Karla Huebner's Blog, page 13
May 23, 2022
Getting Near Launch Day!
In Search of the Magic Theater launches June 1st--in other words, in just over a week--and so I'm in the midst of a frenzy of pre-launch tasks and being kept awake at night by worries about what I either haven't gotten around to or is out of my control.
Some good things:
NetGalley reviewers still have a few days left to access the novel there (come on, you can do it! write those reviews!)
TLC Book Tours has set up a blog tour for me and I've sent out advance reader copies to the bloggers; I don't yet have the schedule, though.
Some potentially good but naggingly incomplete things:
The owner of a local cafe likes the idea of hosting my book launch, but I haven't been able to nail down the specifics with him, and I need to be able to get publicity out.
I'll probably be doing a three-author event at a local Barnes & Noble in June, but again, we haven't yet managed to nail down a date that works for the bookstore and for all three authors.
And then there's the matter of lining up more bookstore events farther afield, as well as of non-book tasks like finishing up editing the spring newsletter for the Czechoslovak Studies Association.
I have some interesting bits of good news in the works too...
Some bookish Archelaus cards waiting to be sent to the bloggers on my blog tour!
Some good things:
NetGalley reviewers still have a few days left to access the novel there (come on, you can do it! write those reviews!)
TLC Book Tours has set up a blog tour for me and I've sent out advance reader copies to the bloggers; I don't yet have the schedule, though.
Some potentially good but naggingly incomplete things:
The owner of a local cafe likes the idea of hosting my book launch, but I haven't been able to nail down the specifics with him, and I need to be able to get publicity out.
I'll probably be doing a three-author event at a local Barnes & Noble in June, but again, we haven't yet managed to nail down a date that works for the bookstore and for all three authors.
And then there's the matter of lining up more bookstore events farther afield, as well as of non-book tasks like finishing up editing the spring newsletter for the Czechoslovak Studies Association.
I have some interesting bits of good news in the works too...
Some bookish Archelaus cards waiting to be sent to the bloggers on my blog tour!
May 22, 2022
In the Lonely Backwater
I'm a little late blogging the launch of Valerie Nieman's In the Lonely Backwater--it came out May 10th from Regal House's Fitzroy imprint--because I've been focused on blogging adult fiction this year and In the Lonely Backwater is marketed as YA because the protagonist of this coming-of-age story is seventeen. But, of course, many novels for adults also feature seventeen-year-old protagonists, and the author has said that she didn't write it with a particular age group in mind. So--what's it about? Maggie, who loves natural history, lives with her alcoholic father on a houseboat, helping him manage the marina; but then her pretty cousin Charisse turns up dead at the marina and life gets much more complicated!
I'm very much looking forward to reading this, and in June Valerie Nieman, Edgar-nominated Erin Flanagan, and I will be appearing together at an author trifecta in the Dayton, Ohio area!
I'm very much looking forward to reading this, and in June Valerie Nieman, Edgar-nominated Erin Flanagan, and I will be appearing together at an author trifecta in the Dayton, Ohio area!
May 21, 2022
Happy Happy Happy
British writer Nicola Masters's 2022 Debut Happy Happy Happy, launching May 19th, follows Charlie Trewin home from London back to the sleepy Cornish fishing village of Carncarrow, where she must deal with her dead father's mementoes. Was Charlie really happier in London, or not? When her fiance unexpectedly shows up in Carncarrow, Charlie must think how to make peace with her two complex worlds.
May 20, 2022
The Daughter
The Daughter, by British radio producer Liz Webb, is a 2022 Debut mystery/thriller launching May 19th. Hannah Davidson realizes that she now strongly resembles her mother, murdered 23 years earlier. Her elderly, demented father now confuses the two, while her estranged brother believes their father killed their mother. As she starts to close in on the murderer, Hannah starts to worry that her mother’s presence is overtaking her.
May 19, 2022
Palladium
Palladium is a 2022 Debut spy thriller by former British diplomat Leigh Turner that launches May 17th. John Savage, a British spy thrown out of MI6 for gross misconduct in Moscow, is in pursuit of deadly fanatics who have seized his lover, archaeology professor Elif Mutlu, and the Palladium, a talisman said to have protective powers. Will Savage and Elif’s brother succeed in tracking down Elif and stopping the death of seventeen million people in Istanbul?
May 18, 2022
Bad Girls Drink Blood
S. L. Choi's 2022 Debut Bad Girls Drink Blood introduces Las Vegas detective Lane Callaghan, who's half sun fae, half blood fae, and all abomination. When Lane finds herself with an unexpected haul of sun shards--the source of sun fae power--what should she do? The sun fae want her dead, but on the other hand she's got sun fae family members... Bad Girls Drink Blood launches May 17th.
May 17, 2022
What Disappears
What Disappears, by Barbara Quick, launches May 17th from Regal House.
From the Regal House website:
What Disappears is a gripping multi-generational tale that begins in 1880s Tsarist Russia and ends in Paris at the start of World War I. Jeannette Dupres, one of two identical twins born to a Jewish family in dire financial straits, is spirited out of an orphanage as an infant by a couple from France. The other twin, Sonya Luria, raised to believe her sister died at birth, has her life upended by the 1903 pogrom in Kishinev. The sisters are reunited in the doorway of Anna Pavlova’s dressing-room, when they both get jobs in Paris with Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, Sonya as a seamstress and Jeannette as an extra ballerina. In a relationship that ebbs and flows as it evolves, the twins’ deepest, darkest secrets are revealed, affecting not only them but also leaving their mark on the lives and fates of Sonya’s three daughters. Peopled by the greatest dancers, artists, writers, designers, and trend-setters of the Belle Époque, What Disappears explores the ways in which girls and women define their identity and search for meaning in a world that tries at every turn to hold them back.
From the Regal House website:
What Disappears is a gripping multi-generational tale that begins in 1880s Tsarist Russia and ends in Paris at the start of World War I. Jeannette Dupres, one of two identical twins born to a Jewish family in dire financial straits, is spirited out of an orphanage as an infant by a couple from France. The other twin, Sonya Luria, raised to believe her sister died at birth, has her life upended by the 1903 pogrom in Kishinev. The sisters are reunited in the doorway of Anna Pavlova’s dressing-room, when they both get jobs in Paris with Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, Sonya as a seamstress and Jeannette as an extra ballerina. In a relationship that ebbs and flows as it evolves, the twins’ deepest, darkest secrets are revealed, affecting not only them but also leaving their mark on the lives and fates of Sonya’s three daughters. Peopled by the greatest dancers, artists, writers, designers, and trend-setters of the Belle Époque, What Disappears explores the ways in which girls and women define their identity and search for meaning in a world that tries at every turn to hold them back.
May 16, 2022
The Storytellers
In Scottish author Caron McKinlay's 2022 Debut The Storytellers, launching May 16th, three women trapped between life and the afterlife meet and share their stories while discovering the truth about the men in their lives—and about themselves. Before time runs out, will they find the answer to the question they must answer: what is love? Described as "darkly funny" and "a brilliant mystery," this debut has also been called "edgy" and "feminist."
May 15, 2022
We Shall Not Shatter
We Shall Not Shatter, by Elaine Stock, is a 2022 Debut launching May 15th. This is a story of friendship during the Nazi occupation of Poland, inspired by the author's own heritage (her deaf great aunt who was left behind as a teenager in Poland and perished in the Holocaust). Zofia, a hearing Catholic, and Aanya, deaf and Jewish, have been friends since the age of five when they met while picking flowers. Will they and their families survive? What becomes of their town, Brzeziny? As some of my paternal ancestors also lived in Poland--although not so recently--I'm looking forward to reading this!
May 14, 2022
Arribada
Launching this week, Arribada, a 2022 Debut by binational and bilingual writer Estela González, tells the story of Mariana Sánchez Celis, a Julliard-trained pianist pushed to confront her and her Mexican family's role in environmental and social injustice when Mariana returns home and discovers that Ayotlan’s beaches, sea turtle colonies, and historic center are decimated after decades of neglect and abuse. As she becomes romantically and politically involved with Fernanda Lucero, an indigenous conservation activist, both women find themselves in danger...
