About In My Father’s Country: An Afghan Woman Defies Her Fate Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Crown (April 24, 2012) In Afghanistan, there is a Pashtun saying known by every woman and by every girl: “A woman should leave her house only twice in her life: once as a bride to go to her husband’s house, and once […]
Steve Wiegenstein, author of Slant of Light, on tour May/June 2012
About Slant of Light: A Novel of Utopian Dreams and Civil War • Trade Paperback: 305 pages • Publisher: Blank Slate Press (April, 2012) With the nation moving toward Civil War, James Turner, a charming, impulsive writer and lecturer, Charlotte, his down-to-earth bride, and Cabot, an idealistic Harvard-educated abolitionist, are drawn together in a social experiment deep in […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for March 5th – 9th
Guitar Zero by Gary Marcus Monday, March 5th: Dolphinstreet . . . The Irish Way by James R. Barrett Monday, March 5th: Chew & Digest Books Tuesday, March 6th: Me & My Shadow . . Sonoma Rose by Jennifer Chiaverini Monday, March 5th: A Chick Who Reads Tuesday, March 6th: Joyfully Retired Wednesday, March 7th: Colloquium […]
Ron Rash, author of The Cove, on tour April/May 2012
About The Cove • Hardcover: 272 pages • Publisher: Ecco (April 10, 2012) “Ron Rash is a writer of both the darkly beautiful and the sadly true; his new novel solidifies his reputation as one of our very finest novelists.” –Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls “I wish the whole world spoke the way […]
Rodney King, author of The Riot Within, on tour April/May 2012
About The Riot Within • Hardcover: 256 pages • Publisher: HarperOne (April 24, 2012) On a dark street, what began as a private moment between a citizen and the police became a national outrage. Rodney Glen King grew up in the Altadena Pasadena section of Los Angeles with four siblings, a loving mother, and an alcoholic father. […]
Gary Buslik, author of Akhmed and the Atomic Matzo Balls, on tour April/May 2012
About Akhmed and the Atomic Matzo Balls Paperback: 370 pages Publisher: Travelers’ Tales/Solas House (March 27, 2012) Iranian president Akhmed teams up with the leaders of Venezuela and Cuba and their American intelligence agents to smuggle radioactive matzo balls into Miami Beach. But intelligence being as slippery a concept to these nincompoops as chicken fat […]
March Contest for Authors: Why do YOU need a tour?
For our September 2012 contest, click here. AUTHORS Why do YOU need a TLC Book Tour? Sharpen up those pencils and tell us in 150 words or less how a TLC Book Tour could benefit you and your new book for a chance to win a free 10-blog TLC Book Tour. Be sincere, be funny, […]
Book Club of the Month Contest for March 2012
We are excited to offer TWO terrific titles in our Book Club of the Month Contest for March! _________________________________________________________________ What is holding you back from living a more joyful life? Book Club members will find much to discuss in Juicy Joy Juicy Joy: 7 Simple Steps to Your Glorious, Gutsy Self by Lisa McCourt Juicy Joy […]
Doctors George Pratt and Peter Lambrou, authors of Code to Joy, on tour April 2012
About Code to Joy • Hardcover: 256 pages • Publisher: HarperOne (April 3, 2012) Beneath the surface—undiagnosed, untreated and often unspoken—there is a pervasive cloud of unease affecting virtually everyone. This “fog of distress” is the reason so many people feel unloved, guilty, ashamed, fearful, and unsafe. It’s the basis of addictions, sleeplessness, bad habits, […]
James R. Barrett, author of The Irish Way, on tour March 2012
About The Irish Way • Hardcover: 400 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (March 1, 2012) A lively, street-level history of turn-of-the-century urban life explores the Americanizing influence of the Irish on successive waves of migrants to the American city. In the newest volume in the award-winning Penguin History of American Life series, James R. […]