Archived: George Bailey Gets Saved in the End by Ken O’Neill
~ Schedule ~
George Bailey Gets Saved in the End by Ken O’Neill:
- October 24th – Laurie @ Laurie’s Thoughts and Reviews
Book Tour Post with Interview and Book Review
- October 25th – Cheshire Cat @ The Cheshire Cat’s Looking Glass
Book Tour Post with Exclusive Excerpt
- October 26th – Maia @ The Silver Dagger Scriptorium
Book Tour Post with Spotlight
- October 27th – Kristy @ Keep Calm and Write On
Book Tour Post with Spotlight
- October 27th – Darcia @ A Word Please
Book Tour Post with Spotlight
- October 28th – Nancy @ The Avid Reader
Book Tour Post with Spotlight
- October 31st – Amber G. @ Lady Amber’s Reviews
Book Tour Post with Spotlight
- October 31st – Gillian @ Plain Talk Book Marketing
Book Tour Post with Guest Post
- November 1st – Janet @ Teatime and Books
Book Tour Post with Spotlight
- November 2nd – Melissa @ Jessica & Gracie’s Tree
Book Tour Post with Interview
- November 3rd – Carol @ StarAngels Reviews
Book Tour Post with Spotlight
- November 4th – Cindy @ The Indy Book Fairy
Book Tour Post with Spotlight
- November 7th – Emily @ Musings from an Addicted Reader
Book Tour Post with Spotlight
- November 8th – Melissa @ Melissa’s Book Buzz
Book Tour Post with Interview
- November 9th – Amber @ The Wonderings of One Person
Book Tour Post with Interview
- November 10th – Stacey @ Books, Dreams, Life
Book Tour Post with Spotlight
- November 11th – Alexandra @ The Bookworm Lodge
Book Tour Post with Spotlight
- November 14th – LJ @ This and That Book Blog
Book Tour Post with Spotlight
- November 15th – Kristy @ Kristy Centeno
Book Tour Post with Spotlight
- November 15th – Ronda @ Wining Wife (Book Review)
- November 16th – Dani @ Paulette’s Papers
Book Tour Post with Spotlight
- November 16th – Hailey @ Live, Laugh, and Love Books (Book Review)
- November 17th – Vicky @ Deal Sharing Aunt (Book Review)
- November 18th – Lulu @ Roadside Reader
Book Tour Post with Book Review
- November 18th – Jaidis @ Juniper Grove
Book Tour Post with Interview
~ About the Book ~
Title: George Bailey Gets Saved in the End
Author: Ken O’Neill
Published: October 17th, 2016
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Recommendation: 18+
~ Synopsis ~
George Bailey, who has made a fortune selling Christmas ornaments, is having a rough few days. He’s thrown his back out lifting the Thanksgiving turkey; his father has died and his wife has left him. He’d turn to his best friend for support, but said BFF is having an affair with his wife.
Let the holiday season begin!
On the heels of all this misery George meets a new woman, and he also meets Jesus (or perhaps just an awfully nice guy named Jesus). As he scrambles to hold together his floundering family, he must figure out if these strange and wondrous events are miracles or symptoms of a nervous breakdown.
~ About the Author ~
Ken O’Neill is the author of The Marrying Kind, which won the 2012 Rainbow Award for best debut, and the 2013 Independent Publisher Award Silver Medal for LGBT fiction. The Marrying Kind was also a finalist for the 2013 International Book Award in the Gay and Lesbian fiction category. The book was included on Smart Bitches Trashy Books list of top three favorite novels of 2012.
Ken lives in NYC with his husband and their two cats who think they’re dogs or, perhaps, people. When Ken is not checking his Amazon rating to see if anyone has purchased his books, he enjoys reading, dancing (though usually only when no one is watching) and eating dark chocolate, purely for medicinal reasons. He is at work on his third novel. Visit him at: kenoneillauthor.com
~ Excerpt~
All the usual invitations had been extended. Yet oddly, not a single friend—The Strays, they always called them—joined the Baileys for dinner this year. The lack of guests in no way altered the quantity of food the family prepared. It mattered not whether thirty people attended, or just the eight of them. As far as George’s mother, Claire, and his wife, Tara, were concerned, you could not call the day Thanksgiving unless the turkey weighed more than twenty-five pounds. Theirs weighed in at record-breaking twenty-nine point four. Add the stuffing, all the pan drippings, and the cast iron Le Creuset roasting pan to that number, and George was hoisting a weight just shy of forty pounds when his back went out.
Considering George’s relative level of fitness, which was extremely high by American standards, though only average when compared to other Manhattanites, he did not believe it was the weight per se that precipitated his injury. Rather he suspected his troubles were brought on because he had been forced to crouch down when removing the turkey because his wife, for reasons still unknown to him, insisted that the bird go in the lower oven. Not that George blamed her for his mishap. Just at the moment George was taking the pan out of the oven, he remembered being told something about bending with his knees. But by then it was too late. Something deep within his core seized up. As his knees buckled, he lurched forward to the sound of Tara shouting, “Don’t you dare drop that bird, George!”
He didn’t.
George spent most of the day alternating between ice packs and a heating pad, because his wife said cold but his mother said hot, and he figured it was easier just to keep them both happy.
~ Giveaway ~
Stay You & Happy Reading,