July Backlist Spotlight: DAUGHTERS OF DIVORCE, Terry Gaspard and Tracy Clifford
This month, we shine a light on an excellent resource guide by Terry Gaspard, DAUGHTERS OF DIVORCE (Sourcebooks), which fosters healing from the trauma of the ruptured family and helps girls and women to foster healthy relationships. The book won the Silver Medal Independent Publisher’s Award and was Winner of the Best Book Award in “Self-Help: Relationships” […]
Choosing a Literary Agent is a Lot Like Dating
It’s often said that it is harder to get literary representation than to get published. And it may be true! But as many of you know, I think it is essential for writers to be well represented. This ensures not only a better chance of getting published, but also provides a writer with a seasoned […]
SEDUCED BY THE LIGHT is now available from Blackstone in audio!
Here’s a great review from Audiofile. SEDUCED BY THE LIGHT The Mina Miller Edison Story Alexandra Rimer, Read by Bernadette Dunne • Unabridged • JULY 2023 Blackstone Audio • Trade Ed. Blackstone Audio • Library Ed. Bernadette Dunne maintains the prim and proper formality of the Victorian era that influenced Mina Miller Edison, the second wife of […]
THE DANCING WOMAN, Elaine Orr
From the author of A Different Sun and Swimming Between Worlds, and Professor of Literature at NC State University comes a mesmerizing new novel. Set against the backdrop of Nigeria on the edge of civil war during the 1960s, a young epat woman artist, torn between two men, struggles to find her passion and purpose. (Blair […]
Audrey Bellezza at Words Bookstore in Maplewood
Meet the co-author of EMMA OF 83RD STREET (with Emily Harding)/Gallery Books, details here. https://www.wordsbookstore.com/event/emma-of-83rd-street/
Celebrate Pride Month!
Michael Sadowski’s MEN I’VE NEVER BEEN was named one of the 100 Best Gay and Lesbian Books of All Time by Book Authority, Men I’ve Never Been recounts Michael Sadowski’s odyssey as a boy who shuns his own identity–and, ultimately, his sexual orientation–in order to become who he thinks he’s supposed to be. It’s incredibly […]
CRISIS ON MOUNT HOOD, Christopher Van Tilburg MD
A mountain rescue doctor’s gripping memoir of life-saving rescues on the most-climbed glaciated peak in the world, woven with the 100-year history of America’s oldest mountain rescue team, the Crag Rats, highlighting how climate change, crowds, and technology are fueling a spike in search and rescue incidents, endangering the beauty of the high alpine wilderness. […]
THE MINIATURIST’S ASSISTANT, Katherine Scott Crawford
Pitched as Surviving Savannah meets The Time Traveler’s Wife, in which an art conservator in historic Charleston discovers a familiar face in a 200-year-old miniature portrait and must reconcile her complicated past with that of the men she loves across two different lifetimes, begging the question: What does it mean to be a spirited, flawed, […]
Seduced by the Light-The Mina Miller Edison Story by Alexandra Rimer
Seduced by the Light (Lyons Press, May, 2023) is the first and only biography of Mina Miller Edison, the wife of Thomas Edison, the woman who created and shaped the myth of one of the most seminal figures in America’s history. The Thomas Edison we think we know was essentially created by Mina Miller Edison. […]
Karla Salinari’s new cookbook, ABUELA’S PLANT-BASED KITCHEN
Here are some images from the launch of Karla Salinari’s homage to her Puerto Rican, Dominican and Cuban family recipes, all made healthier in vegan versions that do not sacrifice flavor or texture.