Indigo by Paula Berinstein - Book Tour and Giveaway

Indigo - Book Tour and Giveaway

1/13/2021

Indigo
by Paula Berinstein
Genre: Time Travel Romance, Adventure

What would you do if you suddenly found yourself mistress of an 18th-century plantation?

Esther Rubens is looking forward to getting to know her new community in South Carolina and repairing her troubled marriage. But as soon as she arrives in Charleston her life begins to diverge from the idyllic picture in her mind. Her physicist husband, Melvin, is arrested for driving while black, she inherits a strange English property from a cousin she didn't know existed, and she learns that her great-grandmother Sophie, a brilliant scientist kidnapped by the Nazis, discovered the secret of time travel of all things.

Intrigued by Sophie's cryptic journal Melvin begins to experiment with time travel, but his anger at the police makes him careless. The process backfires, killing him and throwing Esther back to 1750. Attacked by an unknown assailant the moment she arrives, she seeks protection at an indigo plantation belonging to a dashing planter with a dangerous secret, negotiating a deal that guarantees her safety. But she soon realizes she's made a terrible mistake. What she discovers on the plantation is far more horrific than anything she could have imagined.

Overwhelmed, she attempts to flee just as the planter's mysterious, handsome brother arrives from England seeking refuge-and offering an opportunity that's too compelling to turn down. But can he be trusted? And are the two of them strong enough to vanquish the evil that's pervading the lowlands? Only time will tell.

The first title in the Indigo series.

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The next day I was eating breakfast when a tall, rather disheveled dark-haired man barged into the dining room, just like that. There was something in his eyes that looked desperate and dangerous and made me nervous. If Daniel hadn’t been there I think I might have run, especially since as soon as the newcomer caught sight of me he stared in the most peculiar way. But then Daniel got up and embraced him, and I knew that somehow it must be all right. I still felt nervous though because as he held Daniel the visitor was still looking at me over his shoulder.
“Jesse!” Daniel said as he clapped the big man on the back.
“Daniel!” the man returned with a hug and a smile. They were obviously keen to see each other.
Surely this wasn’t one of my fiancé’s lovers. He was handsome enough, that was for sure, but I knew that Daniel was trying to hide his proclivities, and this was hardly the way to go about that.
“Esther, my betrothed,” Daniel beamed. “Meet my brother, Dr. Jesse Peacock, fresh from England.” He sniffed and made a face. “Perhaps not so fresh after all.”
That explained that. Of course. Now I could see the resemblance, and I could also see that Jesse was extraordinarily good looking, much more so than Daniel. Both brothers had beautifully sculpted jaws, Roman noses, and thick, flowing eyebrows, but where Daniel was all gold and light, Jesse was dark and mysterious, with light olive skin that gave him a distinctly Spanish appearance. His eyes were as black as Pixy’s skin, while Daniel’s were a light shade of brown that was more like tortoise shell. Jesse was taller too—maybe six three or four to Daniel’s six foot one or two. I knew from what Daniel had told me that Jesse was the youngest of the four Peacock siblings and was about my age, twenty-seven. That he had made it all the way from England exactly in time for our wedding was nothing less than astonishing. Obviously he had left before Daniel and I had even met. Other than that I knew absolutely nothing about him. For all I knew he was as uncouth as Daniel.
Jesse took my hand and kissed it, but I could see the surprise in his eyes. “My brother has good taste,” he said diplomatically. He was still staring at me though, and I was beginning to feel nervous.

Paula Berinstein (Paula B) is the author of the Amanda Lester, Detective middle-grade/YA series, which features a descendant of the Sherlock Holmes character Inspector Lestrade and is set in the English Lake District.

She is also the author of a new time travel series for adults, Indigo.

From 2005 to 2012, Paula produced and hosted the popular podcast The Writing Show (http://www.writingshow.com). She holds degrees in English literature and librarianship from UCLA.

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My Hunky Indigo Hero
by Paula Berinstein

Everyone knows the quintessential romance hero is a hunk. That’s changing with the growing popularity of non-traditional heroes and the acceptance of varied gender roles and sexual preferences, but readers still want a love interest who turns them on, and hunks do that.

Now I can hear you saying, “But I don’t like all those muscles” or “Those guys are too macho for me” or “I love a geek,” and that’s great. I can relate to that. A person doesn't have to be a hunk or a vixen to be sexy. But if you want to sell books, you have to consider what the bulk of readers want.

Is this what readers want?

I’m not the type of person who generally gives in to peer pressure though. I’m weird and I’m stubborn, and I wanted my Indigo love interest to be different even if no one liked him. I mean really different. I wanted Jesse Peacock to be so different that from the get-go I decided he was going to be a dwarf.

Yep, you heard me correctly. My love interest was going to be hot but little, a Peter Dinklage of the page. Now if you don’t think Peter Dinklage is hot, that’s okay. I do though, and I felt and still feel that little people are way underrepresented in books and I was going to try to rectify that.

You won’t be surprised to hear that when I told my friends what I had in mind they acted like I’d got a concussion, and this is my open-minded, anything-goes friends. They simply could not understand why I would make such a choice, while I simply could not understand how they could feel that way. And so began the long debate. Would Jesse be an ersatz Peter D. or some muscle-bound alpha male?

Photo Credit: Christine Ring, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

This guy?

Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Or this guy?
If you’ve read Indigo you know the outcome, but if you haven’t I’ll tell you: Mr. Muscles won—for now—and I’ll tell you why. The reason isn’t pretty.

Getting people to read your work is difficult. Getting them to like and review it is nearly impossible for most authors. So in the end I took the easy way out in the hope that that might change for me. I guess I lied when I said I don’t give in to peer pressure. Oh well. I never said I was perfect.

If it’s any consolation Peter D. is still waiting in the wings. I’m not done with him. He will appear as a love interest somewhere, somehow, because he deserves to. In a certain way he already has. There’s a female dwarf in my Amanda Lester series who is a love interest—for a five-foot-eleven descendant of Sherlock Holmes, no less.

But I didn’t capitulate completely in Indigo. Jesse is hot, strong, and dangerous, but he's not strictly an alpha male. He’s sensitive and vulnerable, just the way I like ‘em. So if you like hunky guys who are willing to fail and have a few soft spots inside, you might like him too. I hope you’ll give him a try.

Which type of love interest do you prefer? I'd love to hear from you. Just comment on this post.

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104 Comments

Michele Soyer

1/13/2021 05:49:02 am

Really like the cover and starting a series is something I love to do.. thank you and best of luck with this book series....

Paula Berinstein

1/13/2021 07:51:47 am

Thank you so much, Michele! The cover was designed by Deranged Doctor Design. They do such beautiful work. I was very excited to find them.

I hope you enjoy the book!

xo Paula

1/13/2021 07:55:13 am

Thank you so much for organizing my tour, Maia!! What a lovely job you’ve done.

xo Paula

Shirley Ann Speakman

1/13/2021 08:40:56 am

I enjoyed the excerpt the book sounds very intriguing. One of my favourite genre is Time Travel so I've added the book to my wish list the cover also suits the story too.

1/13/2021 09:06:21 am

I’m so glad you like the post, Shirley, and the cover too! Thanks so much for adding the book. I hope you enjoy it!

xo Paula

June S.

1/13/2021 09:25:48 am

Indigo sounds like great Time Travel Romance & Adventure read.

1/13/2021 12:10:54 pm

Thank you so much, June! I hope you enjoy the story.

xo Paula

Beyond Comps

1/13/2021 10:45:10 am

Awesome cover!

1/13/2021 12:11:57 pm

So glad you like it! It was designed by Deranged Doctor Design.

Rita Wray

1/13/2021 11:22:18 am

I liked the excerpt, thank you for sharing.

1/13/2021 12:13:01 pm

Thank you so much, Rita! I’m so glad you enjoyed it.

xo Paula

James Robert

1/13/2021 12:01:40 pm

Thank you for sharing your book with us. I always look forward to finding out about another great read.

1/13/2021 12:14:10 pm

My pleasure, James! Thanks so much for dropping by. Happy reading!

xo Paula

Wendy Jensen

1/13/2021 12:20:33 pm

Beautiful book cover.

1/13/2021 01:21:15 pm

I’m so glad you like it, Wendy! The designer is Deranged Doctor Design.

xo Paula

bn100

1/13/2021 02:25:16 pm

fun post

1/13/2021 02:51:18 pm

Thank you! I’m so glad you like it!

xo Paula

Eva Millien

1/13/2021 02:53:41 pm

Nice to meet you, Paula! I enjoyed the excerpt and your fun guest post! Your books like a great book for me! Thanks for sharing and good luck with the tour!

1/13/2021 03:36:21 pm

Nice to meet you too, Eva! I’m so glad you enjoyed the tidbits. Thanks so much for stopping by!

xo Paula

Barbara Montag

1/13/2021 02:57:14 pm

I love the title subject & cover for this read!
Thank you for sharing the review.

1/13/2021 03:37:43 pm

Thank you so much, Barbara! That’s wonderful to hear! Thanks so much for dropping by.

xo Paula

Jon Heil

1/13/2021 03:02:25 pm

Cool colorful graphics

1/13/2021 03:38:55 pm

Thank you, Jon! I’m so glad you like them!
Thank you for stopping by.

xo Paula

wendy hutton

1/13/2021 03:15:34 pm

beautiful cover

1/13/2021 03:40:13 pm

I’m so glad you like it, Wendy! The designer is Deranged Doctor Designs.

xo Paula

Amy F

1/13/2021 03:46:21 pm

Beautiful cover, sounds like a great romance read.

1/13/2021 05:50:25 pm

Thank you, Amy! I’m so glad you like it. The cover is by Deranged Doctor Designs.

xo Paula

Julie Lundstrom

1/13/2021 05:12:20 pm

I like the cover of this book.

1/13/2021 05:47:38 pm

I’m so glad you like it, Julie! The designer is Deranged Doctor Designs. They do such lovely work.

xo Paula

Tara Zarecky

1/13/2021 05:40:56 pm

Love the cover.

1/13/2021 05:49:07 pm

I’m so glad you like it, Tara! That’s a Deranged Doctor Designs original. Thanks so much for dropping by.

xo Paula

Sherry

1/13/2021 06:04:28 pm

I love the cover.

1/13/2021 07:22:33 pm

Thank you, Sherry! I’m so glad. Deranged Doctor Designs designed it.

xo Paula

Bea LaRocca

1/13/2021 06:47:28 pm

Love the cover, synopsis and excerpt, this sounds like an awesome read. Thank you for sharing your guest post and book details, I have enjoyed reading about you and your work and am looking forward to reading your story

1/13/2021 07:24:41 pm

Oh you’re so sweet, Bea! I’m so glad you’re enjoying the tidbits. Thank you so much for stopping by! I hope you enjoy the story!!

xo Paula

Debbie P

1/13/2021 10:45:25 pm

This sounds like a cool book. This this is going on top of my TBR list!

1/14/2021 07:46:56 am

Thank you so much, Debbie! I hope you enjoy it!

xo Paula

Robert Young

1/14/2021 10:13:53 am

Nice Cover!
Good Luck with the Book!

1/15/2021 09:00:51 am

Thank you so much, Robert! I’m glad you like it!

xo Paula

Susan Smith

1/14/2021 01:38:44 pm

Sounds like a good book. I like the cover.

1/15/2021 09:01:45 am

Thank you so much, Susan! I’m so glad you like it!

xo Paula

Mary Cloud

1/14/2021 07:02:54 pm

Thanks for sharing - I like the cover

1/15/2021 09:06:51 am

Thank you so much, Mary! Thanks for stopping by.

xo Paula

Marcy Meyer

1/15/2021 09:48:19 am

The cover looks great. Thanks for sharing.

1/15/2021 10:43:19 am

Thank you so much, Marcy! I’m really glad you like it. It’s absolutely my pleasure to share.

xo Paula

Kelly D

1/15/2021 01:23:56 pm

I like the cover, it is pretty.

1/15/2021 06:03:05 pm

Thank you so much, Kelly! That’s so great to hear.

xo Paula

Nancy

1/15/2021 05:55:06 pm

I think that the cover of your book is colorful, highly detailed and attractive.

1/15/2021 06:04:13 pm

Oh, thank you, Nancy. I’m so glad you like it!!

xo Paula

David Hollingsworth

1/15/2021 08:32:30 pm

The cover is neat.

1/16/2021 08:21:43 am

I’m so glad you like it! Thank you so much for stopping by!

xo Paula

Lisa

1/15/2021 09:48:22 pm

Very pretty cover.

1/16/2021 08:22:53 am

Thank you so much! It’s by Deranged Doctor Designs. I love their work.

xo Paula

lynn clayton

1/15/2021 10:33:46 pm

oh nice cover looks like a great read

1/16/2021 08:24:00 am

Thank you, Lynn! I’m so glad you like it!!

xo Paula

Diana Hardt

1/16/2021 05:30:44 am

Nice cover. It sounds like a really interesting book. Thank you for sharing.

1/16/2021 08:25:52 am

Thank you so much, Diana! I hope you enjoy the book!

xo Paula

Serge B

1/16/2021 08:42:22 am

I liked the cover and excerpt

1/16/2021 11:44:12 am

Thank you so much, Serge! That’s so nice to hear.

xo Paula

Ann Fantom

1/16/2021 09:36:04 am

I like the cover. It has very nice artwork.

1/16/2021 11:46:12 am

Thank you so much, Ann. Interestingly it’s actually a mashup of photographic and font elements rather than original art. I wish I were talented enough to do that. Maybe some day.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

xo Paula

Ginger Hafer

1/16/2021 11:45:28 am

Beautiful cover. Has the look and feel of a southern plantation. Should be a good read.

1/16/2021 03:59:03 pm

Thanks so much, Ginger! I’m glad the look and feel is right. It’s a challenge to find good plantation pictures but the designer did a lovely job, didn’t she? I hope you like the book!

xo Paula

paige chander

1/16/2021 12:22:25 pm

Love the cover and wish I could visit that time.

1/16/2021 04:02:42 pm

I’m so glad you like it, Paige! Your comment has inspired me. I’m going to write up a series of articles about what it was like to live in the 18th century and publish them in my newsletter. You can sign up at http://eepurl.com/gU1qJb if you’re interested.

xo Paula

angela heerde

1/16/2021 02:45:28 pm

I like book cover

1/16/2021 04:03:55 pm

Thank you, Angela! That’s so nice to hear.

xo Paula

kelly tupick

1/17/2021 06:35:21 am

I love the cover, it's beautiful!

1/17/2021 08:27:45 am

I’m so glad you like it, Kelly!

xo Paula

Cynthia C

1/17/2021 02:30:30 pm

The excerpt is interesting. Thank you for sharing it.

1/18/2021 08:07:01 am

Oh, I’m so glad you like it, Cynthia! My pleasure!

xo Paula

Ellie Wright

1/17/2021 04:13:50 pm

Excerpt sounds intriguing! Time travel, evil, mystery and a handsome stranger than may or may not be trustworthy. Count me in!

1/18/2021 08:08:16 am

I’m so glad you like the concept, Ellie! Thank you for stopping by.

xo Paula

Judy Thomas

1/18/2021 04:40:53 am

The cover artwork is gorgeous!

1/18/2021 08:09:35 am

Thank you so much, Judy! The designer is Deranged Doctor Designs. I love their work.

xo Paula

Cathy French

1/18/2021 08:59:33 am

This has a lovely cover. I love her dress.

1/18/2021 01:33:37 pm

Thank you, Cathy! I looked around a lot for a dress that would suit her. I’m so glad you like it!

xo Paula

molli taylor

1/18/2021 11:17:34 am

the cover makes me want to read this!

1/18/2021 01:34:30 pm

That’s lovely to hear, Molli! Thank you so much!

xo Paula

shannon zeidan

1/18/2021 12:28:49 pm

I love the cover! I'm looking forward to reading it.

1/18/2021 01:35:20 pm

Thank you so much, Shannon!

xo Paula

Monica McConnell

1/18/2021 02:13:29 pm

sounds like a very interesting story. cant wait to check it out

1/18/2021 05:44:12 pm

Thank you so much, Monica! I hope you enjoy it.

xo Paula

beth shepherd

1/18/2021 05:44:09 pm

I like the cover and the blurb.

1/18/2021 07:52:49 pm

Thank you, Beth! That’s lovely to hear.

xo Paula

Bernie Wallace

1/18/2021 06:24:39 pm

How long did it take you to write your book?

1/18/2021 08:05:31 pm

That’s an interesting question, Bernie. I’d say somewhere between two and three years.

Before I started I did quite a bit of research to get a feel for the setting, which took a while to sink in. In fact, I wasn’t sure which colony I wanted to use, and I looked into several possibilities before deciding on South Carolina.

After I began to understand the period a bit I started to outline, which took a while because I only had a vague idea of the story.

The writing and editing took more time than I was used to too because the book is longer than anything I’d written before, about 140,000 words.

xo Paula

Cindy Merrill

1/19/2021 08:38:32 am

Interesting, Time travel back to 1750 wouldn't be my idea of a good time- no matter how lovely women's dresses were then.

1/19/2021 09:19:49 am

Absolutely true, which is part of the point of the story, Cindy. I couldn’t agree more.

xo Paula

Veronica Lee link

1/19/2021 10:07:48 am

I enjoyed the excerpt -- sounds like a compelling read!

1/19/2021 04:04:39 pm

Thank you, Veronica! That’s lovely to hear.

xo Paula

Peggy Salkill

1/20/2021 05:26:53 pm

Love the cover!

1/20/2021 06:33:58 pm

I’m so glad you like it, Peggy! Thanks so much for stopping by.

xo Paula

1/22/2021 08:10:23 am

Thank you, Peggy! You know, I started out with another cover that I made myself because my booking with an artist had fallen through, and it was pretty bad. I kept looking and looking for someone to do the kind of cover I wanted but couldn’t find anyone until my marketing assistant, Lola Verroen, told me about Deranged Doctor Designs. I had to wait several months for them but it was worth it.

Thanks for dropping by!

xo Paula

Karin

1/21/2021 06:59:24 am

Love the cover. The dress is so beautiful!

1/22/2021 08:12:46 am

Thank you, Karin! I’ll tell you a little secret: I just saw the same dress on another cover! Eeek! But I love it too.

xo Paula

Jamie Martin link

1/21/2021 09:40:15 pm

Any writer's block tips?

1/22/2021 08:29:24 am

Hi, Jamie! What kind of block is it? Are you having trouble getting yourself to actually sit down and write, are you out of ideas, or are you stuck on an aspect of your story?

This is a complex subject but let me take a crack at it. If the problem is that you just can’t seem to write, you could try writing a sentence or two in your head. Does anything come? If so and you like it, scribble it down and keep going, either with the same idea or scene or something else. If nothing comes, try visualizing a scene or even a character. Then write a sentence or two n your head and repeat. In this way you might get the juices flowing.

I have found that when I can’t get going it’s sometimes because I haven’t found the right approach yet, so you might try varying your ideas. For example, when I was starting my Amanda Lester detective series I had a concept—that Amanda would be descended from Inspector Lestrade in the Sherlock Holmes stories—but I couldn’t get anything to flow until I made her a teen and set her in an English boarding school. (I had started out making her an adult in Los Angeles—wrong!).

Is this helpful at all? As I said, it’s a complicated subject that encompasses a number of situations. Maybe I can be more helpful if you tell me what you’re experiencing.

xo Paula

Sarah L

1/21/2021 11:04:26 pm

Looks like an interesting book.
Thanks for the contest.

1/22/2021 08:30:47 am

Thank you, Sarah! My pleasure.

xo Paula

Jennifer Redd

1/22/2021 04:21:06 am

Looks like an interesting book, I like the cover.

1/22/2021 08:32:20 am

Thank you, Jennifer! I’m so glad you like it!

xo Paula

Stephanie Liske

1/23/2021 09:15:08 pm

I like the cover.

1/25/2021 08:37:04 am

Thank you, Stephanie! That’s great to hear

xo Paula

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