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Title:   Hold On Tight Series: The Bridgeport Social Club, Book 3 Author: Shelley Shepard Gray Publisher:    Black Stone Publishing Release Date: June 11, 2019 Genre:  Contemporary Romance Links*:  Amazon  l  Goodreads  l  Book Depository   Jackson Koch had already lost his wife to cancer when the town's coal mines shut down and his job was gone too. So, with a three-year-old daughter to care for and a broken heart to mend, he moved across the country to find a new life in Bridgeport, Ohio. Now he tends bar by night and tries to navigate life as a single dad by day. Luckily, his neighbor is happy to babysit while he works late nights. She's great with little Kate, beautiful, kind ... and lately he's found himself smiling whenever he thinks about her. Dani Brown also knows what it's like to lose a spouse and raise a child on her own. Cleaning houses during the day, and taking online classes at n...

Art in SoHo in the 1980s by Laura Tucker  Olympia, the main character of my novel All the Greys on Greene Street , is an artist. Sometimes her art is a delight, and sometimes it’s a source of frustration, but it is a constant companion—it is how she sees the world. That’s one the reasons I set the book in the SoHo neighborhood of New York in the early 1980s. It was one of the most exciting creative hubs of the twentieth century. When artists first started moving into SoHo in the 1960s, it was an abandoned warehouse district known by firefighters as Hell’s Hundred Acres. It was dirty and dangerous and desolate, especially at night, when the trucks left and the factory workers went home. But it was cheap, and enormous windows flooded the industrial spaces with natural light. The lofts were vast—Olympia learns to ride a bike in her family’s loft—so artists could work on huge canvases and enormous sculptures, and collaborate with dancers and musicians. The...

I'm thrilled to have a special feature for you today! We have the chronology of Birchwood Manor from the New York Times' Bestseller, The Clockmaker's Daughter ! Plus, the publisher has kindly offer one reader a copy of the new paperback release of The Clockmarker's Daughter! ABOUT  The Clockmaker's Daughter Title:   Shouting at the Rain Author:  Lynda Mullaly Hunt Publisher:  Nancy Paulsen Books Release Date:   May 7, 2019 Genre:  Contemporary Middle Grade Fiction Links*:  Amazon  l  Goodreads  l  Book Depository  l   Itunes My real name, no one remembers. The truth about that summer, no one else knows. In the summer of 1862, a group of young artists led by the passionate and talented Edward Radcliffe descends upon Birchwood Manor on the banks of the Upper Thames. Their plan: to spend a secluded summer month in a haze of inspiration and cre...