At Last! At Last! Big News!

Sorry I've been so lax about posting to this blog, but it has been a very strange summer. Now, however, I have BIG NEWS! Sarah Shoemaker, Northport resident and author of the acclaimed Mr. Rochester, has a new novel coming out on September 6, and Dog Ears Books is getting together with Sarah and the Leelanau Township Library and Friends for an open house-signing-launch at the library in Northport! You can read about the book here, but mark your calendar now, because the event is the Tuesday evening following Labor Day, and you don't want to forget. Doors will open at 7:30 p.m., books will be available for purchase, author will be happy to sign books. There will be no formal presentation, so just drop by whenever you can make it, and we will be there -- probably not past 9 p.m., but you'll want to come before refreshments run out, anyway. Hint: Think Greek. 

 

Mr. Rochester Came Back!

Not that he ever left Northport or Dog Ears Books since our big launch in May of 2017, but Sarah Shoemaker’s novel, Mr. Rochester, my bestseller of 2017, is now out in paperback. And I have signed copies available! So attention book clubs: Read both Mr. Rochester and Jane Eyre and double your discussion fun!

Here I must digress to share a story someone told me in the bookstore last week. A customer browsing the dog books read aloud the title, Bad Dogs Have More Fun, and I couldn’t let it pass without a remark. I said I was skeptical. After all, there aren’t many places you can expect a welcome for a badly behaved dog, while a well-behaved dog can enjoy many more aspects of life with its resident human beings. The woman agreed. Then she told me that her family had once had such a bad dog that they spoke of the dog to each other as — not, I think, its given name — Mrs. Rochester. “Because,” she went on to explain, “whenever we had company, we had to lock her upstairs.” 

Sarah Shoemaker, what do you think of that?

Mr. Rochester

by Sarah Shoemaker

Paper, $14.99

Tuesday is the BIG DAY!

Northport author Sarah Shoemaker’s debut novel, Mr. Rochester, inspired by Charlotte Bronte's classic Jane Eyre, will be officially released, simultaneously in the U.S., England, and Australia, by Grand Central Publishing in New York on May 9, 2017, and offered for sale by Dog Ears Books beginning at 7 p.m. that Tuesday at a world premiere book launch. The launch will take place Spice World Cafe in Northport, across Waukazoo Street from the bookstore, and Shoemaker will be on hand for the celebration and to sign books for purchasers. Dessert and punch will be served.

(Book price is $27 + sales tax, for a total of $28.62. Payment by cash or check only, please. For your convenience, I am accepting prepaid orders now.)

To whet your appetite for the book, read this review/interview by Mary Sharratt of the Historical Novel Society. Sharratt calls the novel a "tour de force." That's what I've been saying all along!

Author Sarah Shoemaker