Fiction

Books, Gourmet Food & Library Love on the Queen Mary

October 13, 2019 admin 0

This fall, the RMS Queen Mary will debut a spectacular event for literature and library lovers, history buffs, ship aficionados, and gourmet foodies, at the Queen Mary Secret Spice Cafe Dinner and Tour, on Saturday, November 2, 2019 in Long Beach, California. Join author Patricia V. Davis for an evening of dining, book talk, and a customized ship tour designed to delight readers of The Secret Spice Cafe (HD Media Press), the trilogy of metaphysical […]

Fiction: The Ship’s Carpenter by DE Stockman

September 12, 2019 admin 0

Caught between Great Britain and France in the mid 1700s, Abraham struggles to pursue his passion for shipbuilding. Kings and captains interrupt his quest for a peaceful life as he encounters and overcomes barriers in two opposed and stratified cultures.From the streets of old London to the Citadel of Louisbourg and lands between, seafaring battle action and love’s complexities entwine to create a dramatic story centered on the carpenter and his love, Yvette. The fastest […]

Aconyte Books and Simon & Schuster Enter Sales and Distribution Agreement

September 11, 2019 admin 0

Global games giant Asmodee Entertainment has announced that their new fiction imprint, Aconyte, has entered into a distribution agreement with Simon & Schuster for the US and Canadian book trades. The well-known publishing house will handle sales and distribution throughout North America starting with Aconyte’s very first releases, due on shelves in late spring 2020.“We are delighted to welcome Aconyte Books to our family as distribution clients,” says Michael Perlman, Vice President, General Manager, Simon […]

Ayan Malpani Announces Debut of His New Mythological Novel, The Tenth Son

August 11, 2019 admin 0

Austin-based, eleven-year-old Ayan Malpani, together with his father Ashish, takes middle-grade readers through an intriguing mythological adventure with their debut middle-grade book, The Tenth Son (Tulika Books).Advik, a ten-year-old from the US, comes to India. What is meant to be a quiet visit is about to jolt him. Did he ever imagine that Narada, the messenger of the gods, would pay him a visit in the dead of night to ask for help? Did he […]

SF/F: The Book of Flora by Meg Elison

July 8, 2019 Linda L. Richards 0

“Last night I dreamt I was back in Nowhere again.” The first line of The Book of Flora (47 North), the concluding book in Meg Elison’s Nowhere Trilogy, evokes Daphne DuMaurier’s beloved Rebecca. The reminder to that book comes both in the meter of the first line in both works (“Last night I dreamed I went to Manderley again”) but also in a ghostly poetry that haunts both books. Despite Elison’s almost show and tell […]

Judith Krantz Dies at 91

June 24, 2019 Linda L. Richards 0

Bestselling novelist and literary icon Judith Krantz died at home on Los Angeles on Saturday. She was 91. Though her first book was not published until she was 50, Krantz had been one of the bestselling novelists in the world for many decades. From the New York Times: Though she did not publish her first book until she was 50, Ms. Krantz reigned for decades afterward as the international queen of poolside reading. Her 10 […]

New This Week: City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert

June 7, 2019 Linda L. Richards 0

 The author of Eat, Pray, Love (2006) recently told the Seattle Times that her new book, City of Girls, saved her. From the Seattle Times: Early last year, Gilbert’s romantic partner and longtime best friend, Rayya Elias, died of cancer at the age of 57. You might expect someone famous for exploring her own life through memoir to process the aftermath of loss by writing nonfiction — and it’s what Gilbert herself expected. She had […]

This Just In… Elfistra the Sorceress (The Wand Chronicles) by Michael Ross

April 24, 2019 Linda L. Richards 0

2087. North West England. On a forest hunting trip there appears a column of white light. A portal has been opened between Earth and the Elvish dimension of Laniakeea. We explore the relationships between the humans and Elves as they learn to trust each other and then follow them, both at home and to other, dark, and magical dimensions. Ultimately, the protection of the most powerful wand in all the cosmos, Elvina, is of paramount […]

100 Top Novels

April 8, 2019 Linda L. Richards 0

Looking for something to read? The Times of London puts together a list of “100 21st-century novels to love” which, while it includes a lot of terrific reading, also sports some fairly significant holes. For 2019, they go out of their way not to be inclusive by, in the words of the Times’ literary editor Andrew Holgate, casting “the net as wide as possible, we have limited ourselves to one book per writer, and we […]

Rosamunde Pilcher Dead at 94

February 8, 2019 Linda L. Richards 0

Beloved British novelist Rosamunde Pilcher died Wednesday in hospital in Dundee, Scotland at the age of 94. From The Guardian: Her son, the author Robin Pilcher, confirmed the news to the Guardian . “She had been in great form up until Christmas, then suffered from bronchitis in the new year, but was always expected to bounce back as before. However, she suffered a stroke on Sunday night and never regained consciousness,” he said. Robin described […]