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MICHAEL WALLACE: I WASN”T EXPECTING CROW HOLLOW TO HIT #1 AT AMAZON
The official release of Michael Wallace’s Crow Hollow is set for June 1. A month before the premiere the novel entered in Top 3 of Kindle Amazon Bestselling list and even reach the top spot. The book stayed in the prestigious ranks for several weeks.
The readers loved the story, which is currently valuated with av. 4.3 Amazon stars from almost 450 reviews. Thanks to the great assistance of our good friend Dennelle Catlett from the publisher Lake Union we are happy to welcome Michael Wallace at Land of Books.
– Michael, Tell us about your new book, Crow Hollow. What is it about?
– In 1676, an unlikely pair—a young Puritan widow and an English spy—journeys across a land where greed and treachery abound.
Prudence Cotton has recently lost her husband and is desperate to find her daughter, captured by the Nipmuk tribe during King Philip’s war. She’s convinced her daughter is alive but cannot track her into the wilderness alone. Help arrives in the form of James Bailey, an agent of the crown sent to Boston to investigate the murder of Prudence’s husband and to covertly cause a disturbance that would give the king just cause to install royal governors. After his partner is murdered, James needs help too. He strikes a deal with Prudence, and together they traverse the forbidding New England landscape looking for clues. What they confront in the wilderness—and what they discover about each other—could forever change their allegiances and alter their destinies.
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WENDY LINDSTROM: I’M WORKING ON AN EPIC YA FANTASY SERIES
NY Times and USA Today bestselling author Wendy Lindstrom established as one of the top American romance writers. Her Grayson Brothers series are highly rated by the fans of the genre. With the assistance of Melissa Deckman we’ve got a chance to welcome our next guest of honor at Land of Books.
– Wendy, Did you expect such a success of Grayson Brothers series?
– I think I had “hoped” rather than expected that the series would be successful. I am deeply grateful to the awesome readers who made the Grayson Brothers series a New York Times bestselling series.
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JOHN ELDER ROBISON: BEING DIFFERENT IS THE SOURCE OF EXCEPTIONALITY
Raising Cubby by John Elder Robison is one of those books that touches you deeply. It’s about a very different world and entirely different experience in growing up a kid. Our next guest is showing the amazing point of view by an autistic. Great thanks to Lauren Kuhn for her assistance of completing the interview.
– What is your memoire Raising Cubby about?
– Raising Cubby is the story of my son and I – a different kid and a different dad – growing up together. It’s the joy and fun of childhood and the challenges and threats that confront us as we get older.
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NINA SCHUYLER: THE TRANSLATOR WAS INSPIRED BY DAVID REMNICK’S ARTICLE
“A pure, sheer pleasure”, “Wonderful story”, “Absorbing,” are just few of the opinions about Nina Schuyler’s book The Translator. The novel was published in 2013 and since then was receiving very positive feedback (av. 4.4 stars from 50 plus reviews). It’s a great pleasure to introduce you our next guest Nina Schuyler.
– Nina, What is THE TRANSLATOR about?
– When renowned translator Hanne Schubert falls down a flight of stairs, she suffers from an unusual but real condition–the loss of her native language. Speaking only Japanese, a language she learned later in life, she leaves for Japan. There, to Hanne’s shock, the Japanese novelist whose work she recently translated confronts her publicly for sabotaging his work.
Hanne sets out to find the inspiration for the author’s novel–a tortured, chimerical actor, once a master in the art of Noh theater. Through their passionate, volatile relationship, Hanne is forced to reexamine how she lived her life, including her relationship to her daughter.
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RACHEL HOLLIS: SWEET GIRL IS MUCH MORE OF A LOVE STORY THAN PARTY GIRL
Rachel Hollis was a party organizer of VIP events in LA, and is an author for many well known entertainment magazines and internet sites. Her first book Party Girl is a real hit with average 4.5 Amazon stars from 250 reviews. The sequel Sweet girl will be released on May 5 and is already available for order. Thanks to Eryn Kalavski we are welcoming Rachael Hollis at Land of Books for our next cute interview.
– Rachel, your next book Sweet Girl is set for release in May. What the readers will find inside?
– I think what I’m most nervous/excited about is that they won’t find a character that’s at all like Landon from Party Girl. Max is a much more damaged character and while she’s pursuing her childhood dream she’s much harder on herself than Landon was. Also, Sweet Girl is much more of a love story than the first book. Landon needed to grow on her own, what Max needs most is to allow someone to love her.
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KATI HIEKKAPELTO: THE HUMMINGBIRD IS ABOUT RACISM, IMMIGRATION AND HONOR
Kati Hiekkapelto showed her talent in the last few years. She became a famous writer in her home country of Finland. Her novel The Hummingbird was released on English by Arcadia Books on December 23 2014. As you know Land of Books loves to present foreign language authors, so we are sure you will learn a lot more about Kati after you read the following lines.
– Kati, Give us some insight about The Hummingbird?
– Young girl is found dead from the remote jogging path with an Aztec amulet in her pocket, shot by a shotgun, straight to head. At the same time another young girl, Kurdish, calls 911 because she is afraid that her dad is going to kill her.
Anna Fekete starts a new job as a crime investigator after being several years in uniform. The beginning is not easy for her. The cases, she has investigate, are hard, she has to face racist and misogynist attitudes from her colleagues, especially her partner Esko Niemi is a difficult and nasty person. Anna´s past begins to haunt her. She suffers from severe sleeping problems and panic attacks. When more bodies with amulets in their pockets are found, it seems obvious that there is a serial killer out there.
For me The Hummingbird is a book about racism, immigration and honor related violence. For readers I wanted it to be an exciting crime story with strong characters where you can find, if you want, deeper layers and something more to think about than just “who is the murderer”.
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RUSSELL BITTNER: MADAME BOVARY AND ANNA KARENINA WERE “THE MODELS” OF TROMPE-L’OEIL
Russell Bittner’s Trompe-l’oeil was described by the readers as “sexy and sophisticated read”, “a fascinating mixture of sensuality and romanticism”, “prose as its best”. The book gathered nice 4.5 average Amazon stars from 39 reviews. Our next guest’s prose publications have appeared over the years in journals/magazines. Lets welcome in Land of Books Mr. Russell Bittner.
– What is your book Trompe-l’oeil about?
– Trompe-l’oeil is, in a nutshell, a modern-day love story. What makes it modern? Its explicitness. That, and the fact that the usual roles are reversed. The principal female character is about a decade older than the principal male character.
SUZANNE MUNSHOWER: ANNA FROM YOUNGER HAS A LOT IN COMMON WITH MYSELF
Suzanne Munshower’s Younger topped the Kindle Amazon bestselling list in the last few days. The medical thriller received many positive comments by the readers and currently is standing with average 4 stars from 57 Amazon reviews. Our next guest worked many things in her life. In the following chat she will let us know how she became a writer and how excited was for her to see Younger on the top of Amazon list.
– Suzanne, what is your book Younger about?
– Younger is about a 57-year-old woman who has lived too well and taken her privileged position for granted too long, so that when she loses her last remaining public relations account, she ignores her better judgment and accepts an offer to “test-drive” and market a product designed to take 30 years off the user’s appearance. By the time she figures out she has made a bad decision, dead bodies have piled up and she needs to run for her life, facing the truth about herself as she does so.
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S.L. ROSS: I DREAMED TO BE THE NEXT ANNE RICE
Land of Books published almost 200 interviews with famous and not so famous authors. Probably the most interesting question for our guests is “Who are you”. Some of the writers answer with one sentence. Others are more generous in their description. For the first time I was really touched by the answer of that question in our next interview with S.L. Ross. She is the author of Immortal Island series. Land of Books is the first stop of Making connections blog tour of her book Spellbound.
– Sabrina, What is your book Immortal Island: Spellbound about?
– My book Spellbound is the first book in the series of Immortal Island, and it is about Sarah Daniels a young woman who doesn’t know the secrets to her or her families past. She soon discovers these secrets when she runs into Chase Gavenport, her soul mate for the past few centuries. He is a vampire but she doesn’t know that right away. He brings her into a world that her real family has been trying to protect her from every time she is reborn. Confused and alone she learns to adapt to this new life she is forced into.
AMALIA CAROSELLA: HELEN OF SPARTA IS INSPIRED BY MY LOVE OF CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY
Amalia Carosella’s history fiction novel Helen of Sparta will be released on April 1. The book is part of Kindle First program and found his place among the Kindle’s Top 10 most wanted titles. Our next guest is known also for writing under the pen name Amalia Dillin. Let’s join her for the following pleasant chat.
– Helen of Sparta will be officially released on April 1. Did you expect the book to be featured as Kindle First and how it happened?
– I did know it was chosen for Kindle First, thanks to my editor Jodi, who championed the book, and I was on pins and needles waiting for the launch! When I discussed the program with Amazon, I just couldn’t even believe it was happening. I’m so, so grateful that they gave HELEN this opportunity!
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