About Finny • Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks (July 13, 2010) Before I started writing my novel, I fell in love with some great coming-of-age books: The World According to Garp, Great Expectations, Catcher in the Rye, and several others. For me, these books brought back the excitement of reading. I […]
Rachel Hauck, author of Dining With Joy, on tour November/December 2010
About Dining with Joy Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Thomas Nelson (November 16, 2010) Joy Ballard has a secret: she’s a cooking show host who can’t really cook. When her South Carolina-based cooking show, Dining With Joy, is picked up by a major network, Joy Ballard’s world heats up like a lowcountry boil. Joy needs help. Then she meets chef […]
Joyce Maynard, author of Labor Day, on tour July/August 2010
About Labor Day Paperback: 272 pages Publisher: Harper Perennial (August 3, 2010) The dog days of August . . . All summer long, thirteen-year-old Henry kept hoping that something different would happen, but it never did. Then, just as the Labor Day weekend gets under way, in the Pricemart where Henry?s mother, Adele, on one […]
Laurie Albanese and Laura Morowitz, authors of The Miracles of Prato, on tour August 2010
About The Miracles of Prato • Paperback: 400 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (February 2, 2010) Italy, 1456. The Renaissance is in glorious bloom. A Carmelite monk, the great artist Fra Filippo Lippi acts as chaplain to the nuns of the Convent Santa Margherita. It is here that he encounters the greatest temptation of his […]
Diana Gabaldon and the Outlander Series on tour August/September 2010
To celebrate the trade paperback release of An Echo in the Bone, the 7th book in the wildly popular Outlander series, we are putting the whole series on tour: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, and An Echo in the Bone! About An Echo […]
Ivy Pochoda, author of The Art of Disappearing, on tour October 2010
About The Art of Disappearing Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin (September 28, 2010) In the most imaginative and haunting love story since the The Time Traveler’s Wife, a world unfolds where magic is a fickle and powerful force, love can save and destroy, and a couple’s fate can be sealed by a mere sleight of […]
Irene Ziegler, author of Ashes to Water, on tour August 2010
About Ashes to Water • Hardcover: 394 pages • Publisher: Five Star (June 16, 2010) Ashes to Water is a mystery/thriller, and Irene Ziegler’s first novel. Set in the 1980s, Ashes to Water is an atmospheric story of a small-town Florida murder and one young woman’s reluctant involvement in its resolution. When Annie Bartlett returns […]
Claire Avery, author of Hidden Wives, on tour July 2010
About Hidden Wives Paperback: 336 pages Publisher: Forge Books (June 8, 2010) Fifteen-year-old Sara and her beautiful sister, Rachel, are too young to legally drive a car—but are approaching spinsterhood in Utah’s secret polygamist Blood of the Lamb community. Having long since reached the “age of preparedness,” they will soon be married off to much older men selected by […]
Margot Berwin, author of Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire, on tour July – September 2010
About HotHouse Flower HotHouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire is one woman’s journey from the modeling and advertising world of New York City to the rain forests of the Yucatan Peninsula. From the hot and steamy plant dealers in the Union Square Green Market, to the curanderos, herbalists and shamans of Southern Mexico. […]
Robert Rave, author of Waxed, on tour August 2010
About Waxed Waxed is the story of three relationship-challenged sisters working together at New York’s hottest waxing salon, catering to socialites, actresses and regular folk alike. Yank. On the surface, glamorous Carolina Impresario—big sister and owner of Impresarios—unapologetically wants it all, but secretly she is caught between her successful boyfriend and the one man she […]