Book Tours: Starter Day Party Learning to Float

I’m hosting the starter day party today for the book tour for memoir “Learning to Float”. The tour runs from March 9 to April 9. I hope you’ll enjoy the tour.

There’s also a tour-wide giveaway for a signed paperback copy of the book along with a Whidbey Island, WA goodie basket with bonus Seattle coffee and mug. Scroll down to participate in the giveaway.

Tour Schedule

March 9^th: Starter Day Party @ I Heart Reading

March 10^th: Promo Post @ I’m an Eclectic Reader

March 11^th: Book Excerpt @ The Book Gazette

March 13^th: Promo Post @ Nat’s Book Nook

March 14^th: Author Interview @ Cassidy Crimson’s Blog

March 15^th: Book Excerpt @ Editor Charlene’s Blog

March 16^th: Book Review @ I Heart Reading

March 17^th: Promo Post @ Books are Forever

March 18^th: Author Interview @ Mythical Books

March 19^th: Book Excerpt @ The Book Daily

March 21^st: Book Review @ Bedazzled Reading

March 23^rd: Author Interview @ The Single Librarian

March 25^th: Book Excerpt @ Cajun Book Lover

March 27^th: Promo Post @ Hollow Readers

March 29^th: Book Excerpt @ Bookish Madness

March 31^st: Author Interview @ Pubslush Blog

April 1^st: Promo Post @ Bookaholic Ramblings

April 3^rd: Book Review @ Editor Charlene’s Blog

April 5^th: Book Excerpt @ 365 Days of Reading

April 6th: Book Excerpt, Review and Interview @ A Virtual Hobby Store and Coffee Haus

April 7^th: Author Interview @ Majanka’s Blog

April 8^th: Book Excerpt @ The Reading Guru

April 9^th: Promo Post @ Illuminite Caliginosus

About The Book

Title: Learning to Float

Author: Allan Ament

Genre: Memoir

Allan and Deloris Ament’s lives take a dramatic turn when Deloris suffers a debilitating stroke. No longer an equal partner in marriage, Allan becomes Deloris’s primary caregiver, responsible for maintaining their household and her well-being. Learning to Float describes Allan’s transformation from a criminal defense attorney to a compassionate, emotionally vulnerable caregiver. Drawing on contemporaneously written emails and private journal entries, Ament unflinchingly exposes his emotional, mental, and physical ups and downs, consistently focusing on the love, humor, and opportunities for personal and spiritual growth he experiences on this journey. Anyone with the possibility of becoming a caregiver for a loved one, now or in the future, will benefit from the insights Ament shares. Everyone will be buoyed by the love Allan and Deloris experience as they face their new normal.

Author Bio

After successful careers as a criminal defense attorney, higher education administrator and instructor, and day spa manager, Allan Ament now enjoys retirement with his wife, an award-winning journalist and author, and their semi-neurotic cat (are there other kinds?) They live on an island in Puget Sound, north of Seattle, where, in addition to writing and being his wife’s primary caregiver, Ament serves as board chair for the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts (nila.edu). His work has previously appeared in academic, professional, and literary journals, and is included in an upcoming anthology, Being: What Makes a Man. Learning to Float is his first book-length work.