About Stencil Craft: Techniques for Fashion, Art & Home Paperback: 128 pages Publisher: North Light Books (June 19, 2015) As a Broadway costume painter, I use stencils every day—from tape to giant mylar paisleys, to elaborately cut textures. Stencils can make a plain surface rich with come-and-go repeated pattern, add creature texture such as feathers, fur, or […]
Marie Slaight, author of The Antigone Poems, on tour May 2015
About The Antigone Poems Trade Paperback: 104 pages Publisher: Altaire Productions & Publications; First edition (June 15, 2014) Featuring poetry by Marie Slaight and charcoal drawings by Terrence Tasker, The Antigone Poems was created in the 1970’s, while the artists were living between Montreal and Toronto. An intensely personal invocation of the ancient Greek tale of defiance, the illustrations and […]
Megan Chance, author of Inamorata, on tour August 2014
About Inamorata Paperback: 420 pages Publisher: Lake Union Publishing (July 8, 2014) American artist Joseph Hannigan and his alluring sister, Sophie, have arrived in enchanting nineteenth-century Venice with a single-minded goal. The twins, who have fled scandal in New York, are determined to break into Venice’s expatriate set and find a wealthy patron to support Joseph’s work. […]
Ayelet Waldman, author of Love & Treasure, on tour June/July 2014
About Love & Treasure Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Knopf (April 1, 2014) A spellbinding new novel of contraband masterpieces, tragic love, and the unexpected legacies of forgotten crimes, Ayelet Waldman’s Love and Treasure weaves a tale around the fascinating, true history of the Hungarian Gold Train in the Second World War. In 1945 on the outskirts of Salzburg, victorious American soldiers capture a train […]
Jonathan Stone, author of Moving Day, on tour May/June 2014
About Moving Day Paperback: 284 pages Publisher: Thomas & Mercer (June 1, 2014) Forty years’ accumulation of art, antiques, and family photographs are more than just objects for Stanley Peke—they are proof of a life fully lived. A life he could have easily lost long ago. When a con man steals his houseful of possessions in a […]
Helen Maryles Shankman, author of The Color of Light, on tour November 2013
About The Color of Light NEW YORK CITY, 1992. At the American Academy of Classical Art, popular opinion has it that the school’s handsome and mysterious founder, Raphael Sinclair, is a vampire. It is a rumor Rafe does nothing to dispel. Scholarship student Tessa Moss has long dreamed of the chance to study at Rafe’s […]
David Gordon, author of Mystery Girl, on tour August 2013
About Mystery Girl Publisher: New Harvest (July 16, 2013) Pages: 320 Vertigo meets Tarantino in this thriller by Edgar finalist David Gordon, whom Karen Thompson Walker, author of The Age of Miracles, has hailed as “one of the smartest, most stylish writers I’ve ever come across, a gifted storyteller whose work perfectly combines an incredibly sharp wit […]
Allison Lynn, author of The Exiles, on tour July 2013
About The Exiles Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Little A / New Harvest (July 2, 2013) Nate, a mid-level investment banker on Wall Street, and his longtime girlfriend Emily can no longer afford their cramped apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Tired of trying to keep up with their jet-set friends, they jump at a job offer for […]
Susan Vreeland, author of Clara and Mr. Tiffany, on tour May/June 2012
About Clara and Mr. Tiffany Paperback: 448 pages Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks; Reprint edition (March 20, 2012) It’s 1893, and at the Chicago World’s Fair, Louis Comfort Tiffany makes his debut with a luminous exhibition of innovative stained-glass windows that he hopes will earn him a place on the international artistic stage. But behind the scenes […]
Molly Peacock, author of The Paper Garden, on tour May 2012
About The Paper Garden: An Artist Begins Her Life’s Work at 72 Paperback: 416 pages Publisher: Bloomsbury USA; 1 edition (April 24, 2012) A beautifully written biography from an internationally acclaimed poet, The Paper Garden is at once the story of an extraordinary eighteenth-century woman and a “graceful meditation on botany, nature, life and age” (New York Times Book Review). […]