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December 22, 2014
Happy Holidays!
Well, we're entering the last couple of weeks of the year, and the holidays are coming fast and furious. Here's hoping for a wonderful, festive season, with safe travels and cozy warm beverages for everyone!
So the blog will be quiet for the next couple of weeks, but when January comes, things are REALLY going to be happening!
In the meantime, stop by the Events and Honors pages -- some super-fun stuff there, and more to come.
See you in 2015!
December 15, 2014
Great news: Indie Next!
Hard to put into words how MASSIVELY EXCITING this is, but The Magician's Lie has been named to the Indie Next list for January 2015. Books are nominated and voted on by indie booksellers across the country, and the list is circulated to every bookstore in the American Booksellers Association. It's a BIG DEAL and I cannot BELIEVE how lucky I am to have my book chosen. AMAZING!
Here's the list of titles, on the ABA site.
And here's what they say about The Magician's Lie. YAY!
“Macallister’s debut novel is historical fiction that blends magic, mystery, and romance. In turn-of-the-century America at the height of stage magic’s popularity, the renowned female illusionist Amazing Arden must convince a young police officer, Virgil Holt, of her innocence in a murder that looks suspiciously like one of her most famous illusions gone wrong. As Arden’s story unfolds over the course of the night she spends in police custody, the reader, as well as Officer Holt, must decide if she is telling the truth or if this, too, is part of her act.” —Meagan Albin, Breakwater Books, Guilford, CT
November 20, 2014
Pondering the mystery of history (as a genre)
The wonderful Amy Sue Nathan invited me to guest-post on her blog, and here I am: nattering on about "historical fiction" as a genre, and whether that's a useful category, and if so, for whom?
November 12, 2014
The Magician's Lie is a Midwest Connections Pick!
As I put it on Twitter: this is ALL CAPS NEWS.
TML is a Midwest Connections pick for January 2015! I have been so thrilled with how independent bookstores all over the country have been embracing TML so far, and this is such an amazing honor, especially given how near and dear the Midwest is to my heart.
This means that if you live in the area covered by the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association -- Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and part of Michigan -- you've got a very good chance of seeing TML in your local indie. Yay!
If you haven't read TML yet, a large part of the action is set in Janesville, Iowa, with some pivotal action in Chicago, and mentions of towns from Davenport to Okonomowoc. So this is very much on Arden's, and my, home turf.
Check out the pick info on the MIBA site (thank you, MIBA!!) here.
October 9, 2014
Back from Heartland Fall Forum
Had an utterly wonderful time at my very first regional trade show for booksellers. The Heartland Fall Forum is a joint show for bookstores in the Midwest and Great Lakes areas, and I met SO many wonderful booksellers there, not to mention other wonderful authors, whose books I am now totally dying to read.
And it never hurts to see one's book prominently displayed, does it? I love this cover more every time I see it, still.
Click here for the Publishers Weekly writeup on the event (which even mentions TML, yay!)
September 15, 2014
I see a star!
Wonderful news! The Publishers Weekly review of The Magician's Lie is in, and it's STARRED.
They say it's "well-paced, evocative, and adventurous" as well as "top-notch."
In a word: stellar.
Read the full review here: http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-4022-9868-4
June 5, 2014
First interview on the origin of The Magician's Lie
How lovely! Claire Kirch interviewed me for the BookExpo America Show Daily, and the interview is now available online through Publishers Weekly. Read it here: http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bea/article/62612-bea-2014-greer-macallister-truth-or-illusion.html
May 26, 2014
See you at BookExpo America!
Signing advance copies of THE MAGICIAN'S LIE at BEA 2014! Here's the info on the who/where/when at the Sourcebooks booth: http://www.sourcebooks.com/spotlight/sourcebooks-at-bea-2014.html
May 12, 2014
Are you on Goodreads? Add TML to your To-Read!
Slowly spinning a web all across the Web for this wonderful book! THE MAGICIAN'S LIE and I are now on Goodreads. Here's the link to the TML listing: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
April 24, 2014
Welcome to Greer Macallister.com!
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