It's here! Blog stop #1!

And thus it begins!

The Missionary and the Brute Blog Tour begins today! Check out my friend and fellow Author Kathy Reinhart's interview of me on the Inkdrop Interviews blog.  What a great set of questions. There could not be a more fitting way to begin our Blog Tour.

Thanks for joining me!

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Today!!!

Wednesday February 29th

"Interview with John Kenworthy"

http://inkdropinterviews.com/

Thursday March 1st

"Mrs. Starr's EZ Peasy Spinach Surprise" at http://sheilapierson.tumblr.com/

Friday March 2nd

"Stunt Double" at http://honiebriggs.com/

Saturday March 3rd

"Educating Tanzania"

Sunday March 4th

"Kenworthy interviews Author Raychelle Muhammad"

Monday March 5th

"Kenworthy interviews the Missionary Jadwin Ross"

Tuesday March 6th

"Interview with John Kenworthy"

Wednesday March 7th

"Social Imperialism in The Missionary and the Brute"

Thursday March 8th

"Raven's Reviews"

Friday March 9th

"How to get a bad review without slitting your wrists"

Saturday March 10th

"Free Excerpt from The Missionary and the Brute"

Sunday March 11th

"Travel Tips with Jadwin Ross"

Monday March 12th

"Video Excerpt"

Tuesday March 13th

"Interview with John Kenworthy"

Enjoy!!!

The Missionary and the Brute Blog Tour - 2012

Greetings! I am ready to announce the The Missionary and the Brute Blog Tour - 2012. Woohoo!

What we will be doing is quite simple. Starting tomorrow and running for almost two weeks, we will be traveling on a virtual tour from blogsite to blogsite of my fellow authors and/or readers. In some cases, those site-owners will interview me. In other cases, I will interview them. I will provide a few pithy guest blogs about my own literary musings and will provide some prequel meta-fictional scenes from "The Missionary and the Brute" in several others. Fun stuff all around!

Overall it's a great way for me to not only promote my novel, but also to lift up people who inspire me with their own work. The hope is that after you read my spiel, you will spend a little time exploring their sites and find out how incredible they are as well and will join/like/bookmark their sites to make them as much a part of your daily routine as they are mine.

The Missionary and the Brute Blog Tour kicks off tomorrow February 29th at my friend Kathy Reinhart's Inkdrop Interviews site and then proceeds from there. Stop back here each day to find the next stops on the list! I will tease forth only the URLs of the next three stops each day...

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Wednesday February 29th
"Interview with John Kenworthy" at http://inkdropinterviews.com/

Thursday March 1st
"Mrs. Starr's EZ Peasy Spinach Surprise" at http://sheilapierson.tumblr.com/

Friday March 2nd
"Stunt Double" at http://honiebriggs.com/

Saturday March 3rd
"Educating Tanzania"

Sunday March 4th
"Kenworthy interviews Author Raychelle Muhammad"

Monday March 5th
"Travel Tips with Jadwin Ross"

Tuesday March 6th
"Interview with John Kenworthy"

Wednesday March 7th
"Social Imperialism in The Missionary and the Brute"

Thursday March 8th
"Raven's Reviews"

Friday March 9th
"How to get a bad review without slitting your wrists"

Saturday March 10th
"Free Excerpt from The Missionary and the Brute"

Sunday March 11th
"Kenworthy interviews the Missionary Jadwin Ross"

Monday March 12th
"Video Excerpt"

Tuesday March 13th
"Interview with John Kenworthy"

Some topics/dates may be subject to change. But good heavens I hope not...

Enjoy!!!

Great new interview now live in Nashville!

Liz K McKeown of the Nashville Books Examiner has posted a new interview with me regarding "The Missionary and the Brute." It is a bit unusual in my collection of interviews in that it delves into some of the deeper subtext of the story rather than on the mechanics of writing. It's a whole different slant on things. I'm not sure I came off anywhere close to coherent in this but it certainly made me think. For an interview to make me think is a great thing.

McKeown gets into Tanzanian politics, intolerance of religions, corruption, and death with a little bit of Upton Sinclair tossed in. You know, blithely light hearted fare!

Check it out if you have a chance. http://www.examiner.com/books-in-nashville/the-missionary-and-the-brute-a-tanzanian-thriller 

The Missionary Jadwin Ross

Now that quite a few of you have finished the book, let me say first off - thank you! A lot of folks tell me they enjoyed it greatly and felt that it gave them a sense of place. Some have said beautiful things about the writing that leave me beaming with pride and happiness... my gosh!

There are a handful of folks who have expressed wonder over the ending - they question the interpretation (theirs and mine) and whether the huge twist - HUGE - was good or bad. (75/25 favorable I'd say from folks who have shared). Some folks don't like to be tricked and I deliberately and unapologetically lead them toward that end. Majorly manipulative on my literary part, I know.

Aside from trickery, I think what is disturbing for some folks is that we sometimes seek a sanitized view of the world. And I don't give in to that. Far from it. No happy endings here. Closure - yes. Resolution - of course. Blissfully riding off into the sunset - nope, sorry my friends...

Because what I want to talk about next is spoilerish - I won't give too much away, I promise - I will put the next comments below the fold as it were. On the next page.

You've been warned. If you don't want the ending spoiled - even a little - then don't click forward. If you have finished - or don't care if the surprise is marred a tad - proceed.

Last chance to turn back...

Okay...

I said so...