About Never Hug a Nun Paperback: 182 pages Publisher: Blank Slate Press (December 8, 2012) AUTHOR’S MISSPENT BOYHOOD INSPIRES COMIC NOVEL ABOUT GROWING UP IN WEBSTER GROVES From first crushes and cafeteria lines, hidden forts and secret passwords, learning the Cub Scout oath and robbing the Ben Franklin, to hanging out on the train tracks, running from the police, […]
Archives for October 2012
Jan Shapin, author of A Desire Path, on tour November 2012
About A Desire Path • Paperback: 264 pages • Publisher: Cambridge Books (July 7, 2012) What makes women fall for men who are tied to political causes? Set in the Depression and WW II’s aftermath, A Desire Path links a love affair between a married woman and a union organizer with the crisis a famous female journalist faces trying to decide whether to […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for October 29th – November 2nd
Blood Line by Lynda La Plante Monday, October 29th: Chaotic Compendiums . . . . Cold Light by Jenn Ashworth Monday, October 29th: As I turn the pages Tuesday, October 30th: Sweet Southern Home Wednesday, October 31st: Book Hooked Blog Thursday, November 1st: A Soul Unsung . Charlotte Street by Danny Wallace Monday, October 29th: Stephany Writes Tuesday, October 30th: No More […]
Maryanne O’Hara, author of Cascade, on tour December 2012
About Cascade • Hardcover: 368 pages • Publisher: Viking Adult (August 16, 2012) 1935: In a small town fighting for its survival, a conflicted new wife and promising artist finds herself caught in the eternal tug between duty and desire Desdemona Hart Spaulding was an up-and-coming Boston artist when she married in haste and settled in the small, once-fashionable theater […]
Edward Belfar, author of Wanderers, on tour January 2013
About Wanderers: Stories Paperback: 218 pages Publisher: Stephen F. Austin University Press (June 5, 2012) The wanderers of Edward Belfar’s debut collection of short fiction appear in a variety of settings—a piano bar in Rome, a hospital bed, a train traveling between Nairobi and Mombasa, the bleachers at Yankee Stadium—but nowhere are they quite at home. Often, […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for October 22nd – 26th
Ironskin by Tina Connolly Monday, October 22nd: Simply Stacie Tuesday, October 23rd: A Buckeye Girl Reads Wednesday, October 24th: Luxury Reading Thursday, October 25th: Fiction State of Mind Things Remembered by Georgia Bockoven Monday, October 22nd: Peppermint PhD Tuesday, October 23rd: Kritters Ramblings Wednesday, October 24th: StephTheBookworm Thursday, October 25th: Seaside Book Nook Friday, October 26th: WV Sticher […]
Announcing the Winner of the September Contest for Authors
It’s time to announce the winner from the September Contest for Authors! First, I want to thank everyone who participated, voted, told their friends, and were excited about this contest. This was super fun and we hope to do it again. The winner is… Robert K. Lewis, author of Untold Damage! Congratulations, Robert! I’ll be contacting […]
Barbara Kingsolver, author of Flight Behavior, on tour November 2012
About Flight Behavior • Hardcover: 448 pages • Publisher: Harper (November 6, 2012) Flight Behavior transfixes from its opening scene, when a young woman’s narrow experience of life is thrown wide with the force of a raging fire. In the lyrical language of her native Appalachia, Barbara Kingsolver bares the rich, tarnished humanity of her novel’s inhabitants and unearths the […]
Louise Erdrich, author of The Round House, on tour October/November 2012
About The Round House The Round House has just been named a National Book Award Finalist! • Hardcover: 336 pages • Publisher: Harper (October 2, 2012) One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface as Geraldine Coutts is traumatized […]
Craig Heimbuch, author of And Now We Shall Do Manly Things, on tour November 2012
About And Now We Shall Do Manly Things • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (October 30, 2012) In the tradition of Bill Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods and A. J. Jacobs’s The Know-It-All, Craig J. Heimbuch takes a wry look at some of our most deeply cherished cultural beliefs Craig J. Heimbuch had never even thought of […]