About Weak at the Knees Publisher: CreateSpace, September 20, 2013 Pages: 294 “We got so busy living life that we forgot to live our dreams.” Danni Lewis has been playing it safe for twenty-six years, but her sheltered existence is making her feel old ahead of time. When a sudden death plunges her into a […]
Amy Shearn, author of The Mermaid of Brooklyn, on tour April/May 2013
About The Mermaid of Brooklyn Paperback: 368 pages Publisher: Touchstone; Original edition (April 2, 2013) SOMETIMES ALL YOU NEED IN LIFE IS A FABULOUS PAIR OF SHOES—AND A LITTLE HELP FROM A MERMAID. Formerly an up-and-coming magazine editor, Jenny Lipkin is now your average, stretched-too-thin Brooklyn mom, tackling the challenges of raising two children in a cramped […]
Emily Jeanne Miller, author of Brand New Human Being, on tour June/July 2012
About Brand New Human Being Hardcover: 272 pages Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (June 12, 2012) Meet Logan Pyle, a lapsed grad student and stay-at-home dad who’s holding it together by a thread. His father, Gus, has died; his wife, Julie, has grown distant; his four-year-old son has gone back to drinking from a bottle. When […]
Jane and Robert Rave, authors of Conversations and Cosmopolitans, on tour November 2011
About Conversations and Cosmopolitans: Awkward Moments, Mixed Drinks, and How a Mother and Son Finally Shared Who They Really Are: Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin (November 8, 2011) After moving from the Midwest to New York City at the age of twenty-one, Robert Rave finally found the resolve to mail a letter to his parents informing […]
Dori Ostermiller, author of Outside the Ordinary World, on tour November 2010
About Outside the Ordinary World Paperback: 400 pages Publisher: Mira; Original edition (July 27, 2010) Sylvia Sandon is at a crossroads in her life. A wife and mother of two daughters, she and her city-planner husband are grappling with the escalating renovation of their antique farmhouse—a situation that mirrors the disarray in Sylvia’s life. Facing […]
Boys Lie: How Not to Get Played on tour July 2010
About Boys Lie: How Not to Get Played Reading level: Young Adult Paperback: 224 pages Publisher: HCI Teens (July 1, 2010) Everyone else is doing it. It’s lies like this one that often get young women, particularly ages 10 to 20, to put aside their own nagging thoughts about what is right—and wrong—and make choices […]
Jess McCann, Author of You Lost Him At Hello, on Tour December, 2008
About Jess Jess McCann is unlike any dating coach out there. Instead of the usual therapy-based date coaching, Jess takes a unique approach to finding and keeping the right person for you. Through her education and experience in business, she has made the remarkable discovery that dating is really a simple series of techniques that […]
Benjamin Garber, Ph.D., Author of Keeping Kids Out of the Middle, on Tour Nov./Dec. 2008
About Benjamin Benjamin D. Garber, Ph.D., is a New Hampshire licensed child psychologist, a state certified Guardian ad litem and a practicing Parenting Coordinator. Dr. Garber has a Bachelor of Arts degree in developmental psychology and psycholinguistics from the University of Michigan, a Master of Science and a Doctorate in child clinical and developmental psychology […]