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February Blog Tour for GERTA by Kateřina Tučková translated by Véronique Firkusny

Release Date: February 1, 2021 from Amazon Crossing

We’re excited to introduce you to the gifted Czech author, Kateřina Tučková and her award-winning novel, GERTA, her first to be translated into English by the talented Véronique Firkusny (Amazon Crossing; February 1, 2021; $24.95). Set in Brno, a city in the South Moravian region of the Czech Republic and the author’s hometown, GERTA is a breathtaking story of a woman’s courage and empowerment in postwar Czechoslovakia and explores themes of guilt and responsibility, forgiveness and repentance. It won the Magnesia Litera Readers’ award and was short-listed for the Jiří Orten Award, the Josef Škvorecký Award and the Magnesia Litera in the prose category.

SYNOPSIS: It’s late spring 1945. Allied forces liberate Nazi-occupied Brno, Moravia. For Gerta Schnirch, daughter of a Czech mother and a German father aligned with Hitler, it’s not deliverance; it’s a sentence. She has been branded an enemy of the state. Caught in the changing tides of a war that shattered her family—and her innocence—Gerta must obey the official order: she, along with all ethnic Germans, is to be expelled from Czechoslovakia. With nothing but the clothes on her back and an infant daughter, she’s herded among thousands toward Vienna, later to be termed The Brno Death March, where many die from typhoid and dysentery. Gerta and a handful of other German women manage to save themselves by doing forced labor in southern Moravia, where they remain for several years.  After reclaiming her Czechoslovakian citizenship, Gerta returns to Brno, where she lives through the turbulent events of the second half of the twentieth century. But the discrimination only makes Gerta stronger and more empowered to seek justice. Her journey is a relentless quest for a seemingly impossible forgiveness.

Here is the full blog tour schedule that will include reviews, interviews, exclusive excerpts, and book giveaways:

Monday, February 1 – Hasty Book List

Tuesday, February 2 – Women Writers Women’s Books

Wednesday, February 3 – The Constant Reader

Thursday, February 4 – Crystals Library

Saturday, February 6 – Tina May Reads

Sunday, February 7 – Suzy Approved Book Reviews

Tuesday, February 9 – Grace J Reviewerlady

Wednesday, February 10 – Jessica Belmont

Thursday, February 11 – Storeybook Reviews

Friday, February 12 – Monika’s Book Blog

Saturday, February 13 – Life of a Bookworm

Monday, February 15 – Booxoul

Tuesday, February 16 – Long and Short Reviews

Wednesday, February 17 – Girl Who Reads

Thursday, February 18 – Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb

Friday, February 19 – The Bookish Brunette

Sunday, February 21 – Book Nerd Kat

Monday, February 22 – Bookstasam

Tuesday, February 23 – One Chapter At A Time

Wednesday, February 24 – Sue The Bookie

Thursday, February 25 – The Best of Both Pages

Friday, February 26 – Stranded in Chaos

Sunday, February 28 – Bargain and Books

Monday, March 1 – Read with Joshie

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Amazon Books, Amazon Crossing, Amazon Publishing, blog tour, Book in Translation, February Blog Tour, February Release, historical fiction, Katerina Tuckova, Literary fiction, Veronique Firkusny, World War II

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February Blog Tour for THE JUICE by Janet Stilson

Release Date: February 9, 2021 from Dragon Moon Press

We are excited to introduce to you a new female voice to the sci fi and fantasy genre, Janet Stilson, a journalist who also writes scripts, novels and short stories that illuminate the human condition in provocative ways.  Her work has been selected to be part of the Writers’ Lab for Women, which is funded by Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman. And it’s also been published by the esteemed sci-fi literary magazine Asimov’s. Her debut novel, THE JUICE is at turns an espionage rollercoaster ride and a spellbinding romance. Along the way, it explores the future of America and government control of media. Check out the February Blog Tour schedule in the above graphic and also on the author’s website.

SYNOPSIS:

When charisma is a superpower, it’s a mind-bending force.

Jarat Ellington was just an exile from Elite society, trying to lead a simple life, when a genius friend dropped an explosive mystery in his lap. The old pal, Thom Tseng, created a priceless chemical substance called the Juice that turns mildly charming people into almost god-like presences, known as Charismites. But the Juice is stolen, and Thom killed.

With the help of a secret organization, Jarat goes on an obsessive quest to uncover the deadly adversary who now controls the Juice. He must fight his intense attraction to a Charismite named Luscious Melada—once a dirt-poor, homely teen who transformed into an extremely magnetic starlet. And he goes up against Petra Cardinale, a powerful, ambitious media executive with a secret agenda.

About the Author:

Janet Stilson lives in two worlds. On the one hand, she is a journalist. On the other, she writes scripts, novels and short stories that largely fall in the grounded sci-fi and fantasy genres and illuminate the human condition in provocative ways. 

Her work has been selected to be part of the Writers’ Lab for Women, which is funded by Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman. And it’s also been published by the esteemed sci-fi literary magazine Asimov’s.

As a journalist, Janet got her “chops” at the storied showbiz bible Variety. She has traveled the world, chronicling the business of media and entertainment.

It afforded her many busman’s holidays in places like Shanghai and Paris, for which she is forever grateful. Along the way, she interviewed lots of executives about many aspects of showbiz—most notably, where the heck we’re all going.

Janet lives in New York City with her husband and two mischievous cats. To learn more about her, visit janetstilson.com, or connect with her on Twitter @janetstilson.

Praise for the Novel:

“Stilson debuts with an energetic vision of a dystopian near-future America…This cyberpunk adventure delivers plenty of future tech and social commentary to please genre fans.” — Publishers Weekly

“The Juice is a rollicking, inventive and insightful read — heady, heart-felt but never heavy-handed.”  — Elizabeth Guider, novelist, former executive editor of Variety and editor of The Hollywood Reporter

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: blog tour, Debut novel, Debut novelist, February Blog Tour, February Release, Janet Stilson, OTRPR, Over the River Public Relations, science fiction

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