About The Exceptionals • Hardcover: 240 pages • Publisher: Holiday House (April 1, 2012) In a famous family of exceptionally talented people, fifteen-year-old Claire Walker is ordinary . . . or so she leads everyone to believe. Yet the minute she steps out of line, her parents transfer her to Cambial Academy: the prestigious boarding school that her […]
Archives for April 2012
Sarah McCoy, author of The Baker’s Daughter, on tour August 2012
About The Baker’s Daughter • Paperback: 304 pages • Publisher: Broadway (August 14, 2012) In 1945, Elsie Schmidt was a naive teenager, as eager for her first sip of champagne as she was for her first kiss. She and her family have been protected from the worst of the terror and desperation overtaking her country […]
Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl, on tour June 2012
About Gone Girl Hardcover: 432 pages Publisher: Crown (June 5, 2012) Marriage can be a real killer. One of the most critically acclaimed suspense writers of our time, New York Times bestseller Gillian Flynn, takes that statement to its darkest place in this unputdownable masterpiece about a marriage gone terribly, terribly wrong. As The Washington […]
Carolina De Robertis, author of Perla, on tour May 2012
About Perla • Hardcover: 256 pages • Publisher: Knopf (March 27, 2012) Perla Correa grew up a privileged only child in Buenos Aires with a polished yet aloof mother and a straight-laced Naval officer father, whose profession she learned early not to disclose in a country still reeling from the abuses perpetrated by the deposed military dictatorship. […]
Anouk Markovits, author of I Am Forbidden, on tour May 2012
About I Am Forbidden Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Hogarth (May 8, 2012) I AM FORBIDDEN is a family saga set in the most insular and fundamentalist sect of Hasidic Jews, the Satmar. Spanning generations, cultures, and continents, from pre–World War II Transylvania to 1960s Paris to contemporary New York, I AM FORBIDDEN traces the collisions between unwavering love, unyielding law, and centuries of […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for April 9th thru April 13th
. The Iguana Tree by Michel Stone Monday, April 9th: Unabridged Chick Tuesday, April 10th: The Feminist Texican [Reads] Wednesday, April 11th: The Picky Girl Thursday, April 12th: Indie Reader Houston Friday, April 13th: Raging Bibliomania Whatever You Love by Louise Doughty Monday, April 9th: The House of the Seven Tails Tuesday, April 10th: Melody & […]
Charles Todd, author of An Unmarked Grave, on tour June 2012
About An Unmarked Grave • Hardcover: 352 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (June 5, 2012) World War I nurse and amateur sleuth Bess Crawford matches wits with a devious killer in this exciting and suspenseful adventure from New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd In the spring of 1918, the Spanish flu epidemic spreads, killing […]
Anita Amirrezvani, author of Equal of the Sun, on tour June 2012
About Equal of the Sun Hardcover: 448 pages Publisher: Scribner (June 5, 2012) Legendary women–from Anne Boleyn to Queen Elizabeth to Mary Queen of Scotts—changed the course of history in the royal courts of sixteenth century England, they are celebrated in history books and novels, but few people know of the powerful women in the Muslim world […]
Ann Blumenthal Jacobs, Patricia Ryan Lampl, and Tish Rabe, authors of Love for Grown-Ups, on tour May 2012
About Love for Grown-Ups • Paperback: 240 pages • Publisher: Harlequin (July 19, 2011) Ann Blumenthal Jacobs, Patricia Ryan Lampl and Tish Rabe are “The Garter Brides.” Why do they call themselves The Garter Brides? Because they all got married after the age of thirty-five, and each bride wore the same lucky garter at her […]
Congratulations, Finalists!
The time has come to announce the finalists in our March Contest for Authors. We asked authors to tell us why they needed a free TLC Book Tour, and tell us they did, with limericks and riddles and offers of chocolate chip cookies, among other things! We’ve been reading through the entries as they came […]