Passing Love by Jacqueline Luckett Monday, July 23rd: Peeking Between the Pages . . . Thank You For Flying Air Zoe by Erik Atwell Monday, July 23rd: Sweet Southern Home Tuesday, July 24th: Acting Balanced . . What I Did by Christopher Wakling Monday, July 23rd: A Worn Path Tuesday, July 24th: Reading Lark . . The […]
Eloisa James, author of The Ugly Duchess, on tour August/September 2012
About The Ugly Duchess • Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: Avon (August 28, 2012) Since the death of her father, Theo and her mother have lived at the ducal estates of Ashbrook, wards of her father’s best friend. She grew up alongside James Ryburn, heir to the Duchy. The two were the closest of friends and confidants; […]
L.L. Nielsen, author of Lasso the Stars, on tour September, November, and December 2012
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 […]
Amanda Coplin, author of the Orchardist, on tour August/September 2012
About The Orchardist • Hardcover: 448 pages • Publisher: Harper (August 21, 2012) At the turn of the twentieth century, in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a reclusive orchardist, William Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots as if they were loved ones. A gentle man, he’s found solace in the sweetness of the fruit he grows and […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for July 16th – 20th
Night Watch by Linda Fairstein Monday, July 16th: Reviews by Molly Tuesday, July 17th: Life in Review Tuesday, July 17th: Lesa’s Book Critiques – Poisoned Pen Conference Recap Wednesday, July 18th: Chaotic Compendiums Thursday, July 19th: Crime Fiction Lover Friday, July 20th: Reviews by Elizabeth A. White 15 Seconds by Andrew Gross Monday, July […]
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 […]
Patricia Harman, author of The Midwife of Hope River, on tour August/September 2012
About The Midwife of Hope River • Paperback: 400 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (August 28, 2012) Midwife Patience Murphy has a gift: a talent for escorting mothers through the challenges of bringing children into the world. Working in the hardscrabble conditions of Appalachia during the Depression, Patience takes the jobs that no one else wants, helping those most […]
Luisita Lopez Torregrosa, author of Before the Rain, on tour August 2012
About Before the Rain • Hardcover: 240 pages • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (August 7, 2012) In a voice haunting and filled with longing, Before the Rain tells the story of love unexpected, its fragile bounds and subtle perils. As a newspaper editor in the ’80s, Luisita Torregrosa lived her career. Enter Elizabeth, a striking, reserved, and elusive writer with whom […]
Debra Dean, author of The Mirrored World, on tour August/September 2012
About The Mirrored World • Hardcover: 256 pages • Publisher: Harper (August 28, 2012) The bestselling author of The Madonnas of Leningrad returns with a breathtaking novel of love, madness, and devotion set against the extravagant royal court of eighteenth-century St. Petersburg. Born to a Russian family of lower nobility, Xenia, an eccentric dreamer who cares little for social conventions, falls […]