Authors A to Z: E

Authors from A to Z

June Blogging Event

hosted by Proud Book Nerd

More info here, sign-up here.

A month-long posting challenge that showcases authors and their works. We start on June 1 and post daily (except Sundays), with each day having a letter of the alphabet. The point of this:

• To show our appreciation to awesome authors.
• To share awesome authors with our readers.
• To challenge ourselves to post daily, outside memes and reviews.

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E? Kathleen Eagle comes to mind, let's see who else is in my LibraryThing library...

The Christmas List
by Richard Paul Evans, website

James Kier looked back and forth between the newspaper headline and the photograph of himself, not sure if he should laugh or call his attorney. It was the same photograph the Tribune had used a couple of years earlier when they featured him on the front page of the business section. While the photograph was the same, the headline could not have been more different. Not many people get to read their own obituary.

Local real estate mogul dies in automobile crash

Utah real estate develop James Kier was pronounced dead after his car collided with a concrete pylon on southbound I-80. Authorities believe Kier may have had a heart attack prior to swerving off the road.

Kier put the paper down. He had no idea what the article was about to set in motion.



Mistletoe Bay
by Marcia Evanick, info at Fantastic Fiction

Nestled beside the coastal town of Misty Harbor, Maine, lies the picturesque village of Mistletoe Bay. There, overlooking the clear blue sea, is a charming old house that's the perfect place to gather for the holidays and give thanks for family, good friends, and bright new beginnings... When Cooper Armstrong left California to return to Maine, he also left a cheating ex and all his plans for settling down. Now Coop concentrates on taking care of his ailing father and learning his route as the area's new UPS man. It's not just Coop's parents who need assistance-Jenni Wright, whose blossoming new business has him making daily deliveries to her property, could clearly use some help. With three young sons, her mother-in-law, and a teenage niece all sharing a rickety house that seems to be held together with duct tape, Jenni has her hands full. To Jenni, Coop is their UPS guy, handyman, and her boys' guardian angel all in one gorgeous package. She's sure he'd run a mile before getting involved in the chaos of her life. But as Thanksgiving gives way to Christmas, the lovely, resilient Jenni turns Coop's expectations of a cold, lonely winter upside-down, revealing the promise of warmth, love, and a lifetime of happy memories.

I haven't read this one yet...loved the cover!
Scones and Sensibility
by Lindsay Eland, website

Twelve-year-old Polly Madassa is convinced she was born for a more romantic age. A time when Elizabeth Bennet walked along the stone halls of Pemberley, arm in arm with her one true love, Mr. Darcy. A time with Anne Shirley gazed out at the wild seas off Prince Edward Island with her bosom friend, Diana, beside her. A time when a distinguished gentleman called upon a lady of quality, and true love was born in the locked eyes of two young lovers.

But alas…Polly was born in twenty-first century New Jersey.

This however, does not hinder our young heroine from finding romance wherever she can conjure it up. So while Polly is burdened with the summer job of delivering baked goods from her parents’ bakery to the people in her small beach town (how delightfully quaint!), she finds a way to force…um…encourage romance to blossom. Indeed, Polly is determined to bring lovers, young and old, together…whether they want to be or not.

copyright Book Dragon's Lair 2009-2012

Authors A to Z: D

Authors from A to Z

June Blogging Event

hosted by Proud Book Nerd

More info here, sign-up here.

A month-long posting challenge that showcases authors and their works. We start on June 1 and post daily (except Sundays), with each day having a letter of the alphabet. The point of this:

• To show our appreciation to awesome authors.
• To share awesome authors with our readers.
• To challenge ourselves to post daily, outside memes and reviews.

~*~*~*~

I'm sure we'll all think of Roald Dahl and Charles Dickens but I've got a couple others that are favorites. Or at least one of their books is :D

Janet Dailey, Len Deighton, Barbara Delinsky, Janelle Denison, Jude Deveraux, Carole Nelson Douglas, Linda Devlin, Christina Dodd, and a fabulous non-fiction book by Nell Dickerson

This isn't the first book in the series but it is the first one I read. Genies Don't Ride Bicycles
by Debbie Dadey and Marcia Thornton Jones
The Adventures of the Baily School Kids series

Liza, Eddie, Melody, and Howie (the Bailey School kids) find something in the old oak tree. They are disappointed when it turns out to be nothing more than a old bottle with nothing in it but a stinky smell. Eddie tosses the bottle into the junky yard next to the school while Melody wishes someone would clean up the place. The next morning the junky yard is magically clean and even decorated with Christmas lights. They meet a big man with a shiny bald head. He rides a purple bicycle and his muscles bulge under his gold brocade vest and bright, flowing orange pants. He wears gold necklaces and one earring. His name is Eugene and he is the one who has made the yard sparkle. Suddenly, all their wishes start coming true with horrible results. The kids are almost certain that Eugene is a genie. The kids are disgusted with wishes and figure out that Liza is the only one with a wish left. Can Liza bring life back to normal at Bailey School or will the genie win control of Bailey City???


Before there was Harry Potter....
So You Want to be a Wizard
by Diane Duane, author's website

Something stopped Nita's hand as it ran along the bookshelf. She looked and found that one of the books had a loose thread at the top of its spine. It was one of those So You Want to Be a . . . books, a series on careers. So You Want to Be a Pilot, and a Scientist . . . a Writer. But his one said, So You Want to Be a Wizard.

I don't believe this, Nina thought. She shut the book and stood there holding it in her hand, confused, amazed, suspicious—and delighted. If it was a joke, it was a great one. If it wasn't . . . ?






Tombs of Endearment
by Casey Daniels, author's website
A Pepper Martin Mystery

Cemetery tour guide Pepper Martin never imagined she'd get to meet rock legend Damon Curtis, the bad boy poet who made millions of teenage girls scream. After all, he kicked the bucket years before she was born. But thanks to her newfound ability to chat up the dead, Pepper's got a front row seat perfect for swooning over the still-sexy Damon's latest lyrics. He's convinced that his former bandmate Vinnie Pallucci murdered him back in '71, and he's promised Pepper she won't get any rest or peace until she helps him prove it.

But when Pepper goes behind the music, she finds Vinnie with a knife in his heart and the rest of the band members running for their lives. And if Pepper doesn't snare the killer soon, Damon's next hit from the great beyond might be her swan song.



Hatching Magic
by Ann Downer, blog

Poor Theodora Oglethorpe! Her biologist father has gone off to explore the jungles of Laos without her, her two best friends are away on vacation, and a long, hot, lonely Boston summer is all she has to look forward tor.

Poor Gideon! Wycca, his pet wyvern, has disappeared through a magic hole in time in search of a place to lay her egg. Kobold, Gideon's rival wizard, wants nothing more than to capture Wycca and turn her against her master. In a desperate attempt to rescue Wycca from Kobold's evil clutches, Gideon follows her through the magic hole...and finds himself transported from his castle in thirteenth-century England to the terrifyingly modern world of Boston, Massachusetts, in the year 2002.

Little does Gideon know that what he needs most in order to find his wyvern is stuck to the bottom of Theodora's shoe. And little does Theodora know that Gideon is the reason why her summer vacation has begun to seem a whole lot more interesting...

When a thirteenth-century wizard confronts twenty-first century Boston while seeking his pet dragon, he is followed by a rival wizard and a very unhappy demon, but eleven-year-old Theodora Oglethorpe may hold the secret to setting everything right.

copyright Book Dragon's Lair 2009-2012