BOOKS BY MY FRIENDS
LENORE HART, MANNING RUBIN, & ZOE TASIA
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December 7, 2023
Welcome to Books By My Friends! Today we’re featuring authors LENORE HART, MANNING RUBIN, and ZOE TASIA.
BOOK: THE NIGHT BAZAAR LONDON: TEN TALES OF FORBIDDEN WISHES AND DANGEROUS DESIRES
AUTHOR: LENORE HART, EDITOR
GENRE: Fantastic Fiction Anthology
BLURB: The Night Bazaar, a secret marketplace of the rare, strange, occult, and dangerous, journeys this time to 19th century London. Where, as usual, its vendors purvey curious services, forbidden wares, and rare objects which cannot be had elsewhere, for any price. The midnight market has operated throughout history in various locales, appearing in a city for one week only, never to return.
Its proprietress, the enigmatic and unflappable Madame Vera, escorts the reader on an eerie, fantastical tour of a supernatural Britain in ten linked stories by various authors. Some feature luminaries such as Sherlock Holmes, occultist Madam Blavatsky, and Queen Anne Boleyn. Some take place during the Bazaar's 1880 sojourn there, while others are set in earlier or later times, but tied to the Bazaar by a curse, or by an object from it that's been found, inherited, purchased, or stolen during the decades since . . .
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Lenore Hart is the author of nine books, including Waterwoman, Becky, and The Raven's Bride, and editor of a critically-acclaimed fantastic fiction anthology series, The Night Bazaar. Volume two, The Night Bazaar Venice, was a Shirley Jackson Award finalist. She’s published short stories in a variety of magazines and literary journals; most recently “The Swedish Necromancer” in Corvid Queen. She's received grants, awards, and writing fellowships from arts organizations in Florida, Virginia, Ireland, and Germany, and has been featured on “Voice of America” radio and the PBS-TV series “Writer to Writer.” She teaches fiction writing at The Ossabaw Island Writers Retreat in Savannah.
BOOK: VOYAGE TO THE WALL
AUTHOR: MANNING RUBIN
GENRE: Historical Fiction
BLURB:
Manning Rubin’s debut novel is based in part on his experiences as a naïve, young
Jewish soldier in Germany in WWII who discovers the Holocaust and the death
camps. In his debut novel he uses his Army position after the war to help the
Underground Jewish Brigade collect military supplies for Palestine and to help
desperate Jewish refugees reach there, the only place that wanted them. He falls in
love with a Jewish survivor from Poland and follows her to Palestine to fight in all the
wars to establish and grow Israel as a Jewish homeland.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Rubin previously published KEEP YOUR BRAIN ALIVE (Workman) and 60 WAYS TO RELIEVE STRESS IN 60 SECONDS (Workman and Manning Rubin Publishing). Manning was an award winning creative executive for major New York Advertising firms. His clients have included a Who’s Who of major corporations. He has an MA in Writing, Speech & Drama—Johns Hopkins. A BA in History & English. As volunteer Creative Director for The Anti-Defamation League, he created and consulted on scores of public service ads for over 30 years to fight prejudice and to support Israel. He has lectured extensively on Neurobics, the new science of brain exercise, which he helped develop with the late Dr. Lawrence Katz. He is a member of the American Society for Neuroscience and The Cognitive Neuroscience Society.
BOOK: A HAPPY CHRISTMAS CEILIDH
AUTHOR: ZOE TASIA
GENRE: Fantasy, YA
BLURB:
It's their first winter holiday together on the Shrouded Isle…
American widow Becca, her two daughters, and her Scottish boyfriend, Greg, are looking forward to celebrating.
But trouble comes…
As an elf on the shelf moves of its own volition, a snowman attracts too much attention, and an elderly neighbor is in dire need of Christmas cheer.
To make matters worse...
Becca and Greg find perfect gifts for each other. Unfortunately, neither can afford the price.
Hilarity ensues as they struggle to find solutions for their problems. A Happy Christmas Ceilidh is a heart-warming tale about what happens when love brings a family and a community together.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Zoe Tasia grew up in Oklahoma and spent seven years in Scotland. Now she resides in the great state of Texas, where everything’s bigger and better, or so she’s told by the natives. Zoe is married to an understanding Greek, has two grown sons, and three cat overlords. When she’s not giving her make-believe friends full rein, she enjoys the opera, ballet, well-chilled champagne and books. Kilts and Catnip, a finalist for the 2019 National Readers’ Choice Awards and semi-finalist for the 2019 Ozma Book Awards, is the first book in her fantasy series, The Shrouded Isle. The series includes Bagpipes and Basil (The Shrouded Isle Book 2), Tartan and Thyme (The Shrouded Isle Book 3), two novellas, A Happy Christmas Ceilidh and Autumn Antics, and the novelette, Poetry and Pyres. There will be three more books in the series: Faeries and Flax, Book 4, Shortbread and Sage, Book 5 and a yet to be titled Book 6. More The Shrouded Isle holiday shorts will be coming soon. Tasia’s unpublished book, Doolittling, won second place in the 2023 Rudy Contest. Three of her shorter pieces are published in the anthology, Quick Draw!: Fast and Funny Fiction. A short story of hers is in the anthology, The Haunted Train: Creep Tales from the Railways. Zoe Tasia has also co-written three books published under the pen name Zari Reede. Reede’s unpublished book, Voodoo Blues on Bayou Lafourche, is a finalist for the 2022 Killer Nashville Claymore Awards.
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West Virginia Writers, Inc. Annual Writing Contest, Honorable Mention, Novel, 1998.
New York Book Festival, Honorable Mention, Writer Wellness, 2020.
Next Generation Indie Book Awards, Finalist, Writer Wellness, 2021.
Northeast Ohio Romance Writers of America, Member of the Year, 2020.
Northeast Ohio Romance Writers of America, First Book Award, 2020.
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