Virtual Tour & Giveaway for Shooting Picasso by Vanna Tessier

Welcome to my stop on author Vanna Tessier's Name Before the Masses Tour for Shooting Picasso, presented by Goddess Fish Promotions.  Please leave a comment or question for Vanna to let her know you stopped by.  You can enter her tour wide giveaway by filling out the Rafflecopter form below, Vanna will be awarding a $15 Amazon GC and a softcover, autographed copy of Shooting Picasso (US Only) to a randomly drawn commenter during the tour.  She will also be awarding an ebook copy of Shooting Picasso to three randomly drawn commenters during the tour (please be sure to leave your email address with your comment).  You can follow the rest of her tour here, the more stops you visit, the better your odds of winning. I will not be reviewing Ms. Tessier's novel at this time. 

Shooting Picasso
by Vanna Tessier

Publisher: SnowApple Press
Release Date: January 12, 2014
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
Length: 262 Pages
ASIN: B00CWU0420

Buy Link:  Amazon

About the book: 

The 9/11 surprise attack on the World Trade Center creates unimaginable chaos and grief in New York City. Ruthless opportunists try to take advantage of the ensuing panic, but a promising young reporter known for her no-holds-barred story-chasing hunts them down and soon finds herself at the heart of a criminal underworld.

How deep into that underworld, and her own past, is she willing to go? And more importantly, will she have the strength to face a drastic life change?

Excerpt

As Riviera waves him in, she points to the narrow door leading to the back of the art shop. I notice the man’s birthmark when he turns. It resembles a wine-colored skull with teeth. I have to stop him. However, I can’t go past Riviera who allows him to open the door at the rear. He enters and quickly shuts the door behind him. She walks around the counter and halts in front of me.

“Have to see what you have for sale again,” I say.

The barrel body of the stout woman rolls on her short legs as she returns to the counter and wipes the glassy top with a wrinkled towel.

She hisses. “Stubborn, huh!” Her bracelets clink as she blinks at me. “You thought things over and decided to buy the choker. You love it. Right?”

I don’t want to back away. I have to let her know I’d never buy a choker. “I’m thinking about it.”

“You’d like that cameo. It’s lovely. Looks like you.”

“No. It doesn’t.” I can’t stop myself from adding, “I can’t buy that choker.” I stare at the works of art on display. The drawing of the little girl with her puppy is not hanging on the wall now. Only a pale blue stain is left at the place where the drawing used to be.

“Where is the neat sketch showing the little girl and her puppy on the pier over a lake?”

“How dare you ask me a question in that tone of voice?” Riviera shakes her finger at me. “You’re nosy and I don’t have to answer. Why should I? You’re too cheap to buy anything. You belong to the bunch of young people who are jobless and do nothing except cause problems.”

AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Vanna Tessier writes about the world we live in today. She believes reason and modern technology can enrich the quality of life allowing us to face changes affecting modern society.

Her fiction is at times broadcast on CBC Radio and her book reviews appear in The Edmonton Journal and The Edmonton Sun.

Gypsy Drums, her collection of short stories, was a finalist for the Howard O'Hagan Award. Another collection of short fiction, Thistle Creek, appeared before her book Sandweaver. She translated from Italian, The Last Waltz of Chopin, a novel by Gilberto Finzi.

In 2002, Peppermint Night won The Poets' Corner Award.

She examines the challenge of survival within a forever mutating environment influenced by the onerous demands of our civilization coping with the threat of terrorism.

The author agrees we could find a refuge within the realm of our imagination leading us to discover a balance between reality as is and as we would like it to be.

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