B.J. Harrison / Boomsters Nominated for Voice Arts Narration Award
We extend our warmest congratulations to B.J. Harrison for being nominated for the 2024 Voice Arts® Awards for his narration of Boomsters: An Unexpected Adventure written by David Marks. You will find the audiobook on Audible, Amazon and the iTunes app.
Retired, David Blazen reinvents himself as a detective, stumbling into crime, chaos, and comedy. His first week on the job throws him into a murder disguised as suicide, gang wars, political corruption, and dangerous secrets—forcing him to blur the line between hero and criminal to uncover the truth.
“We’re all searching for purpose and fulfillment in our lives, and this crime fiction adventure is both heartwarming and inspiring, An action-packed and surprisingly poignant yarn about a man’s search for himself as he enters his golden years.” – Kirkus Reviews
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I’m right in the middle of listening to The Witch Elm by my favorite contemporary mystery novelist, Tana French. So far the book is as good as I would expect, having read all six of French’s previous novels. French’s masterful use of language and deft psychological characterizations make her novels qualify as both literary and genre fiction. That’s one of the reason that I (like so many of her readers) am addicted to her writing, and read each of her novels as soon as it is released.
It is common knowledge among my family and friends that I’m in love with this time of year. I don’t know what it is about October, but there is something about this month that makes me feel warm and giddy. It doesn’t matter if the weather doesn’t perfectly cooperate with my seasonal hopes and dreams (although I would much prefer cooler temperatures and rainy days), I still feel enraptured by fall’s embrace.
This Summer I had the pleasure of seeing three people, who in various ways I connect with through book publishing, tell stories from the stage at storytelling events. For years I’ve been a big fan of The Moth storytelling radio hour and similar podcasts, so it was a real delight to hear people I actually know tell stories from the stage.
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Tucson. AZ – May 31, 2018 – Wheatmark, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of 
“… when streams are ripe and swelled with rain.” With apologies to Paul Simon, here in the Sonoran Desert there are only dry streambeds this time of year. It did rain briefly, however, on the Saturday, March 10, day one of the Tucson Festival of Books, but that didn’t seem to deter the over 100,000 book lovers there. (The Festival’s now the third largest in the country. ) When I’m not working at Wheatmark, one of the things I do is volunteer for the Festival on the Book & Author Committee, where this year I was responsible for inviting authors who work in, or write about, the movie industry. Of all the authors I invited, the one who drew the biggest crowds was not a journeyman author with fifty titles, but first-time author Jenna Fischer. You may remember Fischer for playing Pam […]