“This is not your mother’s Southern fiction.” – Candler Hunt, Olsson’s Books and Records   It’s your last chance to take advantage of this month’s set of Lucky 7 e-books, only $1.99 through August 31st. While there’s still time, let’s take a closer look at one of the selections – George Singleton’s Why Dogs Chase Cars, a collection of stories that captureContinue reading

“I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.” Today, our featured Lucky 7 e-book, Barbara Suter’s Dorothy on the Rocks, takes us somewhere–shall we say–under the rainbow. Suter’s washed-up and wayward heroine might be a far cry from Judy Garland’s on-screen Dorothy, but she is no less enchanting… and definitely funnier. And you can land smack inContinue reading

“Sometimes you have to tell the truth about some of the stuff you’ve done so that people will believe you when you tell them the truth about other stuff you haven’t done.” – Miller Le Ray, the star of Exley    Laura Ingalls Wilder once said, “A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark cloudsContinue reading

“Wildly inventive…enough sex, wit, and brutal honesty to revive interest in the short story.” – Library Journal As August nears its end and kids trudge back to school, we could all use a bit of Lucky 7. This month’s special offers up  7 hilarious e-books, diverse in their stories but unified by their ability to makeContinue reading

Sometime during his restless fifteenth year, Bernie Karp discovered in his parents’ food freezer — a white-enameled Kelvinator humming in its corner of the basement rumpus room — an old man frozen in a block of ice…   One of the magical properties of fiction is its ability to inspire emotion. Sometimes it uplifts us, andContinue reading

“Graceful and often painfully funny.” — New York Times Book Review If you are looking for a laugh, look no further than this month’s Lucky 7 batch of e-books, only $1.99 through the end of August. Today, we take a closer look at one of these books, Clyde Edgerton’s Lunch at the Piccadilly, a comic yetContinue reading