Please stop by our tours this week and check out these great books and blogs! Everything Sucks by Hannah Friedman Monday, August 3rd: Pop Culture Junkie Tuesday, August 4th: The Story Siren Wednesday, August 5th: The Book Muncher Thursday, August 6th: Write for a Reader reschedule Wife of the Gods by Kwei Quartey Monday, August […]
Garret Freymann-Weyr, author of After the Moment, on tour October/November 2009
About Garret Freymann-Weyr Garret Freymann-Weyr (née Weyr) was born and raised in New York City. She inexplicably went to college in North Carolina (UNC-Chapel Hill) and, just as inexplicably, got an MFA in film (NYU). She now lives outside Washington, D.C. with her husband. She has written five books for young adults, one of which, […]
Matthew Pearl, author of The Last Dickens, on tour September/October 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 […]
Maud Carol Markson, author of Looking After Pigeon, on tour October/November 2009
About Maud Carol Markson Maud Carol Markson is the author of the novels When We Get Home, and Looking After Pigeon. She has taught writing at University of New Hampshire and Cabrini College. She now lives in California with her husband and son, and her dog Molly, who is her constant writing companion. She can be […]
Shilpa Agarwal, author of Haunting Bombay, on tour October 2009
About SHILPA Shilpa Agarwal is the author of Haunting Bombay (April 2009, Soho Press), an acclaimed literary ghost story set in 1960’s India that became a bestseller (San Francisco Chronicle) three months after publication, and was awarded a First Words Literary Prize for South Asian Writers. It will also be published internationally in Europe and […]
Brunonia Barry, author of The Lace Reader, on tour August/September 2009
About Brunonia Barry Born and raised in Massachusetts, Brunonia Barry studied literature and creative writing at Green Mountain college in Vermont and at the University of New Hampshire and was one of the founding members of the Portland Stage Company. While still an undergraduate at UNH, Barry spent a year living in Dublin and auditing Trinity […]
Tom Piazza, author of City of Refuge, on tour August/September 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 […]
Maud Hart Lovelace’s Betsy-Tacy series on tour September/October 2009
About Maud Hart Lovelace Maud Hart Lovelace was born April 26, 1892, but until she was 50 years old she believed her birthday was the 25th (which coincided with the birthday of her namesake, Aunt Maud). The daughter of Tom and Stella Hart, Maud was christened simply “Maud Hart”; around age 10, she adopted her mother’s […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for July 20th – July 24th
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 […]
Heather Gudenkauf, author of The Weight of Silence, on tour August/September 2009
About Heather Gudenkauf Heather Gudenkauf was born in Wagner, South Dakota, the youngest of six children. At one month of age, her family returned to the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota where her father was employed as a guidance counselor and her mother as a school nurse. At the age of three, her family […]