About Rachel Rachel Simmons is the author of the New York Times bestseller Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls. Simmons works internationally with girls, parents, and teachers to develop strategies to address bullying and to empower girls. A graduate of Vassar College in 1998, Simmons won a Rhodes scholarship and attended […]
Dale Siegel, author of The New Rules for Mortgages, on tour September 2009
About Dale Siegel Financial expert Dale Robyn Siegel recently took her 20 years of experience as an attorney and mortgage broker and rolled it into a book titled, The New Rules for Mortgages. The complex real estate market requires deft knowledge, timing and on going support. In her seminars, regular blogging and appearances, Dale informs […]
Mortimus Clay, author of The Purloined Boy, on tour September 2009
About Mortimus Clay Mortimus Clay is the most prolific author writing posthumously in the world today. Dead since 1885, Professor Clay’s first book was published in 2009. While alive Mortimus Clay was a dismal failure as an author. Scorned by editors, laughed at by fellow writers, Mortimus spent his life trying to emulate his hero […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for July 6th – 10th, 2009
Please stop by our tour stops this week and check out these great books and blogs! The Local News by Miriam Gershow Tuesday, July 7th: Peeking Between the Pages Wednesday, July 8th: Becky’s Book Reviews Thursday, July 9th: Caribousmom Two Years, No Rain by Shawn Klomparens Tuesday, July 7th: Book, Line, and Sinker Something Beyond […]
Ru Freeman, author of A Disobedient Girl, on tour August/September 2009
About Ru Ru Freeman is a Sri Lankan writer whose political journalism and fiction has been published internationally. She lives in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. Her debut novel, A Disobedient Girl, will also be published in Dutch, Italian, Chinese, Portuguese and Hebrew. She calls both Sri Lanka and America home and writes about the people and […]
Mark Millhone, author of The Patron Saint of Used Cars and Second Chances, on tour July/August 2009
About Mark Mark Millhone is an award-winning writer, filmmaker, columnist and teacher. After graduating from Columbia University with an MFA in Film Direction and winning the Academy Award for Best Student Film, Mark spent more than five years wandering the vast desert of Hollywood development hell before resurfacing as a screenwriting professor at NYU Film […]
Lisa Tucker, author of The Promised World, on tour September 2009
About Lisa LISA TUCKER is also the author of The Song Reader, Shout Down the Moon, Once Upon a Day, and The Cure for Modern Life, and her work has been featured in Seventeen, Pages, and The Oxford American. she has advanced degrees in English and Math, and she has taught creative writing at the […]
Allyson Roy, author of Babydoll, on tour August/September 2009
About Allyson Roy Allyson Roy translates into Alice & Roy, husband and wife collaborating authors. Roy, a graduate of the University Of The Arts in Philadelphia, has a background in theater, art and standup comedy. Alice, dancer/choreographer/teacher, double majored in dance and philosophy at the State University of New York. They spent many gypsy years […]
Kathleen McCleary, author of House and Home, on tour September 2009
About Kathleen Kathleen McCleary was born and raised in Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich., and lived in New York, Tennessee, and Virginia before settling in Oregon in 1992. She has worked as a staff writer and editor and freelance writer for a variety of publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Weekend, Good […]
Annie Barrows, author of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, on tour August 2009
About the authors, Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer Annie Barrows is the author of the children’s series Ivy and Bean, as well as The Magic Half. She lives in northern California. Visit Annie’s website HERE. Her aunt, Mary Ann Shaffer, who passed away in February 2008, worked as an editor, librarian, and in bookshops. The Guernsey Literary […]