Shore Excursion Blog Tour

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Blog Tour Schedule

March 2012 - Confirmed Dates

March 1
The Bluestocking Guide
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March 2
BlogCritics
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March 5
Confessions of a Book Habitue
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March 6
Carol's Notebook
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March 7
Crazed Mind
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March 8
The Busy Woman's Guide to Surviving Motherhood
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March 9
Knits and Reads
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March 10
Minding Spot
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March 12
My Tower of Books
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March 15
A Lovely Shore Breeze ...
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March 16
Bibliophilic Book Blog
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March 16
Carabosse's Library
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March 16
Booksie's Blog
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March 17
My Favorite Things
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March 17
Socrates' Book Reviews
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March 18
TicToc
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March 19
Unabridged Bookshelf
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March 19
Books and Needlepoint
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March 19
Sidne, the Reading Socialite
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March 20
Book Lovin' Mamas
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March 21
My Reading Room
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March 22
Book Lover Stop
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March 22
Simply Stacie
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March 23
Ascroft, eh?
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March 27
Book Dilettante
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March 28
Celtic Lady's Reviews
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March 29
Mama Knows Books
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March 30
Satisfaction for Insatiable Readers
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April 10
The Book Faery Reviews
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Marie Moore

Website:
mariemooremysteries.com

Email:
marie@mariemooremysteries.com

Bio:
Shore Excursion is Marie Moore’s first novel, but not her first writing experience, and like Sidney Marsh, she is a native Mississippian. She graduated from Ole Miss, married a lawyer in her hometown, taught junior high science, raised a family, and worked for a small weekly newspaper, first as a writer and later as Managing Editor. She wrote hard news, features and a weekly column, sold ads, did interviews, took photos, and won a couple of MS Press Association awards for some of her stories.

In 1985, Marie left the newspaper to open a retail travel agency. She completed agency and computer training with Airlines Reporting Corporation, Delta Airlines and TWA, earned her CTC (Certified Travel Counselor) designation, and joined the American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA), International Air Transport Association (IATA), and Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA). For the next 15 years, she managed her agency, sold travel, escorted group tours, sailed on 19 cruises, and visited over 60 countries. Much of the background of Shore Excursion comes from that experience.

Marie also did location scouting and worked as the local contact for several feature films, including Heart of Dixie, The Gun in Betty Lou’s Handbag, and Robert Altman’s Cookie’s Fortune.

In mid-1999, because of her husband's work, Marie sold the travel agency and moved to Jackson, MS, then New York City, Anna Maria Island, FL, and Arlington, VA. She and her husband now live in Memphis, TN and Holly Springs, MS.

Marie is a member of Sisters in Crime.

To Purchase Book

Shore Excursion
can be pre-ordered at:
Amazon
and
Barnes&Noble.com

Publisher:
Camel Press

Paperback
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 9781603818742
Pages: 230
Release: April 1, 2012

"An appealing heroine tangles with murder and romantic interludes gone wrong in a tartly funny take-off on tour travel, with more twists than a conga line. Readers will be enthralled."
- Carolyn Hart, author of the Death on Demand series

Summary:
Travel agents are a vanishing breed, but Sidney Marsh, a New York transplant from Mississippi, is holding her ground--at least on land. She is the tour leader on a cruise through Scandinavia for a group of eccentric senior citizens who call themselves the High Steppers. Sidney expects her days to be filled with long meals, shopping expeditions and visits to museums, churches and fjords. But this cruise is anything but routine. There is a killer on board, targeting the High Steppers and quite possibly herself.

After the first suspicious death, the captain and his crew are grimly determined to carry on as usual. Disgusted with their inaction, Sidney decides to take matters into her own hands and launch her own investigation. She enlists the halfhearted help of her friend and business partner, the flamboyant and fun-loving Jay Wilson. Suspects abound. What about those two handsome young men who stay mysteriously aloof? One of them has his eye on Sidney. So does another passenger, far too charming and again too young to fit the "High Stepper" mold. Then there's Captain Vargos, the arrogant ladies' man whose plans to thwart Sidney's investigation might include seduction.

Who is that crew member shadowing Sidney? Is the theater really haunted? Even the High Steppers themselves are not as predictable or harmless as they seem. The closer Sydney gets to the truth, the less she understands. Shore Excursion is the first book in a new mystery series featuring amateur sleuth Sidney Marsh.