tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38099204297925113862023-11-15T11:32:45.377-05:00Entering the Blue Stone Blog TourTribute Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16959016294721462184noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3809920429792511386.post-16285324754316875432012-04-11T13:19:00.003-04:002012-06-28T16:24:52.929-04:00Blog Tour Schedule<span style="font-weight: bold;">June 2012 - Confirmed Dates</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Monday, June 4</span><br />
<a href="http://www.bibliophilicbookblog.com/2012/06/molly-best-tinsley-guest-post-titles.html" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">The Bibliophilic Book Blog</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>(guest post)<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Tuesday, June 5</span><br />
<a href="http://thebookconnectionccm.blogspot.com/2012/06/guest-blogger-molly-best-tinsley-author.html" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">The Book Connection</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>(guest post)<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Wednesday, June 6</span><br />
<a href="http://yougottaread.com/blog-tour-entering-the-blue-stone-molly-best/" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">You Gotta Read</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>(guest post)<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Thursday, June 7</span><br />
<a href="http://dabalepublishing.blogspot.com/2012/06/walk-down-memory-lane-with-molly-best.html" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">D A Bale</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>(guest post)<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">and</span><br />
<a href="http://iamareadernotawriter.blogspot.com/2012/06/author-interview-book-giveaway-entering.html" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">I Am A Reader, Not A Writer</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>(author interview & giveaway)<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Monday, June 11</span><br />
<a href="http://mindingspot.blogspot.com/2012/06/entering-blue-stone-guest-post-by.html" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Minding Spot</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>(guest post)<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Wednesday, June 13</span><br />
<a href="http://reviewsbymolly.com/tribute-books-blog-tour-guest-post-entering-the-blue-stones-molly-best-tinsley/" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Reviews by Molly</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>(guest post)<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Monday, June 18</span><br />
<a href="http://proudbooknerd.com/2012/06/18/blog-tour-entering-the-blue-stone-guest-post/" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Proud Book Nerd</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>(guest post)<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Tuesday, June 19</span><br />
<a href="http://jc-martin.com/fighterwriter/2012/06/publishing-journey-molly-best-tinsley/" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Fighter Writer</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>(guest post)<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Thursday, June 21</span><br />
<a href="http://saphsbookblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/virtual-book-tour-guest-post-entering.html" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Sapphyria's Book Reviews</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>(guest post)<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Saturday, June 23</span><br />
<a href="http://mamaknowsbooks.blogspot.com/2012/06/book-tour-entering-blue-stone-guest.html" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Mama Knows Books</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>(guest post)<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Monday, June 25</span><br />
<B>CMash Loves to Read</B><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>(<B><A HREF="http://cmashlovestoread.com/2012/06/25/guest-author-molly-best-tinsley/" target="_blank">guest post</a> & <A HREF="http://cmashlovestoread.com/2012/06/25/international-ebook-entry-giveaway-page-entering-the-blue-stone-by-molly-best-tinsley/" target="_blank">giveaway</A></B>)<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Wednesday, June 27</span><br />
<a href="http://www.books-n-kisses.com/2012/06/guest-blogger-molly-best-tinsley/" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Books-n-Kisses</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>(guest post)<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Thursday, June 28</span><br />
<a href="http://www.fromthetbrpile.blogspot.com/2012/06/guest-blog-molly-best-tinsley.html" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">From the TBR Pile</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>(guest post)<br />
<i>click link to read the posted guest post</i>Tribute Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16959016294721462184noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3809920429792511386.post-74533501275005088992012-04-11T13:12:00.001-04:002012-04-11T13:12:54.715-04:00ExcerptHe stands on a parade ground, reviewing block after block of blue uniforms filing past. The band is playing “Wild Blue Yonder,” flags are flapping, salutes jerk in robotic unison. He is at his official peak. As the new commander of Air Weather Service, our father is making his snippet of history. From the grandstand draped in red, white, and blue, my sister and I try to keep our squirming children in their seats, convinced that once out of sight the marchers are double-timing back to the starting line for another round.<br /><br /> The brim of his hat shadows the upper half of his face. The lower half isn’t smiling. His chin juts forward as befits this occasion of high seriousness. It is a time to show uncompromising strength. A time if there ever was one when the code we have lived by applies: <span style="font-style: italic;"> feelings under wraps and mouths shut outside the family. </span>Tribute Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16959016294721462184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3809920429792511386.post-31290563590929594822012-04-11T13:05:00.002-04:002012-04-11T13:11:57.953-04:00Reviews“This is a brave, beautifully written account of Molly Best Tinsley’s parents’ final years in America’s new solution—the continuing care facility. She shows us that no matter where we decline and finally die, it is both tragedy and triumph.” <br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">- Shannon Ravenel</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">editor, </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">New Stories from the South </span><br /><br />“While Molly Best Tinsley’s story of her parents’ last years is the dark end of the family romance, you discover the dignity and unexpected comedy of their struggle. It also charts the journey of three siblings from denial to indignation and finally acceptance as they learn how to bring comfort to a mother and father who inhabit their own inner worlds.” <br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">- Merrill Leffler</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">editor, Dryad Press; poet, </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Mark the Music </span><br /><br />“Luminous, funny, and heartbreaking, <span style="font-style: italic;">Entering the Blue Stone</span> is a beautiful book—the writing, of course, but also the quality of heart—it is so informed by love, without being in the least sentimental.” <br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">- Joyce Reiser Kornblatt</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">author, </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">The Reason for Wings </span><br /><br />“What happens when one’s larger-than-life military parents - so strong, so capable, so valiant - begin to slide out of control? Molly Best Tinsley tells the story of her parents’ final battle - roles are reversed, rules are unclear, and the entire family is engulfed by a strange and deepening fog. It is a story both familiar and exceedingly rare, beautiful and harrowing and often very funny. <span style="font-style: italic;">Entering the Blue Stone</span> is a small gem of a book. Read it.”<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">- Mary Edwards Wertsch </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">author, </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Military Brats: Legacies of Childhood Inside the Fortress</span><br /><br />"<span style="font-style: italic;">Entering the Blue Stone</span> is a necessary, compelling, beautifully crafted story. With tenderness and humor, Molly Best Tinsley weaves lyrical childhood memories, medical details of her parents’ decline, and insights about the passing of life.”<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">- Geraldine Connolly</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">poet,</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> Hand of the Wind</span>Tribute Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16959016294721462184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3809920429792511386.post-87858767209474045382012-04-11T12:43:00.003-04:002012-04-11T13:15:26.501-04:00Press Release<span style="font-weight: bold;">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">CONTACT:</span> Karetta Hubbard<br /> Fuze Publishing <br /> <a href="mailto:fuzepublishing@gmail.com"><span style="font-weight: bold;">fuzepublishing@gmail.com</span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Entering the Blue Stone</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">A Memoir, by Molly Best Tinsley</span><br /><br />What happens when one's larger-than-life military parents--disciplined, distinguished, exacting--begin sliding out of control? The General struggles to maintain his invulnerable façade against Parkinson's disease; his lovely wife manifests a bizarre dementia. Their three grown children, desperate to save the situation, convince themselves of the perfect solution: an upscale retirement community. But as soon as their parents have been resettled within its walls, the many imperfections of its system of care begin to appear. <br /><br />Charting the line between comedy and pathos, Molly Best Tinsley’s memoir, <span style="font-style: italic;">Entering the Blue Stone</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">(Fuze Publishing, May, 2012)</span>, dissects the chaos at the end of life and discovers what shines beneath: family bonds, the dignity of even an unsound mind, and the endurance of the heart.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Entering the Blue Stone</span> asks us to take a skeptical look at our need to spin heroic narratives with happy endings. It suggests letting go of our persistent orientation to the future in order to appreciate what is here and now. Rather than taking a how-to approach to the increasingly common experience of caring for diminished parents, it offers a unique perspective on this challenge and weaves a very special form of support. It would make a splendid, thought-provoking choice for many book groups.<br /><br />Air Force brat Molly Best Tinsley taught on the civilian faculty at the United States Naval Academy for twenty years and is the institution’s first professor emerita. Author of <span style="font-style: italic;">My Life with Darwin</span> (Houghton Mifflin) and <span style="font-style: italic;">Throwing Knives</span> (Ohio State University Press), she also co-authored <span style="font-style: italic;">Satan’s Chamber</span> (Fuze Publishing) and the textbook, <span style="font-style: italic;">The Creative Process</span> (St. Martin’s). Her fiction has earned two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Sandstone Prize, and the Oregon Book Award. Her plays have been read and produced nationwide. She lives in Oregon, where she divides her time between Ashland and Portland.Tribute Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16959016294721462184noreply@blogger.com0