Congratulations to Anne Pinkava, who won the Fairy Tale prize package, and to Raquel Evans, who won the Old West prize package!  

Today is the day! My Rock and My Refuge is now officially available.  You can buy it from Amazon here or from Barnes and Noble here, or you can buy an autographed paperback from me by filling out this form.

Congratulations to the winners of my giveaway to celebrate the release of One Bad Apple!  They are:

Princess Prize Pack -- Aubree O.

Pioneer Prize Pack -- Maribeth B.

Cowgirl Prize Pack -- Emily P.

Please check the email address you provided to the giveaway widget, ladies!  You should have a message from me asking where to ship your prizes.

Thank you to everyone who participated in my book tour, whether it was by hosting a stop or reading the reviews and interviews!  I hope you had a lot of fun on this tour, and I look forward to doing this again when my next book releases!

Welcome to the One Bad Apple Virtual Book Tour!

One Bad Apple officially releases tomorrow, July 28, but you can pre-order both paperback and ebook copies on Amazon and the paperback from Barnes and Noble (ebook to come).


I hereby present the official schedule for my book tour.  Blog and Instagram names are linked to each blog or Instagram account for right now and, as posts go live, I'll change that to a link to the actual post.

When you stop by a tour post, you'll have the opportunity to enter the giveaway I'm hosting.  And yes, you can enter it more than once!  The more posts you visit, the more entries you'll get.  More about that below.

July 27 Book review at C.O. Bonham's blog

July 28 **Release Day!** Interview at The Sacred and the Secular, review at Meet, Write, and Salutary, and review at @metaphorical_cello

July 29 Interview at Movies Meet Their Match and review at @amandajo8035

July 30 Review at Coffee, Classics, and Craziness

July 31 Review at For the Discerning Reader

August 1 Interview at Meanwhile, in Rivendell...

August 2 Interview at I'm Charles Baker Harris (and I Can Read)

August 3 Book review at Bookshire

August 4 Book review at Ink Calamaties

August 5 Book review at @literately_speaking

August 6 Interview at Coffee, Classics, and Craziness

August 7 Book review at @DebbieDoesBooks


Now, let's talk about The Giveaway!

What am I giving away?  THREE prize packs!

+ The Princess Prize Pack has Charles Santore's "Snow White" coloring book, a Snow White candle from Scents and Scentsability, and a Snow White-themed necklace that includes the words "stand tall" and "wear a crown."

+ The Pioneer Prize Pack has African American Women of the Old West by Tricia Martineau Wagner, an apple-shaped candle from Glowlight Candles, and a Snow White-themed necklace that includes the word "courage."

+ The Cowgirl Prize Pack has Women of the West by Bobbie Kalman, Black Frontiers by Lillian Schlissel, and a covered wagon model kit to build (books are suitable for ages 8+).

You can go ahead and start entering this giveaway right away. When you visit various interviews and reviews over the next eleven days, you'll get to enter it again and again!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

I will choose THREE WINNERS on Saturday, August 8, and notify them via the email address they provided to the giveaway widget.  Those winners will have one week to respond.  If they have not responded to my email by Saturday, August 15, I will disqualify them and choose a new winner.

This giveaway is open to US and Canada addresses ONLY.

I'm assuming this is going to get pushed down my blog as I post other things in coming days, so I've also got this schedule right here on this handy-dandy page.  I'll be updating that too as the various reviews and interviews get posted.

I will be going on a virtual book tour to celebrate the release of One Bad Apple at the end of July!  This tour will run from Monday, July 27 through Friday, August 7.

Just like the tour I did for Dancing and Doughnuts, this will be very flexible.  Would you like to interview me on your blog?  Host a video chat on your Instagram or YouTube channel?  Post a book review on your blog or Instagram?  Contribute some totally different thing I haven't imagined?  I am open to ideas!

You can sign up using this Google form, and I will contact you via the email address you provide to that form to discuss dates and so on.

If you are already signed up to receive an advance copy of One Bad Apple, know that you'll be getting that by the end of the week.  Your book review would be a perfect way to participate in the book tour!

All book tour participants will be eligible for extra entries into the giveaway I'll be hosting starting on release day, July 28.  Just my way of thanking you!

TODAY IS THE DAY!

In fact, the Facebook party I'm participating in tonight kicks off in less than two hours!  Will I see you there?  I hope so!  The party starts at 8pm EST, and I'll get the virtual microphone around 9:45pm to chat with all attendees.  The other authors and I will be hosting some giveaways, so you definitely don't want to miss that.

And here is the official schedule for my book tour.  I am overwhelmed by everyone's response to this.  Y'all, I thought maybe five people would sign up.  This blog tour is poised to surpass my wildest hopes.  THANK YOU!  This is going to be so fun :-D

Blog names are linked to each blog for right now, and as each post goes live, I'll change that to a link to the actual post.  I'm assuming this post here is going to get pushed down my blog as I post other things in coming days, though, so I've also got this schedule right here on this handy-dandy page.  I'll be updating that too as the various reviews and interviews get posted.

Saturday, Aug. 25 -- Summer Book Release Party on Facebook

Sunday, Aug. 26 -- review at Ink Castles

Monday, Aug. 27 -- interview at The Western Desk

Tuesday, Aug. 28 -- interview at Stretching the Metaphorical Cello and interview at Bookish Orchestrations

Wednesday, Aug. 29 -- interview at I'm Charles Baker Harris (And I Can Read)

Thursday, Aug. 30 -- interview at Unicorn Quester

Friday, Aug. 31 -- RELEASE DAY! review at Meanwhile, in Rivendell...

Saturday, Sept. 1 -- review at The Flowering Vales

Sunday, Sept. 2 -- interview at Meanwhile, in Rivendell...

Monday, Sept. 3 -- review and interview at Any Merry Little Thought

Tuesday, Sept. 4 -- review at Coffee, Classics, and Craziness

Wednesday, Sept. 5 -- interview at The Flowering Vales, review at What a Novel Idea, and review at I'm Charles Baker Harris (And I Can Read)

Thursday, Sept. 6 -- review at Seasons of Humility

Friday, Sept. 7 -- interview at Coffee, Classics, and Craziness

Saturday, Sept. 8 -- review at The Book Sprite, review at Flowers of Quiet Happiness

When you stop by a tour post, you'll have the opportunity to enter a giveaway I'm hosting.  And yes, you can enter it more than once!  The more posts you visit, the more entries you'll get.

What am I giving away?  This prize pack!


That's one 15"x18" tote bag, one autographed copy of Dancing and Doughnuts, and one copy of a nifty little cookbook called Log Cabin Cooking by Barbara Swell that is chock full of recipes and old cooking tips and random facts about food in the 1800s.

You can go ahead and start entering this giveaway right away, and then when you visit various interviews and reviews over the next two weeks, you'll get to enter it again and again!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

I will choose ONE WINNER on Sunday, September 9, and notify them via the email address they provided to the giveaway widget.  That winner will have one week to respond.  If they have not responded to my email by Sunday, September 16, I will disqualify them and choose a new winner.

This giveaway is open WORLDWIDE.

I've never gone on a blog tour.  Or a book tour.  But there's a first time for everything!

I'm setting up a tour for my upcoming release, Dancing and Doughnuts, and this post right here is me calling for people to sign up to help host it!  Which does NOT mean saying you'll let me sleep on a couch in your basement between book signings.

Actually, since I've never hosted a blog tour, maybe it does involve that?  I'm not sure?

No, seriously, what it really means is you'll post a review of my book or an interview with me on your blog.  Or your YouTube channel.  Or your IGTV channel.  Or whatever way you want to participate.  I'm really open to all ideas because... I've never done this before.

(Did I mention I'm new at this?)


ALL hosts of "stops" on this book tour will be eligible to enter a giveaway!  The prize?  Either autographed copies of both Cloaked and Dancing and Doughnuts OR a $15 Amazon gift card, winner's choice.

EDIT:  That giveaway will be open world-wide.  If you don't live in the US and you win and choose the Amazon gift card, we can figure out together how for me to get you a card that will work in your country. 

Don't think of it as me bribing you, just think of it as me showing my appreciation ;-)

I do already have a couple gigs lined up -- one Facebook launch party for my book and a bunch of other indie books at the end of the month, for instance.  That promises to be nifty.

Anyway!  The dates I'm looking at would be August 26 through September 8.  If you've got an open slot in your blogging or Instagramming or YouTubing or Whatevering schedule and would like to be part of this tour, let me know by emailing me at rachelkovaciny a gmail dot com.  Put something like "Blog Tour" in the subject line, not "My Basement Has No Couch, So It's The Cold, Hard Concrete for You, Pal."  Just cuz I'm getting old and my knees and hips and shoulders and neck and back can't really deal with sleeping on concrete anymore.

And yes, if you're one of my ARC readers, your review of my book on your blog would TOTALLY be eligible for this.