyway?



I don’t come from a military family, though my grandfather was in the army. He met my grandmother when he was on an injury leave in Miami Beach in the 1940s. She was a widow recovering from the death of her first husband. I like to think that fate soothed her grief enough to open her eyes to this sweet man who noticed her great gams and easy smile.


Whatever it was, within a month they married. She was grateful for this generous man with a huge heart who took in not only a widow in her thirties (remember what decade this was) but also a very small girl (my mom), whom he adopted and raised as his own. They had a son, and many wonderful years together, until he died far too young in the 1970s of stomach cancer.


What does this have to do me, my book A Walk In The Snark, free Kindles, and free eBooks for you?


I think we’re all connected in some way to our military folks, whether it’s a long-lost family member, a friend, or simply supporting our troops out there now defending our country. Did you know that the top request of our troops is books?


Which is why I’m thrilled and honored to be a part of the Indie Book Collective’s thirty-five authors offering our eBooks free to any commenters this Memorial Weekend who visit our blogs. In addition, each comment earns a free eBook for a troop! Plus, you’re entered into our free Kindle drawing!


Yep – we will get a copy of all our eBooks to a member of the military as well free Kindles – but we need your help. In addition to comments, we need donations – even a dollar helps! Click below too contribute.

 But hey, you can also help in other ways – RT or share this blog post with everyone you know – share the free eBook love with your friends. Not only do they get a free copy of my book if they come here and comment, they can also designate another troop to receive my book also! AND they can also donate to our drive for free Kindles for our troops as well. Everyone wins!


Plus – check out all the other authors involved and their terrific books today – in fact, the author who ended yesterday’s blog hop, Roy Finch is here: read about his intriguingly humorous thriller The Emporer of Glitter Gulch in this brief synopsis:


Leonard Orton inhabits a part of Las Vegas that most tourists never see; the dirty underbelly of a city populated by hookers and strippers, juiced-up bouncers and semi-professional cage fighters. Leonard is in the process of running his flagging law firm into the toilet when a woman approaches him to handle a case that might prove to be his salvation. And even if he is a bad lawyer, and Leonard is certainly that — quite possibly the worst lawyer in all ofLas Vegas, which would place him high in the running for worst lawyer worldwide — Leonard has a chance to resurrect his career and gain a measure of retribution against his lifelong nemesis.


Also check out the next author in the chain, Fred Venturini here and his literary fiction fantasy The Samaritan:


Dale Sampson is a nobody. A small town geek with an ailing mother and a father who skipped town, Dale lives in the shadow of his best friend Mack, the high school baseball star. While Mack racks up one female conquest after another, Dale can’t even gather the courage to talk to a girl . . . and when he finally decides to take a chance, he loses everything.






When he runs into the twin sister of the girl he loved and lost, Dale finds his calling–he will become a Samaritan. Determined to rescue her from a violent marriage and redeem himself in the process, he decides to use the only weapon he has, besides a toaster. This weapon, the inexplicable ability to regrow his limbs and organs, leads him to fame and fortune as the star of a blockbuster TV reality show. But he will soon learn that being a Samaritan can be a heartbreaking affair, especially when the one person he wants to save doesn’t want saving.






Both books look amazing and I personally can’t wait to download them – how about you?


Okay, housekeeping:


• Leave a comment below and share with us your connection to our military – is it you, a family member, a friend? Also please remember to include your email or I can’t send you the free coupon code to download my book from Smashwords (in any format except print).


• Do you have a specific soldier in mind to receive my book? Let me know! Leave their info below in your comment (or if you’d rather do it privately, email me at rachelintheoc@gmail.com).


• If you just want me/IBC to designate a soldier, got it. Done.


• Please give me (and the other authors) a day or so to get through the comments and respond to you with the code. We know you want the books and we won’t forget – promise! But this is kind of a crazy holiday weekend so give us a moment to catch up! Thanks for participating.


• We’d ALL really appreciate a review on Amazon after you read our books. As indies, we count on you wonderful readers for word-of-mouth advertising *puppy dog eyes*


• Did you know you can LIKE our pages on Amazon now? Click here to LIKE mine *more puppy dog eyes*






Thanks for visiting me and I hope you enjoy my humorous (and at times poignant collection) of essays A Walk In The Snark. Please read this review by my review sponsor Alchemy of Scrawl aka @nownewstrue on Twitter. She rocks and is a super supportive reviewer/sponsor of indie writers. I’m so excited to also offer a free eBook to all of her commenters as well! Please support Coral and her review blog by following not only her blog but also Facebook and Twitter.


And let’s support our troops, baby….

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