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, […]