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. […]
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, […]
Kevin Killeen, author of Never Hug a Nun, on tour in December ’12/January ’13
About Never Hug a Nun Paperback: 182 pages Publisher: Blank Slate Press (December 8, 2012) AUTHOR’S MISSPENT BOYHOOD INSPIRES COMIC NOVEL ABOUT GROWING UP IN WEBSTER GROVES From first crushes and cafeteria lines, hidden forts and secret passwords, learning the Cub Scout oath and robbing the Ben Franklin, to hanging out on the train tracks, running from the police, […]
Edward Belfar, author of Wanderers, on tour January 2013
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, […]
Erica Bauermeister, author of The Lost Art of Mixing, on tour November 2012
About The Lost Art of Mixing Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Putnam Adult (January 24, 2013) National bestselling author Erica Bauermeister returns to the enchanting world of The School of Essential Ingredients in this luminous sequel. Lillian and her restaurant have a way of drawing people together. There’s Al, the accountant who finds meaning in numbers and ritual; […]
Pamela King Cable, author of Televenge, on tour November/December/January 2013
About Televenge Paperback: 584 pages Publisher: Satya House Publications (October 5, 2012) Andie Oliver is a faithful woman—to God, to husband Joe, and to elevangelist Reverend Calvin Artury, a Godfather in a Mafia of holy men. Raised to be subservient and submissive in the tradition of the Bible-belt South of the 70’s, she becomes a prisoner of that tradition. As a […]
J. Gabriel Gates, author of Blood Zero Sky, on tour October 2012
About Blood Zero Sky Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: HCI (October 1, 2012) Unprofitables are banished to work camps to pay off their credit. Other tie-men and women look on apathetically. Fair is fair. Everyone knows you shouldn’t use more credit than you are worth to the Company. They turn their attention to the next repackaged but highly […]
Monica McInerney, author of Lola’s Secret, on tour October/November 2012
About Lola’s Secret Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Ballantine Books (October 16, 2012) Praised as “Australia’s answer to Maeve Binchy, a modern-day Jane Austen” (The Sun Herald, Australia), Monica McInerney, internationally bestselling author of The Alphabet Sisters, returns with a poignant novel of love, loss, and the enduring strength of family ties. Nestled in a picturesque corner […]
Vincent Lam, author of The Headmaster’s Wager, on tour September/October 2012
About The Headmaster’s Wager Hardcover: 432 pages Publisher: Hogarth (August 14, 2012) Percival Chen is the wealthy headmaster of the most respected English-language academy in Saigon in 1966. Chen is fiercely proud of his Chinese heritage, and quick to spot the business opportunities rife in a divided country. He builds a rich life for himself and his […]
Tina Connolly, author of Ironskin, on tour October 2012
About Ironskin Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Tor Books; First Edition edition (October 2, 2012) After establishing herself with her short fiction, Tina Connolly becomes a novelist to watch with her debut IRONSKIN (Tor Hardcover; $24.99; On-sale October 2, 2012)—a loose re-imagining of Jane Eyre set in the aftermath of a Great War between the humans and fey. […]