About In the Garden of Stone Paperback 260 pages Publication Date: May-2013 Hub City Press Shortly before daybreak in War, West Virginia, a passing train derails and spills an avalanche of coal over sixteen-year-old Emma Palmisano’s house, trapping her sleeping family inside. In Susan Tekulve’s new novel, the year is 1924, and the remote mines of […]
Henriette Lazaridis Power, author of The Clover House, on tour April 2013
About The Clover House Paperback: 432 pages Publisher: Ballantine Books (April 2, 2013) Perfect for fans of Tatiana de Rosnay’s Sarah’s Key, this stunning debut novel brings to life World War II-era and modern-day Greece—and tells the story of a vibrant family and the tragic secret kept hidden for generations. Boston, 2000: Calliope Notaris Brown receives a […]
Liesel Schwarz, author of A Conspiracy of Alchemists, on tour March/April 2013
About A Conspiracy of Alchemists Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Del Rey (March 5, 2013) LEAVE IT TO CHANCE. Eleanor “Elle” Chance, that is—the intrepid heroine of this edgy new series that transforms elements of urban fantasy, historical adventure, and paranormal romance into pure storytelling gold. In a Golden Age where spark reactors power the airways, and creatures […]
Betsy Prioleau, author of Swoon, on tour March/April 2013
About Swoon: Great Seducers and Why Women Love Them Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (February 4, 2013) Casanovas: where are those great romancers of women? In Swoon: Great Seducers and Why Women Love Them (W. W. Norton), Betsy Prioleau gives us a smart, entertaining study of the ladies’ man, demystifying his character, seductive […]
Kathryn Harrison, author of Enchantments, on tour February/March 2013
About Enchantments: A novel of Rasputin’s daughter and the Romanovs Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks (February 26, 2013) St. Petersburg, 1917. After Rasputin’s body is pulled from the icy waters of the Neva River, his eighteen-year-old daughter, Masha, is sent to live at the imperial palace with Tsar Nikolay and his family. Desperately hoping that […]
Lee Edelstein, author of Chin Music, on tour March 2013
About Chin Music Paperback: 324 pages March 2013 In baseball, “chin music” is a 95 mile-per-hour fastball thrown at a hitter’s chin. It presents two possibilities—disrupting a batter’s concentration or hitting him in the head. As a metaphor in life, chin music is that split second—a phone call in the middle of the night or a visit […]
L. Marie Adeline, author of S.E.C.R.E.T, on tour in February 2013
About S.E.C.R.E.T Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Broadway (February 5, 2013) In S.E.C.R.E.T there are… No Judgments. No limits. No shame. Cassie Robichaud’s life is filled with regret and loneliness after the death of her husband. She waits tables at the rundown Café Rose in New Orleans, and every night she heads home to her solitary one-bedroom apartment. […]
Charlene Mires, author of Capital of the World, on tour in March, 2013
About Capital of the World: The Race to Host the United Nations Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: NYU Press (March 4, 2013) From 1944 to 1946, as the world pivoted from the Second World War to an unsteady peace, Americans in more than two hundred cities and towns mobilized to chase an implausible dream. The newly-created United Nations […]
Donna Richardson Joyner, author of Witness to Fitness, on tour January/February 2013
About Witness to Fitness: Pumped Up! Powered Up! All Things Are Possible! Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: HarperOne (December 26, 2012) In WITNESS TO FITNESS, Donna Richardson Joyner brings together faith, food, and fitness in a way no one else has done before. She inspires the reader to follow her on a journey to good health and a […]
Kevin Lynn Helmick, author of Driving Alone, on tour January/February 2013
About Driving Alone: A Love Story Paperback: 102 pages Publisher: Blank Slate Press (December 1, 2012) Billy Keyhoe’s luck just ran out. After beating his girlfriend to a bloody pulp and being shot at by the clerk of the convenience store he was trying to rob, Billy takes off in his daddy’s beat-up ’66 Caddy leaving Waycross, […]