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 […]
Mingmei Yip, author of Skeleton Women, on tour September 2012
About Skeleton Women Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Kensington (May 29, 2012) Skeleton Women is a Chinese phrase for femmes fatales. This story is about three of them — Camilla, a nightclub singer who has been forced to become a spy, Shadow a magician who jumps naked off a tall building, and a gender-ambiguous gossip columnist. All must scheme […]
Andrew Goldstein, author of The Bookie’s Son, on tour September 2012
About The Bookie’s Son Paperback: 248 pages Publisher: (sixoneseven) books (May 1, 2012) In 1960, as a way to pay off some of his debt, the bookie, Harry Davis, starts collecting loan payments for the Bronx gangster, Nathan Glucksman. Making his rounds, Harry visits a sweet tailor named Morris, who is a survivor of the Holocaust. Whether […]
Giles Kristian, author of Blood Eye: Raven, Book 1, on tour
About Blood Eye (Raven, Book 1) Mass Market Paperback: 448 pages Publisher: Bantam (August 28, 2012) In a thrilling adventure of brotherhood, warfare, and treachery, Giles Kristian takes us into ninth-century England, a world of darkness, epic conflict, and an unforgiving God served by powerful priests. On ships shaped like dragons, bristling with oars and armor, Jarl […]
Tahmima Anam, author of The Good Muslim, on tour August 2012
About The Good Muslim • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (August 14, 2012) In the dying days of a brutal civil war in Bangladesh, Sohail Haque stumbles upon an abandoned building. Inside he finds a young woman whose story will haunt him for a lifetime to come. Almost a decade later, Sohail’s sister, Maya, returns home after […]
Yvette Edwards, author of A Cupboard Full of Coats, on tour August 2012
About A Cupboard Full of Coats • Paperback: 272 pages • Publisher: Amistad; Original edition (July 31, 2012) Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize A Kirkus Best Book of the Year Plagued by guilt, paralyzed by shame, Jinx has spent the years since her mother’s death alone, estranged from her husband, withdrawn from her son, and entrenched in a childhood home filled […]
Lucy Wood, author of Diving Belles: And Other Stories, on tour August 2012
About Diving Belles: And Other Stories • Paperback: 240 pages • Publisher: Mariner Books (August 7, 2012) In the tradition of Angela Carter, this luminous, spellbinding debut reinvents the stuff of myth. Straying husbands lured into the sea by mermaids can be fetched back, for a fee. Trees can make wishes come true. Houses creak and keep […]
Thrity Umrigar, author of The World We Found, on tour August 2012
To celebrate the release of the paperback of The World We Found, two backlist titles will also be on tour: The Weight of Heaven and The Space Between Us. About The World We Found • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (July 31, 2012) As university students in late 1970s Bombay, Armaiti, Laleh, Kavita, and Nishta […]
Emily Arsenault, author of Miss Me When I’m Gone, on tour August 2012
About Miss Me When I’m Gone • Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (July 31, 2012) Author Gretchen Waters made a name for herself with her bestseller Tammyland—a memoir about her divorce and her admiration for country music icons Tammy Wynette, Loretta Lynn, and Dolly Parton that was praised as a “honky-tonk Eat, Pray, Love.” But her […]
Alex Bledsoe, author of Wake of the Bloody Angel, on tour August/September 2012
About Wake of the Bloody Angel Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Tor Books; First Edition edition (July 3, 2012) “Bledsoe’s fourth epic fantasy noir featuring “sword jockey” Eddie LaCrosse (after 2011’s Dark Jenny) is action-packed and witty…’ —Publishers Weekly Set sale on the high seas with swashbuckling sword jockey Eddie LaCrosse in WAKE OF THE BLOODY ANGEL (A […]