About The Santa Claus Man: The Rise and Fall of a Jazz Age Con Man and the Invention of Christmas in New York Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Lyons Press (October 1, 2015) Miracle on 34th Street meets The Wolf of Wall Street in this true crime adventure, set in New York City in the Roaring Twenties. Before the charismatic John Duval Gluck, Jr. came […]
Libbie Hawker, author of Daughter of Sand and Stone, on tour December 2015
About Daughter of Sand and Stone Hardcover Publisher: Lake Union Publishing (December 1, 2015) When Zenobia takes control of her own fate, will the gods punish her audacity? Zenobia, the proud daughter of a Syrian sheikh, refuses to marry against her will. She won’t submit to a lifetime of subservience. When her father dies, she sets […]
Kelly Romo, author of Whistling Women, on tour November/December 2015
About Whistling Women Paperback: 414 pages Publisher: Lake Union Publishing (November 17, 2015) A buried secret keeps two sisters apart. Life went terribly wrong for Addie Bates in San Diego, and she’s been running from those memories ever since. For fifteen years, the Sleepy Valley Nudist Colony has provided a safe haven for Addie to hide from […]
Antoinette May, author of The Determined Heart, on tour October 2015
About The Determined Heart: The Tale of Mary Shelley and Her Frankenstein Paperback: 410 pages Publisher: Lake Union Publishing (September 29, 2015) Frankenstein lives on as one of the most fascinating fictional creations of all time, but the true personal story of the women behind this work of genius is equally as compelling. In her new historical novel, The […]
Laura Purcell, author of Mistress of the Court, on tour September/October
About Mistress of the Court Paperback: 448 pages Publisher: Myrmidon Books Ltd (4 Aug. 2015) The second in Laura Purcell’s captivating and acclaimed series of novels chronicling the lives and loves of the consorts and mistresses of Britain’s rash, reckless and ebullient Hanoverian kings. Her first novel, Queen of Bedlam, was published by Myrmidon in the summer […]
Michael Wallace, author of The Crescent Spy, on tour November 2015
About The Crescent Spy Paperback Publisher: Lake Union Publishing (November 10, 2015) Writing under a man’s name, Josephine Breaux is the finest reporter at Washington’s Morning Clarion. Using her wit and charm, she never fails to get the scoop on the latest Union and Confederate activities. But when a rival paper reveals her true identity, accusations […]
Pam Jenoff, author of The Last Summer at Chelsea Beach, on tour August 2015
About The Last Summer at Chelsea Beach Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: Mira (July 28, 2015) Adelia Montforte begins the summer of 1941 aboard a crowded ship bound for America, utterly alone yet free of Fascist Italy. Whisked away to the seaside by her well-meaning aunt and uncle, she slowly begins to adapt to her new life. That […]
Sally Christie, author of The Sisters of Versailles, on tour August/September 2015
About The Sisters of Versailles Series: The Mistresses of Versailles Trilogy Paperback: 432 pages Publisher: Atria Books (September 1, 2015) Carefully researched and ornately detailed, The Sisters of Versailles is the first book in an exciting new historical fiction trilogy about King Louis XV, France’s most “well-beloved” monarch, and the women who shared his heart and his bed. The Sisters […]
Susan Spann, author of Flask of the Drunken Master, on tour July/August 2015
In celebration of the release of FLASK OF THE DRUNKEN MASTER, the latest installment in Susan Spann’s Shinobi Mysteries Series, we are putting the whole series on tour! About Flask of the Drunken Master Series: Shinobi Mysteries (Book 3) Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Minotaur Books (July 14, 2015) August 1565: When a rival artisan turns up dead outside Ginjiro’s […]
Elizabeth Berg, author of The Dream Lover, on tour April/May 2015
About The Dream Lover Hardcover: 368 pages Publisher: Random House (April 14, 2015) New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Berg has written a lush historical novel based on the sensuous Parisian life of the nineteenth-century writer George Sand—which is perfect for readers of Nancy Horan and Elizabeth Gilbert. At the beginning of this powerful novel, we […]