Welcome To Harmony Blog Book Tour by Jodi Thomas and Book Giveaway! CLOSED

I was thrilled when I was contacted by Jodi Thomas asking if I would be interested in a Blog Book Tour for her new book Welcome To Harmony.  The book will be released on June 1, 2010.  My book came a few weeks ago.  From the very beginning you connect with the characters.  You care for them, you want to cry with them, you are curious about them and you want to help them.  I have loved this book (which lately has not been my genre).  This is the first of three in a series and I will be sure to pick up books two and three.





Jodi wrote a little bit about the book for all of you!  My readers!  She wants to share with you how she came about writing it and how hard it was to finish it.  I hope you enjoy Jodi Thomas offering you insight on her new book:  Welcome to Harmony.





WELCOME TO HARMONY is hitting the stands as we speak. Sometimes I feel like one of those dime novel writers from a hundred years ago. They?d write their stories, mail the book off to a press back east and wait at the train station for the first copies to come in with the newspapers. It?s a kick to know that people all over the country will be stepping into my world in a few days.



I began the book at a Bed and Breakfast built in 1851 near Tyler, Texas. I was the only guest at the huge old plantation house and thought as soon as the housekeeping staff left I would wander, but as soon as the door was closed and I realized I was alone, I ran to my room and locked the door. That night, with ghosts (I was sure) just outside my door I began the story of a small town called Harmony.



Harmony is a place we all wish we were from. You?ll fall in love with not only the Fire Chief who tries to take care of all the women in his life?a mother, two widowed aunts, two divorced sisters and a four year old niece?but you?ll also understand the Funeral Director who loves his job of helping people in crisis. Everyone in town knows him, but he can?t remember names. He?s lonely but can?t see himself ever leaving his home or his responsibilities. He?s kind to everyone, but has no one to love him.



The thread that holds them all together is a runaway who hits town one night. She?s really not looking to stay, but just wants to visit Harmony so she?ll have a place to be from. What she finds is a place to belong.



The settings are pulled from my memories of small town rodeos and families who argue for generations but fight to help one another when trouble comes. The prairie fires of 2006 that burned a million acres of land near my home in the Texas Panhandle influenced the plot as did the funny ways that small town folks are so very unique.



I hope Harmony and its people touch you as deeply as they did me. The last month of writing the book I found I had trouble making myself write the ending because I didn?t want to leave Harmony.



So, come along with me to a town you?ll feel like you are from by the time you finish reading. You?ll laugh, maybe cry a little and fall in love.



Thanks for reading,



Jodi Thomas







Jodi has graciously given me an extra copy, hot off the presses, to give away to one of you.  Here is how you can enter to win Welcome to Harmony.  The Giveaway ends June 14th, at 12:00 p.m. PST.



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Disclosure:  I received Welcome to Harmony so that I could read the book prior to the Blog Book Tour.  I was not compensated to write a positive or favorable review.  This is Tammy's Two Cents personal opinion of the book.