*Notable Quotable & Giveaway!* OLD BUILDINGS IN NORTH TEXAS by Jen Waldo

OLD BUILDINGS

IN NORTH TEXAS

by

JEN WALDO

  Sub-genre: Literary Fiction / Dramedy

Publisher: Arcadia Books

Date of Publication: April 1, 2018

Number of Pages: 213

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After rehab, Olivia, a 32-year-old cocaine addict, is required to move back in with her mother and pregnant sister. Having left a promising career in journalism in New York, she’s now working as a sales assistant for a family friend in her home town in North Texas. 

Under pressure from her court-mandated counselor – an old high school friend - to take up a hobby, Olivia decides on "urbexing." Soon she’s breaking into derelict homes, ex-prisons, and old drive-ins across North Texas, and it’s not long before she’s looting state property and making money off the possessions, fixtures, and fittings that have been left behind.

Old Buildings in North Texas is about a modern woman’s search for personal equilibrium and wild adventure -- the attempt to find stability in existence without losing sight of what makes life worth living. Jen Waldo’s style modulates effortlessly from domestic nuance to taut adventure, tackling social and moral transgressions with incisive observation and vivid humor.

PRAISE FOR OLD BUILDINGS IN NORTH TEXAS

“A lot of Jen Waldo’s debut novel takes place out on the porch of Olivia’s mother’s house. […] With its casual, confidential tone, Old Buildings in North Texas puts the reader in one of those porch chairs, reclining on a warm evening with a cool drink.” -- The Skinny

“Old Buildings in North Texas is an amusingly written and well worked book” -- Trip Fiction

“This novel is an absolute blast. There are serious moments of course, but Jen Waldo looks for the comedy in everything to create a memorable scenario that reminded me very much of the style of Six Feet Under.” 
-- Shiny New Books

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Jen Waldo lived in seven countries over a thirty-year period and has now settled, along with her husband, in Marble Falls, Texas. She first started writing over twenty years ago when, while living in Cairo, she had difficulty locating reading material and realized she’d have to make her own fun. She has since earned an MFA and written a number of novels. Her work has been published in The European and was shortlisted in a competition by Traveler magazine. Old Buildings in North Texas and Why Stuff Matters have been published in the UK by Arcadia Books. Jen’s fiction is set in Northwest Texas and she’s grateful to her hometown of Amarillo for providing colorful characters and a background of relentless whistling wind. 

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*Read a Deleted Scene & Enter to Win!* THE WIDOW'S WATCHER by Eliza Maxwell

THE WIDOW'S WATCHER

by

ELIZA MAXWELL

Genre: Literary Fiction 
Publisher: Lake Union Press

Date of Publication: March 29, 2018

Number of Pages: 286 

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From Eliza Maxwell, the bestselling author of The Unremembered Girl, comes a gripping novel about the mysteries that haunt us and the twists of fate that can unravel them…

Living in the shadow of a decades-old crime that stole his children from him, reclusive Lars Jorgensen is an unlikely savior. But when a stranger walks onto the ice of a frozen Minnesota lake, her intentions are brutally clear, and the old man isn’t about to let her follow through.

Jenna Shaw didn’t ask for Lars’s help, nor does she want it. After he pulls her from the brink, however, Jenna finds her desire to give up challenged by their unlikely friendship. In Jenna, Lars recognizes his last chance for redemption. And in her quest to solve the mysteries of Lars’s past and bring him closure, Jenna may find the way out of her own darkness. 

But the truth that waits threatens to shatter it all. When secrets are surrendered and lies are laid bare, Jenna and Lars may find that accepting the past isn’t their greatest challenge. Can they afford the heartbreaking price of forgiveness?

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"There was a moment I had to tell myself that this is just a book..."

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"A well-paced story of healing, forgiveness and tragedy, with enough unexpected twists to keep readers guessing.”

-- Amber Cowie, author of Rapid Falls

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FROM THE WIDOW’S WATCHER

BY ELIZA MAXWELL

AUTHOR’S NOTE: This scene gives us a glimpse into Jenna’s childhood and her relationship with her mother, who had just sent nine-year-old Jenna to the store to buy cigarettes. I didn’t want to do it, but in the end, it didn’t move the story forward, so it ended up on the cutting room floor. I’m pleased to be able to share it now.

In the end, she'd gift wrapped her mother's cigarettes, pleased with the neat, tidy corners she managed. Opening her new pens, Jenna used one to write "I love you, Mom" on the blank card with the balloon and slid it into the envelope, tucking it by the corner beneath the red bow that she affixed to the top of the package.

When Kaye's heels gave their sharp, familiar clip-clop across the wooden floors of the living room, Jenna jumped up and smiled as her mother exited the house.

Kaye was polished and shining, lovely despite the lines she bemoaned around her eyes as she slathered them with cold cream every night before bed.

Jenna held her hand out with the little gift, so pretty and neat.

"What's this?" Kaye had asked her, her head tilted to the side.

"It's for you," Jenna said.

"For me?" She flipped the little box over and ran a lacquered nail beneath the flap Jenna had taped down and began to unwrap the package.

When she saw Jenna had gift wrapped her cigarettes, she gave her daughter a bemused smile.

"Aren't you a silly thing," Kaye said, shaking her head. She leaned over and placed a palm on Jenna's cheek.

"Listen, I have to go to work for a little while," she said.

"But it's Saturday."

"Saturday or not, we still have bills to pay, Jenna." Kaye's voice had gone stern and distracted as she opened her handbag to deposit the cigarettes inside.

"I'll be home later," she'd said, glancing up the street at the sound of her boss's green Oldsmobile turning the corner.

"Maybe we'll go out and get a pizza tonight," she said with a smile. "Celebrate. Would you like that?"

Jenna nodded.

"How's my hair look?" she asked, fluffing the brunette locks she'd washed and set that morning. But the Oldsmobile had pulled alongside the front of the house and gave a honk, so Kaye didn't wait for a reply.

She clip-clopped her way down the steps.

"Oh, Jenny," she turned and pranced a few steps back toward her daughter. "Throw that away for me, will you?"

She pressed the crumpled wad of wrapping paper into Jenna's hands. The red bow and the little card, unopened, were still attached.

"Thanks, Hon," she said. She gave her daughter a wink and a wave as she hurried to the waiting car.

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Eliza Maxwell lives in Texas with her ever-patient husband and two kids. She's an artist and writer, an introvert and a British cop drama addict. She loves nothing more than to hear from readers.

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