Category: Books

Pro-File: Robert J. Randisi1. Tell us about your current novel or project. GREAT QUESTION! It’s been a good summer for my books. The second book in my ROPER western P.I. series, THE RELUCTANT PINKERTON is out. Also, the 8th Rat Pack book, YOU MAKE ME FEEL SO DEAD, which features not only the Rat Pack, but Elvis. And the book I’ve been waiting for, the first in a new Nashville based P.I. series called THE HONKY TONK BIG HOSS BOOGIE. This book was supposed to be published last August as The Session Man, which means it would have predated the successful Nashville t.v. series, but the publisher went belly up and I had to …

Ian Johnson In his novel Cat Country, Lao She produced one of the most remarkable, perplexing, and prophetic works of modern China. On one level it is a work of science fiction—a visit to a country of cat-like people on Mars—that lampoons 1930s China. On a deeper level, the work predicts the terror and violence of the early Communist era and the chaos and brutality that led to Lao She’s own death during the Cultural Revolution. Cat Country is often called a dystopian novel, but when Lao She took his own life, it was an uncannily accurate portrait of the

Sophie Barnes’ print debut, THE TROUBLE WITH BEING A DUKE, comes out tomorrow (on 8/27), and to celebrate, anyone who comments on one of her blog tour stops will be eligible to win a lavish prize pack!

Welcome to the Saturday Spotlight, a weekly feature that shines the light on Indie and Debut authors. This week I have the pleasure introducing readers to: AUGUSTA BLYTHE ~Author of Public School Princess~ **Today Im thrilled to welcome back author Augusta Blythe to the blog. I featured her a few years ago with her wonderful Indie Winterborne, its time to catch up and hear about her latest adventures. Hi Tina. Thanks for having me back in the Saturday Spotlight. (CC) ALANDD Today I’m writing about fish out of water, a theme in my latest book. Public School Princess revolves around Her Royal Highness Hollister Bucksey-Breiten, an entitled celebutante who finds herself far out of her privileged L.A. comfort zone and smack dab in the …

Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes is one of Robert Louis Stevenson’s earliest works, written while he was still in his twenties and published in 1879. It chronicles a twelve-day, one hunderd and twenty mile hike he took through the south of France with his donkey Modestine. The route that he took has since become very popular, and there’s actually a little tourist industry in the Cévennes that caters to hikers who want to retrace Stevenson’s route on the trail, now known as GR70. It’s considered a pioneering classic of outdoor literature and Stevenson’s ‘sleeping sack’ influenced modern-day

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Today, I'm donating* my copy of Sarah Zettel's Dust Girl: I loved everything on the inside of Dust Girl. It’s a great read, full stop. It’s not ultra deep by any means, but it’s thrilling, thoughtful, imaginative and fun. The basic premise is a familiar one—girl discovers that she’s half-fairy and also the main player in a major prophecy—but it still feels fresh. A good part of that is due to Callie’s engaging, honest voice. She also uses enough idiom and slang to create a ’30s flavor, but never so much that she feels over-the-top or forced I'm donating a copy of the hardback, which has the cover I've included in this post, but check …