About Ironskin Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Tor Books; First Edition edition (October 2, 2012) After establishing herself with her short fiction, Tina Connolly becomes a novelist to watch with her debut IRONSKIN (Tor Hardcover; $24.99; On-sale October 2, 2012)—a loose re-imagining of Jane Eyre set in the aftermath of a Great War between the humans and fey. […]
Peter and Cheryl Barnes, authors of Woodrow the White House Mouse, on tour September 2012
About Woodrow the White House Mouse • Reading level: Ages 5 and up • Hardcover: 40 pages • Publisher: Little Patriot Press (September 10, 2012) Woodrow G. Washingtail is back and ready to get to work as Commander-in-Cheese of the United Mice of America! A follow-up to Woodrow for President, Woodrow, the White House Mouse teaches children about the presidency, as well as the […]
David Fitzpatrick, author of Sharp: A Memoir, on tour August/September 2012
About Sharp: A Memoir • Hardcover: 368 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (August 21, 2012) “Endorphins sped through me. I spun around, growing dizzy, frantic, and silly. I wasn’t drunk, but I felt a nice stoned feeling, sans paranoia, and I thought, ‘I believe I’ve found my new pharmaceutical deep inside.’ I giggled fearlessly, manically at this and looked […]
Eloisa James, author of The Ugly Duchess, on tour August/September 2012
About The Ugly Duchess • Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: Avon (August 28, 2012) Since the death of her father, Theo and her mother have lived at the ducal estates of Ashbrook, wards of her father’s best friend. She grew up alongside James Ryburn, heir to the Duchy. The two were the closest of friends and confidants; […]
L.L. Nielsen, author of Lasso the Stars, on tour September, November, and December 2012
About Lasso the Stars • Paperback: 260 pages • Publisher: Tate Publishing (February 7, 2012) “As life seems to be fading, the hope you need to survive may be all in your head. Lasso the Stars is a novel following weakening cancer patient Dina, who has little hope for survival. When Gil enters her life, a literal angel turned […]
Amanda Coplin, author of the Orchardist, on tour August/September 2012
About The Orchardist • Hardcover: 448 pages • Publisher: Harper (August 21, 2012) At the turn of the twentieth century, in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a reclusive orchardist, William Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots as if they were loved ones. A gentle man, he’s found solace in the sweetness of the fruit he grows and […]
Patricia Harman, author of The Midwife of Hope River, on tour August/September 2012
About The Midwife of Hope River • Paperback: 400 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (August 28, 2012) Midwife Patience Murphy has a gift: a talent for escorting mothers through the challenges of bringing children into the world. Working in the hardscrabble conditions of Appalachia during the Depression, Patience takes the jobs that no one else wants, helping those most […]
Luisita Lopez Torregrosa, author of Before the Rain, on tour August 2012
About Before the Rain • Hardcover: 240 pages • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (August 7, 2012) In a voice haunting and filled with longing, Before the Rain tells the story of love unexpected, its fragile bounds and subtle perils. As a newspaper editor in the ’80s, Luisita Torregrosa lived her career. Enter Elizabeth, a striking, reserved, and elusive writer with whom […]
Debra Dean, author of The Mirrored World, on tour August/September 2012
About The Mirrored World • Hardcover: 256 pages • Publisher: Harper (August 28, 2012) The bestselling author of The Madonnas of Leningrad returns with a breathtaking novel of love, madness, and devotion set against the extravagant royal court of eighteenth-century St. Petersburg. Born to a Russian family of lower nobility, Xenia, an eccentric dreamer who cares little for social conventions, falls […]
Tom Ryan, author of Following Atticus, on tour August 2012
About Following Atticus • Paperback: 304 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (August 7, 2012) After a close friend died of cancer, middle-aged, overweight, acrophobic newspaperman Tom Ryan decided to pay tribute to her in a most unorthodox manner. Ryan and his friend, miniature schnauzer Atticus M. Finch, would attempt to climb all forty-eight of New Hampshire’s […]