It’s a Novel Network Out There
By Susan McBeth, founder and CEO, Novel Network™ and Adventures by the Book®. “Books are something social – a writer speaking to a reader – so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.” –...
Location, Location, Location…
by Sarah Z. Sleeper, author of Gaijin My novel Gaijin is set on a small speck of a Japanese island in the East China Sea, a tiny pinpoint on the world map. The book is a cauldron of my experiences while living on the island of Okinawa, including emotional reactions...
The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy: Three Strikes and the Early Hope of a Generation Is Out
by Rita Dragonette June 6th marked the 53rd anniversary of the assassination of Bobby Kennedy. Unlike that of his brother, five years earlier, I don’t remember exactly where I was when I heard—but I do vividly recall the next day. I was in study hall, supposedly...
Denise Heinze – Debut Historical Fiction Novelist
from author's website Denise Heinze’s debut historical novel is THE BRIEF AND TRUE REPORT OF TEMPERANCE FLOWERDEW. She wrote this book about Jamestown because she wanted to know what it would have been like to have lived there. She especially wanted to get...
The Distant Dead by Heather Young
ABOUT: A young boy finds himself at the center of a murder mystery in this timely and twisty thriller from the author of the acclaimed The Lost Girls―a compelling and indelible story set in small town America that examines the burden of guilt, the bitter price of...
AAUW Unabridged Book Group Spends Time in The Last Bookshop in London with Madeline Martin!
The AAUW Unabridged Book Group is self-described as, "[A]n offshoot of the local branch of the American Association of University Women. Our branch is Visalia-Sequoia and we are located in Visalia, California. The group has been ongoing for about 25 years or more. I...
Gold Digger: The Remarkable Baby Doe Tabor by Rebecca Rosenberg
ABOUT: One look at Baby Doe and you know she was meant to be a legend! She was just twenty years old when she came to Colorado to work a gold mine with her new husband. Little did she expect that she'd be abandoned and pregnant and left to manage the gold mine alone....
Wendy Walker – International Bestselling Author
from author's website ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Wendy Walker is the author of the psychological suspense novels All Is Not Forgotten, Emma In the Night, The Night Before and Don’t Look For Me. Her novels have been translated into 23 foreign languages and topped bestseller...
The Bobcat by Katherine Forbes Riley
ABOUT: Haunting and lyrical, The Bobcat is Katherine Forbes Riley’s magical debut novel in which Laurelie, a young art student who suffers in the aftermath of a sexual assault, has grown progressively more isolated and fearful. She transfers from her busy...
PLAGUE ENDS: Sleeping Beauty Awakes, but With More Heft and No Price. RE-ENTRY Can Be a Slippery Slope for the Pandemic Underachiever. Are You Ready?
by Rita Dragonette I know many of you are boldly running outside, arms outstretched, gulping in freedom, communal drinking, hugs and… kisses. (Can we kiss yet?) You’re waving the synopses of the three novels you finished during lockdown, the reams of poems and short...
Rachel Beanland – Debut Novelist
from author's website Rachel Beanland writes essays and fiction and is the author of the debut novel, Florence Adler Swims Forever, which was released by Simon & Schuster (July 2020). The book was selected as the Barnes & Noble Book Club pick for July,...