About Save Yourself Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Crown (August 6, 2013) Kelly Braffet’s first two novels, Josie and Jack and Last Seen Leaving, were met with astounding praise: reviewers called her work “rich with suspense…compelling” (New York Times Book Review), “fast-paced and enjoyable” (USA Today), and “wonderfully sick and twisted” (Los Angeles Times). All this and more […]
Archives for April 2013
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for April 6 – 12
Highlander Most Wanted by Maya Banks Saturday, April 6th: Unabridged Chick Monday, April 8th: A Chick Who Reads Tuesday, April 9th: Ticket to Anywhere Wednesday, April 10th: Passionate Encounters Thursday, April 11th: The Romanceaholic Square Peg by L. Todd Rose and Katherine Ellison Sunday, April 7th: Stiletto Storytime reschedule Wednesday, April 10th: There’s a Book […]
Gregory Spatz, author of Half as Happy, on tour April 2013
About Half as Happy • Paperback: 188 pages • Publisher: Engine Books (April 16, 2013) With this beautiful and haunting collection, novelist Gregory Spatz joins the short list of truly great practitioners of the art of short fiction. These are narrative gems that will pull you in and won’t let go. The eight stories in Half as Happy reveal with startling clarity […]
Casey Watson, author of Too Hurt to Stay, on tour May 2013
About Too Hurt to Stay • Paperback: 304 pages • Publisher: Harper Element (April 23, 2013) Eight-year-old Spencer takes himself to social services and demands to be taken into care. It’s a desperate act, a cry for help, but his parent’s reaction – good riddance – speaks volumes. Casey’s hackles are immediately up for this […]
Hit the Beach with the Dorothea Benton Frank Read Along, April – June 2013
To celebrate the release of Dorothea Benton Frank’s The Last Original Wife, we’re doing a read along that culminates in a cocktail party with Dorothea Benton Frank during Book Expo America. In order to qualify to attend the cocktail party, participants must: Read and review one of Dorothea Benton Frank’s back list titles as well […]
Kim Wong Keltner, author of Tiger Babies Strike Back, on tour May 2013
About Tiger Babies Strike Back • Paperback: 272 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (April 30, 2013) Kim Wong Keltner is a Tiger Baby all grown up with a daughter of her own . . . but is she a Tiger Mother? Heck, no. This book describes—in hilarious, and sometimes heartbreaking, detail—exactly why not. A battle […]
Tamar Myers, author of The Girl Who Married an Eagle, on tour May 2013
About The Girl Who Married an Eagle • Paperback: 272 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (April 30, 2013) Based on actual events in Tamar Myers’s life, The Girl Who Married an Eagle is a beautiful addition to her Belgian Congo mystery series When Julia Elaine Newton, a young, pretty Ohio girl, volunteered to go on a mission […]
Isabel Allende, author of Maya’s Notebook, on tour April/May 2013
About Maya’s Notebook • Hardcover: 400 pages • Publisher: Harper (April 23, 2013) Neglected by her parents, nineteen-year-old Maya Nidal has grown up in a rambling old house in Berkeley with her grandparents. Her grandmother Nidia, affectionately known as Nini, is a force of nature—willful and outspoken, unconventionally wise with a mystical streak, and fiercely […]
Jennifer Gilbert, author of I Never Promised You a Goodie Bag, on tour May 2013
About I Never Promised You a Goodie Bag • Paperback: 224 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (April 30, 2013) When Jennifer Gilbert was twenty-two years old, someone tried to cut her life short in the most violent way. Not wanting this traumatic encounter to define her life, she buried it within and bravely launched a fabulous career in New […]
Molly McAdams, author of Taking Chances and From Ashes, on tour May 2013
About Taking Chances • Paperback: 464 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (April 16, 2013) Her first year away is turning out to be nearly perfect, but one weekend of giving in to heated passion will change everything Eighteen-year-old Harper has grown up under the thumb of her career marine father. Ready to live life her own […]