Archive for April, 2011

Poe Ballantine

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As part of our tenth anniversary celebration, we want to recognize an author who has been with us since the very beginning. Over the past decade, Poe Ballantine has graced our catalogue with two incredible novels, God Clobbers Us All and Decline of the Lawrence Welk Empire along with two collections of nonfiction short stories ...Read more.

Review Buzz for The Chronology of Water

The last few weeks have been fantastic here at Hawthorne Books. Our spring title The Chronology of Water launched on April 1st and it’s been getting loads of great press!
Here’s what some of the reviewers are saying:
Debra Gwartney, The Oregonian, April 2011:
“I’m also convinced that this bold and highly unconventional book — hot, gritty, unrelenting ...Read more.

A Story Behind an Image

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A version of this post originally appeared over at Red Room in late January 2011.
In October 2011, my debut novel, The Luminist, will be published in the US and elsewhere. In late January, my publisher, Hawthorne Books, released the image that will grace the cover. When I saw it, I could not help but hear ...Read more.