Michael Gates Gill, author of How to Save Your Own Life, on tour January 2010

| November 4, 2009

About How to Save Your Own Life: 15 Lessons on Finding Hope in Unexpected Places Pub. Date: January 4, 2010 Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Format: Hardcover, 160pp Michael Gill’s lemons-to-lemonade memoir chronicled his transformative years working at Starbucks after losing his high-powered job, his marriage, and his health (he developed a brain tumor). In response [...]

Jennie Shortridge, author of When She Flew, on tour December 2009/January 2010

| October 27, 2009

About Jennie Bestselling author Jennie Shortridge has four published novels: Riding with the Queen, (NAL 2003), Eating Heaven (2005),  Love and Biology at the Center of the Universe (2008), and now When She Flew (2009). Prior to writing novels, her nonfiction work appeared regularly in magazines and newspapers, including Glamour, Mademoiselle, Natural Home, and others. The Seattle writer [...]

Matthew Pearl, author of The Last Dickens, on tour September/October 2009

| July 28, 2009

About Matthew Matthew Pearl is the New York Times bestselling author of The Dante Club, The Poe Shadow, and The Last Dickens. He is also the editor of the Modern Library editions of Dante’s Inferno (translated by Henry Wordsworth Longfellow) and Edgar Allan Poe’s The Murders in the Rue Morgue:  The Dupin Tales. About The [...]

Tom Piazza, author of City of Refuge, on tour August/September 2009

| July 24, 2009

About Tom Tom Piazza is the author of the post-Katrina classic Why New Orleans Matters, the Faulkner Society Award-winning novel My Cold War, and the short-story collection Blues And Trouble, winner of the James Michener Award for Fiction. He lives in New Orleans. About City of Refuge In City of Refuge, a heart-wrenching novel from [...]

TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for July 20th – July 24th

| July 20, 2009

Please stop by our tour stops this week and check out these great books and blogs! Two Years, No Rain by Shawn Klomparens Tuesday, July 21st:  Suko’s Notebook Wednesday, July 22nd: Stephanie’s Confessions of a Book-a-holic Thursday, July 23rd:  Suko’s Notebook – author interview     Honey, It’s ALL in the Shoes by Phyllis Hoffman Monday, July [...]