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? […]
Caroline Moorehead, author of A Train in Winter, on tour October/November 2012
About A Train in Winter • Paperback: 400 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (October 23, 2012) They were teachers, students, chemists, writers, and housewives; a singer at the Paris Opera; a midwife; a dental surgeon. They distributed anti-Nazi leaflets, printed subversive newspapers, hid resisters, secreted Jews to safety, transported weapons, and conveyed clandestine messages. The youngest was […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for October 15th – 19th
The Good Pope by Greg Tobin Monday, October 15th: Man of La Book . . . . The Bookie’s Son by Andrew Goldstein Monday, October 15th: Fiction Addict . . . . Before the Rain by Luisita Lopez Torregrosa Monday, October 15th: Stuff as Dreams are Made On . . . . The Lady Risks All by […]