No Names to be Given by Julia Brewer Daily | Audiobook Tour & Author Interview | $100 Giveaway!
A book blog tour from iRead Book Tours.
Thank you to the author, publisher, & Lauren at iRead for providing me the information for this tour. 
Book Details
No Names to Be Given by Julia Brewer Daily Published by Admission Press Inc. on July 19, 2021
Genres: Adoption, Fiction
Format: Audiobook, eBook, Hardcover, Paperback
Pages: 334
Today’s young women will not understand how our families made us feel shame so intensely; we surrendered our first-born children to strangers. - Faith Reynolds, No Names to Be Given
The widely anticipated debut novel by Julia Brewer Daily is a glimpse into the lives of women forced by society to gift their newborns to strangers. Although this novel is a fictional account, it mirrors many of the adoption stories of its era.
When three young unwed women meet at a maternity home hospital in New Orleans in 1965, they are expected to relinquish their babies and return home as if nothing transpired. Twenty-five years later, they are brought back together by blackmail and their secrets threatened with exposure—all the way to the White House.
Told from the three women’s perspectives in alternating chapters, we are mesmerized by the societal pressures on women in the 1960s who found themselves pregnant without marriage.
How that inconceivable act changed them forever is the story of No Names To Be Given, a novel with southern voices, love exploited, heartbreak and blackmail.
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Purchase Links for No Names to be Given
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The audiobook is now available!
Audiobook Details
| Listening Length | 9 hours and 59 minutes |
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| Author | Julia Brewer Daily |
| Narrator | Reagan Boggs |
| Whispersync for Voice | Ready |
| Audible.com Release Date | August 24, 2021 |
| Publisher | Julia Brewer Daily |
| Program Type | Audiobook |
| Version | Unabridged |
| Language | English |
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Book Trailer
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About Julia Brewer Daily
Julia Brewer Daily is a Texan with a southern accent. She holds a B.S. in English and an M.S. degree in Education from the University of Southern Mississippi.
She has been a Communications Adjunct Professor at Belhaven University, Jackson, Mississippi, and Public Relations Director of the Mississippi Department of Education and Millsaps College, a liberal arts college in Jackson, MS.
She was the founding director of the Greater Belhaven Market, a producers’ only market in a historic neighborhood in Jackson, and even shadowed Martha Stewart.
As the Executive Director of the Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi (300 artisans from 19 states) which operates the Mississippi Craft Center, she wrote their stories to introduce them to the public.
Daily is an adopted child from a maternity home hospital in New Orleans. She searched and found her birth mother and through a DNA test, her birth father’s family, as well. A lifelong southerner, she now resides on a ranch in Fredericksburg, Texas, with her husband Emmerson and Labrador Retrievers, Memphis Belle, and Texas Star.
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Author Interview
What has been your favorite thing to happen during the Advanced Review timeline? Some reviewers contacted me to let me know their own adoption stories. A few were birth mothers from the eras depicted in the novel; others were adoptees or adoptive parents. More than 100 million in the U.S. have adoption in their immediate families, so this topic strikes a chord with most people. Also, there are 125,000 children in the foster care system. I hope this book shines attention on those waiting to be adopted, especially the older children or teenagers.
What has been the most challenging part of your publishing journey? I think for most writers it is just making time to write every day. Because my career was mostly in public relations and marketing, I find excuses to dwell on that part of the journey and neglect writing my second book. I say I want to “put the first one to bed first,” but I think it is more fun to promote a book than to create another.
What do you like to do when not writing? Of course, I love to read. I have become hooked on contemporary thrillers lately. I listen to audiobooks, so those keep my attention whether I am driving across the country or riding my bike on the back roads of my rural county. I belong to a great book club and listening to their discussions helps me to understand readers’ thoughts more thoroughly.
If you could ask your author idol one question, what would it be? I would ask Harper Lee about writing such difficult topics as rape, inequality, and race in the south and why she only wrote one book. I would ask her about how receiving a Pulitzer Prize changed her life. I guess that’s more than one question!
What can you tell us about any projects you have in the works? My second novel is in progress. It’s set in my adopted state of Texas and is about a female heir to the largest ranch in the state. Owning a ranch has given me greater insights into the operation of a large tract of property.
For readers that want to find out more about your stories and keep up with you, where should they go to connect or learn more? The best way to keep in touch is by checking out my website at www.juliadaily.com or emailing me at julia@juliadaily.com.
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Giveaway!
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I don’t have time to read a lot, but this book sounds interesting!
It does indeed. Thanks for stopping by, Hannah.
thanks for sharing this one!
Sounds mysterious
Thank you for sharing! This looks so good!
Sounds like a good read.
Thank you for blogging about my debut novel!