The Luminist by David Rocklin Virtual Book Publicity Tour October and November 2011
Authors on Tour, Featured — By Tracee Gleichner on September 24, 2011 at 6:30 am
Join David Rocklin, author of the literary historical fiction novel, The Luminist (Hawthorne Books), as he virtually tours the blogosphere October 3 – November 23, 2011 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book!
About David Rocklin
David Rocklin is an attorney and a mediator. He graduated from Indiana University with a BA in Literature. He lives in California with his wife and children. The Luminist is his first novel.
You can visit his website at http://www.davidrocklin.com
Connect with him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/#!/drocklin or Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Luminist/197726206912766
About The Luminist
IN COLONIAL INDIA, at a time of growing friction between the ruling British and the restless Indian populace, a Victorian woman and her young Tamil Indian servant defy convention, class, and heartbreak to investigate what is gained – and lost – by holding life still. Suggested by the life and work of photographic pioneer Julia Margaret Cameron, The Luminist filters 19th century Ceylon through the lens of an English woman, Catherine Colebrook and a 15 year old Tamil boy, Eligius Shourie. Left fatherless by soldiers, Eligius is brought as a servant to the Colebrooks’ neglected estate. In the shadow of Catherine’s obsession to arrest beauty – to select a moment from the thousands comprising her life in Ceylon and hold it apart from mere memory – Eligius transforms into her apprentice in the creation of the first haunting photographs in history.
Book Excerpt:
If only you could have seen it.
No longer do I chase shadows as you have counseled against-oh, a good man and friend you are, to protect me from the native weakness of my sex! My house is full of fumes and frames, cut glass and in the cottage house, the blessings of an industrious servant. Where there were holes in the roof, there are now windows and black curtains, and pulleys and levers. Quite the luminist, that one. He can assert at least a bit of control over Ceylon’s capricious light, and bend it to my advantage. Hubris, perhaps, but only if I fail. And John, I fail no more. Whatever our Lord has in store for us, we have always been helpless to stop. In truth I cannot say where my son Hardy resides now, nor what has become of my belief in such things as Heaven. But I will never again lose a child to the distant regions of memory.
I will find the blend of matter and manner to hold the images fast, and then I will have Julia and Ewen for all time. As surely as if they’d been sculpted from God’s only constants, the light and the dark.
Send me nothing more, dearest friend and mentor. Soon it wll be my turn to send something your way. Something wondrous.
Catherine
The Luminist’s Virtual Book Publicity Tour Schedule
Monday, October 3
Book Reviewed at Owl Tell You About It
Tuesday, October 4
Guest Blogging at Owl Tell You About It
Wednesday, October 5
Book Reviewed at Unabridged Chick
Thursday, October 6
Interviewed at Unabridged Chick
Friday, October 7
Book Reviewed at You Wanna Know What I Think
Monday, October 10
Book Reviewed at Booked Up
Tuesday, October 11
Interviewed at Review From Here
Thursday, October 13
Book Reviewed at Bloggin Bout Books
Friday, October 14
Guest Blogging at You Gotta Read Reviews
Monday, October 17
Book Reviewed at Situations Where You May Need It
Tuesday, October 18
Book Reviewed at Living a Goddess Life
Thursday, October 20
Guest Blogging at Historical Tapestry
Friday, October 21
Book Reviewed at Live To Read
Monday, October 24
Book Reviewed at Library of Clean Reads
Tuesday, October 25
Book Reviewed at What She Read
Thursday, October 27
Book Reviewed at Fluidity of Time
Wednesday, November 2
Interviewed at Broowaha
Thursday, November 3
Interviewed at American Chronicle
Friday, November 4
Guest Blogging at Allvoices
Monday, November 7
Book Reviewed at Just Another New Blog
Tuesday, November 8
Interviewed at Pump Up Your Book
Wednesday, November 9
Interviewed at Kelly McClymer’s Blog
Thursday, November 10
Interviewed at The Writer’s Life
Friday, November 11
Guest Blogging at Alaskan Book Cafe
Monday, November 14
Guest Blogging at Divine Caroline
Tuesday, November 15
Guest Blogging at Blogher
Wednesday, November 16
Book Reviewed at The True Book Addict
Thursday, November 17
Interviewed at The True Book Addict
Book Reviewed at Every Day is an Adventure
Friday, November 18
Guest Blogging at Red Room
Monday, November 21
Interviewed at Examiner
Tuesday, November 22
Interviewed at Blogcritics
David Rocklin’s THE LUMINIST VIRTUAL BOOK PUBLICITY TOUR will officially begin on October 3 and end on November 23 ‘11. Please contact Tracee Gleichner at tgleichner(at)gmail.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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