Freefall: Divine Comedy by Lily Iona MacKenzie Publisher: Pen-L Publishing Category: Women’s Fiction, Literary Fiction Available in print & ebook, 255 During a four-day reunion in Whistler, B.C., Tillie Bloom, a wacky installation artist, reconnects with three women she had hung out with in the late ’50s and early ’60s. While in Whistler, secrets surface and […]
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Old Buildings in North Texas by Jen Waldo Sub-genre: Literary Fiction / Dramedy Publisher: Arcadia Books Date of Publication: April 1, 2018 Number of Pages: 213 Scroll down for the giveaway! After rehab, Olivia, a 32-year-old cocaine addict, is required to move back in with her mother and pregnant sister. Having left a promising career in […]
Book Title: Liberty Landing by Gail Vida Hamburg Category: Adut Fiction, 344 pages Genre: Literary Fiction Publisher: Mirare Press Release date: March 2018 Synopsis Liberty Landing — a 2016 Finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction — narrates the American Experience of the 21st century through the lives of a polycultural cast of […]
THE WIDOW’S WATCHER by ELIZA MAXWELL Genre: Literary Fiction / Gothic Publisher: Lake Union Press Date of Publication: March 29, 2018 Number of Pages: 286 Scroll down for the giveaway! From Eliza Maxwell, the bestselling author of The Unremembered Girl, comes a gripping novel about the mysteries that haunt us and the twists of fate that can […]
Synopsis Eight years after the 9/11 attacks, Samia-Al-Sayyid an Iraqi immigrant is living a quiet life in New York City after she fled her home to avoid imminent death. She works hard for her cold, heartless, high-strung boss, loves her seventeen-years-old-son, and cherishes the close friendship she has formed with her best friend Susan. Nothing […]
Synopsis Heartbreak and transformation in the beauty of a Ukrainian village. For seven-year old Angela, happiness is exploring the lush countryside around her home in western Ukraine. Her wild imagination takes her into birds and flowers, and into the waters of the river. All that changes when, one morning, she sees her mother crying. As […]
BLOOD AND REMEMBRANCE by CHRIS MANNO Genre: Contemporary Literary Fiction Publisher: Dark Horse Books Publication Date: March 3, 2018 Number of Pages: 321 pages Scroll down for the giveaway! Blood and Remembrance is the prequel to the award-winning Texas novel, East Jesus. This new, stand-alone story rampages from the West Texas plains to Huntsville’s Death Row and back. Cowboys, ranchers, […]
Synopsis Eight years after the 9/11 attacks, Samia-Al-Sayyid an Iraqi immigrant is living a quiet life in New York City after she fled her home to avoid imminent death. She works hard for her cold, heartless, high-strung boss, loves her seventeen-years-old-son, and cherishes the close friendship she has formed with her best friend Susan. Nothing […]
Synopsis What can an award-winning Nashville singer-songwriter learn about himself by agreeing to a best-of tour in a beat up old van? If it means getting out from under the thumb of a label that considers him washed up, he’s willing to find out. At least until an ex-lover wants to come along for the […]
NOWHERE NEAR Stories by Teddy Jones Genre: Short Stories / Literary Fiction / West Texas Publisher: Midtown Publishing, Inc. Date of Publication: May11, 2017 Number of Pages: 206 Scroll down for Giveaway! Characters in the eleven stories in Nowhere Near act in ways that some might call “divinest madness.” Some of them have been pushed near their limits […]