About Ghost Horse • Publisher: Gival Press Set amidst the social tensions of 1970’s Houston, Ghost Horse tells the story of eleven-year-old Buddy Turner’s shifting alliances within his fragmented family and with two other boys—one Anglo, one Latino—in their quest to make a Super-8 animated movie. As his father’s many secrets begin to unravel, Buddy […]
Roland Allnach, author of Prism, on tour October/November 2014
About Prism • Paperback: 282 pages • Publisher: All Things That Matter Press (July 3, 2014) Prism presents the best of Roland Allnach’s newest stories together with his most acclaimed published short fiction. These selected stories fracture the reader’s perceptions among a dazzling array of genres and styles to illuminate the mysterious aspects of the human experience. Roland Allnach […]
Joshilyn Jackson, author of Someone Else’s Love Story, on tour August/September 2014
About Someone Else’s Love Story • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Reprint edition (August 5, 2014) For single mom Shandi Pierce, life is a juggling act. She’s finishing college, raising precocious three-year-old Natty, and keeping the peace between her eternally warring, long-divorced parents.Then she gets caught in the middle of a stickup at a gas […]
Fred Venturini, author of The Heart Does Not Grow Back, on tour October/November 2014
About The Heart Does Not Grow Back Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Picador (November 4, 2014) EVERY SUPERHERO NEEDS TO START SOMEWHERE…Dale Sampson is used to being a nonperson at his small-town Midwestern high school, picking up the scraps of his charismatic lothario of a best friend, Mack. He comforts himself with the certainty that his stellar academic […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for August 11th – 15th
Risky Business by Amy Andrews Monday, August 11th: Reading in Black & White – guest post . . . . Sweet Water by Christina Baker Kline Monday, August 11th: A Bookish Way of Life Tuesday, August 12th: Bibliotica . . . The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo Monday, August 11th: Broken Teepee Tuesday, August 12th: Fuelled by Fiction . . . […]
Marty Wingate, author of The Red Book of Primrose House, on tour November 2014
About The Red Book of Primrose House: A Potting Shed Mystery Publisher: Alibi (November 4, 2014) Sold by: Random House LLC In Marty Wingate’s charming new Potting Shed Mystery, Texas transplant Pru Parke’s restoration of a historic landscape in England is uprooted by an ax murderer. Pru Parke has her dream job: head gardener at an […]
Courtney Miller Santo, author of Three Story House, on tour August 2014
About Three Story House • Paperback: 416 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (August 19, 2014) As they renovate a historic Memphis house together, three cousins discover that their spectacular failures in love, career, and family provide the foundation for their future happiness in this warm and poignant novel reminiscent of The Postmistress and The Secret Life of Bees. Approaching thirty and […]
Justin Taylor, author of Flings, on tour August/September 2014
About Flings • Hardcover: 240 pages • Publisher: Harper (August 19, 2014) In a new suite of powerful and incisive stories, Justin Taylor captures the lives of men and women unmoored from their pasts and uncertain of their futures. A man writes his girlfriend a Dear John letter, gets in his car, and just drives. A widowed insomniac is […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for August 3-8
Sinful Folk by Ned Hayes Sunday, August 3rd: You’ve GOTTA Read This! Monday, August 4th: 100 Pages a Day … Stephanie’s Book Tuesday, August 5th: Words for Worms Wednesday, August 6th: What She Read Thursday, August 7th: M. Denise C. . The Home Place by Carrie La Seur Monday, August 4th: From the TBR Pile Tuesday, August 5th: BoundbyWords Wednesday, August 6th: The […]
Book Club of the Month Contest for August 2014
__________________________________ Book clubs will love The Hexed The Hexed by Heather Graham A place of history, secrets…and witchcraft. Devin Lyle has recently returned to the Salem area, but her timing couldn’t be worse. Soon after she moved into the eighteenth-century cabin she inherited from her great-aunt Mina—her “crazy” great-aunt, who spoke to the dead—a woman was murdered […]