Karla Huebner's Blog, page 10

Podcast with Yvonne Battle-Felton Coming Up!

This afternoon I had the pleasure of recording a podcast episode with writer Yvonne Battle-Felton. Yvonne, the author of Remembered, is an American writer living in the UK whose writing has been published in literary journals and anthologies. Remembered was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction (2019) and shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize (2020). She also writes for children and has three titles in Penguin Random House’s Ladybird Tales of Superheroes and three in the forthcoming Ladybird Tales of Crowns and Thrones. A Lecturer in Creative Writing and Creative Industries at Sheffield Hallam University, Yvonne is very involved in hosting and chairing events, interviewing authors, giving workshops, and collaborating on interesting projects.

For her Book-Able Space podcast, Yvonne asked me some questions about my writing, and asked me to read three short selections from In Search of the Magic Theater. I'll be posting a link to the podcast once it's live!
It's 1910 and Philadelphia is burning. Spring's son has been beaten by police for a crime he may or may not have committed. In order to lead her dying son home, Spring, with the help of her dead sister, must relive a painful past in order to bring her dying son home. It's a story about motherhood, mothering, family, community, identity, and the trauma of slavery.

Remembered, Yvonne Battle-Felton's debut novel, is available in hardback, ebook, and audio.

The Bartender's Cure

Launching June 28th, The Bartender's Cure, a 2022 Debut novel by Wesley Straton, tells the story of Samantha Fisher, a reluctant young bartender at beloved Brooklyn bar. Should Sam return to San Francisco and her law-school plans, or is her new life in a welcoming community the better choice?

An Interview with Christina Consolino

Novelist Christina Consolino has been doing a very interesting series of interviews of fellow authors, and has kindly done one with me about In Search of the Magic Theater. You can read it at https://christinaconsolino.com/2022/06/27/the-fun-of-fiction-an-interview-with-karla-huebner/!

Signing at Crepe Bohème This Morning!

Don't forget, if you're in the Dayton area and want to get a signed copy of In Search of the Magic Theater, just stop by the Second Street Market and Crepe Bohème between 9 and 11 o'clock this morning! (You should also buy a crepe or two--Sabine and her crew make many fabulous kinds!)

A Bit of Summer Camping

Hard though it may be to believe, my life does not entirely revolve around reading, writing, and publishing (or even rabbits!). And so here's a photo of a recent campsite.

Odd Hours

British writer and artist Ania Bas's 2022 Debut social comedy Odd Hours launches June 23rd. Nearly-thirty Gosia Golab works as a cashier in a well-lit budget supermarket and lives in a badly-lit flat share. In her spare time she's busy writing poetry and ducking both her prying flatmate and her sparring Irish mother and Polish father. There's a man who appears to prefer her check-out to the others, but is that real or all in her head? [image error]

Coming This Saturday!

If you're in the Dayton area, don't forget to join me on Saturday, June 25th from 9:00 to 11:00 for my book signing at the Second Street Market's Crepe Bohème! I'll be signing copies of my first novel, IN SEARCH OF THE MAGIC THEATER, which has just come out from Regal House, a small press located in North Carolina. As you might guess from the title, this is a novel about the arts, particularly music and theater. Its two narrators, Sarah and Kari, both seek to find their callings in these worlds, but in very different ways. For more info on the book: https://www.regalhousepublishing.com/product/in-search-of-the-magic-theater/ Check out Crepe Bohème's Instagram and discover a Dayton favorite!

We Shall Not Shatter is Available in Audiobook Today

The audiobook release of Elaine Stock's We Shall Not Shatter is out today from TantorAudio, narrated by Dina Pearlman. You can find it on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3xrqu3d

Next Up: Signing at Crepe Bohème

Readers in the Dayton area have a couple of ways to get a signed copy of In Search of the Magic Theater in the coming days.

First of all, there are signed copies at the Beavercreek Barnes & Noble (and also signed copies of Valerie Nieman's In the Lonely Backwater, Erin Flanagan's Deer Season and Blackout, and several titles by local mystery writer Jess Montgomery).

But if you'd like your signed copy of In Search of the Magic Theater personalized, and want to meet me and chat, Sabine of Crepe Bohème at Dayton's Second Street Market is hosting me on Saturday, June 25th, from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. So come and get your crepe and I'll be seated at the counter signing books!
Sabine and her crew make fabulous crepes!

And a Good Time Was Had in Beavercreek...

The multi-book signing Valerie Nieman, Erin Flanagan, Jess Montgomery, and I did at the Beavercreek Barnes & Noble on Saturday was actually the first author event the store has had since covid-19 hit, so staff were excited to have us and we were pretty thrilled too. It's kind of tricky setting up bookstore events these days, as there's no way to know (unless it's your local store and you go in regularly) whether the store is not yet having in-person events or whether they are already booked up for a long time into the future. Valerie and I have been finding that it tends to be one extreme or the other. So we were extra glad to have the chance to sign books in a real, and fairly busy, bookstore!

It was splendid to see some friends and colleagues come who had been out of town or otherwise unavailable for my earlier events. Naturally, I encouraged them to buy copies of each author's books!

The bookstore staff also requested that we sign all of the remaining copies at the end of the event, which we were glad to do. If you're in the greater Dayton area, by all means stop in at the Beavercreek Barnes & Noble (near Wright State) and pick up signed copies of books by all four of us! (I'm afraid my photos are all of Valerie's and my area, but I'm hoping to get some of Erin and Jess's space from them.)