Book Bloggers Wanted to Host My Forthcoming Memoirs!

Are you a book blogger seeking content for your site? Would you like to host a guest post or author interview, maybe even do a book review?

I am seeking bloggers for an informal blog tour to promote the November 7th release of my forthcoming memoirs. On Hearing of My Mother's Death Six Years After It Happened: A Daughter's Memoir of Mental Illness commemorates my adolescent experience of my mother's psychosis, while Stories from My Memory-Shelf: Fiction and Essays from My Past is an autobiographical collection of short stories and essays inspired by real-life events.

Both books are short (about ninety pages), are suitable for audiences from teen/YA on up, and will be available in paperback as well as eBook and audiobook. I will be happy to provide whatever type of content you desire, whether it's a blurb, an excerpt, a guest post on a particular topic, or an interview (either written or oral), and I am also open to offering copies to your readers if you'd like to host a giveaway. Also, although I do have a number of reviewers lined up, I will gladly take more - lots more! - so if either of these books sounds interesting to you and you have time in your schedule to read and review one or both, I will be delighted to send you a free digital copy at your request.

Not a formal book blogger but think you might want to host a stop on my blog tour anyway? Great! In the interest of friendship, I've refrained from asking my social media acquaintances who are not book bloggers for reviews or guest posts, but I'm delighted to appear in almost any venue if you think your readers will enjoy my story.

You can contact me via email at lorilschafer(at)outlook(dot)com or via Twitter @LoriLSchafer if you're interested. I look forward to hearing from you!

The blog hop bunny. I know he looks ponderous, but watch out once he gets moving!

I Am Subject: Women Awakening

Well, I'm finally starting to make headway on some of the work that piled up while I was out of town all those weeks. Aside from the dozens of travel posts I have yet to write, the stacks of mail I have yet to open, and oh, yeah, that whole dual book launch thing that's happening just four weeks from today, I'm not in bad shape. (Excuse me for a moment while I cry. There, there. There, there. Much better.)

Among the major events in a writer's life that I unfortunately neglected was this one: I am thrilled to announce the publication of author Diane DeBella's anthology I Am Subject Stories: Women Awakening, which features my essay On Writing My Memoir. For those of you who missed it, you can read my piece here, or better yet, click the image below to be taken to the Amazon page and click "Look Inside!" Right after the introduction you'll find my essay - in fact, it's the only one that shows up in the preview! How cool is that? I guess there's something to be said for being first after all.



Needless to say, I'm truly honored to be a part of the #iamsubject project (http://www.iamsubject.com/ - "Keeping girls and women subject of their own lives") and I'd like to offer my apologies to Diane DeBella and the other authors involved for my tardiness in promoting the anthology's publication. I'm sure they'll forgive me once they see what I have planned in compensation. Now if only I could remember where I put that hot air balloon guy's number...