Amy Shearn

1 month ago | courtneymaum.substack.com | Courtney Maum |Amy Shearn |Marcy Dermansky |Leigh Stein

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2 months ago | redcarpetcrash.com | Colleen Oakley |Patti Callahan Henry |Amy Shearn

The book is in stores on Tuesday, March 11th from Berkley. Click on the link to buy a copy. https://amzn.to/4315T75Jane and Dan are celebrating their 20th anniversary and decide to go to a different, more expensive restaurant. Jane is not very happy, her teenage kids don’t need her anymore, she thinks Dan is cheating on her and her novel bombed.

2 months ago | redcarpetcrash.com | Carlie Walker |Patti Callahan Henry |Colleen Oakley |Amy Shearn

The book is in stores on Tuesday, March 18th from Berkley. Click on the link to buy a copy. https://amzn.to/4316ZzJMax owned a restaurant until it went under and now she works for a catering company making very little money. She also looks like the twin of the Prime Minister of a European country, Sofia Christiansen and is asked by the CIA to be her during her summer vacation in Italy and will be paid $5 million, as it turns out someone is trying to kill her.

2 months ago | redcarpetcrash.com | Patti Callahan Henry |Colleen Oakley |Amy Shearn

The book is in stores on Tuesday, March 18th from Atria. Click on the link to buy a copy. https://amzn.to/4i4OoY8In 1927, Bronwyn Newcastle Fordham, age 30, vanished from her home in South Carolina, leaving behind a husband and a 12-year-old daughter, Clara. She had written a clever children’s book, with an invented language, that became very successful and left behind a sequel, that was never published.

2 months ago | redcarpetcrash.com | Amy Shearn |Patti Callahan Henry |Colleen Oakley

The book is in stores on Tuesday, March 18th from Putnam. Click on the link to buy a copy. https://amzn.to/4i1bVciThe year is 2020 and covid virus is spreading fast and everyone is on lockdown. For Rachel, it means staying in her apartment and taking care of her 3 kids on a part-time basis. She’s divorcing her husband Josh and they have joint custody. It’s also an awakening for her, she finds she’s horny as hell, not that she’s free of her husband.