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If you are in Baltimore, don’t miss this opportunity to meet the fabulous Wendy Shaia-Devereaux. Her novel The Black Cell is a fast-paced and important read that will stimulate thought and discussion. Thanks.
Friends, please join me on Saturday for a book reading and discussion at the Waverly library, 12-2.
400 East 33rd Street, Baltimore, MD 21218. I look forward to seeing you there!
“Ozarks tale meanders through mystery like a trail through lovely woods.” - St. Louis Post-Dispatch review of Pursuing Daisy Garfield, published this week. Book info at link.
Pursuing Daisy Garfield uses the language and lore of the 19th-century Ozarks to tell a tale as morally fraught as a backwoods tent revival.
Coming this May, Cormac McCarthy meets the Marquis de Sade in the adventure novel Pursuing Daisy Garfield by Otis Bulfinch, set in the 19th-century backwoods of the hardscrabble Ozarks. Read an excerpt on this page. Thanks!
Pursuing Daisy Garfield uses the language and lore of the 19th-century Ozarks to tell a tale as morally fraught as a backwoods tent revival.
From Mike Shatzkin, who has covered the book publishing industry for decades.
The idea that general trade publishing and general trade publishing houses were going to have to change or die was first floated here in a post in 2007 and then expanded upon in a post called “The End of the General Trade Publishing Concept” in 2019. The announcement this week that Madeline McIn...
Author Wendy Shaia in conversation about Afrofuturism, the creative writing process, and the wonderful range of characters in her important novel The Black Cell. Have a listen. Thank you.
https://www.facebook.com/100077818650806/posts/209557071648247/?mibextid=cr9u03
What happens when Afrofuturism meets Baltimore? Catch up on our discussion with Dr. Wendy Shaia on her new book The Black Cell, which explores issues around ...
The Black Ink Festival will take place Jan. 12-14 with the goal of amplifying Black voices in literature. This year's theme is "Black to the Future."
Thanks to The Christian Science Monitor for this excellent review of Mother Tongue, a beautifully crafted novel about an infant stolen from a nursery and raised by her abductor, a good mother, but damaged. 188 pages of emotional beauty.
Stolen from the hospital as a newborn, she grew up thinking the woman who raised her was her mother. Learning the truth as an adult leads to soul-searching in the novel “Mother Tongue.”
Okay, time for some gift-giving humor!
Mother Tongue by Joyce Kornblatt included in this great list. Have a look.
For our 2022 Holiday Booklist, we asked friends in the DC lit community to recommend books by local authors they loved this year.
Together we created a great list!
Thank you
Check out the booklist in bio ☝🏽.
…Or copy and paste link — https://dctrending.com/blog-1/2022/12/8/2022-holiday-book-list
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If you are interested in the mysterious process of creating fiction, and the personal and emotional risk taking that makes for the most moving novels, please listen to this interview by Grace Cavalieri of the Library of Congress “The Poet and the Poem” podcast, with Joyce Kornblatt, interview link here:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_oEMF92Y47U
Coming in May, Pursuing Daisy Garfield is at once a mystery and a profound meditation on the hope that “beauty will save the world.” Written in the backwoods vernacular of the 19th century Ozarks, readers will be reminded of the gritty and elegiac writing found in the novels of Cormac McCarthy. More info and excerpt at link:
Pursuing Daisy Garfield uses the language and lore of the 19th-century Ozarks to tell a tale as morally fraught as a backwoods tent revival.
Young Again on the top shelf at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Thanks Independent Book Publishers Association!
So excited to share independent publishers' books with the world at Frankfurt Book Fair John Maher of Publishers Weekly stopped by to say hi to IBPA's Terry Nathan and Katie Miller of BiggerPockets Publishing who are working hard!
Publerati offers a hybrid publishing model to authors from an island in Maine.
Happy to see The Black Cell Series included in this roundup.
For the last day of September, here's a robust round-up of Black books that released this month. From romance to historical fiction and everything in between, you'll find some amazing Black books by Black authors.
Featured:
Do You Take This Man by Denise Williams
Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture by Sherronda J. Brown
A Ghost in Shining Armor
by Therese Beharrie
Dyslexia and Me
How to Survive and Thrive if You’re Neurodivergent
by Onyinye Udokporo .udokporo
The Two Lives of Sara by Catherine Adel West
The Black Cell by Wendy Shaia
They Come At Knight by Yasmine Angoe
To Win A Prince by Toni Shiloh
Soul of the Deep by Natasha Bowen
Where We End & Begin by Jane Igharo
Drunk On Love by Jasmine Guillory
Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions by Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi
The Attic Child by Lola Jaye .jaye
House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson
Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm by Laura Warrell
People Person by Candice Carty-Williams
Rules of Engagement by Stacey Abrams bka Selena Montgomery
Rust In The Root by Justina Ireland .ireland
On the Rooftop by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
The Keeper by Tananarive Due
The Study of Human Life by Joshua Bennett
Black Panther: Protectors of Wakanda: A History and Training Manual of the Dora Milaje from the Marvel Universe by Karama Horne
In the House of Transcendence by Amanda Ross
Vanessa Jared’s Got A Man by LaQuette
Publerati novelist Wendy Shaia discussed her new novel today on Baltimore NPR. Have a listen.
In her first novel, the anti-racist activist and University of Maryland social scientist imagines a dystopian future in which the imminent takeover of the US government by white supremacists sparks an armed Black and Brown rebellion.
“His witty eye for detail is on display throughout, as when he writes, "The terminal building at Iviliiq wasn't like a shipping container, it was a shipping container."
As survival stories go, Lee's leans less into the awe-inspiring and more into the absurd, a fitting approach considering that one of his aims is to puncture the myth of the stoic and heroically conquering white male adventurer.
The hapless first-person narrator's nickname "Guy" is bestowed upon him by his Inuit guide Simeonie, and it speaks to his personality as a fumbling everyman, self-aware yet vain and overconfident, a puffed-up clown destined to receive a comeuppance.”
FICTION: Murray Lee draws on his experiences in the Arctic to tell a critically comedic story about a bumbling would-be adventurer trapped on a drifting ice floe.
If you enjoy adventure novels and the history of explorers, this novel is for you! Thanks.
https://publerati.com/compass-by-murray-lee/
Congratulations to Joyce Kornblatt for this review.
FICTION: A deathbed confession sends a woman on a search for the truth about her identity — and about the very nature of identity.
Our Fall lineup as seen in Publishers Weekly. All available now wherever books are sold. Thanks!
Thanks 50+Plus FYI for this concise and excellent review of Young Again. Well done!
Soon the seasons will change, and fall will arrive. What better way to face the cooling weather than curled up with a good book? For your reading enjoyment, here are […]
Author Wendy Shaia will be appearing on NPR Baltimore at noon on September 30. You can read the opening chapters for free without downloading anything at this link. https://textcafe.co/books/u1Etiw/?1652989415342&fbclid=IwAR3G1PXoye4lO_fBvZM1M6hTZ9sFmyBU8aqYGUHoiiVI50OxWQAMctO40AU&fs=e&s=cl #/
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Thanks to DCTRENDING.com for this thoughtful review of Mother Tongue by Joyce Kornblatt.
In her 40s Nella, the protagonist of Joyce Kornblatt’s remarkably subtle novel Mother Tongue, discovers that her entire life is a lie. Her mother is not her mother, so much as a woman who kidnapped her, as a newborn, from a Pittsburgh hospital nursery.
Three terrific novels coming this September. Check them out here: https://publerati.com
Publerati promotes increased access to literary fiction. We do it through a publication of unique works as reasonably-priced paperbacks and ebooks. An author is also paid higher royalty rates than most publishers. We donate at least 15% of our proceeds to world reader. Contact us.
Great to see To Play at God by Anna Blauveldt on this list of books from the Giller Prize in Canada.
Craving CanLit 2022 To celebrate Canadian authors, we’ve put together this list of fiction and graphic novels published between October 2021 and September 2022. This is the timeframe we are accepting submissions for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize. If we’ve missed someone, please email us at in...
“A profound and poetic exploration of grief, betrayal, and the exquisite resilience of the human heart.” — Tara Brach, Author of Radical Acceptance and Trusting the Gold.
An adult woman learns she was kidnapped as an infant from a hospital in the U.S., taken to Australia, and raised by the woman she knew as her mother but who was actually her abductor.
Back in stock at Amazon, this is a fun novel to bring on vacation.
What would you do with just one week of being young again? Young Again combines music, magic, and romance in an uplifting fantasy novel. Mabel Johnson is a legendary jazz and blues singer living alone in Mississippi following an extraordinary career. She's in pain, no longer able to play the pian...
The rave reviews keep coming for Joyce Kornblatt. This from the American Library Association’s Booklist magazine:
“While the premise seems like it would lead to a sensational, ripped-from-the-headlines story, this is in every way a thoughtful, compelling, and beautifully written novel about family and identity.” —Booklist
An adult woman learns she was kidnapped as an infant from a hospital in the U.S., taken to Australia, and raised by the woman she knew as her mother but who was actually her abductor.
Susan Sterling’s terrific debut novel is now available in paperback and ebook. Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Russo says: “What a smart elegant writer Susan Sterling is. Dancing in the Kitchen, her finely observed first novel, is a moving exploration of betrayal, not just of others but ourselves." Any independent bookstore can order it for you. Congratulations Susan!
“Joyce Kornblatt’s voice is lyrical and powerful, and this lovely novel is about being lost and being found, in the deepest, most primal sense. A beautiful, beautiful book.” Roxana Robinson, author of Cost, Sparta, Dawson’s Fall, and others.
https://publerati.com/mother-tongue-by-joyce-kornblatt/
An adult woman learns she was kidnapped as an infant from a hospital in the U.S., taken to Australia, and raised by the woman she knew as her mother but who was actually her abductor.
Starred review in Publishers Weekly for Mother Tongue by Joyce Kornblatt. “This author’s worthy return is full of grace and substance.” Read full review here. https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781735027319?fbclid=IwAR05bZqoU-ochl4cC15FX1m2nSJ3Ca7Kn4DuLv1svS30USB1MrayQY0dFAo&fs=e&s=cl
Kornblatt (The Reason for Wings) marks a 20-year comeback with a perfectly crafted novel featuring a middle-aged woman who disco...
Our Publishers Weekly ad is in the June 20 Fall Announcements issue.
Publerati promotes increased access to literary fiction. We do it through a publication of unique works as reasonably-priced paperbacks and ebooks. An author is also paid higher royalty rates than most publishers. We donate at least 15% of our proceeds to world reader. Contact us.
A novel about women of the past as relevant today as ever. Thanks to DCTRENDING.com and Norah Vawter.
https://dctrending.com/blog-1/2022/6/2/a-womans-determination-to-control-her-future
Triangulations is eerily of this moment, as it examines pregnancy both accidental and deliberate, a woman’s determination to control her future, the relationship between motherhood and career, and men feeling possessive of women’s bodies.
Be sure to support your local bookstore where you can order all our titles through Bookshop. Here’s Young Again by Don Trowden and Valerie McKee. https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781735027357
Now you can read the opening chapters without any downloading. If you like what you read, you can then preorder in either paperback or ebook. https://textcafe.co/books/u1Etiw/?1652989415342 #/
Read opening chapters with no downloading needed.
Congratulations to author Murray Lee for the selection of his adventure novel Compass in as one of the top debut novels. An excerpt is included in the free ebook of all books selected at this link: https://buzz.publishersmarketplace.com/
See how the main character Corey gets a redo with a better outcome in The Black Cell being published in September.
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