Now scheduling a two week tour for Six of One, a Tudor Riff by JoAnn Spears
This tour will run Nov 18- Dec 2 (weekdays only)
I am scheduling interviews, guest blogs, reviews and spotlight stops
a pdf is available for reviewers
To participate in this tour please send:
a pdf is available for reviewers
To participate in this tour please send:
Your blog name and url
A couple suggested dates during the tour
Type of stop you wish to host
And please let me know if you'd like to review
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And please let me know if you'd like to review
Six
of One, a Tudor Riff
JoAnn
Spears
Genre: Historical fiction, satire, women's fiction,
chick lit, alternative history, historical fantasy
ASIN: B006OPKZE6
Number of pages: 304
Word Count: 79,000
Book
Description:
“Six of One” is the ultimate
‘girls’ night in’…with the six wives of Henry VIII. It’s the most fun you can
have with your nightdress on! Join
Dolly, the Tudor-obsessed heroine of “Six of One”, on a Yellow Brick Road
journey to the alternate reality of an all-girl Tudor court.
It all begins when Dolly loses
consciousness on the eve of her marriage to the six-times- divorced Harry. She awakens in the company of the Tudor women
she’s studied all her life. They have a mission to accomplish, and Dolly may be
just the girl who can help them do it.
As a warm-up to her life-changing
interview with the six wives of Henry VIII, Dolly gets to dish with lots of the
other fascinating females of the Tudor era. She learns things she never guessed
about the Princes in the Tower from their sister, Elizabeth of York…Henry
VIII’s mom. She talks sex with Henry’s
sisters and scholarship with his daughters. She even gossips with the help,
since Kat Ashley and Bess of Hardwicke are among the ladies on hand.
Of course the heart of the story
is in Dolly’s interview with the six wives of Henry VIII. It turns out there’s
something to each of the wives’ stories that’s been held back all this
time. You won’t believe what really
happened…or will you?
“Six of One” offers no tragedy,
no excuses, and no apologies. It does have lots of broad humor, not to mention
tons of puns. And—for a change—a happy ending
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About
the Author:
JoAnn Spears spent a lot of time
trying to figure out whether she wanted to major in English or History in college. Life stepped in, and she wound up with a
Master’s Degree in Nursing instead. A
twenty-five year nursing career didn’t extinguish that early interest in books
and history. It did however stoke a decidedly gallows sense of humor.
The story of the six wives of
Henry VIII was JoAnn’s favorite piece of history. She read the classic variations and the
feminist variations, the tragic spins and the vindicating spins. She witnessed the success of the pop culture,
soft-core Tudor offerings of recent vintage. It occurred to her that the one
thing that hadn’t been brought to a full length novel about the Tudors was a
gallows sense of humor. The Tudors certainly qualified for it, and JoAnn had
plenty to spare.
The first ‘real’ book JoAnn ever
read was “The Wizard of Oz”. She
returned to the Yellow Brick Road for inspiration for a new kind of Tudor
novel, and “Six of One” was born.
“Six of One” was begun in JoAnn’s
native New Jersey. It was wrapped up in her new Smoky Mountain home in
northeast Tennessee, where she is pursuing a second career as a writer. She
has, however, obtained a Tennessee nursing license because a) you never stop
being a nurse and b) her son Bill thinks she should be sensible and not quit her
day job.
While “Six of One” is a different
kind of historical fiction novel, JoAnn is a downright stereotypical lady
author. She admits to all of the cats,
flower beds, needlework, and obsessive devotion to Jane Austen and Louisa May
Alcott that you’d expect.
Twitter: @joannspearsrn
1 comment:
So exciting! Looking forward to my first blog tour.
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