About This is Paradise: Stories Paperback: 240 pages Publisher: Hogarth (July 9, 2013) A visceral, poignant, and elegantly gritty work of debut fiction set in Hawaii, in the vein of Junot Diaz’s Drown and Danielle Evans’s Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self This is the real Hawai`i: life is not the paradisical adventure that honeymooners or movie-goers see. Danger […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for April 15th – 19th
The Secret Life of a Submissive by Sarah K. Monday, April 15th: Romancing the Book . . . . The Paradise Guest House by Ellen Sussman Monday, April 15th: Amused by Books Tuesday, April 16th: Caribousmom . . . Nowhere But Home by Liza Palmer Monday, April 15th: I Read a Book Once Tuesday, April 16th: No More […]
Justin St. Germain, author of Son of a Gun, on tour August 2013
About Son of a Gun: A Memoir Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: Random House (August 13, 2013) In the tradition of Tobias Wolff, James Ellroy, and Mary Karr, a stunning memoir of a mother-son relationship that is also the searing, unflinching account of a murder and its aftermath Tombstone, Arizona, September 2001. Debbie St. Germain’s death in her […]
Anne Leigh Parrish, author of Our Love Could Light the World, on tour in June 2013
About Our Love Could Light the World Publisher: She Writes Press Paperback: 202 pages You know the Dugans. They’re that scrappy bunch down the street. Their yard is overgrown, they don’t pick up after their dog. The father hasn’t earned a cent in years. The wife holds them together on her income alone. Their five […]
Courtney Miller Santo, author of The Roots of the Olive Tree, on tour May 2013
About The Roots of the Olive Tree • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Reprint edition (April 23, 2013) Courtney Miller Santo’s compelling and evocative debut novel captures the joys and sorrows of family— the love, secrets, disappointments, jealousies, and forgiveness that tie generations to one another Meet the Keller family, five generations of firstborn women living […]
Michael Stanley, author of Deadly Harvest, on tour May 2013
About Deadly Harvest • Paperback: 496 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks; Original edition (April 30, 2013) Girls are disappearing in Botswana. The rumor is they’re being harvested for muti, a witch doctor’s potion traditionally derived from plants and animals—and which, some believe, can be made more potent by adding human remains. Detective David “Kubu” Bengu joins the investigation with […]
Aimee Molloy, author of However Long the Night, on tour May 2013
About However Long the Night • Hardcover: 272 pages • Publisher: HarperOne (April 30, 2013) The story of how one of the “most powerful women in women’s rights” (Forbes)is paving the way to a world with human dignity for all. However Long the Night is the extraordinary story of one woman’s determination to create a movement toward change, and a […]
Kelly Braffet, author of Save Yourself, on tour August 2013
About Save Yourself Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Crown (August 6, 2013) Kelly Braffet’s first two novels, Josie and Jack and Last Seen Leaving, were met with astounding praise: reviewers called her work “rich with suspense…compelling” (New York Times Book Review), “fast-paced and enjoyable” (USA Today), and “wonderfully sick and twisted” (Los Angeles Times). All this and more […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for April 6 – 12
Highlander Most Wanted by Maya Banks Saturday, April 6th: Unabridged Chick Monday, April 8th: A Chick Who Reads Tuesday, April 9th: Ticket to Anywhere Wednesday, April 10th: Passionate Encounters Thursday, April 11th: The Romanceaholic Square Peg by L. Todd Rose and Katherine Ellison Sunday, April 7th: Stiletto Storytime reschedule Wednesday, April 10th: There’s a Book […]
Gregory Spatz, author of Half as Happy, on tour April 2013
About Half as Happy • Paperback: 188 pages • Publisher: Engine Books (April 16, 2013) With this beautiful and haunting collection, novelist Gregory Spatz joins the short list of truly great practitioners of the art of short fiction. These are narrative gems that will pull you in and won’t let go. The eight stories in Half as Happy reveal with startling clarity […]