My memoir, Finally A Vegan, is going on tour!

Finally A Vegan is going on tour!

If you'd like to review or feature my memoir / veganism guide on your blog, sign up now to secure your place.

iRead Book Tours has ebook review copies available (mobi for kindle, epub, pdf).

The author (that's me!) is available for guest posts and author interviews. There will be a tour-wide giveaway.

Finally A Vegan: My journey to Veganuary and beyond by Stephanie Jane

Stephanie took part in Veganuary, the month-long global challenge to try veganism, for January 2019. In Finally a Vegan she describes how her changing attitudes to animal welfare and exploitation led her from staunch omnivore to vegetarianism in the preceding years. She recalls her excitement at taking part in the challenge itself and shares her daily food diary, failures as well as triumphs.

Drawing on her post-Veganuary experiences, Stephanie then responds to the common questions But what about my boots? But isn't it expensive? and But surely it isn't healthy? before honestly asking herself How vegan do I want to be?

Ideal for vegan-curious readers, Finally a Vegan is an insightful memoir inspired by one life-changing month.

10% of Finally A Vegan profits will be donated to vegan projects and charities.

Buy directly from my Ko-Fi shop or my Etsy shop

Also available via 12 ebook retailers

@ books2read.com/finallyavegan

(includes Apple, B&N, Scribd and Kobo)

or request Finally a Vegan from your library

(it's available via Overdrive)

Meet the Author!

Reader, wanderer, vegan.

Stephanie Jane has been an avid reader for as long as she can remember. She loves discovering new authors from all around the world and is happiest when engrossed in a compelling novel with tea and cake to hand.

Raised in Sussex, England, Stephanie developed a wanderlust in her late twenties. She spends her time exploring the UK and Western Europe with her partner, setting out on foot or bicycle from their almost-vintage motorhome, and firmly believes everywhere has something worth seeing if we slow down enough to appreciate its smallest details.

Stephanie has been vegan since 2019 and strives to incorporate zero waste ideals into her life. She enjoys browsing vintage clothing shops and would collect antique kitchenware if she ever again lives in a house with enough space.

Connect with Stephanie through 

Ko-Fi, Goodreads or Twitter

Behind Closed Doors by Catherine Alliott + Giveaway

 Join Us for This Tour:  October 12 to Nov 1, 2021

 

Book Details:

Book Title:  Behind Closed Doors by Catherine Alliott
Category:  Adult Fiction 18+, 380 pages
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Publisher:  No Shooz Publishing
Release Date: October 2021
Tour dates: October 12 to November 1
Content Rating:  PG13 + M

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Get ready to escape with the page-turning new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Cornish Summer

'Leaves you with a smile on your face and hope in your heart' MILLY JOHNSON

'Catherine Alliott at her very best' 5***** READER REVIEW

'Packed with fantastic characters, uncomfortable truths, and flashes of pure comedy. Who could ask for more?' JILL MANSELL

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Book Description:
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From the outside, anyone would think that Lucy Palmer has it all: loving children, a dashing husband and a gorgeous home.

But when her marriage to Michael comes to an abrupt and unexpected end, her life is turned upside down in a flash.

As the truth of her marriage threatens to surface, Lucy seizes the opportunity to swap her house in London - and the stories it hides - for a rural escape to her parents' farmhouse in the Chilterns.

But Lucy gets more than she bargained for when she moves back to her childhood home, especially when it throws her into the path of an old flame.

Coming face-to-face with her mistakes, Lucy is forced to confront the secrets she's been keeping from herself and those she loves.

​Is she ready to let someone in? Or will she leave the door to her past firmly closed . . .

Buy the Book

Amazon.com ~ Amazon UK

The Book Depository ~ Waterstones

​add to goodreads

Meet the Author:
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Catherine has sold over 3 million bestselling novels worldwide.

The first of these novels Catherine started under the desk when she worked as an advertising copywriter. She was duly fired. With time on her hands, she persevered with the novels, which happily flourished.

In the early days she produced a baby with each book - but after three - stuck to the writing as it was less painful.

She writes with her favorite pen in notebooks, either in the garden or on a sofa.

Home is a rural spot on the Hertfordshire border, which she shares with her family and a menagerie of horses, cows, chickens, and dogs, which at the last count totaled eighty-seven beating hearts, including her husband. Some of her household have walk-on parts in her novels, but only the chickens would probably recognize themselves.

​All her novels are published by Penguin Random House internationally, and by No Shooz Publishing in America.

Connect with the Author:  website ~ facebook

Tour Schedule:

Oct 12 – Working Mommy Journal – book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 12 - Splashes of Joy – book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 12 - Cover Lover Book Review - book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 13 – @booking.with.janelle – book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 14 – She Just Loves Books – book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 15 - @twilight_reader - book spotlight
Oct 18 – Kam's Place – book spotlight
Oct 19 – Pick A Good Book – book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 19 - Stephanie Jane - book spotlight
Oct 20 - The Pen and Muse Book Reviews - book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 21 – I'm Into Books – book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 21 - Laura's Interests - book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 22 – Celticlady's Reviews – book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 22 - Hall Ways Blog - book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 25 – Leels Loves Books – book spotlight
Oct 26 – Locks, Hooks and Books – book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 26 - Book Corner News and Reviews - book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 27 – The Page Ladies Book Club – book spotlight
Oct 27 – Literary Flits – book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 28 – Sadie's Spotlight – book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 28 - Jazzy Book Reviews - book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 29 – Viviana MacKade – book spotlight / giveaway
Nov 1 – Elizabeth McKenna – Author – book spotlight / giveaway
Nov 1 - Westveil Publishing - book spotlight / giveaway

Enter the Giveaway:

Win a KINDLE FIRE HD loaded with FIVE Catherine Alliott titles (one winner/USA only) (ends Nov 8)

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS Book Tour Giveaway

 

 

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Culture Ignited: 5 Disciplines for Adaptive Leadership by Jason Richmond + #Giveaway

Join Us for This Tour from October 4 to October 22, 2021

Book Details:

Book Title:  Culture Ignited: 5 Disciplines for Adaptive Leadership by Jason Richmond with Jeanne Kerr and Malcolm J. Nicholl
Category:  Adult Non-Fiction (18+),  124 pages
Genre:  Business
Publisher:  Ideal Outcomes
Release date:   October, 2021
Content Rating:  G.

 

Book Description:

The 5 Disciplines for Adaptive Leadership Every Executive Must Know

Corporate leaders need to be prepared for any crisis and have a plan in place to act quickly, decisively, and empathetically. In Culture Ignited: 5 Disciplines for Adaptive Leadership, culture change strategist Jason Richmond and coauthors Jeanne Kerr and Malcolm J. Nicholl reveal how companies whose leaders ignite their culture are able to weather any storm and get ahead of the competition.

Based on hands-on experience helping senior corporate executives navigate the turbulence of the 2020-2021 pandemic, the authors distill their findings into five key disciplines.

They share how to:

• Inspire and communicate a shared purpose
• Build trust and authenticity
• Hone your performance management skills
• Develop your talent
• Create belonging through diversity and inclusion.

The authors also explore how a crisis can be turned into opportunity and how to lead an organization in overcoming challenges never taught in business school.

 

Buy the Book:
Amazon.com ~ Amazon UK
B&N ~ Kobo
add to goodreads 

 

Meet the Authors:

 

Jason Richmond is an authoritative culture change strategist whose work over the past twenty-plus years has helped companies build strong, sustained revenue growth by empowering their employees and developing energizing office cultures. As President/CEO and Chief Culture Officer for Ideal Outcomes, Inc., he has worked closely with established Fortune 100 companies to create Leadership Development Journeys, and he has guided numerous start-ups on the path to become noted industry leaders. He has also provided thought leadership and innovative consulting services to a wide range of midsize companies.  

 

Jeanne Kerr is the Director of Organizational Development and Culture Consulting for Ideal Outcomes, Inc. She also has been a Senior Faculty Partner with the Human Capital Institute since 2012. With over twenty years of organizational development and talent management strategy in a variety of industries, her expertise includes culture strategy, strategic workforce planning, leadership development, team building, and assessment solutions.

 

 

  

 

Malcolm J. Nicholl is a former award-winning international journalist whose career includes a two-year stint as Belfast Bureau Chief for London’s Daily Mirror. He has authored or coauthored seven books published in nine languages by international giants such as Random House, Bantam Doubleday Dell, Ballantine Books, and St. Martin's Press and ghostwritten more than thirty books.

connect with the authors: website ~ twitter ~ goodreads

 

 

Tour Schedule:

Oct 4 – Working Mommy Journal –  book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 4 - Cover Lover Book Review – book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 4 - Splashes of Joy – book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 5 – Jazzy Book Reviews – book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 6 – Rockin' Book Reviews – book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 7 – Pick A Good Book – book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 8 – Westviel Publishing – book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 12 – Books for Books – book spotlight
Oct 12 - Sefina Hawke's Books - book spotlight
Oct 13 – Lamon Reviews – book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 13 - @twilight_reader - book spotlight
Oct 14 – Stephanie Jane – book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 15 – Kam's Place – book spotlight
Oct 18 – Lisa's Reading – book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 19 – Locks, Hooks and Books – book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 20 – Literary Flits – book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 20 - She Just Loves Books - book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 21 – Gina Rae Mitchell – book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 22 – Sadie's Spotlight – book spotlight / giveaway

 

Enter the Giveaway:

Win 1 signed copy of CULTURE IGNITED: 5 Disciplines for Adaptive Leadership & a $10 Amazon Gift Card! (one winner/USA only) (ends Oct 29) 

CULTURE IGNITED Spotlight Book Tour Giveaway

 

 

Click here to see all my current 

Giveaways & Free Books!

 

Vegan Beanies - cosy & kind!

It's distinctly autumnal here now, so much so that I dug out my favourite beanie hat from the back of the wardrobe where it's languished since March. I hate having cold ears and a cute beanie is the perfect way to prevent this.

I crocheted my own grey hat from recycled acrylic yarn, decorating it with a sparkly red heart and stripe accent. If you don't fancy going to the trouble of making your own hat though, I've discovered lots of new vegan beanies for sale this season. I've picked out different styles and yarns so hopefully there's something for everybody to be cosy and kind!

The Etsy sellers' beanie hats are included in my Vegan Beanies Etsy Collection. If you can't see the exact hat for you here on my blog, check out my Collection Page for more fab designs.

Herbivore Pom-Pom Beanie

by Vegan Outfitters

Ladies' Ponytail Winter Hat

by LM Handmade Scotland @ Etsy

Fish R Friends Upcycled Beanie

by Ripped And Tawn @ Etsy

Respect Existence Beanie

by Anticarnist @ Etsy

Cyclists' Torch Beanie

by All Things Brighton Beautiful @ NotHS

Natural Cotton Beanie

by Naturally Nadege @ Etsy

Pure Hemp Beanie

by Reborn Rewild @ Etsy

Organic Fisherman Beanie

by Plant Faced Clothing

(All links are affiliate links so, should you click through and make a purchase, I would receive a small commission from the sale.)

My favourite Vegan Halloween Sweet Treats

I shared a post featuring my favourite Vegan Halloween Candles a couple of weeks ago and now it's the turn of the Sweet Treats that caught my eye. I daren't buy my own treats too far in advance of the big day because I'd just end up having to buy them twice!

I've actually curated an Etsy Collection page with all my favourite Sweet Treats so this post focuses on my Top Ten ...

Vegan Halloween Shortbread Cookies

by Clemie Vegan Cake

Halloween Sweets Tub

by Rainbow Sweets Vegan

Vegan Halloween Hamper

by Crafty Treats Store

Noir Vegan Cookies

by Biscuit Bunny Bakes

Vegan Halloween Sweets Boxes

by The Sweeter Side Candy

Halloween Sweet Cone

by Truly Madly Sweetly Co

Halloween Cookies

by Cookie Creations Gifts

Family Sharing Box

by Sweet As Letterboxchoc

Halloween Boo Box

by EJs Knits GB

Vegan Halloween Cookie Hamper

by Crumby Bakes

Please note that all links in this post are affiliate links so, should you click through and make a purchase, I would receive a small commission from Etsy.

BLAH BLAH BLAH: A Snarky Guide to Office Lingo by Dan Hill and Howard Moskowitz + #Giveaway

Join Us for This Tour from  September 27 to October 15

Book Details:
 

Book Title:  Blah, Blah, Blah: A Snarky Guide to Office Lingo by Dan Hill & Howard Moskowitz
Category:  Adult Non- Fiction 18+, 147 pages
Genre: Humor (Business)
Publisher:  Sensory Logic, Inc.
Release Date: September 15, 2021
Tour dates: September 27 to October 15
Content Rating:  PG. OMG and a few references to sexual harassment, etc. Quite mild.

 Book Description:

Need a laugh to get through your workday? You've come to the right place. Ambrose Bierce's classic The Devil's Dictionary took on life in general. Now a century later, it's time to lampoon the business world. There's no richer target than being told to think outside the box by leaders spouting off about synergy, teamwork, and innovation while at the same time exhorting you to stay in your swim lane. If as famed business guru Peter Drucker writes, "Culture eats strategy for breakfast," then we've been asked to eat a dog's breakfast at work for far too long! A little truth in every joke. Join the fun as the two lead authors and 50 other contributors offer their humorous take on how the workplace really operates. With almost 600 diabolical definitions to enjoy, you're sure to find plenty to smile about.

Buy the Book
Amazon.com ~ Amazon UK

 

Meet the Authors:

Dan Hill, PhD, is the author of nine books, including Emotionomics, which was an Advertising Age top 10 must-read selection and features a foreword by Sam Simon, co-creator of The Simpsons. In 1998, Dan founded Sensory Logic, Inc. whose clients represent over 50% of the world's top 100 advertisers. Besides having spoken to audiences in over 25 countries, Dan has had media appearances ranging from ABC's "Good Morning, America" to NBC's "The Today Shows,” CNN, Fox, MSNBC, ESPN, and the Tennis Channel. Dan was also a regular guest on PBS’s “Mental Engineering” show, hailed by Bill Moyers as “the most interesting weekly half hour of social commentary and criticism on television.” In print, Dan has received front-page coverage in the New York Times for his work in pro and NCAA Division 1 sports and was a non-partisan columnist for Reuters during the 2016 presidential race. Nowadays he hosts the podcast "Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight," which appears on the New Books Network (NBN), the world's largest book review platform with over 1.7 million downloads monthly. Dan was educated at St. Olaf College, Oxford University, Brown University, and Rutgers University.

​Howard Moskowitz is a legendary product market researcher, experiential psychologist, and inventor of world-class market research technologies used by virtually every company that matters. Howard earned his PhD in experimental psychology from Harvard University. In 2004, he was the subject of a New Yorker article by Malcolm Gladwell, "The Ketchup Conundrum," which became the basis for Gladwell's TED talk entitled "Choice, Happiness, and Spaghetti Sauce." In 2014, Howard founded Mind Genomics Associates to investigate how people think about aspects of their daily lives. In addition to over 400 scientific articles about the minds of consumers, Howard has written/edited 28 books, a roster that features the very popular book Selling Blue Elephants.

connect with the authors: website ~ twitter ~ facebook ~ instagram 

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Tour Schedule:

Sep 27 - Working Mommy Journal – book spotlight / giveaway
Sep 27 - Cover Lover Book Review – book spotlight / giveaway
Sep 27 - Kam's Place – book spotlight
Sep 28 – Books for Books – book spotlight
Sep 28 – Jazzy Book Reviews – book spotlight / guest post giveaway
Sep 29 – fundinmental -book spotlight / giveaway
Sep 30 – Splashes of Joy – book spotlight / guest post / giveaway
Oct 1 - Rockin' Book Reviews – book spotlight / guest post / giveaway
Oct 2 – Celticlady's Reviews – book spotlight / guest post / giveaway
Oct 4 – A Mama's Corner of the World – book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 5 – The Adventures of a Traveler's Wife – book spotlight / author interview / giveaway
Oct 6 - Stephanie Jane – book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 7 – Rajiv's Reviews – book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 7 – Gina Rae Mitchell – book spotlight / author interview / giveaway
Oct 8 - Hall Ways Blog – book spotlight / guest post / giveaway
Oct 11 – Westveil Publishing – book spotlight / guest post / giveaway
Oct 12 – Writer with Wanderlust – book spotlight / guest post / giveaway
Oct 13 – Locks, Hooks and Books – book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 14 – Literary Flits – book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 14 – Cheryl's Book Nook – book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 15 - Sefina Hawke's Books – book spotlight

Enter the Giveaway:

Win a signed copy of Blah, Blah, Blah: A Snarky Guide to Office Lingo + a copy of Famous Faces Decoded: A Guidebook for Reading Others (one winner). Runner-Up Prize: a signed copy of Blah, Blah, Blah (one winner) (USA only) (ends Oct 22)

BLAH! BLAH! BLAH! A SNARKY GUIDE TO OFICE LINGO Book Tour Giveaway

 

 

Click here to see all my current 

Giveaways & Free Books!