Eyewall Virtual Book Tour May & June 2011
Authors on Tour, Featured — By Dorothy Thompson on April 13, 2011 at 2:10 pm
Join H.W. “Buzz” Bernard, author of the suspense thriller novel, Eyewall (BelleBooks), as he virtually tours the blogosphere in May 2011 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book!
About Buzz Bernard
H. W. “Buzz” Bernard is the author of five nonfiction books on weather and climate. Eyewall is his first novel. He’s won numerous awards over the past decade as both a fiction and nonfiction writer. Buzz is a veteran meteorologist having spent 13 years as a senior meteorologist with The Weather Channel, and 33 years as a weather officer in the U. S. Air Force. His background as a meteorologist informs Eyewall. He’s had first-hand experience with hurricanes, having penetrated the eyewall of Hurricane Felix in 1995 with the Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunters. The mission he went on wasn’t nearly as exciting–or as terrifying–as the one described in Eyewall, but he did get an up-close and personal look at how the job is done. At The Weather Channel, he worked closely with some of the most highly regarded hurricane forecasters in the business. Besides his trip with the Hurricane Hunters, he’s flown air drops over the Arctic Ocean and Turkey, and was a weather officer aboard a Tactical Air Command airborne command post (C-135). Additionally, he’s provided field support to forest fire fighting operations in the Pacific Northwest, spent a summer working on Alaska’s arctic slope and served two tours in Vietnam. Various other jobs, both civilian and military, took him to Germany, Saudi Arabia and Panama. He’s a native Oregonian and attended the University of Washington in Seattle where he earned a degree in atmospheric science and also studied creative writing. After leaving active duty with the Air Force, he spent twenty years in New England, but now lives in The New South. Along with his wife, Christina, he calls Roswell, Georgia, near Atlanta, home. You can visit his website at www.buzzbernard.com or visit Eyewall’s official Facebook fan page here!
About Eyewall
Eyewall takes you on a dramatic ride into the eye of a major hurricane and the lives of the people who challenge it. Major Arlen Walker is on his final mission with the Air Force Hurricane Hunters. As commander of a WC-130, he’s been tasked to recon Hurricane Janet just off the Georgia coast On paper, the flight looks like a milk run. In reality, it turns out to be anything but. Walker, having been briefed that the hurricane is weak, penetrates the storm hat low altitude. Too late, he realizes Janet has turned savage and that he’s chosen a death wish flight level. The hurricane pummels the plane. The aircraft, spewing fuel, limps into the calm eye but is so severely damaged, Walker cannot fly it out. He and his crew are trapped in the center of a catastrophic storm as it swirls toward the mainland. NO ONE PREDICTED THE STORM’S SUDDEN FORCE A crippled Air Force recon plane, trapped in the eye of a violent hurricane. An outspoken tropical weather forecaster, fired from his network TV job before he can issue a warning: the storm is changing course and intensifying. A desperate family searching for a runaway daughter on Georgia’s posh St. Simons Island, cut off from escape as the hurricane roars toward them. A marriage on the rocks; an unrequited sexual attraction; a May-December romance. All will be swept up by the monster storm. Get ready for a white-knuckle adventure.
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Here’s what critics are saying about Eyewall!
“Buzz Bernard bursts on the scene with EYEWALL, a compelling and suspenseful tale told with the insight and authenticity of one who has walked in the world of the famed Hurricane Hunters and endured the harsh realities of a major, devastating storm. Great characters combine with razor-sharp suspense and leave you breathless. A one-sitting, white-knuckle read.”
–Vicki Hinze, award-winning author of DEADLY TIES
Buzz Bernard conjures up one satisfyingly suspenseful situation after another in this novel. EYEWALL has all the adrenal intensity of a roller coaster combined with intricate plotting, compelling characters, and a larger-than-life situation expertly handled. This jewel of a thriller founds itself on character complication in the midst of an all-too-believable natural disaster that will keep you turning pages to its exciting conclusion. There is nothing calm at the eye of this perfect storm of a book.
–Brian Jay Corrigan, J.D. Ph.D.
A well-crafted tale you can’t put down; characters you care about; a spot-on insiders look at hurricane forecasting and flying.
–Jack Williams, author and founding USA TODAY Weather Editor 
Eyewall Virtual Book Tour Schedule
Monday, May 16
Interviewed at The Writer’s Life
“I went to great pains to make certain everything that happens in the book is based on fact. I even had Dr. Steve Lyons, the former hurricane expert at The Weather Channel, run a storm surge model for my fictional hurricane, Janet.”
Tuesday, May 17
Interviewed at The Book Connection
“I would have taken more golf lessons. If I had known with absolute certainty when I began my novel-writing efforts that it was going to take 10 years and 4 manuscripts before I got professionally published, I probably would have been happier on the links.”
Wednesday, May 18
Book spotlighted at Beyond the Books
“Dead ahead of the aircraft, a massive redoubt of roiling clouds, the eyewall of Hurricane Janet, billowed toward the heavens and poked into the underbelly of the stratosphere. Between the aircraft, an Air Force Hurricane Hunter, and the towering wall, layers of white and gray clouds, innocuous outliers of the storm, cluttered the skyscape. But the eyewall itself was obsidian, foreboding.”
Thursday, May 19
Interviewed at Literarily Speaking
“The urge was just there. I don’t know where it came from. But it wasn’t easy, believe me. Eyewall is the product of ten year’s of effort and four manuscripts.”
Friday, May 20
Book Trailer featured at If Books Could Talk
Monday, May 23
Interviewed at Examiner
“I emailed the president a query. She said she was no longer taking on new clients, but would pass the query and first three chapters to her associate. A day later the associate asked for a full manuscript. I think she read it in one sitting. Three days later I was offered a contract.”
Tuesday, May 24
Book spotlighted at As the Pages Turn
Wednesday, May 25
Interviewed at Working Writers
Thursday, May 26
Book reviewed at Life in Review
“I VERY highly recommend this book! It is extremely well written! Mr Bernard knows his stuff and he is a wonderful writer as well. This story is full of action and very intense suspense that will have you holding your breath! Once you start this one you’re not going to be able to put it down. He gives us wonderful characters that I really cared about. There are also a few laugh out loud moments and even a little romance. It is fabulous all-around entertainment! I hope to see more from Buzz Bernard.”
Friday, May 27
Chat & Book Giveaway at Pump Up Your Book’s Authors on Tour May 2011 Facebook Party
Monday, June 6
Book Reviewed at Family Literacy and You
Tuesday, June 7
Guest blogging at Literal Exposure
“It’s just that the consequences, as I said, could be enormous for the island given the right–or wrong?–situation. That, in turn, makes for high drama. Again, good for novels. Specifically, good for Eyewall.”
Wednesday, June 8
Interviewed at Beyond the Books
“I’m more confident when I write now, but I also realize that writing is a life-long learning process. I take home something new with every manuscript I churn out. My most significant growth, I suspect, has been in my ability to develop characters and their interactions with one another.”
Thursday, June 9
Guest blogging at The Book Faerie Reviews
“Lots of good things came from my career at The Weather Channel, but like Steve and Nicole, there came a point when it was time to move on–in my case, to being a novelist.”
Friday, June 10
Interviewed at Review From Here
“For writers, novelists especially: Learn the craft. Join a critique group and listen to (don’t argue with) constructive criticism. Don’t be impatient. Write, write, write. Don’t give up.”
Monday, June 13
Book reviewed at Mad Moose Mama
Tuesday, June 14
Guest blogging at The Book Bin
Wednesday, June 15
Book reviewed at Reviews by Molly
Friday, June 17
Book reviewed & book giveaway at Reviews From the Heart
Buzz Bernard’s EYEWALL VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR ‘10 will officially begin on May 16 and end on June 17 ‘11. Please contact Dorothy Thompson at thewriterslife@yahoo.com if you are interested in hosting and/or reviewing his book or click here to use the form. Thank you!
If you would like to book your own virtual book tour with us, click here to find out how!
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