About Merry Christmas Stories Paperback: 214 pages Publisher: Black Rose Writing (September 23, 2010) Merry Christmas Stories is a collection of 25 Christmas tales that emphasize the value of Christmas love and laughter. These short stories will make you laugh, smile and just feel good about this magical time of year. These delightful stories, written in a variety […]
David McRaney, author of You Are Not So Smart, on tour October/November 2011
About You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You’re Deluding Yourself Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: Gotham (October 27, 2011) An entertaining illumination of the stupid beliefs that make us feel wise. You believe you are a rational, logical being who sees […]
People Tell Me Things: Stories by David Finkle on tour November, 2011
About People Tell Me Things: Stories by David Finkle Paperback: 256 pages Publisher: Nthposition Press (October 4, 2011) Authors, publishers, reporters, musicians, actors, and artists make up the fabric of the “scene” that is New York City. David Finkle has been a part of this world for years as a critic and writer for newspapers and magazines—a […]
Mariah Stewart, author of Hometown Girl, on tour October/November 2011
About Hometown Girl Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: Ballantine Books (September 27, 2011) Life was always just about perfect for Brooke Madison Bowers. She was the prettiest, most popular girl in small-town St. Dennis, Maryland, a prom queen, local pageant star, and the pride and joy of her loving parents. She even married the man of her dreams. […]
Ilene Beckerman, author of The Smartest Woman I Know, on tour October 2011
About The Smartest Woman I Know Hardcover: 112 pages Publisher: Algonquin Books (September 5, 2011) Ilene Beckerman’s first book “illuminates the experience of an entire generation of women,” wrote the New York Times Book Review in a full page of praise for Love, Loss, and What I Wore. It became a bestseller and inspired the hit Off-Broadway play by the […]
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 […]
Donia Bijan, author of Maman’s Homesick Pie, on tour October/November 2011
About Maman’s Homesick Pie: A Persian Heart in an American Kitchen: Hardcover: 272 pages Publisher: Algonquin Books (October 11, 2011) For Donia Bijan’s family, food has been the language they use to tell their stories and to communicate their love. In 1978, when the Islamic revolution in Iran threatened their safety, they fled to California’s Bay Area, […]
Katharine Britton, author of Her Sister’s Shadow, on tour October/November 2011
About Her Sister’s Shadow Paperback: 352 pagePublisher: Berkley Trade; 1st edition (June 7, 2011) Lilli Niles is at home in her North London flat when she receives an unexpected call. Her elder sister Bea — at the family homestead in White Head, Massachusetts — has just lost her husband, and she’d like Lilli to fly home for […]
Dorothy Love, author of Beyond All Measure, on tour October/November 2011
About Beyond All Measure Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Thomas Nelson (May 31, 2011) Unless she can trust God’s love to cast out her fears, Ada may lose the heart of a good man. Ada Wentworth, a young Bostonian, journeys to Hickory Ridge, Tennessee, in the years following the Civil War. Alone and nearly penniless following a broken engagement, Ada […]
Karl Friedrich, author of Wings: A Novel of World War II Flygirls, on tour October 2011
About Wings: A Novel of World War II Flygirls Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: McBooks Press (April 1, 2011) Sally Ketchum comes from dirt-poor farm folk. She has little chance of bettering her life until a mysterious barnstormer named Tex teaches her to fly—and becomes the first person worthy of her love. But Tex dies in a freak […]