The Big Show Stopper Blog Tour

Friday, December 17, 2010

Blog Tour Schedule

February 2011 - Confirmed Blog Tour Dates

February 1st
Once Upon a Twilight
click link to read the posted review

February 2nd
My Reading Room
click link to read the posted review

February 3rd
Moonlight, Lace and Mayhem: Mystery
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Review
click links to read the posts

February 4th
Busy Moms Who Love to Read
click link to read the posted review

February 7th
A Little Hope
click link to read the posted review

February 8th
Heading Home
click link to enter the posted giveaway

February 10th
Kritters Ramblings
click link to read the posted review

February 10th
Reading, Reading and Life
click link to read the posted review

February 11th
Crazed Mind
click link to read the posted review

February 12th
Booksie's Blog
click link to read the posted review

February 12th
Literary R&R
click link to read the posted review
click this link to read the posted interview

February 17th
Reviews by Martha's Bookshelf
click link to read the posted review

February 18th
Book Junkie
click link to read the posted review

February 18th
Book Reviews by Molly
click link to read the posted review

February 18th
Confessions of a Book Habitue
click link to read the posted review

February 18th
Coupon Scribbles
click link to read the posted review

February 18th
Minding Spot
click link to read the posted review

February 19th
Knits & Reads
click link to read the posted review

February 21st
Book'd Out
click link to read the posted review

February 21st
Everything to Do with Books
click link to read the posted review

February 21st
A Fanatic's Book Blog
click link to read the posted review

February 21st
Lost for Words
click link to read the posted review

February 22nd
Clandestine Sanctuary
click link to read the posted review

February 22nd
The Prissy Book Snob
click link to read the posted review

February 23rd
Bibliophile Support Group
click link to read the posted interview

February 25th
Ascroft, eh?
click link to read the posted review

February 25th
Writing from the Tub
click link to read the posted review

February 28th
The Book Connection
click link to read the book spotlight

Ken Dalton

Email:
ken@kendalton.com

Website:
KenDalton.com

KEN DALTON was born in 1938 at Hollywood Hospital. He grew up with his parents, his older sister, Pat, and younger brother, Richard in Los Angeles. The year 1938 informs the quick reader that Ken’s older than a lot of people, but younger than some.

In a turn of bad luck, the dreaded Polio virus found Ken.

At the end of World War ll, Ken’s family moved to Cheyenne, Wyoming for a year where he learned how to live through snow blizzards, avoid walking through the large pile of coal in the basement, and how to survive life as an Army Officer’s brat on a base called Fort Warren.

By the age of sixteen, after eleven years of operations, therapy, and braces, Ken’s luck changed dramatically when he met the girl of his dreams at a party. A few years later they married, produced three wonderful children, and settled into a happy life in Southern California.

In 1966, Ken, who worked as a technician for Pacific Bell, and his family left Southern California for the green hills of Sonoma County where they bought a home in Sebastopol surrounded with apple trees. A few years later, Ken and Arlene built a new home on three and a half acres. They raised cows, pigs, and learned how to build outstanding fences. While their children grew, they hosted two exchange students, Eva Reimers from Sweden, and Tanja Wuttke from Germany, both of whom are still loved members of the Dalton clan. Also during those years, Ken was promoted to management at Pacific Bell. He eventually ended up responsible for all the central offices, sixty-three, in an area that covered five counties.

In 1977, Ken, Arlene, Bob Wiltermood, and his wife Norma, designed, built, and operated a 2000 case winery named Pommeraie Vineyards. They produced award winning Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay. However, after Bob died, the winery was sold. Ken and Arlene moved to a hilltop in Healdsburg.

With the winery gone, and time on their hands, Ken and Arlene started to perform with the Camp Rose Players. Twenty years and forty productions later, both are still acting and singing.

Life was good. All Ken had to do was learn some lines and bow when the audience applauded.

Then, ten years ago, Ken started to write. His first article was published in Golf Illustrated in August 1996. More golf articles followed in national and regional magazines including Golf Magazine and Fairways and Greens.

After a two-year stint on the County Grand Jury, Ken felt the need to begin his first novel.

Now, after a decade of struggle to learn the craft of writing, Ken has become the publishing world’s latest overnight sensation.

To Purchase Book

The Big Show Stopper
can be purchased at
Amazon.com or by special order at your local bookstore.

Price: $14.95

ISBN: 9780578054599

Pages: 296

Size: 5.5 x 8.5 paperback

Release: September 2010

Publisher: Different Drummer Press

eBook
Kindle - $4.99

Brady Blackstone, America's richest and favorite concert performer, dies in a tragic accident while Bear and Flo, along with thousands of northern Nevada's music lovers, look on in horror. However, before Bear can maneuver Flo back to their apartment to complete her birthday celebration, they stumble across a clue that makes them question if Brady's death was an accident.

In The Big Show Stopper, Pinky, a sleazy but successful defense attorney, and Bear, a street-wise ex bartender, mix madness with mayhem as you meet Brady's less than grieving widow-a trigger-happy Carson City Cop named Ice Conner-travel in first-class luxury with Pinky as he follows a questionable lead to an exotic location and suffer with Flo in Bear's old pick up while they drive to another of America's armpit locations where they discover Brady Blackstone's killer.