I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the EXTREME by Joan
Gelfand Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!
About the Book:
Title: EXTREME
Authors: Joan Gelfand
Pub. Date: July 14, 2020
Publisher: Blue Light Press
Formats: Paperback, eBook
Pages: 282
Hope Ellson is from the wrong side of
the tracks, but her genius transcends class. When Hope joins FearToShred, a
Silicon Valley extreme gaming startup, Hope’s mission is to groom the scrappy
company for prime time. Enter Doug Wiser, her very married ex. While the two
work in tandem, nefarious forces are at work behind the scenes. Adding to the
excitement of this thriller are the stars and heroes of surfing and
skateboarding. With a keen eye on women in tech, business ethics and dangerous
stunts, “Extreme” will leave you breathless.
Winner of the Cervena Barva and Chaffin
Fiction Awards, Joan’s work has appeared in The Huffington Post, Vanity Fair,
Rattle, Pank! The Meridien Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, The Los Angeles
Review of Books, Chicken Soup for the Soul and over 200 literary journals,
blogs and magazines.
A member of the National Book Critics
Circle, Joan has worked for California Poets in the Schools, Poetry Out Loud,
Chiat/Day Advertising and other Bay Area companies. She currently coaches writers
and teaches in the San Francisco Bay Area.
With a poet’s sensibility and a novelist’s instinct
for plot, Joan Gelfand has produced a whip‑smart
page‑turner of a book, complete with startup fever,
romantic intrigue, and a cast of sympathetic ‑‑
and not so sympathetic ‑‑
characters. Read Extreme and you’ll have a better sense of what really goes on
in Silicon Valley, far better than TV shows like Silicon Valley could ever
provide.” – Katie Hafner, Author,
New York Times and Wall Street Journal columnist.
About Joan:
Joan Gelfand’s reviews, stories
and poetry have appeared in national and international literary journals and
magazines including the Los Angeles Review of Books, Rattle, Prairie Schooner,
Kalliope, The Toronto Review, newversenews.com, The Sycamore Review and
RiverSedge. Joan’s work has also appeared in “Chicken Soup for the Soul: Dreams
and the Unexplainable” and “Chicken Soup for the Soul: Dreams and Premonitions”
Chair of the Women’s National
Book Association National Writing Contest, a member of the National Book
Critics Circle and a juror for the Northern California Book Awards, Joan blogs
for the Huffington Post and coaches writers. She is the recipient of over
twenty writing awards, nominations and prizes.
“The Ferlinghetti School of
Poetics,” a poetry film based on Joan’s poem was featured at the 4th Annual
Video Poetry Festival in Athens, Greece, the Meraki Film Festival in Madrid and
won Certificate of Merit in a juried art show at the International Association
for the Study of Dreams.
Joan has been teaching at book
festivals and writer’s conferences on “You Can Be a Winning Writer” for the
past ten years. She coaches writers around the country.
She lives in San Francisco with
her husband, Adam Hertz and two beatnik kitties – Jack Kerouac and Lawrence
Ferlinghetti.
Giveaway
Details:
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winner will receive a $10 Amazon GC, International.
Tour Schedule:
Week One:
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7/6/2020
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7/7/2020
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7/8/2020
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7/9/2020
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7/10/2020
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Week Two:
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7/13/2020
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7/14/2020
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7/15/2020
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7/16/2020
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7/17/2020
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Week Three:
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7/20/2020
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7/21/2020
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7/22/2020
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7/23/2020
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7/24/2020
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