About Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet In the opening pages of Jamie Ford’s stunning debut novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Henry Lee comes upon a crowd gathered outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle’s Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new […]
Mia Lundin, author of Female Brain Gone Insane, on tour January ’10
About Mia With a growing reputation as an authority on women’s hormonal and emotional balance, Mia Lundin, R.N.C., N.P.. attributes her success to her own experience and her personal understanding of the physical and emotional effects of hormonal changes and from listening and treating thousands of women suffering from depression, anxiety, and irrational behavior due […]
Claire Mysko and Magali Amadei, authors of Does This Pregnancy Make Me Look Fat, on tour December ’09/January ’10
About Does This Pregnancy Make Me Look Fat?: The Essential Guide to Loving Your Body Before and After Baby Beauty activists Claire Mysko and Magali Amadei offer a much-needed forewarning on what to expect from your changing body, as well as a reality check for each stage of your pregnancy, exposing the myths, challenges, and […]
Stacy Parker Aab, author of Government Girl, on tour January/February 2010
About Stacy Writer, blogger, and former political aide, Stacy Parker Aab served for five years in the Clinton White House, first as a long-time intern in George Stephanopoulos’s office, and later as an assistant to Paul Begala. She traveled as a presidential advance person, preparing and staffing trips abroad for the president and Mrs. Clinton. She also served […]
Jennie Shortridge, author of When She Flew, on tour December 2009/January 2010
About Jennie Bestselling author Jennie Shortridge has four published novels: Riding with the Queen, (NAL 2003), Eating Heaven (2005), Love and Biology at the Center of the Universe (2008), and now When She Flew (2009). Prior to writing novels, her nonfiction work appeared regularly in magazines and newspapers, including Glamour, Mademoiselle, Natural Home, and others. The Seattle writer […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for Oct. 12th-Oct. 16th
The Financial Lives of the Poets by Jess Walter Tuesday, October 13th: Lit and Life Wednesday, October 14th: One Person’s Journey Through a World of Books Thursday, October 15th: Jo-Jo Loves to Read! The Return by Victoria Hislop Tuesday, October 13th – Bending Bookshelf Wednesday, October 14th – All About {n} Thursday, October 15th – The Tome Traveller In a Perfect […]
Beth Maloney, author of Saving Sammy: Curing the Boy Who Caught OCD, on tour November 2009
About Saving Sammy: Curing the Boy Who Caught OCD Hardcover: 272 pages Publisher: Crown; 1 edition (September 22, 2009) The summer before entering sixth grade, Sammy, a bright and charming boy who lived on the coast of Maine, suddenly began to exhibit disturbing behavior. He walked and ate with his eyes shut, refused to bathe, […]
Drs. Mike and Mary Dan Eades, authors of The 6-Week Cure for the Middle-Aged Middle, on tour November 2009
About The 6-Week Cure for the Middle-Aged Middle As you’ve gotten older, have you noticed your waistline ballooning—even when you weigh the same? If you’re like most people, no matter what you’ve tried—eating healthy, exercising, full-on detoxing—you can’t seem to get rid of that bulge. Respected obesity experts, Mary Dan Eades, M.D., and Michael R. […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for September 28th-October 2nd
A Disobedient Girl by Ru Freeman Monday, September 28th: Book Addiction Tuesday, September 29th: Lost in Books Wednesday, September 30th: Caribousmom City of Refuge by Tom Piazza Monday, September 28th: Devourer of Books Tuesday, September 29th: Lesa’s Book Critiques Wednesday, September 30th: Luxury Reading The Promised World by Lisa Tucker Monday, September 28th: A Sea of Books Tuesday, September 29th: GalleySmith […]
Jacqueline Sheehan, author of Now and Then, on tour November 2009
About Jacqueline Jacqueline Sheehan, Ph.D., is a fiction writer and essayist. She is a New Englander through and through, but spent twenty years living in the western states of Oregon, California, and New Mexico doing a variety of things, including house painting, freelance photography, newspaper writing, roofing, clerking in a health food store, and directing […]