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TONY HILLERMAN: A LIFE by James McGrath Morris

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | Contact: Jennifer Richards, Jen@otrpr.com

Tony Hillerman’s Groundbreaking Work Explored in First Major Biography of the Mystery Writer

“Skillfully written, Hillerman’s fans will want to give this a look.”—Publishers Weekly

“The biography, like Hillerman’s fiction, is deeply researched, lovingly detailed and eminently readable. —Albuquerque Journal

“This first major biography of iconic Western mystery novelist Tony Hillerman is substantial, engrossing and often surprising.”—Roundup Magazine, Western Writers of America 

University of Oklahoma Press; 10/14/2021

TONY HILLERMAN: A Life (University of Oklahoma Press hardcover | Recorded Books audiobook | October 14, 2021) by James McGrath Morris details for the first time how the author of eighteen spellbinding detective novels simultaneously transformed a traditional genre and unlocked the mysteries of the Navajo culture to an audience of millions. His best- selling novels added Navajo Tribal Police detectives Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee to the pantheon of American fictional detectives.

Morris offers a balanced portrait of Hillerman’s personal and professional life and provides a timely appreciation of his work. In intimate detail, Morris captures the author’s early years in Depression-era Oklahoma; his near-death experience in World War II; his sixty-year marriage to Marie; his family life, including six children, five of them adopted; his work in the trenches of journalism; his affliction with PTSD and its connection to his enchantment with Navajo spirituality; and his ascension as one of America’s best-known authors of mysteries. Further, Morris uncovers the almost accidental invention of Hillerman’s iconic detective Joe Leaphorn and the circumstances that led to the addition of Jim Chee as his partner.

Hillerman’s novels were not without controversy. Morris examines the charges of cultural appropriation leveled at the author toward the end of his life. Yet, for many readers, including many Native Americans, Hillerman deserves critical acclaim for his knowledgeable and sensitive portrayal of Diné (Navajo) history, culture, and identity.

At the time of Hillerman’s death, more than 20 million copies of his books were in print. A new television show, Dark Winds, produced by AMC Networks and Dark Winds Productions LLC, is currently in production. The pilot will be directed by Chris Eyre and executive producers include Robert Redford and George R.R. Martin.

In weaving together all the elements of the author’s life, Morris drew on the untapped collection of the author’s papers, extensive archival research, interviews with friends, colleagues, and family, as well as travel in the Navajo Nation. Filled with never-before-told anecdotes and fresh insights, Tony Hillerman will thrill the author’s fans and awaken new interest in his life and literary legacy.

ABOUT THE BIOGRAPHER

James McGrath Morris is an award-winning and New York Times best-selling author. His books include The Ambulance Drivers: Hemingway, Dos Pasos, and a Friendship Made and Lost in War; Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press; and Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power. He is the former president of Biographers International Organization, of which he was among the original founders. In 2019, he received the BIO Award, which is given to a writer who has made a major contribution to the advancement of the art and craft of biography. Previous winners, among others, include: Jean Strouse, Robert Caro, Arnold Rampersad, Ron Chernow, Stacy Schiff, Taylor Branch, and Candice Millard. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

For further information and review copy requests, or to schedule an interview with James McGrath Morris, please contact Jennifer Richards at Over the River Public Relations: Jen@otrpr.com, 201-242-9637.

TONY HILLERMAN: A Lifeby James McGrath Morris

University of Oklahoma Press Hardcover | October 14, 2021 | Biography, Literary Figures Hardcover | $29.95 | ISBN: 978-0-8061-7598-0 | 352 pages with 23 b&w illustrations

E-Pub |  978-0-8061-7865-3

Recorded Books Audiobook | Narrated by George Guidall | October 2021 | $24.49 | ASIN: B09GBLHB45 | 10 hours, 50 minutes

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: #biography, #mysterywriterslife, #writerslife, DarkWinds, JamesMcGrathMorris, LeaphornChee, TonyHillerman

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November 2021 Virtual Tour for Award-Winning Author Shion Miura’s New Novel, THE EASY LIFE IN KAMUSARI, Translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter

We hope you will follow along for our virtual tour this November as we share reviews, features, and giveaways when we celebrate the release of THE EASY LIFE IN KAMUSARI by Shion Miura and translated into English by the talented Juliet Winters Carpenter. In this warm and lively coming-of-age story, Miura transports us from the trappings of city life to the trials, mysteries, and delights of a mythical mountain forest.

November 1: KIM READS AND READS

November 2: THE CAFFEINATED READER

November 3: BOOKSTASM and CRYSTAL’S LIBRARY

November 4: OH THE BOOKS SHE WILL READ

November 5: SECRET READING LIFE and JYPSYLYNN

November 7: JUST ANOTHER CHAPTER AND TEA

November 8: AIMEE DARS READS and BOOKS ON MY MIND

November 9: WE LOVE BIG BOOKS AND WE CANNOT LIE

November 10: BOOKED WITH EMMA and SUZY APPROVED BOOK REVIEWS

November 11: NURSE BOOKIE

November 12: BOOK NERD KAT and IOWA AMBER READS

November 15: TINA MAY READS

November 16: BOOKTIMISTIC

November 17: HOT COCOA READS

November 18: SUE THE BOOKIE

November 19: WELL READ TRAVELER and BOOK NERD TOKYO

November 22: DANISH MUSTARD READS

November 23: ALLEGEDLY MARI

November 24: BOOXOUL

November 28: WE BREAK FOR BOOKS

November 29: IT’S BIBLIOTHERAPY and DISCOVER A WORLD THROUGH A BOOK

November 30: WHERE THE READER GROWS

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Amazon Crossing, Fiction in translation, japanese literature, Juliet Winters Carpenter, Shion Miura, The Easy Life in Kamusari

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The Easy Life in Kamusari by Shion Miura Translated into English by Juliet Winters Carpenter

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Rachel Tarlow Gul, Rachel@otrpr.com

From Shion Miura, the award-winning author of The Great Passage, comes a rapturous novel where the contemporary and the traditional meet amid the splendor of Japan’s mountain way of life.

“Fans of all ages should enjoy the author’s blend of the traditional and the contemporary.” Kirkus Reviews

“Shion Miura, award-winning and world renown Japanese author of The Great Passage (2011), delivers yet another fascinating introspection into how the ancient and traditional worlds meet the modern and contemporary way of life in The Easy Life in Kamusari (2021) – the first book in Miura’s new Forest series. Translated into English by superb veteran translator, Juliet Winters Carpenter, this upcoming novel…unravels into a beautiful coming-of-age tale that makes the reader long for a greener life – one without phones, the internet, and where sentences end in ‘naa-naa.’” Asia Media International

Just in time for the holiday season comes, THE EASY LIFE IN KAMUSARI, an uplifting and absorbing story that is both simply told and full of beauty and depth.  Written by the award-winning Japanese author, Shion Miura and translated into English for the first time by Juliet Winters Carpenter, one of the foremost translators of Japanese literature, the novel will be out November 2nd from Amazon Crossing.

The narrator of the novel, Yuki Hirano, is just out of high school when his parents enroll him, against his will, in a forestry training program in the remote mountain village of Kamusari.  No phone, no internet, no shopping. Just a small, inviting community where the most common expression is “take it easy.”

At first, Yuki is exhausted, fumbles with the tools, asks silly questions, and feels like an outcast. Kamusari is the last place a city boy from Yokohama wants to spend a year of his life. But as resistant as he might be, the scent of the cedars and the staggering beauty of the region have a pull.

Yuki learns to fell trees and plant saplings. He begins to embrace local festivals, he’s mesmerized by legends of the mountain, and he might be falling in love. In learning to respect the forest on Mt. Kamusari for its majestic qualities and its inexplicable secrets, Yuki starts to appreciate Kamusari’s harmony with nature and its ancient traditions.

In this warm and lively coming-of-age story, Miura transports us from the trappings of city life to the trials, mysteries, and delights of a mythical mountain forest.

For further information and review copy requests, please contact Rachel Tarlow Gul at Over the River Public Relations: rachel@otrpr.com.

THE EASY LIFE IN KAMUSARI

By Shion Miura

Translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter

Amazon Crossing; November 2, 2021

Literary Fiction | 208 pp. | Paperback: $14.95, ISBN#: 978-1542027168;

Kindle: $4.99, ISBN#: 978-1542027144

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Amazon Crossing, Amazon Publishing, fiction, Fiction in translation, japanese literature, Juliet Winters Carpenter, Literary fiction, Over the River PR, Over the River Public Relations, Shion Miura

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September 2021 Virtual Tour for Bestselling Author Trisha Thomas’ New Historical Fiction, WHAT PASSES AS LOVE

We’re excited to announce this terrific lineup of bloggers who will join us in celebrating the release of Trisha Thomas’ new historical novel, WHAT PASSES AS LOVE! This heartrending and breathtaking novel is about a young woman who pays a devastating price for freedom. We hope you will follow along as we share reviews, features, Q&A, excerpts, and book giveaways.

“Thomas’ well-researched and compelling novel charts Dahlia’s complex journey of escape, reinvention and self-acceptance. Fans of Alena Dillon and Lucinda Riley will be moved by this historical glimpse into a brutal time period. Not shying away from the cruelties of slavery, Thomas gives a voice to the enslaved by exploring the power of shared humanity and newfound courage.” – Booklist

“The author really gets inside Dahlia’s head, creating a protagonist who knows how to make the best of a bad situation and who constantly puzzles over the enigma of being neither Black nor white, a girl caught in the middle. She’s resourceful, a chance-taker who dreams and schemes until opportunities present themselves. It’s impossible not to root for her, however risky her actions.” – Historical Novel Society

Wednesday, September 1: OYNIDA LOVES BOOKS, IT’S A BOOKISH WORLD, HEY THAT’S JAZ

Thursday, September 2: BOOK GIRL MAGIC 

Friday, September 3: NURSE BOOKIE  

Tuesday, September 7: BLACK, BIRACIAL AND BOOKISH, ALWAYS WITH A BOOK/K2 READER 

Wednesday, September 8: DAI 2 DAI READER, THIS BROWN GIRL READS

Thursday, September 9: ARMED WITH A BOOK, READING WITH GLAMOUR

Friday, September 10: TRAVEL WITH A BOOK

Sunday, September 12: COCO CHASING ADVENTURES

Monday, September 13: MOMMA LEIGH ELLEN’S BOOK NOOK

Tuesday, September 14: LITERARY QUICKSAND, SUZY APPROVED BOOK REVIEWS

Wednesday, September 15: BLISS AND BOOKS

Thursday, September 16: BOOKS, LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING

Friday, September 17: WHAT’S BETTER THAN BOOKS

Monday, September 20: READER THEN BLOGGER. KIM READS AND READS

Tuesday, September 21: TARHEEL READER

Wednesday, September 22: JYPSY LYNN, SECRET READING LIFE

Thursday, September 23: BOOKAPOTAMUS

Friday, September 24: SOME KIND OF A LIBRARY

Monday, September 27: SHE JUST LOVES BOOKS 

Tuesday, September 28: WE LOVE BIG BOOKS AND WE CANNOT LIE

Wednesday, September 29: READING MAMA REVIEWS

Thursday, September 30: TORI LOVING WORDS

Friday, October 1: BOOKS EN VOGUE

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: African American history, Black History, blog tour, fiction, historical fiction, Lake Union Publishing, Literary fiction, September blog tour, September book, Trisha Thomas, women's fiction

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September 2021 Virtual Book Tour for JANE OF BATTERY PARK by Jaye Viner

Announcing the wonderful lineup for the virtual book tour on behalf of JANE OF BATTERY PARK by Jaye Viner. We are thrilled to have all of these top-notch bloggers on board and can’t wait to share a month’s worth of reviews, spotlights, excerpts and giveaways! Jaye Viner’s debut political thriller will be out on 8/31/2021 from Red Hen Press.

“JANE OF BATTERY PARK is an atmospheric novel centered by its characters’ determination, regret, and second chances.” — Foreword Reviews

“In Viner’s exquisite debut, a Southern California woman raised in a cult struggles to reconnect with a lost love amid a dystopian society…With a wholly original and eerily suspenseful story, Viner has created a modern society that’s just creepy enough to be believable. Fans of Margaret Atwood will eat this up.” — Publishers Weekly

Tuesday, August 31 — NURSE BOOKIE

Wednesday, September 1 — JYPSY LYNN and PURRFECT PAGES

Thursday, September 2 — LILACS AND LITERATURE 

Friday, September 3 — SECRET READING LIFE

Tuesday, September 7 — AMY’S BOOK NOOK 

Wednesday, September 8 — CRYSTAL’S LIBRARY

Thursday, September 9 — READING THROUGH NAPTIME 

Friday, September 10 — TINA MAY READS 

Monday, September 13 — BOOKS N YOGA PANTS 

Tuesday, September 14 — SUZY APPROVED BOOK REVIEWS

Wednesday, September 15 — LONDON AIRY LIBRARY

Thursday, September 16 — GIRL WHO READS

Friday, September 17 — THE BOOKISH ALIX 

Monday, September 20 — DIARIES OF A BIBLIOPHILE 

Tuesday, September 21 —  IT’S BIBLIOTHERAPY 

Wednesday, September 22 — KARA BOOKSTAGRAM 

Thursday, September 23  — BOOKED AND LOVING IT 

Friday, September 24 — WE LOVE BIG BOOKS AND WE CANNOT LIE 

Monday, September 27 — LINDA’S BOOK OBSESSION 

Tuesday, September 28 — BOOKS ON MY MIND

Wednesday, September 29 — KATIE NEEDS A BIGGER BOOKSHELF 

Thursday, September 30 — BOOKS, LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING 

Friday, October 1 — WHIMSICALY ME +  STOREYBOOK REVIEWS

Filed Under: Blog Tours Tagged With: Jane of Battery Park, Jaye Viner, Political thriller, Red Hen Press, romantic suspense

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