What could be worse than winning $87 million dollars? For
Lucy Parker, the
upbeat and hilarious main character in Whitney Gaskell's new
novel, GOOD
LUCK, it would be getting fired, having your car break down,
and breaking up
with your boyfriend on the same day. Things only get worse Read more...
"Along Elena's smooth white back is an ancient scar that
cuts downward in
grotesque beauty like a long, graceful snake." So, goes the
first sentence of
Barbara O'Neal's first novel, The Lost Recipe of Happiness."
Like a snake
charmer, O'Neal has written her first novel with Read more...
Sam Taylor is an academic writer with creative ambition. In
his American
debut, THE AMNESIAC, is the elusive story of a man who is
lost in life, due in
part to a loss of memory. After James Purdew, the main
character of the
novel, breaks his leg, looses his girlfriend Read more...
It's lucky for us that author Tracy Chevalier went to a
William Blake exhibit at
the Tate Museum in 2001. She bought a souvenir notebook with
a Blake
image on the cover and said one day she'd write about Blake.
The day arrived,
over two years since she Read more...
Brooke Miller, the overly imaginative and hilarious
character from SCOT ON THE ROCKS, is back and things have
gotten a little hectic for her. She's dealing with the
stress of planning the wedding of a lifetime with her
close-to-perfect fiancé, Jack. That includes dealing with
family and Read more...
Don't let the title of this book make you think that this is
a heady-philosophical read. It's not. It's the perfect
summer beach read when you want to escape into another world
with filled with colorful characters. LULU MEETS GOD AND
DOUBTS HIM is the debut Read more...
There might not be a better author to write about Hollywood
endings than Robyn Sisman. Her grandmother was an actress
that worked with the big greats like Ginger Rogers and her
grandfather wrote the hit Broadway play, Burlesque, and even
took Laurel and Hardy on tour. Her mother even attended Read more...
August 2005. Devastation has hit New Orleans leaving
thousands stranded in a city lost in destruction. Captain
Patti O'Shay is a straight-laced female cop assigned to
maintain order during the city's time of crisis. In the
midst of it all, her husband shows up dead and a Read more...
ON THE WINGS OF THE MORNING is the sequel to Marie
Bostwick's debut novel, FIELDS OF GOLD, and that's were this
historical drama picks up telling the story of Morgan
Glennon. The novel begins with a passionate prologue by
Morgan Glennon's regarding the secretive nature of family Read more...
If the title of this book doesn't immediately set you off,
then the first chapter will! Jonathan Selwood has crafted a
wonderful debut novel complete with zany characters,
improbable ideas, and laugh-out-loud situations. The novel
starts off with the ultra hip painter, Isabel Raven rising
to sudden Read more...
1973. A mother, armed with a gun, and daughter ride their
horses up to the family ranch and walk inside. Shots are
fired and no one is there to witness the death of a man,
husband and father to the women. It seems to be an open and
shut case Read more...
When does sleeping with the boss ever work out? As Natalie
Goldberg, recent Harvard Law Grad, discovers in MY SUMMER OF
SOUTHERN DISCOMFORT, she learns it doesn't. Unfortunately,
it doesn't help that when the romance backfires on her, in
a big way, that she packs up her Manhattan Read more...
What if you learned that your mother was a famous-and
infamous-international showgirl?
Linda Stone is a tomboy waitress taking orders from snobbish
Harvard students in Julia Holden's second novel ONE DANCE IN
PARIS. She'll be the first to admit that her life is less
than fabulous Read more...
Should attending your ex-boyfriend's wedding be against the
law? Brooke Miller is a funny, ever so quick witted, and
intelligent Manhattan lawyer that makes a few hard-knock
choices that lead to a complete quandary. Frisky, hopeful,
and ever so in love with her sexy Scottish boyfriend, Brenda Read more...
When life is too perfect, things have to shatter. In Andrew
Gross's first solo debut, THE BLUE ZONE, Kate Raab had it
all. She had the ideal family, an inspiring career, and the
man of her dreams. In one fretful phone call everything
splintered. Kate's father, Benjamin Raab Read more...
Summer Hawthorne, a shy museum curator in the sunny hills of
Los Angeles, is the focal point of interest when she proudly
displays an ancient Japanese Hayashi ceramic urn bequeath
from her late nanny. It seems that everyone wants a piece of
Summer including her own mother who has been Read more...
Kamela Cody is a writer & designer that
has worked across North America. Her
design work has appeared in Time
magazine to The Drake Guide to Chicago.
She has finished the first draft of a
new novel. She divides her time
between Orange County, California & Toronto.
Kamela is looking forward to an awesome year in
2009! Let 2009 be filled with inspiring books, fresh
ideas, and simply wonderful characters! See you at
Fresh Fiction!
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