Category: Literary

New Release & Guest Post – The Antique Picker’s Daughter by Melanie Dugan

  Synopsis “The first thing you need to know: They’re not antiques. The second thing you need to know: I’m not his daughter.” Abandoned first by her father, and then by her mother, Frankie has been left in the care of her deeply religious grandmother. When her grandmother’s religious convictions tip into delusion, Frankie decides […]

New Release & Excerpt – Tabitha, Stay Up by Lee Upton

  Synopsis After a shattering disappointment, Tabitha must find new ways to get up—and stay up. In this sequel to Tabitha, Get Up, she faces a determined antagonist and a possible new love, or the return of what appeared to be lost love. She must save the world’s best bar, contend with diabolical twins and a […]

Excerpt – The Long Way by L.B. Phillips

  Synopsis Some places are worth the long way around. Miles Donovan notices things. It’s a harmless habit — until a stranger presses a fifteen-year-old postcard into his hand and points him toward the vanishing Florida the rest of the world keeps paving over: the fish camps and tiki bars, the hand-painted motels and one-of-a-kind […]

Excerpt – They All Fall In Love in the End by Haili Blassingame

  Synopsis Cat St. Clair is ready for her messy love triangle era now that she’s in an open relationship. But she didn’t foresee a forbidden love triangle with the only two people who are off-limits: her boyfriend’s best friend and his girlfriend. Being a twenty-something writer who lives for plot, she falls for them […]

New Release – The Emilys by Heather Abel

  Synopsis A mother becomes obsessed with finding the cure to a mysterious ailment that is spreading throughout her New England town in this kaleidoscopic novel about love’s capacities in a changing world. “And if we weren’t afraid of the darkness? What world would we make then?” Eve is at a breaking point. Alone with […]

New Release & Excerpt – The Very Unremarkable Life of Mrs. Etty Bloom by Talya Jankovits

    Synopsis In the insulated Hasidic community of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, tradition and cultural norms are as sacred as religion. Childhood friendships are cultivated to climb social ladders, matchmakers dictate futures, and young girls are primed for marriage and motherhood. So, when Etty Greenberger, a headstrong redhead and the only child of Holocaust survivors, commits […]

Excerpt – Crossing the Bronx by David Hirshberg

  Synopsis Set in the gritty, working-class streets of The Bronx in the 1950s, Crossing the Bronx is a modern retelling of the Biblical story of rival brothers Jacob and Esau. It blends crime and a love story with an uncompromising sense of realism and explores themes of family division, political corruption, and clashing cultures. […]

New Release & Excerpt – Don’t Stop by Bonnie Friedman

  Synopsis A daring, erotically charged novel about ambition, desire, and the dangerous pursuit of self-knowledge. Ina is a 41-year-old literary scholar on the cusp of professional success. With a coveted university job, a kind husband, and a book on Eugene O’Neill due in months, her life appears enviably stable. But when an impulsive kiss […]

Coming of Age Spotlight – Take a Look at Me Now by Robert Crane

      Take a Look at Me Now by Robert Crane focuses on a stretch of life marked by uncertainty. The story unfolds as a family adjusts to changes that affect how they see themselves and each other. When Bubby Welter is fifteen, his family life is quietly dismantled. His mother Carrie’s mental breakdown […]