The Baker’s Daughter Book Tour 2012

 

Monday, May 7 | Holland
The Baker’s Daughter releases in Holland by Boekerij publisher!

 

Thursday, May 17 | Houston, TX
1 p.m.
SKYPE visit with Cy-Fair Lone Star College Library’s Book Club.

 

Thursday, May 17 | Nashville, TN
6:30 p.m.
Parnassus Books, 3900 Hillsboro Pike

 

Saturday, May 19 | Gaithersburg, MD
2:40 p.m.
Featured Author
The Gaithersburg Book Festival,
F. Scott Fitzgerald Fiction Pavilion, Gaithersburg City Hall Grounds

 

Sunday, May 27 | Hampton Roads, VA
2 p.m.
SKYPE visit with the Hampton Roads Literary Society book club.

 

Saturday, June 23 | Chicago, IL
Featured author at Women Authors Luncheon
Glen Ellyn Book Festival
Glen Ellyn Public Library

 

Tuesday, August 14  | U.S. and Canada
The Baker’s Daughter paperback release!

 

Tuesday, August 14  | Chick Lit is Not Dead
“Five things I’d tell the Teen Me” and a giveaway in honor of The Baker’s Daughter paperback release!

 

 

Past Events

 

Tuesday , January 17 | The Divining Wand
Featured Q&A: Larramie (a.k.a. the “author’s fairy godmother”) returns from hiatus to asks me some signature, divine questions.

 

Friday, January 20 | Magical Musings
Featured guest: I’m giving author Marilyn Brant a recipe from the book you won’t find in the book.

 

Tuesday, January 24 | Goodreads
2 p.m. ET
Live video launch party with Jael McHenry (The Kitchen Daughter).
All readers are invited to the The Baker’s Daughter celebration. Ask questions online and chat live with the authors.

 

Wednesday, January 25 | Brava! with Beth Hoffman
Featured guest post: ”Who is that Man in the Moon?“ Popping in for tea on Beth’s purple velvet sofa to talk about The Baker’s Daughter‘s fathers and my own.

 

Thursday, January 26 | Great Thoughts Blog
Featured guest post: Writing about my first plane ride memory as a child in “The Journey is as Great a Story as the Destination.”

 

Friday, January 27 | Beyond The Margins
Featured guest post: “The Significance of Settings: Bee Mindful.”

 

Saturday, January 28 | The Debutante Ball
Featured Q&A: Quirky and fun questions from the Debs plus my poetic answer to the question: “If you were an animal, what kind would you be and why?”

 

Monday, January 30 | Caroline Leavitt’s Blog
Featured Q&A: The lovely Caroline has me over to Leavittville.

 

Tuesdsay, January 31 | BermudaOnion’s Weblog
Featured Q&A: My fellow Hokie, Bermuda Onion, and I will sit down for a chat.

 

Wednesday, February 1 | The Pencil Box
Featured guest on Someone’s Awesome Nightstand: Take a peek at my nightstand with Victoria Loustalot.

 

Thursday, February 2 | BethFishReads
Featured guest: Mrs. BethFishReads and I will have Thursday Tea together.

 

Friday, February 3 | Writer Unboxed
Featured guest post.

 

Monday, February 6 | Diary of an Eccentric
Featured review: ”The Baker’s Daughter is, hands-down, the best book I’ve read so far this year, and I am confident that it will be on my “best of” list for 2012… a perfectly crafted novel…”

 

Tuesday, February 7 | You GOTTA Read This!
Featured review: “The story in turns melted my heart and broke it… McCoy adds her beautiful and gentle prose to make it seem almost like a love song.”

 

Wednesday, February 8 | The Feminist Texan Reads
Featured review: “The Baker’s Daughter is vividly written and highly entertaining; I couldn’t put it down…Whether you read this for a book club or just for your own pleasure,The Baker’s Daughter offers plenty for you to munch on.”

 

Thursday, February 9 | Girlichef
Featured review: “This is my first ‘favorite’ read of the year.  Great character development, picturesque historical descriptions, and skillful balancing of past and present are gracefully woven together like a cozy afghan that I wanted wrap myself in for extended periods of time.”

 

Friday, February 10 | Unabridged Chick
Featured review: “… an engrossing, engaging, and moving exploration of love, family, obligation, and the terrible gray area we live in…This would make a great book club pick — so many facets to invite conversation and discussion — and it would make a good gift for someone who isn’t sure they like historical fiction.”

 

Monday, February 13 | Book Snob
Featured review: “The Baker’s Daughter is a multi-layered book with themes of war, immigration, and human cruelty.  It is also a story of full of love, food, compassion and survival. This is a book you will definitely want to savor. Gutenacht.”

 

Tuesday, February 14 | Life in the Thumb
Featured review: “What an emotional powerhouse! I love books that make me weep with sadness and feel such empathy to the characters. This book does that and so much more… Her story will stay with me. I have her tucked under my heart.”

 

Tuesday, February 14 | Women’s Fiction Writers
Featured Q&A: In my second visit to WFW, Amy Sue and I chat about The Baker’s Daughter and more.

 

Wednesday, February 15 | BookNAround
Featured review: “In Sarah McCoy’s fantastic novel, Elsie Schmidt and her family, the bakers of the title, are just these people and her portrayal of them takes the normal black and white morality and turns it into just about every permutation of grey possible… The book is well written and engaging and I found myself unable to put it down once I was fully invested in the story.”

 

Thursday, February 16 | Dallas, TX
7:00 p.m.
a Real Bookstore, 113 Prairie Road, Fairview, TX

 

Sunday, February 19 | Concord, MA
3:00 p.m.
Concord Bookshop, 65 Main Street
A recap of the afternoon by Dawn, hostess extraordinaire at Concord Bookshop.

 

Tuesday, February 21 | Clarksburg, MD
7:00 p.m.
Novel Places Bookshop, 23341 Frederick Road
A recap of the night by Savvy Verse & Wit.

 

Wednesday, February 22 | Literate Housewife Blog
Featured Q&A: The Literate Housewife and I are having a virtual Noke party.

 

Wednesday, February 22 | SheKnows.com
Featured author Q&A with SheKnows.com Book Lounge.

 

Thursday, February 23 | WTVR CBS’s ‘Virginia This Morning’
9:00 a.m.
Chatting live about The Baker’s Daughter on CBS 6′s ‘Virginia This Morning’.

 

Thursday, February 23 | Arlington, VA
7:00 p.m.
One More Page Books, 2200 N. Westmoreland Street, Suite 101
A recap of the night by USA Today Book Buzz.

 

Friday, February 24 | Richmond, VA
6:30 p.m.
Fountain Bookstore, 1312 E. Cary Street

 

Saturday, February 25 | The Page 69 Test
Featured guest post: What’s on page 69 of The Baker’s Daughter? Come find out of it passes the test!

 

Sunday, February 26 | Lititz, PA
1:00-3:00 p.m.
Luncheon as Aaron’s Book Club pick of the month.
Aaron’s Books, 43 South Broad Street

 

Monday, February 27 | Philadelphia, PA
6:30-8:30 p.m.
An Evening of “Daughters” with Jael McHenry (The Kitchen Daughter)
The Spiral Bookcase, 112 Cotton Street
A recap of the night by Newsworks.org.

 

Wednesday, February 29 | What Women Write
Featured author interview.

 

Thursday, March 1 | The Lost Entwife
Featured review: “… contrasting current day Texas and the struggles with illegal immigrants with the struggles in Germany. A parallel is found between old and young, and the best part – it happens in a bakery where the most mouth-watering goods are prepared… I thoroughly enjoyed this story by Sarah McCoy. I found it to be extremely well-written, the characters to be easy to sympathize with, and the ending was one that left me with a good feeling of satisfaction.”

 

Friday, March 2 | Teresa’s Reading Corner
Featured blog review.

 

Sunday, March 4 | Blog Talk Radio
Featured radio guest: Hostess with the mostess, author Kristina McMorris and I chat about our new books: The Baker’s Daughter and Bridge of Scarlet Leaves.

 

Monday, March 5 | Books Like Breathing
Featured 5-star review: “…as close to perfect as you can get. I was equally engaged in both Reba and Elsie’s stories because they were both written with equal skill, researched well and balanced beautifully…This one is definitely on my keeper shelf.”

 

Tuesday, March 6 | Reading Lark
Featured review: “The Baker’s Daughter is a triumph of the human heart… I highly recommend this book to those who enjoy historical fiction, women’s history, and those looking for critiques on families and love. I don’t think its possible for me to capture in this review how much I loved this book and how deeply it spoke to my heart.”

 

Wednesday, March 7 | Savvy Verse and Wit
Featured review: “Touching on family loyalty, mother-daughter bonds, father-daughter bonds, relationships of all kinds, plus the search for love and forgiveness, McCoy reaches deep inside the dough to knead the bonds of these women to help them grow outward and inward, allowing them to absorb more love and connections.”

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Thursday, March 8 | A Cozy Reading Corner
Featured blog review.

 

Friday, March 9 | Amused By Books
Featured review: “… heart wrenching storyline that has me turning pages far into the night. Such is the case with Sarah McCoy’s The Baker’s Daughter!”

 

Saturday, March 10 | Reading With Robin Radio Show
Listen in from 7-8 a.m. EST or sign in as a Robcast Member to download the show!
Robin Kall and I are chatting about The Baker’s Daughter.

 

Saturday, March 10 | Tucson, AZ
1 p.m.
Capturing a Sense of Place in Fiction Panel with Ilie Ruby and Naomi Benaron.
The Tucson Festival of Books, University of Arizona Campus, Student Union, Tucson Room

 

Sunday, March 11 | Tucson, AZ
11:30 a.m.
Family Stories: What to Use, What to Lose Panel with Daniel Roth and Kristina McMorris.
The Tucson Festival of Books, University of Arizona Campus, Student Union, Catalina Room

2:30 p.m.
Keeping Secrets, Telling Lies Panel with Randy Susan Meyers and Kristina McMorris.
The Tucson Festival of Books, University of Arizona Campus, Student Union, Catalina Room

 

Wednesday, March 14 | The Divining Wand
Featured guest post: I return to TDW to answer the question: “Why I Write?”

 

Thursday, March 15 | Indie Reader Houston
Featured guest: The Indie Reader Houston gets a peak inside The Baker’s Daughter‘s test kitchen.

 

Tuesday, March 20 | Romance Readers Reading Challenge
Ask an Author, Win a Book
Featured author: Three-day online Goodreads chat.

 

Wednesday, March 21 | Romance Readers Reading Challenge
Ask an Author, Win a Book
Featured author: Three-day online Goodreads chat.

 

Thursday, March 22 | Romance Readers Reading Challenge
Ask an Author, Win a Book
Featured author: Three-day online Goodreads chat.

 

Friday, March 23 | Denver, CO
7:30 p.m.
Tattered Cover Book Store, Highland Ranch, 9315 Dorchester Street

 

Sunday, March 25 | Denver, CO
Focus with Irene Rawlings– 97.3 FM KBC
Irene Rawlings graciously invites me into the studio to chat about The Baker’s Daughter on her radio show.

 

Friday, April 13 | Jen Pooley’s Blog
My dear friend Jen Pooley asks me for the”13 Things That Make Me Happy.”

 

Monday, April 16 | NPR’s Hash Hags
Julie Klam, Ann Leary and Laura Zigman are my lovely hostesses.
Featured author interview. Click here to listen to the show!

 

Tuesday, April 17  | Seneca, IL
5 p.m.
SKYPE visit with “Got Books?” teacher’s book club at Seneca Grade School.
Spearheaded by book blogger Kathy Parker of Marian’s Library.

 

Tuesday, April 24 | El Paso, TX
7 p.m.
Visit with private book club.

 

Friday, April 27 | Cape Cod, MA
6:30 p.m.
SKYPE visit with “Can We Talk About The Book Now” book club.

 

Sunday, April 15-30 | The Next Best Book Club
Online author-reader discussion as the April featured book club pick.

 

Monday, April 30 | Literary New England Radio Show
8 p.m. ET
Hostess Cindy Wolfe Boynton invites me on the show for a special Louisa May Alcott tribute! I’ll discuss how Alcott and her work influenced my writing life as a child and adult.

 

I’m adding stops every day! Booksellers, bloggers and readers, feel free to contact me at sarah@sarahmccoy.com if you’re interested in adding your city or blog to the list. I’m excited to meet everyone!