About Because You Have To • Paperback: 184 pages • Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press (September 15, 2012) Part memoir, part handbook, part survey of the contemporary literary scene, Because You Have To: A Writing Life is a collection of essays that, taken together, provide a walking tour of the writing life. Original, witty, and practical, […]
Archives for October 2012
Danny Wallace, author of Charlotte Street, on tour October 2012
About Charlotte Street • Paperback: 416 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (October 23, 2012) Jason Priestley (no, not that Jason Priestley) is in a rut. He gave up his teaching job to write snarky reviews of cheap restaurants for the free newspaper you take but don’t read. He lives above a video-game store, between a Polish newsstand and […]
Roland Merullo, author of Lunch with Buddha, on tour November/December 2012
About Lunch with Buddha Paperback – 392 pages Publisher: AJAR Contemporaries (November 13, 2012) On the surface, Lunch with Buddha is a story about family. Otto Ringling and his sister Cecelia could not be more different. He’s just turned 50, an editor of food books at a prestigious New York publishing house, a man with a nice home in the […]
Jacqueline Winspear, author of Elegy for Eddie, on tour November 2012
About Elegy for Eddie • Paperback: 368 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (October 30, 2012) Early April 1933. To the costermongers of Covent Garden—sellers of fruits and vegetables on the London streets—Eddie Pettit was a gentle soul with a near-magical gift for working with horses. So who would want to kill him . . . and why? […]
Caroline Moorehead, author of A Train in Winter, on tour October/November 2012
About A Train in Winter • Paperback: 400 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (October 23, 2012) They were teachers, students, chemists, writers, and housewives; a singer at the Paris Opera; a midwife; a dental surgeon. They distributed anti-Nazi leaflets, printed subversive newspapers, hid resisters, secreted Jews to safety, transported weapons, and conveyed clandestine messages. The youngest was […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for October 15th – 19th
The Good Pope by Greg Tobin Monday, October 15th: Man of La Book . . . . The Bookie’s Son by Andrew Goldstein Monday, October 15th: Fiction Addict . . . . Before the Rain by Luisita Lopez Torregrosa Monday, October 15th: Stuff as Dreams are Made On . . . . The Lady Risks All by […]
Lori Wilde, author of A Cowboy for Christmas, on tour November 2012
About A Cowboy for Christmas • Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: Avon (October 30, 2012) It’s Christmastime in Jubilee, Texas, but Lissette Moncrief is having a hard time celebrating . . . Especially after she accidentally smashes her car into Rafferty Jones’s pick-up truck. Yes, he’s a whole lot of handsome-from the tips of his boots […]
Gaelen Foley, author of My Scandalous Viscount, on tour October/November 2012
About My Scandalous Viscount • Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: Avon (September 25, 2012) Meet the courageous men of the Inferno Club as they face their greatest challenge yet: marriage! Sebastian, Viscount Beauchamp, lives by a code of honor, and now honor dictates he must marry Miss Carissa Portland. He has no regrets over stealing a kiss […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for October 6th – October 12th
Jamie Oliver’s Great Britain by Jamie Oliver Saturday, October 6th: Beth Fish Reads Monday, October 8th: Book Club Classics Wednesday, October 10th: Anger Burger Thursday, October 11th: Anger Burger – recipe review Friday, October 12th: girlichef . Beautiful Lies by Clare Clark Monday, October 8th: Gone Bookserk Tuesday, October 9th: A Dream Within a Dream Wednesday, October 10th: missris Wednesday, October 10th: Luxury […]
Joan Cusack Handler, author of Confessions of Joan the Tall, on tour in November/December 2012
About Confessions of Joan the Tall Paperback: 246 pages, appropriate for all ages Publisher: CavanKerry (November 13, 2012) A coming of age memoir written in the voice of a twelve year old Irish Catholic girl living in the Bronx in 1954, Confessions recounts one year in the life of Joan, a very tall, religious, funny, self-conscious, obsessive, […]