Welcome to my Reality, Carol Kilgore!

Look who's visiting my reality today: the utterly charming Carol Kilgore! (And I'm not just saying that because she's from my home state of Texas. Though, of course, it helps. Because Texas rocks!)

For those of you who haven't met Carol yet, here's a little about her:

Carol Kilgore has always had stories and characters in her head. She wrote short fiction for a few years and enjoyed a small success as a freelancer before giving it all up for her true love – novels.

As a Coast Guard wife, Carol has lived in locations across the U.S. She and her husband now live in a San Antonio suburb and share their home and patio with two active herding dogs whose mission is to keep them free from danger, real or imagined.

Carol has a new book out, one in a very special genre Carol calls Crime Fiction with a Kiss. (I love that! Wish I'd thought of it.)

From chilling prologue to final paragraph, Carol Kilgore's SOLOMON'S COMPASS is an edge-of-your-seat mystery offering a pitch-perfect blend of suspense and romance, with enough twists to keep readers compulsively turning the page. Compelling characters, a vivid Texas Gulf Coast landscape, and a town full of intriguing suspects make this novel a standout.

   --VR Barkowski, Al Blanchard Award Winner

A missing belt—her uncle’s prized possession. The lure of buried treasure. And a sexy former SEAL who makes U.S. Coast Guard Commander Taylor Campbell crazy. What more could any woman want. Right?

Taylor is in Rock Harbor, Texas, on a quest to unearth her uncle’s treasure—a journey far outside the realm of her real life. There’s one glitch. Taylor's certain the buried treasure was all in Uncle Randy's dementia-riddled mind. Now he’s dead.

Former SEAL Jake Solomon is in Rock Harbor under false pretenses to protect Taylor from the fate that befell her uncle and the other members of a tight circle of Coast Guardsmen called the Compass Points who served together on Point boats in Vietnam.

Jake is definitely not supposed to become involved with Taylor. That was his first mistake. Taylor is attracted to Jake as well, but she refuses to wait for him to locate the killer when she knows her plan will force her uncle’s murderer into action.

But the killer's actions are just what Jake is afraid of.

Without further ado, here's Carol's guest post:

Hi, and thanks for hosting me today, Linda.

You know how some days are so perfect they could have come straight out of a fairytale?

No? Me, neither. Except for rare exceptions. To balance the fairytale days, I get days ruled by the Queen of the Glitch Fairies. But most of my days, although good, aren’t complete without a couple of glitches and a few oh-no moments along the way.

And then came Solomon’s Compass. Almost everything concerning the writing and promoting of this novel has been filled with trials and mishaps.

In January, I blogged about some of the writing mishaps here. But I didn’t expect the Curse of the Glitch Fairy Queen to continue. Silly me. I should have known better.

In February I started chatting about Solomon’s Compass online. In March, I did a blog promotion with a double giveaway on my blog every week. A guest gave away a book at my blog while I gave away a book elsewhere. A few of those giveaways were a little glitchy technology wise. Or maybe it was The Queen at work. Or Mercury in retrograde.

I also experienced a snafu with Amazon a few days before the release date. They’ve always been professional with me and quick to fix things on their end, and the problem was fixed within 24 hours. Thank goodness! [knocking on wood]

The obstacles didn’t stop with things. People were affected, too. During this blog tour set up and the giveaways in March, one blogger’s computer crashed, one had to cancel because of emergency surgery, and another had to reschedule due to a deadline.

Could there be anything else? Sshhh! I’m afraid to ask.

I have one more day to go on this tour. But I’ve written all the posts ahead, so I’m not sure what else I’ll add to this list by the time I’m actually here at Linda’s.

Let’s hope it’s not much!

How about you?

Have you ever had an entire project riddled with obstacles and complications from start to finish?

No? I want your secrets!

Yes? I must be at the right place. J

(Linda here again.) Thanks for visiting, Carol! I'm keeping my fingers crossed that there won't be any more glitches, and that it'll be smooth sailing from here on out with Solomon's Compass. :)

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