About Wanderers: Stories Paperback: 218 pages Publisher: Stephen F. Austin University Press (June 5, 2012) The wanderers of Edward Belfar’s debut collection of short fiction appear in a variety of settings—a piano bar in Rome, a hospital bed, a train traveling between Nairobi and Mombasa, the bleachers at Yankee Stadium—but nowhere are they quite at home. Often, […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for October 22nd – 26th
Ironskin by Tina Connolly Monday, October 22nd: Simply Stacie Tuesday, October 23rd: A Buckeye Girl Reads Wednesday, October 24th: Luxury Reading Thursday, October 25th: Fiction State of Mind Things Remembered by Georgia Bockoven Monday, October 22nd: Peppermint PhD Tuesday, October 23rd: Kritters Ramblings Wednesday, October 24th: StephTheBookworm Thursday, October 25th: Seaside Book Nook Friday, October 26th: WV Sticher […]
Announcing the Winner of the September Contest for Authors
It’s time to announce the winner from the September Contest for Authors! First, I want to thank everyone who participated, voted, told their friends, and were excited about this contest. This was super fun and we hope to do it again. The winner is… Robert K. Lewis, author of Untold Damage! Congratulations, Robert! I’ll be contacting […]
Barbara Kingsolver, author of Flight Behavior, on tour November 2012
About Flight Behavior • Hardcover: 448 pages • Publisher: Harper (November 6, 2012) Flight Behavior transfixes from its opening scene, when a young woman’s narrow experience of life is thrown wide with the force of a raging fire. In the lyrical language of her native Appalachia, Barbara Kingsolver bares the rich, tarnished humanity of her novel’s inhabitants and unearths the […]
Louise Erdrich, author of The Round House, on tour October/November 2012
About The Round House The Round House has just been named a National Book Award Finalist! • Hardcover: 336 pages • Publisher: Harper (October 2, 2012) One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface as Geraldine Coutts is traumatized […]
Craig Heimbuch, author of And Now We Shall Do Manly Things, on tour November 2012
About And Now We Shall Do Manly Things • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (October 30, 2012) In the tradition of Bill Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods and A. J. Jacobs’s The Know-It-All, Craig J. Heimbuch takes a wry look at some of our most deeply cherished cultural beliefs Craig J. Heimbuch had never even thought of […]
Joan Frank, author of Because You Have To, on tour November 2012
About Because You Have To • Paperback: 184 pages • Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press (September 15, 2012) Part memoir, part handbook, part survey of the contemporary literary scene, Because You Have To: A Writing Life is a collection of essays that, taken together, provide a walking tour of the writing life. Original, witty, and practical, […]
Danny Wallace, author of Charlotte Street, on tour October 2012
About Charlotte Street • Paperback: 416 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (October 23, 2012) Jason Priestley (no, not that Jason Priestley) is in a rut. He gave up his teaching job to write snarky reviews of cheap restaurants for the free newspaper you take but don’t read. He lives above a video-game store, between a Polish newsstand and […]
Roland Merullo, author of Lunch with Buddha, on tour November/December 2012
About Lunch with Buddha Paperback – 392 pages Publisher: AJAR Contemporaries (November 13, 2012) On the surface, Lunch with Buddha is a story about family. Otto Ringling and his sister Cecelia could not be more different. He’s just turned 50, an editor of food books at a prestigious New York publishing house, a man with a nice home in the […]
Jacqueline Winspear, author of Elegy for Eddie, on tour November 2012
About Elegy for Eddie • Paperback: 368 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (October 30, 2012) Early April 1933. To the costermongers of Covent Garden—sellers of fruits and vegetables on the London streets—Eddie Pettit was a gentle soul with a near-magical gift for working with horses. So who would want to kill him . . . and why? […]