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I'm Reading Today at SFPL!

If you're in the Bay Area, please come to my reading of In Search of the Magic Theater at the Bernal Heights branch of the San Francisco Public Library! The event begins at 3:00.

"This is one of the most unusual novels I’ve read in ages! Hard to describe but absolutely engrossing and memorable. The main characters are two unique and fascinating women, crashing through their disparate lives full of music, theater, art, lovers in a wild plot of discovery. If you’re tired of the same old types and themes in novels, this is the one for you."--Amazon reviewer

The Silence in the Sound

Nurse and author Dianne C. Braley's The Silence in the Sound, based on her own friendship with an older writer, is a 2022 Debut launching August 23rd. On Martha’s Vineyard, an ailing celebrity novelist’s famous book about a choice helps his young nurse Georgette make a heartrending decision of her own. Her father was an alcoholic, and her enabler mother chose to stay with him; one of her only happy memories of youth was a visit to Martha's Vineyard. Now she's becoming involved with another troubled soul, and Mr. S's famous book helps her navigate her life.

Porch Music

Porch Music, by Seminole descendant Kathy Maresca, is a 2022 Debut launching October 5th. A music-filled story of a family descended from Florida’s Seminole Tribe, set in 1952, Porch Music deals with secrets too dangerous to reveal. All sixteen-year-old Rose has is what she carries: a pillowcase of clothes, her boyfriend’s unborn child, and a heart full of shame. Seminole matriarch Ma-Ki Ebbing, however, embraces Rose. The Ebbing women band together to unite a family once rendered powerless by those who invaded their land. Will the tragic death of one of Ma-Ki's daughters bring her to identify the villain and embrace Rose’s newfound faith? Check out the author's website for music (country and hymns) relating to the novel!

Jackal

Jackal, a 2022 Debut by Haitian-American author Erin E. Adams, launches October 4th. Liz Rocher, young Black woman, reluctantly returns home to small-town mostly white Appalachia, where she discovers something in the nearby woods has been taking Black girls for years--and now it’s snatched her best friend’s daughter.

The Goddess Effect

The Goddess Effect, a 2022 Debut by Sheila Yasmin Marikar, launches October 4th. Anita is over her life in New York: her dead-end job, tiny studio apartment, self-obsessed friends, and overbearing mom. So she moves west to Los Angeles in search of a new career, enlightenment, and wellness. In a workout class called the Goddess Effect, run by a lifestyle guru named Venus, she feels she fits right in. But she begins to discover that the Goddess Effect isn’t quite what it seems, and it may be terrifying...

Reading Saturday at the San Francisco Public Library!

Mark your calendars for this coming Saturday, October 8th! I will be reading and discussing In Search of the Magic Theater at the Bernal Heights branch of the San Francisco Public Library, from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. Hoping to see lots of readers there!

Bernal Heights Meeting Room
Bernal Heights branch, 500 Cortland Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94110
415-355-2810
bhemgr@sfpl.org

The Blue Bar

Literary thriller The Blue Bar, by Indian author Damyanti Biswas, is a 2022 Debut launching October 1st. Set in Mumbai, it tells of a bar dancer who vanished after taking eerie assignments from a mystery client. Her lover, now a police investigator, uncovers a series of murders that might bring him face to face with what happened to the woman he loved long ago.

Still True

Maggie Ginsberg's Still True is a 2022 Debut launching September 27th. Lib Hanson is suddenly confronted by her painful past when Matt Marlow, the forty-year-old son she abandoned as an infant, shows up on her porch. Fiercely independent, Lib has never revealed her son’s existence — or her previous marriage—to her husband, Jack. Married nearly three decades but living in separate houses (to the confusion but acceptance of their neighbors), they enjoy an ease and comfort together in small-town Anthem, Wisconsin. But Jack is a stickler for honesty, and Lib’s long-dormant secret threatens to unnravel their lives.

Mirth

Mirth, by Kathleen George, launched September 27th from Regal House. From the publisher's website:

Mirth chronicles the struggles of a writer, Harrison Mirth, a romantic man who writes about love and tries to find it through three marriages, in three cities, and always with renewable hope. Amanda is first—New York city and youth. Maggie is second and spans the middle age years—Upstate New York. Liz is third—Pittsburgh and the senior years. Harrison Mirth doesn’t say much to Liz about life before her—a thoughtful comment here and there, funny stories, very little casting of blame. But like a quilt maker, Liz puts these scraps together to make a story—how she thinks he was—a boy, then a man sheltering a secret lake of sadness, but somehow always upbeat, cheerful, a willful optimist, forever innocent. To her, that is irresistible. She wants him, all in all.

Traveling...

I'm on the road and don't have a lot of internet access, but I've got some posts coming soon about books that have recently launched; they just won't be quite on the launch day. Enjoying a moment near Detroit Lakes, Minnesota...