Editorial Content for Some Kind of Fairy Tale
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Taking home World Fantasy and British Fantasy awards many times, Graham Joyce wows readers with the latest in his “speculative fiction” genre following THE SILENT LAND, one of my top 10 picks for 2011. Literary fiction better describes this psycho thriller with a hint of horror found in Dave Zeltserman’s THE CARETAKER OF LORNE FIELD. Read More
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For 20 years after Tara Martin disappeared from her small English town, her parents and her brother, Peter, have lived in denial of the grim fact that she was gone for good. And then suddenly, on Christmas Day, a disheveled and slightly peculiar-looking Tara stands on her parents’ doorstep. It's a miracle, but Tara's story just doesn't add up. And, incredibly, she barely looks a day older than when she vanished.
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For 20 years after Tara Martin disappeared from her small English town, her parents and her brother, Peter, have lived in denial of the grim fact that she was gone for good. And then suddenly, on Christmas Day, a disheveled and slightly peculiar-looking Tara stands on her parents’ doorstep. It's a miracle, but Tara's story just doesn't add up.
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For 20 years after Tara Martin disappeared from her small English town, her parents and her brother, Peter, have lived in denial of the grim fact that she was gone for good. And then suddenly, on Christmas Day, the doorbell rings at her parents' home and there, disheveled and slightly peculiar looking, Tara stands. It's a miracle, but alarm bells are ringing for Peter. Tara's story just does not add up. And, incredibly, she barely looks a day older than when she vanished.
Award-winning author Graham Joyce is a master of exploring new realms of understanding that exist between dreams and reality, between the known and unknown. SOME KIND OF FAIRY TALE is a unique journey every bit as magical as its title implies, and as real and unsentimental as the world around us.
Editorial Content for Flight from Berlin
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David John has a hit with his first novel, FLIGHT FROM BERLIN, whose publication will coincide with the present-day summer Olympic Games this year in London. John’s story takes place at the beginning of the controversial 1936 Olympic Games held in Berlin. Hitler’s heavy hand is seen in all aspects of German life, with a brief but bright respite for the games. Jews are reviled by the Hitler regime, with their persecution just coming to public light, but mostly ignored on the world stage. Read More
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During the 1936 Berlin Olympics, cynical British journalist Richard Denham and American Olympic hopeful Eleanor Emerson are determined to report the brutality behind the carefully staged imagery of the Third Reich. They soon become entangled in a treacherous game involving the Gestapo and the British Secret Intelligence Service. At stake: a mysterious dossier that threatens to destroy the leadership of the Third Reich.
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During the 1936 Berlin Olympics, cynical British journalist Richard Denham and American Olympic hopeful Eleanor Emerson are determined to report the brutality behind the carefully staged imagery of the Third Reich. They soon become entangled in a treacherous game involving the Gestapo and the British Secret Intelligence Service. At stake: a mysterious dossier that threatens to destroy the leadership of the Third Reich.
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August 1936: The eyes of the world are on Berlin, where Adolf Hitler is using the Olympic Games to showcase his powerful new regime. Cynical British journalist Richard Denham knows that the carefully staged spectacle masks the Nazis’ ruthless brutality, and he’s determined to report the truth.
Sparks fly when the seasoned newspaperman meets the beautiful and rebellious American socialite Eleanor Emerson. A superb athlete whose brash behavior got her expelled from the U.S. Olympic swim team, Eleanor is now covering the games as a celebrity columnist for newspapers in the States. While Berlin welcomes the world, the Nazi capital becomes a terrifying place for Richard and Eleanor. Their chance encounter at a reception thrown by propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels leads them into the center of a treacherous game involving the Gestapo and the British Secret Intelligence Service. At stake: a mysterious dossier that threatens to destroy the leadership of the Third Reich.
Drawn together by danger and passion, surrounded by enemies, Richard and Eleanor must pull off a daring plan to survive. But one wrong move could be their last.
Set in America and Europe, David John’s FLIGHT FROM BERLIN is a masterful blend of fact and fiction, drama and suspense. A riveting story of love, courage and betrayal that culminates in a breathtaking race against the forces of evil, it will keep you spellbound until its thrilling end.
Editorial Content for Advent
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One of the hallmarks of the fantasy genre is worldbuilding. Authors create new worlds complete with geography, history, morals and even languages, and set their stories there. Some of the best worldbuilders create places that seem very similar to the world in which we live, imbuing it with magic. In ADVENT, the first book in a new fantasy trilogy, English writer James Treadwell merges a magical world with the mundane one. Read More
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The first in James Treadwell’s fantasy trilogy, ADVENT describes how magic was lost to humanity, and how a 15-year-old boy discovers that its return is his inheritance. It begins in a world recognizably our own, and ends an extraordinarily long way from where it started --- somewhere much bigger, stranger and richer.
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The first in James Treadwell’s fantasy trilogy, ADVENT describes how magic was lost to humanity, and how a 15-year-old boy discovers that its return is his inheritance. It begins in a world recognizably our own, and ends an extraordinarily long way from where it started --- somewhere much bigger, stranger and richer.
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A drowning, a magician’s curse, and a centuries-old secret.
1537. A man hurries through city streets in a gathering snowstorm, clutching a box in one hand. He is Johann Faust, the greatest magician of his age. The box he carries contains a mirror safeguarding a portion of his soul and a small ring containing all the magic in the world. Together, they comprise something unimaginably dangerous.
London, the present day. Fifteen-year-old Gavin Stokes is boarding a train to the countryside to live with his aunt. His school and his parents can’t cope with him and the things he sees, things they tell him don’t really exist. At Pendurra, Gavin finds people who are like him, who see things too. They all make the same strange claim: magic exists, it’s leaking back into our world, and it’s bringing something terrible with it.
First in an astonishingly imaginative fantasy trilogy, ADVENT describes how magic was lost to humanity, and how a 15-year-old boy discovers that its return is his inheritance. It begins in a world recognizably our own, and ends an extraordinarily long way from where it started --- somewhere much bigger, stranger, and richer.
Editorial Content for The Craving: A Novel of the Pack
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No one is writing books like Jason Starr. His shelf of stand-alone urban noir thrillers, comprised of titles such as LIGHTS OUT and NOTHING PERSONAL, and the eerily prescient PANIC ATTACK, almost beg for repeat readings.
"Starr combines elements of crime fiction with the supernatural and romantic to make THE CRAVING a memorable second installment in a series that, as far as I’m concerned, can go on forever.... THE CRAVING will have you by turns reading and looking over your shoulder."
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After some personal troubles, Simon Burns turned things around with the help of a new group of friends. They were stay-at-home dads like himself --- but there was something “off” about them, and he found himself slowly changing. Simon isn't the man he once was. He's a member of the pack. And once you're in, it's impossible to get out...
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After some personal troubles, Simon Burns turned things around with the help of a new group of friends. They were stay-at-home dads like himself --- but there was something “off” about them, and he found himself slowly changing. Simon isn't the man he once was. He's a member of the pack. And once you're in, it's impossible to get out...
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Manhattan thrives on desire --- the longing for a better apartment…a higher-paying job…fame. Simon Burns ought to know, since he nearly lost it all: his job, his family, his home. But now things are turning around, thanks to the pack.
Just when he thought he hit rock bottom, Simon found a group of friends, daytime dads like himself. But there was something “off” about Michael, Charlie and Ramon, and Simon found himself slowly changing into the kind of man he gave up trying to be a long time ago and rediscovering the most primal of hungers.
There were nights he made constant love to his wife, nights he roamed the city streets, nights he doesn’t even remember. And it’s one of those black-outs that’s going to come back to haunt him.
For Simon isn’t the man he once was. In fact, he’s not really a man at all anymore. He’s a member of the pack. And once you’re in, it’s impossible to get out…
August 2, 2012
This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book coming out this fall. Read more about it, and enter our Fall Preview Daily Contest by Friday, August 3rd at 11:59AM ET for a chance to win one of five copies of KEPT IN THE DARK by Penny Hancock. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!
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August 1, 2012
A Bookreporter.com Reader’s Report on the Romance Writers of America’s Literacy Autographing Comments
Kathy Jund, one of our readers in Southern California met up with Carol Fitzgerald at the Romance Writers of America Literacy signing at the Anaheim Convention Center last Wednesday. Here is her report on that event, as well as her commentary on some of the other romance-themed events she attended surrounding the conference.
August 1, 2012This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book coming out this fall. Read more about it, and enter our Fall Preview Daily Contest by Thursday, August 2nd at 11:59AM ET for a chance to win one of five copies of HEMINGWAY'S GIRL by Erika Robuck. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!
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