Kay Chronister’s latest novel, THE BOG WIFE, is about five siblings in West Virginia who unearth long-buried secrets when the supernatural bargain entwining their fate with their ancestral land is suddenly ruptured. In her holiday blog post, Kay fondly recalls receiving as a Christmas gift an updated and revised edition of the beloved 1977 bestseller, GNOMES, an illustrated survey of gnome life, history and lore. Read on to find out what fascinated her about the book as both an avid reader of fantasy novels and a graduate student studying literature.
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In her holiday blog post, Carolyn McBride shares some family history and a cookbook that inspired her to finish writing her holiday novella, SANTA OVERBOARD, which was published this fall. When Carolyn’s mother passed away in 2019, she became the keeper of the family heirlooms and channeled this transition from daughter to family matriarch into her coming-of-middle-age novel, THE CICADA SPRING. Not surprisingly, some of the treasures she found in her mother’s house guided her in developing her latest tale of a female boat captain restoring her inner compass on a rollicking cruise of second chances.
December 10, 2024
In this newsletter, you will find books releasing the weeks of December 9th and December 16th that we think will be of interest to Bookreporter.com readers, along with Bonus News, where we call out a contest, feature or review that we want to let you know about so you have it on your radar.
This week, we are calling attention to our End-of-the-Year contest featuring Carol Fitzgerald’s Bookreporter.com Bets On picks from 2024. One Grand Prize winner will be awarded all 40 books, while 10 other readers will receive four of these titles. The deadline for your entries is Friday, January 10th at noon ET.
We kick off this year’s Holiday Author Blog series with Amanda Peters, whose nationally bestselling debut novel, THE BERRY PICKERS, is now available in paperback. This Bookreporter.com Bets On pick won the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and the 2023 Barnes & Noble Discover Prize. Her first collection of short stories, WAITING FOR THE LONG NIGHT MOON, releases on February 11th. Amanda’s grandfather passed away when she was just a teenager. One Christmas, her grandmother gifted her one of many books that he would read aloud to his family. Amanda has long cherished that book for a very special reason.
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