Lagan Love Virtual Book Publicity Tour October/November 2011

Join Peter Murphy, author of the literary fiction novel, Lagan Love (Fiction Studio), as he virtually tours the blogosphere October 3 – November 23, 2011, on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book!

About Peter Murphy

Peter Murphy was born in Killarney where he spent his first three years before his family was deported to Dublin, the Strumpet City. Growing up in the verdant braes of Templeogue, Peter was schooled by the De La Salle brothers in Churchtown where he played rugby for ‘The Wine and Gold’. He also played football (soccer) in secret!

After that, he graduated and studied the Humanities in Grogan’s under the guidance of Scot’s corner and the bar staff; Paddy, Tommy and Sean.

Murphy financed his education by working summers on the buildings sites of London in such places as Cricklewood, Camden Town and Kilburn.

Murphy also tramped the roads of Europe playing music and living without a care in the world. But his move to Canada changed all of that. He only came over for awhile – thirty years ago.

He took a day job and played music in the bars at night until the demands of family life intervened.

Having raised his children and packed them off to University, Murphy answered the long ignored internal voice and began to write.

He has no plans to make plans for the future and is happy to let things unfold as they do anyway.

LAGAN LOVE is his first novel.

You can visit his website at www.peterdamienmurphy.com or his blog at www.peterdamienmurphy.blogspot.com.  Connect with him at Twitter at www.twitter.com/PeeloMurphy and Facebook at www.facebook.com/LaganLove.

About Lagan Love

If you know something about passion, and desire, and giving everything to live your dreams then leave your world behind for a while. Come with Janice to Dublin, in the mid nineteen-eighties when a better future beckoned and the past was restless, whispering in the shadows for the Old Ways. Janice has grown tired of her sheltered existence in Toronto and when Aidan leads her through the veils of the Celtic Twilight, she doesn’t hesitate. In their love, Aidan, Dublin’s rising poet, sees a chance for redemption and Janice sees a chance for recognition. Sinead tells her that it is all nonsense as she keeps her head down and her eyes fixed on her own prize – a place in Ireland’s prospering future. She used to go out with Aidan, before he met Janice, so there is little she can say. And besides, she has enough to do as her parents are torn apart by the rumours of church scandals. But after a few nights in Grogan’s, where Dublin’s bohemians gather, or a day in Clonmacnoise among the ruins of Celtic Crosses, it won’t matter as the ghosts of Aidan’s mythologies take form and prey on the friends until everything is at risk. Lagan Love is a sensuous story of Love, Lust and Loss that will bring into question the cost we pay for our dreams.

Book Excerpt:

Another brave new world beckoned but Dublin was dubious – too often hope had been trampled down by foreign armies or strangled in dark alleys by the shadows of avarice and graft. Dubliners would rise to the inevitability of it all. They had risen up before and shaken off the Danes and Normans, and then the British: only that took forever. No self-respecting Jackeen could consider putting faith in hope even as European money rebuilt the roads and opened the whole country to progress.

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Lagan Love Virtual Book Publicity Tour Schedule

Monday, October 3

Interviewed at Let’s Talk Virtual Book Tours

Wednesday, October 5

Book reviewed at Live to Read

Thursday, October 6

Interviewed at Blogcritics

Friday, October 7

Interviewed at Review From Here

Monday, October 10

Guest blogging at Mad Moose Mama

Tuesday, October 11

Book reviewed at Mad Moose Mama

Wednesday, October 12

Guest blogging at Literary Magic

Thursday, October 13

Book featured  at The Top Shelf

Friday, October 14

Interviewed at Beyond the Books

Monday, October 17

Interviewed at The Hot Author Report

Book featured at Thoughts in Progress

Tuesday, October 18

Book trailer spotlighted at If Books Could Talk

Thursday, October 20

Interviewed at Examiner

Monday, October 24

Guest blogging at Book Reviews by Molly

Wednesday, October 26

Guest blogging at Reader Girls

Friday, October 28

Chat with Peter at Pump Up Your Book Live! Chat & Book Giveaway Party

Tuesday, November 1

Guest blogging at Jagged Edge

Wednesday, November 2

Interviewed at The Writer’s Life

Thursday, November 3

Interviewed at Book Marketing Buzz

Friday, November 4

Guest blogging at Literarily Speaking

Monday, November 7

Interviewed at The Book Connection

Tuesday, November 8

Guest blogging at The Book Faery Reviews

Wednesday, November 9

Book spotlighted at Morgen Bailey’s Writing Blog

Thursday, November 10

Interviewed at Pump Up Your Book

Friday, November 11

Interviewed at As the Pages Turn

Monday, November 14

Interviewed at The Plot Thickens

Tuesday, November 15

Interviewed at Allvoices

Thursday, November 17

Guest blogging at Morgen Bailey’s Writing Blog

Friday, November 18

Guest blogging at The Story Behind the Book

Monday, November 21

Book reviewed at The Top Shelf

Tuesday, November 22

Interviewed at Paperback Writer

Wednesday, November 23

Interviewed at American Chronicle

Peter Murphy’s LAGAN LOVE VIRTUAL BOOK PUBLICITY TOUR will officially begin on October 3 and end on November 23′11. Please contact Dorothy Thompson at thewriterslife(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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