The Murderer's Daughtersby Randy Susan Meyers has gotten rave reviews in hardcover. It just came out in paperback this week and it's the most recent Target Club Pick, so I thought it would be a great choice for this week's book trailer.Here's the description:Lulu and Merry's childhood was never ideal, but on the day before Lulu's tenth birthday their father drives them into a nightmare. He's always hungered for the love of the girl's self-obsessed mother. After she throws him out, their troubles turn deadly.Lulu's mother warned her to never let him in, but when he shows up, he's impossible to … [Read more...]
A Valentine’s Day Giveaway!
Who couldn't use a little extra love for Valentine's Day?The lovely Kate Ledger, author of Remedies, sent me four copies of The Dogs' Book of Romance -- advice on love and relationships from our four-legged friends -- for a Valentine's Day giveaway!To sweeten the pot, I've put together a Valentine's gift bag (pictured above) for you and your favorite pup. Three lucky readers will get a copy of The Dogs' Book of Romance and one lucky reader will get a copy of the book plus a gift bag filled with goodies!The gift bag includes:For you:A copy of The Dogs Book of RomanceThe Madelaine Chocolate Co. … [Read more...]
Guest Post: How I Became a Daughter of the Witching Hill by Mary Sharratt
In bleak midwinter 2002, I moved to rural Lancashire, in northern England, an incongruous place for an American expat. The first months were so oppressively dark, I felt I was trapped inside some claustrophobic gothic novel. But then came spring in a tide of bluebells and hawthorn. The wild Pennine landscape cast its spell on me. I live at the foot of Pendle Hill, famous throughout the world as the place where George Fox received his vision that moved him to found the Quaker religion in 1652. But Pendle is also steeped in its legends of the Lancashire Witches.In 1612, seven women … [Read more...]
Book Trailer Fridays – Juliette Fay & Deep Down True
I've been meaning to blog all week, but I've been completely lost in my manuscript. It's a good thing, but I get to the end of my writing day and I'm kind of shocked that I'm still me. It's a little disorienting. Like watching a movie that's completely engrossing and when it's suddenly over, walking through the doors of the movie theatre back to the normal world seems surprising. Or like the time The Other 1/4 watched the entire first season of Heroes around the same time that I did. She called and said, "You know, the only thing I didn't like about it --""--was when you stopped watching … [Read more...]
Book Trailer Fridays – Kelly O’Connor McNees & The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott
I read Little Women in fourth grade, and was completely and totally mesmerized. It was the first book that made me feel like I was living inside the story while I read it, because I was so emotionally invested in the characters. I'd enjoyed reading up until then, but Little Women is the book that made me a reader, and it's still one of my all time favorites.Little Women was also the book that sparked my interested in writers. The woman behind the Little Women is just as interesting as the book itself. Louisa May Alcott was a student of several members of the Transcendental Club, an … [Read more...]
Book Trailer Fridays – Tatjana Soli & The Lotus Eaters
I re-read The Things They Carried for book club a few months ago. It is a stunning book, and I'm completely in awe of Tim O'Brien. So, my TBR pile has gotten a little taller, since discovering that he had this to say about The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli:"Set amid the twin infernos of Cambodia and Vietnam in the early 1970's, The Lotus Eaters draws the reader into a haunting world of war, betrayal, courage, obsession, and love. Tatjana Soli's spare, lucid prose infuses this novel with a dramatic clarity that makes us eyewitnesses to the collapse of two civilizations. More than that, The … [Read more...]
Book Trailer Fridays – Heidi W. Durrow & The Girl Who Fell From the Sky
The Girl Who Fell from the Sky is on my must read list. And I love hearing stories about what inspires writers as they create characters, so Heidi W. Durrow's video about her grandmother, who shares a few similar traits with the grandmother in her novel is right up my alley.My Real Grandmother from Heidi Durrow on Vimeo.The Girl Who Fell From the Sky, a story of "Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I. who becomes the sole survivor of a family tragedy," is the winner of the 2008 Bellwether Prize for Fiction. Here's what reviewers are saying about it:"The Girl Who Fell From … [Read more...]
Book Trailer Fridays – Caroline Leavitt & Pictures of You
Hope you're all enjoying the holidays! I've been busy working on J's Christmas present like crazy this week. If I can manage to keep it a secret for another twelve hours or so, it may actually be the first year ever, that he hasn't found out about his gift before Christmas. Keep your fingers crossed for me!This week's book trailer is for Caroline Leavitt's book PICTURES OF YOU, which is currently at the top of my TBR pile. I love how eerie the trailer is!Here's what critics are saying about PICTURES OF YOU:"Caroline Leavitt plumbs the depths of grief and forgiveness in the lovely Pictures Of … [Read more...]
“Oh, I can gather all the news I need from the weather report…”
Well, I still haven't made it to Ithaca to see Marty. Stupid weather!It snowed, then it rained, then it all iced up and snowed some more. Since hearing about the drivers who got stuck in their cars outside of Buffalo for TWELVE HOURS, I've become a big huge wimp about traveling in this weather. I'm done being intrepid. Wimpy is fine by me. Cold temps, no food, small bladder, and the lack of bathrooms aside, the idea of being stuck with myself in a car that's not moving for twelve hours is terrifying! I don't do sitting in the car well. I've loaded up the crapmobile with books and a … [Read more...]
Book Fairs and German Shepherds and Bigfoot, oh my!
Well, I didn't mean to vlog and disappear like that!I've spent the past week playing catch up on all the things that didn't get done while I was away. I'm starting to think that I need to find a way to be comfortable in the realm of not caught up, because I am always falling short of grabbing the "all caught up" brass ring. Is that just a normal state of life, or do you find that you have actual leisure time where everything that needs to be done is just done and you can sit around reading, or watching tv, or go play mini-golf without everything else hanging over your head? Or do you have … [Read more...]
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