About American Rust Paperback: 400 pages Publisher: Spiegel & Grau (January 12, 2010) Set in a beautiful but economically devastated Pennsylvania steel town, American Rust is a novel of the lost American dream and the desperation—as well as the acts of friendship, loyalty, and love—that arise from its loss. From local bars to trainyards to […]
Lisa See, author of Shanghai Girls, on tour January 2010
About Shanghai Girls In 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia, a city of great wealth and glamour, the home of millionaires and beggars, gangsters and gamblers, patriots and revolutionaries, artists and warlords. Thanks to the financial security and material comforts provided by their father’s prosperous rickshaw business, twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister, […]
Allison Winn Scotch, author of Time of My Life, on tour August/September 2009
About Allison Allison Winn Scotch is a frequent contributor to numerous magazines and websites including American Baby, American Way, Bride’s, Cooking Light, Family Circle, Fitness, Glamour, InStyle Weddings, Lifetime Television, Men’s Fitness, Men’s Health, Parents, Prevention, Redbook, Self, Shape, Stuff, USA Weekend, Woman’s Day, Women’s Health, ivillage.com, msn.com, and women.com. She is also the author […]
Kathleen McCleary, author of House and Home, on tour September 2009
About Kathleen Kathleen McCleary was born and raised in Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich., and lived in New York, Tennessee, and Virginia before settling in Oregon in 1992. She has worked as a staff writer and editor and freelance writer for a variety of publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Weekend, Good […]
Annie Barrows, author of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, on tour August 2009
About the authors, Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer Annie Barrows is the author of the children’s series Ivy and Bean, as well as The Magic Half. She lives in northern California. Visit Annie’s website HERE. Her aunt, Mary Ann Shaffer, who passed away in February 2008, worked as an editor, librarian, and in bookshops. The Guernsey Literary […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS April 27th-May 1st
Please stop by our tour stops this week and check out these great books and blogs! Tea & Other Ayama Na Tales by Eleanor Bluestein Tuesday, April 28th: Medieval Bookworm Wednesday, April 29th: Savvy Verse and Wit The Mechanics of Falling by Catherine Brady Tuesday, April 28th: Clever Girl Goes Blog Thursday, April 30th: Estella’s Revenge
Jennie Shortridge, author of Love and Biology at the Center of the Universe, on Tour – November 2008
About Jennie Bestselling author Jennie Shortridge has three published novels: Riding with the Queen, (NAL 2003), Eating Heaven(2005), and Love and Biology at the Center of the Universe (2008). Prior to writing novels, her nonfiction work appeared regularly in magazines and newspapers, including Glamour, Mademoiselle, Natural Home, and others. The Seattle writer has been called “an accomplished and superior novelist” by […]