About Real Happy Family Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: Lake Union/New Harvest (March 4, 2014) Part-time actress, full-time party girl Lorelei Branch isn’t famous yet, but she’s perfected a Hollywood lifestyle full of clubbing, fashion, and the latest juice cleanse. When Robin, her sister-in-law and agent, throws a plum job her way, Lorelei jumps at the chance […]
Sarah-Kate Lynch, author of The Wedding Bees, on tour January/February 2014
About The Wedding Bees • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (January 28, 2014) Sugar Wallace did not believe in love at first sight, but her bees did. . . . Every spring Sugar Wallace coaxes her sleepy honeybee queen—presently the sixth in a long line of Queen Elizabeths—out of the hive and lets her […]
Wiley Cash, author of This Dark Road to Mercy, on tour January/February 2014
About This Dark Road to Mercy • Hardcover: 240 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (January 28, 2014) The critically acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller A Land More Kind Than Home—hailed as “a powerfully moving debut that reads as if Cormac McCarthy decided to rewrite Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird” (Richmond Times Dispatch)—returns with a resonant novel of love […]
April Smith, author of A Star for Mrs. Blake, on tour January/February 2014
About A Star for Mrs. Blake Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Knopf (January 14, 2014) The United States Congress in 1929 passed legislation to fund travel for mothers of the fallen soldiers of World War I to visit their sons’ graves in France. Over the next three years, 6,693 Gold Star Mothers made the trip. In this emotionally […]
Michael Landweber, author of We, on tour February 2014
About We Paperback: 194 pages Publisher: Coffeetown Press (September 1, 2013) After an accident, forty-year-old Ben Arnold regains consciousness in the kitchen of the house he grew up in. Only he feels different, lighter somehow. Something is horribly wrong. Ben is swept into the arms of his mother, who he hasn’t seen in twenty years. She calls […]
Nancy Horan, author of Under the Wide and Starry Sky, on tour February 2014
About Under the Wide and Starry Sky Hardcover: 496 pages Publisher: Ballantine Books (January 21, 2014) From Nancy Horan, New York Times bestselling author of Loving Frank, comes her much-anticipated second novel, which tells the improbable love story of Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson and his tempestuous American wife, Fanny. At the age of thirty-five, Fanny van de Grift […]
Linda Bamber, author of Taking What I Like, on tour January 2014
About Taking What I Like • Paperback: 256 pages • Publisher: Black Sparrow Press (October 22, 2013) An NPR Selection for Best Forthcoming Fiction of 2013 Linda Bamber’s stories re-imagine eight Shakespeare plays, alternating between admiration and irreverence, mocking, mirroring and showcasing the pleasures of the plays. Emotional and genuine, these stories are at the same time inventive, surprising […]
Joshilyn Jackson, author of Someone Else’s Love Story, on tour November/December 2013
About Someone Else’s Love Story • Hardcover: 320 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (November 19, 2013) I fell in love with William Ashe at gunpoint, in a Circle K For single mom Shandi Pierce, life is a juggling act. She’s finishing college; raising her delightful three-year-old genius son, Nathan, aka Natty Bumppo; and keeping the peace between her eternally […]
Lisa O’Donnell, author of The Death of Bees, on tour October/November 2013
About The Death of Bees • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (October 22, 2013) Today I buried my parents in the backyard. Neither of them were beloved. Marnie and her little sister, Nelly, are on their own now. Only they know what happened to their parents, Izzy and Gene, and they aren’t telling. While life […]
Pamela Mingle, author of The Pursuit of Mary Bennet, on tour November/December 2013
About The Pursuit of Mary Bennet • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (November 26, 2013) The enthralling story of Pride and Prejudice‘s middle sister, Mary Bennet—an enchanting modern sequel to the beloved classic For most of her life, Mary, the serious and unpolished third daughter of the Bennet family, has been overshadowed by her sisters—beautiful and […]