About The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet • Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Original edition (January 26, 2010) A Divinity scholar at Wittenberg University, Horatio prides himself on his ability to argue both sides of any intellectual debate but is himself a skeptic, never fully believing in any philosophy. That is, until […]
Vanitha Sankaran, author of Watermark, on tour April 2010
About Watermark Watermark is an atmospheric and compelling debut novel about the search for identity, the power of self-expression, and the value of the written word. The daughter of a papermaker in 1320s France, Auda has an ability to read and write that comes from a place of need. Silenced, she finds hope and opportunity […]
Lynn Cullen, author of The Creation of Eve, on tour March 2010
About Lynn Lynn Cullen is the author of the young adult novel I Am Rembrandt’s Daughter, a 2007 Barnes & Noble “Discover Great New Writers” selection, and an ALA Best Book of 2008. Her previous award-winning novels and picture books for children include the critically acclaimed Moi & Marie Antoinette, The Backyard Ghost, and The Mightiest Heart, for […]
Ben Kane, author of The Forgotten Legion, on tour January 2010
About Ben I’ve always had a passion for history, and military history in particular. As a boy, I devoured anything to do with soldiers and war, from the Romans to the Vikings and Crusaders. More modern conflicts weren’t excluded either, so I read all about the Napoleonic wars, the American civil war and World Wars […]
Tatjana Soli, author of The Lotus Eaters, on tour March/April 2010
About The Lotus Eaters Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: St. Martin’s Press (March 30, 2010) A unique and sweeping debut novel of an American female combat photographer in the Vietnam War, as she captures the wrenching chaos and finds herself torn between the love of two men. On a stifling day in 1975, the North Vietnamese […]
Jamie Ford, author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, on tour January/February 2010
About Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet In the opening pages of Jamie Ford’s stunning debut novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Henry Lee comes upon a crowd gathered outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle’s Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new […]
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 […]
Jennifer Cody Epstein, author of The Painter from Shanghai, on tour June 2009
About Jennifer Jennifer Cody Epstein is the author of The Painter from Shanghai, an imaginative retelling of the life of Chinese prostitute-turned-post-Impressionist Pan Yuliang. Her fiction has also appeared in Thema, Confrontation, Carve, and Small Spiral Notebook and has been a finalist selection for Glimmertrain. She has also lived and worked in the U.S., Japan, […]