Book Tours: Starter Day Party for My Journey to the Ocean

I’m hosting the starter day party today for the book tour for chicklit / women’s fiction “My Journey to the Ocean”. Tour runs from March 19 to April 19. I’ll review the book on April 9 – stay tuned for the review, and while you’re at it, visit the other tour stops.

Tour Schedule

March 19^th: Starter Day Party @ I Heart Reading

March 21^st: Book Excerpt @ The Book Daily

March 22^nd: Promo Post @ Nat’s Book Nook

March 25^th: Book Excerpt @ I’m an Eclectic Reader

March 27^th: Author Interview @ The Single Librarian

March 30^th: Book Excerpt @ Indy Book Fairy

April 1^st: Promo Post @ Hollow Readers

April 4^th: Book Review @ Bedazzled Reading

April 5^th: Book Excerpt @ Bookish Madness

April 7^th: Promo Post @ 365 Days of Reading

April 9^th: Book Review @ I Heart Reading

April 10th: Promo Post @ Undercover Book Reviews

April 11^th: Book Excerpt @ The Book Gazette

April 13^th: Author Interview @ Cassidy Crimson’s Blog

April 15^th: Promo Post @ Editor Charlene’s Blog

April 17^th: Book Review @ Books are Forever

April 18^th: Promo Post @ Majanka’s Blog

April 19^th: Book Excerpt @ Books Direct

About the Book

Title: My Journey to the Ocean

Author: Lena Mikado

Genre: Romance / Chicklit

This novel is a memoir. Memoir gone chick lit (a bit twisted, perhaps at times too philosophical chick lit), yet still a memoir. It is a story about coming out of age, about what is happening on one’s mind when they are falling out of love and about trying to live in the present moment. All wrapped up in the sugar cone of that elusive humor of our everyday lives.

Elena knows what she wants from life. Her whole picture-perfect existence is planned out and allows for no deviation. She is engaged to be married and intends to be happy. Along with three of her girlfriends, she takes a summer trip across the ocean, to St. Simons Island, Georgia, United States. Pool parties, vodka watermelons and the eternal question – to shag or not to shag. Her whole world is about to be rock-n-rolled, and she will have to face a pretty hard choice. It all sounds like a setup for a summer-fling novel, but is it really like that in actuality, or does Miss Real Life have something more conniving under her sleeve? Are there happy endings in real life?

Author Bio

Lena Mikado was born in Voronezh, Russia, and moved to St. Simons Island, Georgia, USA at the age of 22. Lena received her MA degree in Linguistics, Translation and Intercultural Communication in 2005. She is the owner of a translation and localization company, writer, mummy, wife, blogger and belly dancer. And not always in this order. Lena writes tongue-in-cheek chick lit novels that are full of reflections on the matters that bother all of us every minute of our lives: love and hate, life and death, motherhood and trying to live in the present moment. My Journey to the Ocean is the first novel of the All Colors of the Rainbow series.