Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Now scheduling a one-month tour for The Great Dick and the Dysfunctional Demo by Barry Maher



Now scheduling a one-month tour for The Great Dick and the Dysfunctional Demo by Barry Maher

This tour will be May 11- June 8 (weekdays only)

I am scheduling reviews, guest blogs, interviews, and spotlight stops

review copy available

To participate in this tour please send:

Your blog name and url

A couple suggested dates during the tour

Please let me know if you wish to review

The Great Dick and the Dysfunctional Demon
Barry Maher

Genre: Supernatural Thriller
Publisher: Crystal Lake Publishing
Date of Publication: 09/2025
ISBN: 978-1968532130
ASIN: B0FKWK2K7C
Number of pages: 464
Word Count: 125,000

Tagline: A wickedly funny, dark humor. supernatural thriller, blending horror with a thrilling murder mystery.

Book Description:

It’s 1982. Steve Witowski was once a hero. Now he’s simply a failed songwriter, running from the law. Worse, he’s just killed a man—while almost accidentally saving a woman from what seemed to be the strongest, most blood-thirsty wino in California. 

He should keep moving. But the woman, Victoria, is beyond stunning. Steve stays. And Victoria becomes just a part of a mystery he can’t unravel. Even as the face of the man he just killed slowly, gradually appears on his arm. And what starts out as a gritty crime story spirals into what author David Moody called, “A chillingly funny, hot, sweaty, magic and murder infused rollercoaster.” Complete with open crypts, dark spells, sudden death, and forces more powerful and demonic than Steve understands. Where nothing is what it seems. And Steve may be the next victim.


About the Author:
 
Barry Maher may be the only horror novelist who’s ever appeared in the pages of Funeral Service Insider. In his misspent youth, his articles appeared in perhaps a hundred different publications and, in order to eat, he held nearly that many different jobs. Sometimes he lived on the beach. Not in a house on the beach. On the beach. With the sand and the seagulls. 

Then he started telling his stories to audiences. More important, he started telling his stories to audiences and charging. That took him all over the country and around the world: his client list a Who’s Who of leading corporations, associations and cruise lines. You may have seen Barry on The Today Show, CNN, CBS or CNBC, or read about him in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today or in his own, Slightly Off-Kilter syndicated column.

On the downside, he’s also been incarcerated twice. Once for not making a left hand turn out of a left hand turn lane, and once for aiding and abetting a loiterer. 

He’s deeply repentant. 

Newsletter: www.barrymaher.com
 



 




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Monday, April 20, 2026

Now On Tour Maiden Tomb by Cynthia Sally Haggard #FairytaleRetelling #Fantasy



April 20 The Creatively Green Write at Home Mom (Guest Blog)

April 20 Serena Synn

April 21 Liliyana Shadowlyn
  
April 21 Sapphyria's Books

April 22 The Book Junkie Reads (Interview)

April 23 Other Worlds of Romance (Guest Blog)

April 23 Books+Coffee=Happiness 

April 24 Supernatural Central (Interview)

April 27 Lisa’s World of Books

April 28 Fang-tastic Books 

April 29  Deal Sharing Aunt (Interview)

April 30 Paranormalists (Guest Blog)

May 1 Roxanne’s Realm 

May 1 Crandom  (Review)

May 4 Bewitching Book Tours

May 4 Books1987
   

Maiden Tomb
Twelve Cursed Maidens Series
Book One
Cynthia Sally Haggard

Genre: Fairytale Retelling, Fantasy
ASIN: ‎ B0DNWVFZ81
Publisher: ‎Cynthia Sally Haggard Press
Publication Date: ‎ February 4, 2025

Tagline: Would you marry a stranger to free your sisters from imprisonment?

Book Description: 

In this retelling of The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sixteen-year-old Justice wants to release her sisters from the maw of Father's imprisonment. But what can she do? The easiest way would be to find suitors for them.

However, that is not so easy, for Justice's elder sisters are strange. What with All-Gifted's madness, Protectress's hair writhing with snakes, Death-Bringer's grief (not to mention her strange name), Shining's too-overt sexuality, Maiden's tart tongue, Shadow's crippling shyness, no sensible man would want her sisters as wives. Which leaves Justice, the seventh daughter, the one who possesses a quiet authority.

Justice has already acquired an admirer in the shape of Lord Nobody, who proclaims his undying love for her. But what does he really want? And doesn't he have a wife already?

Amazon     BN     Author Website     Google     Books2Read


About the Author:

Cynthia Sally Haggard was born and reared in Surrey, England.

About 40 years ago, she surfaced in the United States, inhabiting the Mid-Atlantic region as she wound her way through four careers: violinist, cognitive scientist, medical writer, and novelist.

Her first novel, Thwarted Queen, a saga set in 1400s England with a Game of Thrones vibe, won the 2021 Gold Medal IPPY Award for Audiobook. Her second novel, Farewell My Life, a dark historical about a hidden murderer, won the 2021 Independent Press Award for Women’s Fiction and was a 2019 Distinguished Favorite for the New York City Big Book Award. (Farewell is now a set of four novellas that make up the Grace Miller series.)

Maiden Tomb, the first of four projected novellas that will form the Twelve Cursed Maidens series, was a 2026 Distinguished Favorite for the Independent Press Award. Cynthia graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University, Cambridge MA, in June 2015.

When she’s not annoying everyone by insisting her fictional characters are more real than they are, Cynthia likes to go for long walks, knit something glamorous, cook in her wonderful kitchen, and play the piano.

You can visit her at: 













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Wednesday, April 8, 2026

April Ghouls Day at the Flint Farmer's Market

 Join me this Saturday at April Ghouls Day 

Saturday, April 11, 11 am - 4 pm


Flint Farmer's Market

300 E 1st St

Flint, MI 48502


Artists, authors, filmmakers, crafters, musicians, and more!


FREE for all ages at the Flint Farmers Market.


Event by the Flint Horror Collective

https://www.facebook.com/events/1020060861186900


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Monday, April 6, 2026

Bewitching Book Promotions- Packages and Pricing for Michigan Authors

Michigan Author Publicity

Bewitching Book
Promotions

Service Packages & Pricing Guide

Helping Michigan authors build their brand, expand their reach, and connect with readers across the Great Lakes State — and beyond.

Our Packages

Starter
$350
Brand Audit & Roadmap
Standard
$750
Branding + Local Outreach
Premium
$1,400
Expanded PR + Virtual Tour
Full Launch
$2,500
Full 3-Month Campaign

Service Packages

Starter Package
$350
One-time fee  |  Perfect for new or self-published authors
Brand Audit & Strategy
Website & social media presence review (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn)
Written report with specific recommendations for improvement
Author bio review and rewrite suggestions
Social Media Kickstart
3 custom social media graphics (cover image, author promo, book promo)
3 promotional posts on Bewitching social media pages
Vending & Event Guidance
Curated list of 5–10 Michigan craft fairs, book fairs & local events for vending (vending fees extra)
Tips for table setup, display, and selling at events
Deliverables provided within 2 weeks of intake form completion.
Standard Package
$750
One-time fee  |  Best for authors ready to grow their platform
Everything in Starter, plus:
Bookstore & Library Outreach
Outreach to up to 5 Michigan independent bookstores for signing or consignment
Outreach to up to 3 Michigan libraries for author reading or event
Social Media Management (4 Weeks)
8 custom social media graphics
Content calendar with captions for 4 weeks
4 promotional posts on Bewitching social media pages
Media Outreach
Pitch letter written and sent to 3 podcast hosts
Press release written and distributed to local media outlets
Campaign runs approximately 4–6 weeks from kickoff.
Premium Package
$1,400
One-time fee  |  Ideal for authors launching a new title
Everything in Standard, plus:
Expanded Bookstore Outreach
Outreach to up to 10 Michigan independent bookstores for signings or events
Coordination of up to 2 confirmed in-store signing events
Podcast & Media Placements
Pitched to up to 6 podcast hosts
Pitched to 2 local TV or radio news outlets for author feature
Virtual Book Tour
Coordination of 1-week virtual book tour (blogs, websites, and social media)
Promotional graphics for tour stops
Enhanced Social Media
16 custom social media graphics
6-week content calendar with captions
1 short promotional video reel
Promoted post campaign on our social platforms
Campaign duration: 6–8 weeks. Signing coordination subject to bookstore availability.
Full Launch Package
$2,500
3-month campaign  |  For authors serious about maximum visibility
Everything in Premium, plus:
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Dedicated publicist contact for the full 3 months
Monthly strategy check-in
Bookstore & Event Tour
Outreach to 15+ Michigan bookstores
Coordination of up to 4 confirmed in-store signing or event appearances
Coordination of vending at 1–2 Michigan book fairs or festivals (vending fees extra)
Advice for library presentation creation and readings
Full Media Blitz
Pitched to up to 10 podcast hosts
Pitched to 3–5 local TV, radio, and news outlets
2 press releases written & distributed
Complete Virtual Book Tour
2-week virtual tour with full coordination & promotional graphics
Social Media & Graphics
30 custom social media graphics (profile, promotional, quote cards, event graphics)
Full 12-week content calendar with captions
3 short promotional video reels
Ongoing social media monitoring & engagement support
Author Brand Kit
Media kit (bio, headshot, talking points, sample interview questions)
Monthly payment plan available: 3 payments of $865. Signing/event coordination subject to venue availability.

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Mix and match any of the following to customize your campaign.

Service Price
Social Media Brand Audit (written report only)$75
2-Week Virtual Book Tour$95
2-Week Social Media + Tour Combo$175
Author Bio Rewrite$50
Custom Social Media Graphics (set of 5)$75
1 Short Promotional Video Reel$50
Press Release (written + distributed to local media)$150
Podcast Pitch & Outreach (up to 5 podcasts)$150
Local TV/Radio Pitch & Outreach (up to 3 outlets)$175
Bookstore Outreach (up to 5 stores)$125
Bookstore Signing Coordination (1 confirmed event)$100
Vending Event Research & List (10+ events curated for your genre)$75

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  • Bookstore signings, library events, podcast placements, and media features are coordinated and pitched, but cannot be guaranteed — availability and acceptance are at the discretion of third parties.
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  • Monthly payment plans are available for the Full Launch Package and for any order over $1,000.
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Prices reflect the local Michigan market and small-business rates. Comparable national agencies charge $1,500–$5,000/month for similar services. Our goal is to make professional book publicity accessible to every Michigan author.

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Friday, April 3, 2026

Now scheduling a two-week tour for Gossiping About Grimoires by Mildred Abbott #ParanormalMystery


Now scheduling a two-week tour for Gossiping About Grimoires by Mildred Abbott

This tour will be April 27- May 11 (weekdays only)

I am scheduling reviews, guest blogs, interviews, and spotlight stops

review copy available

To participate in this tour please send:

Your blog name and url

A suggested date during the tour

Please let me know if you wish to review

Gossiping About Grimoires
Whispering Witch 
Book One
Mildred Abbott

Genre: Paranormal Mystery
Publisher: Wings of Ink Publications, LLC
Date of Publication: March 10, 2026
ISBN: 979-8243417433
ASIN: B0GJTS4272
Number of pages: 400
Word Count: 103,600

Cover Artist: Christian Bentulan 

Book Description:

Maeve Hawthorn writes about witches for a living. They want her to stop.

When a book signing ends in her abduction, Maeve’s only priority is escaping with her corgi, Mischief, alive. That urgency deepens when she learns her captors are real witches, furious that Maeve has been exposing their secrets to the world.

Before Maeve can make sense of how her fiction has become reality, she’s caught in the middle of a murder that leaves her marked by magic she doesn’t understand. When a dying witch’s power floods into her, Maeve becomes the prime suspect in a crime she didn’t commit—and a target for every supernatural being certain she knows too much.

Turns out, magic isn’t a gift. It’s a liability. And clearing her name may cost Maeve far more than her safety.

With danger closing in and no clear allies other than Mischief, Maeve must navigate a hidden supernatural world that wants her silenced… or dead.

About the Author:

Mildred Abbott writes cozy mysteries filled with humorous and complex characters. Whether brimming with magic or simply an above-average dose of curiosity, Mildred's amateur sleuths solve murders with the cutest sidekicks ever. Fifteen years as a special education teacher and a lifetime of loving rescue dogs result in creating adventures with a ton of heart and the need for lint rollers.








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Sunday, March 29, 2026

Now scheduling a one-month tour for Transcendence by Katrina Kimball #DarkFantasy #ParanormalThriller


Now scheduling a one-month tour for Transcendence by Katrina Kimball

This tour will be April 28- May 26 (weekdays only)

I am scheduling reviews, guest blogs, interviews, and spotlight stops

review copy available on Bookfunnel

To participate in this tour please send:

Your blog name and url

A suggested date during the tour

Please let me know if you wish to review

Transcendence
Katrina Kimball

Genre: Paranormal Thriller, Dark Fantasy
Publisher: Rowan Prose Publishing
Date of Publication: April 28, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-961967-80-9
ASIN: B0F711QN1B
Number of pages: 348 pages
Word Count: 85,482
Cover Artist: Rowan Prose Publishing

Book Description: 

When a demonic entity seeking revenge starts tormenting her family, a young woman must rediscover their shared past and embrace her own divine power in order to save not only those she loves, but the creature bent on her destruction.

If you asked Alexis Ferelli what her biggest challenges are in life, she’d say it’s parenting her daughter, Luna, running her masseuse practice, and deftly avoiding conversations about marriage with her partner, Jack. At least, that was the case before she attended a séance. Now, the spirits are trying to contact her and there’s a demonic entity in her daughter’s closet.

Determined to find answers, she turns to the psychic from the séance and the spirit world for help. As she dabbles in the hereafter, she not only discovers another dimension filled with angelic guides, magic, and wonder, but also learns the shocking truth of her connection to the creature tormenting her daughter.

As the dark entity grows bolder and sets its sights on Jack as well as Luna, Alexis realizes that to save them all, she has to face the creature she once betrayed to bring it out of the darkness and back into the light.

Fans of Alix Harrow’s Starling House or Neil Gaiman’s Coraline will enjoy Transcendencs by Katrina Kimball.

About the Author:

A horror enthusiast and lover of all things mysterious and unknowable, it was only a matter of time before author Katrina Kimball picked up her pen and mashed the paranormal, fantasy, and horror genres into one with her debut novel “Transcendence.” When she isn’t working on a novel or binge-watching shows about Bigfoot, ghosts, or aliens, she’s probably thinking about any one of those three things. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her two children and her adorable Boston Terrier, Beaux.







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Monday, March 16, 2026

Now On Tour Ghostly Returns by Stephanie Hansen #Horror #Romance


March 16 Deal Sharing Aunt

March 16 The Book Junkie Reads

March 16 Books1987
 
March 17 Serena Synn

March 17 Supernatural Central

March 18 Lisa’s World of Books

March 18 Liliyana Shadowlyn

March 19 A Bewitching Guide to Halloween (Guest Blog)

March 19 Fang-tastic Books 

March 20 Paranormalists (Guest Blog)

March 20 Roxanne’s Realm 

March 20 The Creatively Green Write at Home Mom (Guest Blog)

March 23 Gail’s Gory Details

March 23 Sapphyria's Books




Ghostly Returns 
Ghostly Howls 
Book Two
Stephanie Hansen

Genre: Horror Romance
Publisher: Hypothesis Books
Date of Publication: 2/10/26
ISBN: 979-8245440408
ASIN: B0FSXRJLYY
Number of pages: 113 (novella)
Word Count: 25,000
Cover Artist: Miblart

Tagline: Irish Folklore meets Small Town US

Book Description: 

Strange visitors have appeared in Ethel, their clothes and mannerisms jarring against the familiar rhythm of the coastal town. The woman in Orla and Dave's spare room speaks in archaic phrases and marvels at electric lights, while the silent man staying with Molly and Cormac carries a translucent device that glows with symbols no one recognizes.

As fog rolls in from the sea, bringing with it the now-familiar whispers and cold spots that signal another haunting, the four friends realize they must unravel the temporal mystery before them. The clock tower strikes at midnight, and both past and future hang in the balance.

*Contains mature themes, open door sex scenes, and mature language.

Books2Read      Amazon      BN     Apple       Kobo


About the Author:

Stephanie Hansen is a PenCraft and Global Book Award Winning Author as well as an Imadjinn finalist. Her debut novella series, Altered Helix, released in 2020. It hit the #1 New Release, #1 Best Seller, and other top 100 lists on Amazon. It is now being adapted to an animated story for Tales. Her debut novel, Replaced Parts, released in 2021 through Fire & Ice YA and Tantor Audio. It has been in a Forbes article, hit Amazon bestseller lists, and made the Apple young adult coming soon bestsellers list. The second book in the Transformed Nexus series, Omitted Pieces, released in 2022. Her debut spicy paranormal romance, Ghostly Howls, released 2023. Her debut historical magical realism, Armored Hours, released 2024. The Armored Hours sequel, Guarded Time, released 2025 and the Ghostly Howls sequel, Ghostly Returns, released 2026. She is a member of the deaf and hard of hearing community, so she tries to incorporate that into her fiction.










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Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Now scheduling a two-week tour for Maiden Tomb by Cynthia Sally Haggard #FairytaleRetelling #Fantasy


Now scheduling a two-week tour for Maiden Tomb by Cynthia Sally Haggard

This tour will be April 20- May 4 (weekdays only)

I am scheduling reviews, guest blogs, interviews, and spotlight stops

review epub available

To participate in this tour please send:

Your blog name and url

A suggested date during the tour

Please let me know if you wish to review

Maiden Tomb
Twelve Cursed Maidens Series
Book One
Cynthia Sally Haggard

Genre: Fairytale Retelling, Fantasy
ASIN: ‎ B0DNWVFZ81
Publisher: ‎Cynthia Sally Haggard Press
Publication Date: ‎ February 4, 2025

Tagline: Would you marry a stranger to free your sisters from imprisonment?

Book Description: 

In this retelling of The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sixteen-year-old Justice wants to release her sisters from the maw of Father's imprisonment. But what can she do? The easiest way would be to find suitors for them.

However, that is not so easy, for Justice's elder sisters are strange. What with All-Gifted's madness, Protectress's hair writhing with snakes, Death-Bringer's grief (not to mention her strange name), Shining's too-overt sexuality, Maiden's tart tongue, Shadow's crippling shyness, no sensible man would want her sisters as wives. Which leaves Justice, the seventh daughter, the one who possesses a quiet authority.

Justice has already acquired an admirer in the shape of Lord Nobody, who proclaims his undying love for her. But what does he really want? And doesn't he have a wife already?

Amazon     BN     Author Website     Google     Books2Read

 



About the Author:

Cynthia Sally Haggard was born and reared in Surrey, England.

About 40 years ago, she surfaced in the United States, inhabiting the Mid-Atlantic region as she wound her way through four careers: violinist, cognitive scientist, medical writer, and novelist.

Her first novel, Thwarted Queen, a saga set in 1400s England with a Game of Thrones vibe, won the 2021 Gold Medal IPPY Award for Audiobook. Her second novel, Farewell My Life, a dark historical about a hidden murderer, won the 2021 Independent Press Award for Women’s Fiction and was a 2019 Distinguished Favorite for the New York City Big Book Award. (Farewell is now a set of four novellas that make up the Grace Miller series.)

Maiden Tomb, the first of four projected novellas that will form the Twelve Cursed Maidens series, was a 2026 Distinguished Favorite for the Independent Press Award. Cynthia graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University, Cambridge MA, in June 2015.

When she’s not annoying everyone by insisting her fictional characters are more real than they are, Cynthia likes to go for long walks, knit something glamorous, cook in her wonderful kitchen, and play the piano.

You can visit her at: 












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