The Vesuvius Isotope has arrived!The novel is now officially available via multiple channels. To learn more about it and pick up a copy, please click here. To read a sample, please click here.
In celebration of its debut, a 20-stop blog tour was planned. But once the tour began coming together, it became evident that we should just go ahead and do a whole month!
So below is the revised itinerary for the blog tour, which is now 32 stops long! As is customary, this tour will include interviews, excerpts and guest posts designed to introduce readers to the book and its author. In addition to these "traditional" stops, there will also be a few less-traditional tour stops fleshing out non-fictional aspects of the book: real-life mysteries and themes explored in the book, and introductions to some of its lesser-known settings and locales in Italy and Egypt. As part of the latter, a few "Trip-A-Day Intermissions" - virtual visits featuring one new locale per day - will take place here on my site each day between tour stops on other blogs.
I would like to extend an enormous thank-you to each and every one of these hosts who have so graciously offered to participate in this tour, as well as a monumental thank-you to my friend Sunny Frazier, who has introduced me to many of these fabulous folks. I would like to encourage all of you to check out these blogs, bookmark them, and check back frequently to support a great group of people on the web. And also because their blogs are really entertaining!
There is also a giveaway throughout the month of July on Goodreads. And without further delay...the finalized tour stops are as follows:
Date Host Blog Topic
July 1 Kristen Elise, Ph.D. Official Launch
Updated blog tour schedule
July 2 Kristen Elise, Ph.D. The Vesuvius Isotope Itinerary
The travels of protagonist Katrina Stone
July 3 Tim Desmond Tim Desmond's Blog CSI and Caducei
An author interview
July 4 Sara McBride Novel Travelist The Buried Books of Herculaneum
A Novel Travelist Mystery, Installment 6
July 5 James Callan The Author's Blog A Very, Very Bad Week
Guest post by protagonist Katrina Stone
July 6 Stephen Brayton Brayton's Briefs Riding Camels in the Desert
An "Around the Globe" interview
July 7 Lesley Diehl Another Draught An Accident, a Dare,
and a Massive Lay-off
My "Why I Became a Writer" Story
July 8 John Brantingham John Brantingham's Blog Art Imitating Life
An author interview
July 9 William Doonan Novel Spaces Writing Like a Man
A guest post on gender in mystery writing
July 10 Cory Cuthbertson Coryographies The Crocodile Library of Tebtunis
Musings of a Paleolinguist True story of a 2000-year-old database
July 11 Theresa Valera Latina Libations Transitions
An author interview
July 12 Chris Swinney Chris Swinney's Blog The Sacrificial Lamb
Excerpt from The Vesuvius Isotope
July 13 Maria Ruiz Maria Ruiz' Blog All Things Books and Writing
An author interview
July 14 Joyce Brown Our Retirement Journeys The Facts Behind the Fiction
Read Like Cozy Mystery An author interview
July 15 Maggie Bishop Dames of Dialogue An American Imposter in Egypt
My solo novel-research tour of Egypt
July 16 Velda Brotherton Gutsy Women Who The Gutsy Woman Who Won the East
Won The West Mysteries in the life of Cleopatra VII
July 17 Denise Weeks Denise Weeks' Blog Kill Google First
Keeping the Internet out of your mystery
July 18 E.A. Aymar E.A. Aymar's Blog Best Moments and Worst Jokes
An author interview
July 19 Ilene Schneider rabbi.author See Naples and Die
Excerpt from The Vesuvius Isotope
July 20 Kristen Elise, Ph.D. Who Owned the House of the Faun?
A Trip-A-Day Intermission
July 21 Kristen Elise, Ph.D. Black Death From Above
A Trip-A-Day Intermission
July 22 Kristen Elise, Ph.D. The Roots of Rome
A Trip-A-Day Intermission
July 23 Kristen Elise, Ph.D. Italy's Best Kept Secret:
Cappella Sansevero
A Trip-A-Day Intermission
July 24 Gray Cargill Solo Friendly The Protagonist's Trip: Solo Travel
For the Author
How travels become stories and vice versa
July 25 Kristen Elise, Ph.D. Billete! How to Go to Jail in Naples
A Trip-A-Day Intermission
July 26 Kristen Elise, Ph.D. Naples Versus Cairo:
Cairo Wins on the Chaos Scale
A Trip-A-Day Intermission
July 27 Kristen Elise, Ph.D. How to Do Naples
A Trip-A-Day Intermission
July 28 Kristen Elise, Ph.D. How to Do Cairo
A Trip-A-Day Intermission
July 29 Maggie Bishop Dames of Dialogue A Dive to the Museum
Baiae Underwater Archeological Park
July 30 Kristen Elise, Ph.D. How to Do Luxor
A Trip-A-Day Intermission
July 31 Kristen Elise, Ph.D. How to Do an Egyptian Temple Tour
A Trip-A-Day Intermission
August 1 Sara McBride Novel Travelist The Buried Books of Herculaneum
A Novel Travelist Mystery, Installment 7
Buy The Vesuvius Isotope in print
or ebook
.From the ancient ruins beneath Mount Vesuvius, a two-thousand-year-old document has emerged. It is the only text ever attributed to the ambitious, inquisitive, and cryptic last pharaoh of Egypt...
When her Nobel laureate husband is murdered, biologist Katrina Stone can no longer ignore the secrecy that has increasingly pervaded his recent behavior. Her search for answers leads to a two-thousand-year-old medical mystery and the life of one of history’s most enigmatic women. Following the trail forged by her late husband, Katrina must separate truth from legend as she chases medicine from ancient Italy and Egypt to a clandestine modern-day war. Her quest will reveal a legacy of greed and murder and resurrect an ancient plague into the twenty-first century.
Kristen Elise, Ph.D. is a drug discovery biologist and the author of The Vesuvius Isotope and The Death Row Complex. She lives in San Diego, California, with her husband, stepson, and three canine children.
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