Shame the Devil Virtual Book Publicity Tour August & September 2011

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Join Debra Brenegan, author of the women’s fiction novel, Shame the Devil (SUNY Press), as she virtually tours the blogosphere August 1 – September 30 2011 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book!

About Debra Brenegan

Debra Brenegan grew up in the Milwaukee area and graduated with a B.A. in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She worked as a journalist and taught at Milwaukee Area Technical College before beginning her graduate work. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in English/Creative Writing from The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she also taught. She teaches English and Women’s Studies at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. For her fiction, she has received a Ragdale residency and was a recent finalist for the John Gardner Memorial Fiction Prize, The Cincinnati Review’s Schiff Prose Prize, and the Crab Creek Review Fiction Prize. Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Calyx, Tampa Review, Natural Bridge, The Laurel Review, RE:AL, The Southern Women’s Review, The Cimarron Review, Milwaukee Magazine, Phoebe, and other publications. Debra Brenegan’s novel, Shame the Devil, is a historical account of nineteenth-century American writer Fanny Fern (SUNY Press, Excelsior Editions). She is currently working on another novel, set in Missouri, and on a short story collection. During the school year, Debra lives in a 130-year-old house in Fulton with her husband, Steve, and their elderly cat. They spend summers and school breaks in their native Milwaukee. When not teaching, writing, spending time with family or driving back and forth to Wisconsin, Debra enjoys cooking, gardening, reading and traveling. You can visit her website at www.debrabrenegan.com or visit her at Twitter at www.twitter.com/dbrenegan or Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/#!/debra.brenegan; https://www.facebook.com/#!/shame.the.devil.book.

About Shame the Devil

Shame the Devil is a novel based on the life and works of nineteenth-century American novelist, journalist and feminist, Fanny Fern. The book covers Fanny Fern’s life (1811-1872), but concentrates on the 1850s and 1860s when her literary career became established and her personal life was a rollercoaster of highs and lows. Fanny Fern was the most popular, highest paid, most published writer of her era. She outsold Harriet Beecher Stowe, won the respect of Nathaniel Hawthorne and served as literary mentor to Walt Whitman. She scrabbled in the depths of poverty before her meteoric rise to fame and fortune. She was widowed, escaped an abusive second marriage, penned one of the country’s first pre-nuptial agreements, married a third man eleven years her junior, and served as a 19th-century “Oprah” to her hundreds of thousands of fans. Fanny Fern’s weekly editorials in the pages of The New York Ledger over a period of about twenty years help to chronicle the myriad of controversial issues of her era while her novels, and the critical response to them, both in her day and through subsequent eras, make clear how America’s literary tradition began to and continues to define itself. This novel strives for historical accuracy, not only regarding Fanny Fern and the events of her life, but in regard to other historical figures of her time including Walt Whitman, Catharine Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Jacobs, Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, N.P. Willis and James Parton.

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“There may be married people who do not read the morning paper. Smith and I know them not … It is not too much to say the newspapers are one of our strongest points of sympathy; that it is our meat and drink to praise and abuse them together; that we often in our imagination edit a model newspaper, which shall have for its motto, `Speak the truth, and shame the devil.'” — Fanny Fern Shame the Devil tells the remarkable and true story of Fanny Fern (the pen name of Sara Payson Willis), one of the most successful, influential, and popular writers of the nineteenth century. A novelist, journalist, and feminist, Fern (1811-1872) outsold Harriet Beecher Stowe, won the respect of Nathaniel Hawthorne, and served as literary mentor to Walt Whitman. Scrabbling in the depths of poverty before her meteoric rise to fame and fortune, she was widowed, escaped an abusive second marriage, penned one of the country’s first prenuptial agreements, married a man eleven years her junior, and served as a nineteenth-century Oprah to her hundreds of thousands of fans. Her weekly editorials in the pages of the New York Ledger over a period of about twenty years chronicled the myriad controversies of her era and demonstrated her firm belief in the motto, “Speak the truth, and shame the devil.” Through the story of Fern and her contemporaries, including Walt Whitman, Catharine Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Jacobs, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, Shame the Devil brings the intellectual and social ferment of mid-nineteenth-century America to life.

Rave Reviews for Shame the Devil:

“Brenegan’s Fanny Fern is a marvel–fiercely determined, passionate, and alive with a strikingly modern wit. Shame the Devil is a fine tribute to the writer who paved the way for generations of women.”

— Kelly O’Connor McNees, author of The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott

“Like Margaret Fuller and Emily Dickinson, her contemporaries of the mid-nineteenth century, Fanny Fern was an American woman far ahead of her time. Debra Brenegan has brought the drama of Fanny Fern’s story to life in her carefully researched and stirring biographical novel Shame the Devil. There is an authenticity to every page brimming with the flavor of Fern’s era and the drama of her insurgence against puritanical social mores and unjust patriarchal laws. The characterization of the young rebellious Sara Willis, later to be known as the famous columnist Fanny Fern, in the beginning pages of the book is lively and endearing and sets the stage for the pioneering adventures that follow. The reader will find it hard to put down this book as it takes one on a thrilling and adventurous journey into the life of a great American humanitarian–an advocate of women’s and children’s rights who forged her way into the American mind, leaving behind a rich legacy of accomplishment upon which we continue to thrive in our struggle to progress toward being fully decent and enlightened humans.”

— Daniela Gioseffi, author of Wild Nights, Wild Nights: The Story of Emily Dickinson’s “Master,” Neighbor and Friend and Bridegroom

“Debra Brenegan has created a lively portrait of an amazing woman. The heart-wrenching ups and downs of Fanny Fern’s life make for riveting reading, and the lush depictions of mid-1800s Boston and New York, peppered with glimpses of Walt Whitman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Harriet Jacobs, make for a vivid, rollicking tale of one of the most pivotal moments in American literary history.”

— Tina May Hall, author of The Physics of Imaginary Objects

“In her wide-ranging way, Debra Brenegan turns an age of great social and artistic change–for the races, for women, for the country–into a narrative of compelling characters. This novel emerges from history and becomes something more valuable–great literary art. Brenegan’s Fanny, her family, and the cluster of historical characters come to us complicated and whole, demanding our attention.”

— Robert Stewart, editor of New Letters

Shame the Devil Book Publicity Tour Schedule

Monday, August 1

Interviewed at Review From Here

“As Robert Conklin said, “It’s not the situation. It’s your reaction to the situation.” Horrible, embarrassing, painful things happen to everyone. The graceful and wise respond in heroic ways.”

Tuesday, August 2

Interviewed at Literarily Speaking

“The road to publication is lined with many small milestones. I think I was actually most thrilled to get a little email from my editor saying SUNY was going to accept my book. It was thrilling to sign the contract, almost unreal to look at galley pages, heart-stopping to get my box of beautiful books delivered – but nothing choked me up more than that first email.”

Thursday, August 4

Interviewed at Examiner

“I wrote this book as my Ph.D. dissertation project. I had been doing a lot of research about Fanny Fern and was writing a lot of papers about her and her work. I wanted to combine my interest in American Literature (specifically, Fern), Women’s Studies and creative writing to write a historical novel that would entertain and inform.”

Friday, August 5

Interviewed at Blogcritics

“I love Fanny Fern, but I especially enjoyed writing the chapters from the perspective of Fern’s famous brother, N. P. Willis, who was a fop, a dandy, and a rake. It was luxurious fun to write about his excesses.”

Monday, August 8

Guest blogging at Literal Exposure

“I’m going to tell you a secret. Not just any secret. The secret. The secret you’ve been dying to know – the secret to becoming a published author.”

Tuesday, August 9

Guest blogging at The Book Bin

“I pitched the book myself, at a writer’s convention, directly to the acquisition editor. He graciously listened to me, more graciously consented to read the manuscript. It took a little while, but eventually, he and the rest of his editorial board decided to take on the book.”

Wednesday, August 10

Book reviewed at A Bookish Libraria

“Debra Brenegan is an author who is obviously in love with her subject and did her research with a detailed hand. She is poetic in her delivery and fiery when she needs to be in defining her characters. Though it’s meant to be biographical, Ms Brenegan’s book reads fully like a feminist novel, reminding me of my studies in women’s literature and what a powerful impact it made towards the discovery of my “self” as a woman.”

Friday, August 12

Guest blogging at Carol’s Notebook

“By profession, besides being a writer, I am a teacher. Frankly, one of the reasons I chose to write my historical novel Shame the Devil was because I wanted to teach people about Fanny Fern, a trailblazing nineteenth-century journalist, novelist and feminist who has been largely forgotten. I did enough research to write a biography about her, but I wanted to convey all of the wondrous information I discovered about Fern to as many people as possible. What better vehicle than a historical novel, right?”

Monday, August 15

Book spotlighted at Book Marketing Buzz

Tuesday, August 16

Book reviewed at Five Alarm Book Reviews

“Debra Brenegan has written a masterful work of literary genius that is not only historically accurate, but also a work of fiction that is extremely readable.”

Friday, August 19

Guest participant at Literarily Speaking August Book Panel

Monday, August 22

Interviewed at Beyond the Books

“I’m amazed at the whole promotional engine that exists and that authors really need to participate in. If you would have told me two years ago that I’d be happily writing blogs galore, checking my amazon stats and interviewing publicists, I wouldn’t have believed it.”

Wednesday, August 24

Interviewed at Pump Up Your Book

“Everyone has heard this before, but it is the absolute truth – writers write. If you want to be a writer, sit down and write. Write some more. Revise and rewrite after that. Commit yourself to your craft and good results must follow. It’s easy advice, but is the hardest thing for all of us to actually do consistently.”

Thursday, August 25

Book reviewed at April’s Lifestyle Show RESCHEDULING

Friday, August 26

Chat with Debra at Pump Up Your Book Live! August Chat/Book Giveaway Party!

Monday, September 5

Guest blogging at Literarily Speaking

“You want to become, not just a writer, but a published author. The burning question, of course, is how. And here’s the answer – don’t stop trying.”

Tuesday, September 6

Guest blogging at Motherhoot

“Write characters that don’t know everything…”

Wednesday, September 7

Interviewed at Book Marketing Buzz

“I went on facebook and hollered at the top of my lungs!”

Thursday, September 8

Guest blogging at The Story Behind the Book

“Fanny Fern was the highest-paid, most-popular writer of her era. She served as a literary mentor to Walt Whitman, earned the respect of Nathaniel Hawthorne and was friends with Harriet Beecher Stowe. Fern’s personal life was a rollercoaster of highs and lows.”

Friday, September 9

Book reviewed at Mad Moose Mama RESCHEDULING

Monday, September 12

Guest blogging and book giveaway at The Book Faerie Reviews

“Fanny Fern earned the staggering sum of $100 for each newspaper article she wrote when she first started writing for the New York Ledger in 1855.”

Tuesday, September 13

Book reviewed at BookBelle

“I did find Shame The Devil fascinating and am glad to have had the opportunity to learn about Fanny Fern. It was a bit of an accidental find for me but I will be using it as a springboard for some research I will be doing of this time period. If you are a fan of historical fiction, this is definitely worth your time.”

Wednesday, September 14

Interviewed at The Book Connection

“I have always tried to be a member of some sort of critique group. The group I’m in right now consists of two other creative writing professors and one retired creative writing professor. We’ve been together for over four years and try to meet about once a month.”

Thursday, September 15

Guest blogging at Bags, Books & Bon Jovi

Friday, September 16

Guest blogging at As the Pages Turn

“In graduate school, I took a nineteenth-century American Literature class with a professor who told me, “I know a writer you’re just going to love.” This writer, Fanny Fern, wasn’t on our reading list that semester, so, at my request, he added her book, Ruth Hall, to the reading list of a course I took with him the next semester.”

Monday, September 19

Interviewed on Barry Eva’s Blog Talk Radio Show, A Book and a Chat (prerecorded)

Tuesday, September 20

Book trailer spotlighted at If Books Could Talk

Wednesday, September 21

Book reviewed at Hey, I Want to Read That

Thursday, September 22

Book reviewed at A Librarian’s Life in Books

“One of the main themes in this book was the ability for a woman’s reputation to be so easily ruined through rumor, especially considering that the reputation of men is fairly safe from scrutiny. This is one of the things that hasn’t changed in the past 200 years, despite all of the advances women have made. This is probably the one area that has not changed at all, and likely one of the things holding us back the most, because our reputations as women still matter for some reason.”

Friday, September 23

Guest blogging at Beyond the Books

“Although I am eternally grateful to my husband for taking the photo of me that is on the book jacket by my bio, I now wish I would have gotten some professional photos taken, too. Not that the photo I have isn’t good – it is . . . and I love it – but it would have been nice to have one photo for the book jacket and then, perhaps, a couple of other photos for all of the rest of the publicity. I’m using the same photo for everything and I am getting a little tired of it.”

Monday, September 26

Guest blogging and book giveaway at Live to Read

“A very famous, well-known agent who I will not name but who frequently speaks to hundreds of hoping-to-be published authors at writing conferences told one crowd that even though most people think he or she is capable of writing a book, only one in ten people will start a book.”

Tuesday, September 27

Book reviewed at Wakela’s World

Wednesday, September 28

Book reviewed at Lit Endeavors

Thursday, September 29

Book reviewed at Life in Review

Friday, September 30

Interviewed at American Chronicle

Debra Brenegan’s SHAME THE DEVIL VIRTUAL BOOK PUBLICITY TOUR will officially begin on August 1 and end on September 30 ’11. Please contact Dorothy Thompson at thewriterslife(at)gmail.com if you are interested in hosting and/or reviewing her book or click here to use the form. Thank you!

UPDATE: THIS TOUR IS NOW CLOSED. THANK TO ALL PARTICIPATING REVIEWERS AND TOUR HOSTS!

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