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Book Signing Today at the Beavercreek Barnes & Noble!

Today I'll be signing copies of In Search of the Magic Theater at the Barnes & Noble store in Beavercreek, Ohio, just across the freeway from the Wright State campus. I'll be joined by three other authors--fellow Regal House author Valerie Nieman, fellow Wright State professor (and Edgar winner!) Erin Flanagan, and Jess Montgomery.

In Search of the Magic Theater follows the lives of its two narrators, Sarah and Kari, who both live in Sarah's aunt's house and both pursue careers in the arts but who are otherwise very different people.

Valerie Nieman's most recent novel, In the Lonely Backwater, tells the story of a high school girl who falls under suspicion when a classmate is found dead at the marina where she lives with her father.

Erin Flanagan's Edgar-winning first novel, Deer Season, is set in 1980s small-town Nebraska, where a mentally disabled young man is suspected of killing the flirtatious high school girl he hoped to win.

Historical mystery writer Jess Montgomery is the author of the Kinship series, which is set in 1920s’ Appalachian Ohio.

If you live in the Dayton area, this is a great chance to meet us and take home signed copies! If you belong to a book group, consider adding some of these to the group's schedule!

The Wild One

Launching June 14th, Colleen McKeegan's 2022 Debut thriller The Wild One is a coming-of-age novel in which a deadly summer camp secret binding three women threatens to destroy their adult lives. For over a decade, grad student Amanda Brooks has hidden what happened that summer at Camp Catalpa, when a man died in the woods. Fellow campers Catherine and Meg were there too, and in the years since, not one of them has ever spoken about what happened that day. But then Amanda slips up...

How to Fake it in Hollywood

How to Fake it in Hollywood, a rom-com by Ava Wilder, is a 2022 Debut launching June 14th. A Hollywood starlet and a reclusive A-lister agree to enter into a fake relationship for very different reasons . . . and discover that their public chemistry might be more than a PR stunt.

The Beach Trap

Ali Brady is the pen name of writing duo Alison Hammer and Bradeigh Godfrey, whose 2022 Debut rom-com, The Beach Trap, launches June 14. When twelve-year-olds Kat Steiner and Blake O’Neill meet at camp, they have an instant connection, but when they learn they’re half-sisters, their friendship crumbles. Fifteen years later, Kat and Blake discover their father has left them a joint inheritance: the family beach house. The two are instantly at odds about what to do with the property, and spend the summer coming to grips with their shared past and learning how to be sisters.

Duende

Alex Poppe's novel Duende launches June 14 from Regal House, where you can order it in either paperback or a special-edition hardback.

Sixteen-year-old Lava lives peacefully enough with her imperfect mother, Lila, and their boarder, Cody, an Iraqi war vet suffering from PTSD. Lava’s ex-addict father, Jesse, is released from prison, and Lava’s life in Detroit is upended when Jesse pressures Lava for her urine, so he can pass his mandatory drug tests. After an altercation, Lava is sent to live with her mother’s cousin Lola in Seville. Lola is a larger-than-life flamenco dancer who teaches Lava the language of flamenco dance; Lava’s life opens outward as she becomes fluent in flamenco’s structure, giving her new modes of expression as she experiences first love, friendship, and betrayal, and uncovers family secrets. Rich with lyrical, sensual prose, Duende is a coming-of-age novella about mothers and daughters, about legacy, about self-expression, about defining a way to live.

Four-Author Signing Saturday at B&N!

I'm delighted to say that Erin Flanagan, Valerie Nieman, Jess Montgomery, and I will all be at the Beavercreek, Ohio, Barnes & Noble on Saturday signing books from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m.

Barnes & Noble's Instagram post announcing us.

Four-Author Signing Friday at B&N!

I'm delighted to say that Erin Flanagan, Valerie Nieman, Jess Montgomery, and I will all be at the Beavercreek, Ohio, Barnes & Noble on Saturday signing books from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m.

Barnes & Noble's Instagram post announcing us.

Four Ways to Wear a Dress

2022 Debut author Gillian Libby's rom-com Four Ways to Wear a Dress launched June 7th. Millie Ward has been fired again, and she's tired of feeling like a failure, so she jumps at the chance to visit her best friend, who has an appealing brother named Pete--whom she has to persuade that pretending to be her Instagram Husband will help bring new business to his struggling hotel and help her launch her influencer career. Sounds like no shortage of trouble in store there! [image error]

Talk on Toyen at the High Street Gallery Today!

Yes, I've still got events happening for Magnetic Woman: Toyen and the Surrealist Erotic! This evening at 7pm I'll be giving a talk about Toyen at the High Street Gallery in Dayton, Ohio, home of the Dayton Society of Artists.

Copies of both books will be available for sale at the talk.

Her Dying Day

Her Dying Day, a 2022 Debut mystery by Mindy Carlson, launches June 7th. Aspiring filmmaker June Masterson has high hopes for her first documentary, about the disappearance of famed mystery author Greer Larkin. But June's investigations lead to treachery, murder, and long-buried sins.