Now that daylight lasts well into the evening, it’s as if the days are begging you to find a cool spot on the porch and catch up with your summer girls, your friends for a lifetime — whether from life or literature. Memorable female characters abound in this month’s collection of Lucky Stars e-books. TakeContinue reading

Name: Jessilynn Norcross aka Princess Jessilynn Title: Owner/Children’s Buyer/Bookseller Bookstore: McLean and Eakin Booksellers Bio: 11 years as a bookseller at McLean and Eakin doing everything from gift buying, children’s programming and buying, events coordinating, co-op management, advertising, and professional toilet plunging.  Previous life as an elementary school teacher. What books recently rocked my world: Continue reading

It’s publication day for Ari Goldman! And it’s your day to enter for a chance to win a copy of The Late Starters Orchestra. This sharp memoir hits all the right notes (oh, yes, we’re pulling out all the bad music puns!). So don’t delay in filling out the form below. While it might haveContinue reading

Few bits of writing wisdom are doled out more avidly than that old chestnut about writing what you know, meaning writing from your own experience. It makes sense, of course. It’s a logical path to crafting fiction that feels true. But it’s also the kind of advice that can have a paralyzing effect on aContinue reading

Name: Whitney Spotts. Job title: Author Events Coordinator. Bookstore: Schuler Books & Music. Brief Bio: I am a former ballet-dancing-choir-singing-volleyball-player with a Masters from University of London, Goldsmith’s College in 20th Century English Lit. I am allergic to most everything. I am a hyperactive focus-shifter, so I dabble in all the arts. Currently obsessed with photography, posting online asContinue reading

Since we published his first novel in 1991, Lewis Nordan has gained a devoted following for stories that are simultaneously magical, hilarious and heartbreaking. The devotion lasts well beyond his death in 2012. With the release of the never-before-published e-single, “Would You Shut Up, Please” and the new paperback edition of Music of the Swamp, weContinue reading