Karla Huebner's Blog, page 16
April 22, 2022
Singing Lessons for the Stylish Canary
The nineteenth of April appears to be the most popular day of the year (so far) for book launches, and so it's perhaps no surprise that today's featured 2022 Debut, Laura Stanfill's historical and magical realist Singing Lessons for the Stylish Canary is an April 19 launch. Georges Blanchard is a master builder of high-pitched barrel organs that train songbirds to sing human melodies, but his son Henri has no interest in following in his father's footsteps, and instead prefers making bobbin lace with the local girls. Will Henri find his place in the world? What happens when he discovers he has a half-brother in America?
April 21, 2022
Pay Dirt Road
Pay Dirt Road, a small-town mystery about an unlikely private investigator searching for a missing waitress, is a 2022 Debut by Samantha Jayne Allen that launches April 19. If you enjoy mysteries, you won't want to miss this one--it won the 2019 Tony Hillerman Prize for the best debut mystery novel set in the Southwest!
April 20, 2022
The Things We Lost
The Things We Lost, by Canadian author Maggie Giles, is a 2022 Debut launching April 19. Maddie Butler finds herself suddenly in a parallel universe version of her life in which her dead friend is still alive and she hasn't had children. Is it a better life, a worse, or just different?
April 19, 2022
Shadows in the Mind's Eye
Shadows in the Mind's Eye, a 2022 Debut by Janyre Tromp, releases April 19. It's a historical tale in which in 1946, a soldier returns to his young family and no one knows if he’s actually seeing criminals in the hills or whether his battle scarred mind has made him the true danger.
April 18, 2022
Not Your Child
Not Your Child is a 2022 Debut thriller by Lis Angus launching April 18. When a Canadian mother discovers that a strange man is following her daughter, she's startled to learn that he believes the girl is his granddaughter, abducted as a baby. Things get even weirder when mother and daughter don't match when DNA-tested and the daughter disappears...
April 14, 2022
Magnetic Woman Expands its International Reach
Through the magic of Worldcat, and the Polish NUKAT (Union Catalog of Polish Research Libraries), I see that a copy of Magnetic Woman can now be found in Łódź at the Biblioteka Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego!
This is in addition to library copies in the British Isles (Maynooth, Fife, London), elsewhere in continental Europe (Paris, Leioa in Spain's Basque country, Barcelona, Lausanne, Berlin, Stockholm, Munich, Heidelberg, Würzburg, Zürich), and Wellington, New Zealand. This is in addition to copies at many US university and public libraries and one in Montreal.
While I've sent copies to a good many Czech institutions, apparently none of them report to Worldcat.
If your library doesn't yet have Magnetic Woman, do ask them to order it! You can point out that it is a prize-winning study of a fascinating gender-ambiguous surrealist. And if you've read it, please consider reviewing it, whether for a scholarly journal or on Amazon or Goodreads!
Spread the word about Toyen and Czech surrealism!
This is in addition to library copies in the British Isles (Maynooth, Fife, London), elsewhere in continental Europe (Paris, Leioa in Spain's Basque country, Barcelona, Lausanne, Berlin, Stockholm, Munich, Heidelberg, Würzburg, Zürich), and Wellington, New Zealand. This is in addition to copies at many US university and public libraries and one in Montreal.
While I've sent copies to a good many Czech institutions, apparently none of them report to Worldcat.
If your library doesn't yet have Magnetic Woman, do ask them to order it! You can point out that it is a prize-winning study of a fascinating gender-ambiguous surrealist. And if you've read it, please consider reviewing it, whether for a scholarly journal or on Amazon or Goodreads!
Spread the word about Toyen and Czech surrealism!
The Echo Man
The Echo Man is a 2022 Debut crime thriller by Sam Holland, launching April 14th. Two detectives are working on a series of horrific murders that copy famous murders of the past, while a woman on the run discovers a link between her own case and that of the copycat killer.
April 13, 2022
Don't Forget to Check NetGalley!
If you read and review via NetGalley, this post is for you! It's also for you if you're up for helping get new books noticed.
My novel In Search of the Magic Theater--a tale of music, theater, generational tensions, strong women, and a bit of romance--is still available for pre-publication review on NetGalley. Reviews that appear prior to publication, whether in Publisher's Weekly, Kirkus, NetGalley, Goodreads, or elsewhere, help readers learn about books they may be interested in. That encourages pre-orders, which encourages more support from publishers. The more buzz, the better!
My novel In Search of the Magic Theater--a tale of music, theater, generational tensions, strong women, and a bit of romance--is still available for pre-publication review on NetGalley. Reviews that appear prior to publication, whether in Publisher's Weekly, Kirkus, NetGalley, Goodreads, or elsewhere, help readers learn about books they may be interested in. That encourages pre-orders, which encourages more support from publishers. The more buzz, the better!
April 8, 2022
The Sign for Home
Blair Fell's The Sign for Home, a 2022 Debut, launched April 5. Arlo Dilly, a young deaf-blind Jehovah's Witness, looks for his lost love from boarding school with the help of his gay interpreter and Belgian best friend. The author is an ASL interpreter and TV writer, and the book is getting lots of attention!
April 7, 2022
Portrait of a Thief
Grace D. Li's 2022 Debut novel Portrait of a Thief is a heist novel inspired by the true story of Chinese art vanishing from Western museums. It's about diaspora, the colonization of art, and the complexity of the Chinese American identity. As an art historian, I think I've got to put this one on my soon-to-be-read list! The novel launches April 5th.
