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The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern

The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern

A Novel, Publisher St. Martin’s Press – Preorder Now; On Sale October 8, 2024 It’s never too late for new beginnings. On the cusp of turning eighty, newly retired pharmacist …

Same Time Next Summer

A Novel, Publisher ‎ G.P. Putnam’s Sons, June 6, 2023 The ultimate summer nostalgia read, about an engaged woman who comes face to face with her first love who she …

A Right Worthy Woman

A Novel, Atria Books, June 13, 2023 In the vein of The Engineer’s Wife and Carolina Built, an inspiring novel based on the remarkable true story of Virginia’s Black Wall Street and the …

Last Seen in La Paz

Soho Press, A Novel, Published February 7, 2023 When a whirlwind romance leads to a brutal murder and the disappearance of a young Nigerian woman, PI Emma Djan resorts to …

The Rail Splitter

Publisher Republic Books, January 24, 2023 From John Cribb, author of the acclaimed novel OldAbe, comes a new work of historical fiction that brings Abraham Lincoln to life as never …

The General and Julia

A Novel, Publisher Atria Books November 14, 2023 Ulysses S. Grant reflects on the crucial moments of his life as a husband, a father, a general, and a president while …

The Diary Keepers

World War II in the Netherlands, as written by the people who lived through it Publisher Ecco/Harper Colins, February 21, 2023 A riveting look at the story of World War …

The Sisters We Were

Publisher Source Books Landmark, January 7, 2023 Pearl and Ruby’s choices drove them apart. Finding their way back to each other might be the only way forward. The weight of …

No Filter: The Good, The Bad, And The Beautiful

Publisher The Open Field/Viking, November 15, 2022 Some readers may remember author Porizkova as a supermodel in the 1980s, when she graced the cover of Sports Illustrated. Others may be …

The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern

The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern

A Novel, Publisher St. Martin’s Press – Preorder Now; On Sale October 8, 2024 It’s never too late for new beginnings. On the cusp of turning eighty, newly retired pharmacist Augusta Stern is adrift. When she relocates to Rallentando Springs—an …

Same Time Next Summer

A Novel, Publisher ‎ G.P. Putnam’s Sons, June 6, 2023 The ultimate summer nostalgia read, about an engaged woman who comes face to face with her first love who she hasn’t seen in fourteen years, but who she spent every …

Last Seen in La Paz

Soho Press, A Novel, Published February 7, 2023 When a whirlwind romance leads to a brutal murder and the disappearance of a young Nigerian woman, PI Emma Djan resorts to dangerous undercover work to track her down in Accra. Just …

The Rail Splitter

Publisher Republic Books, January 24, 2023 From John Cribb, author of the acclaimed novel OldAbe, comes a new work of historical fiction that brings Abraham Lincoln to life as never before. The Rail Splitter tells the story of Abraham Lincoln’s …

The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern

The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern

A Novel, Publisher St. Martin’s Press – Preorder Now; On Sale October 8, 2024 It’s never too late for new beginnings. On the cusp of turning eighty, newly retired pharmacist Augusta Stern is adrift. When she relocates to Rallentando Springs—an …

Same Time Next Summer

A Novel, Publisher ‎ G.P. Putnam’s Sons, June 6, 2023 The ultimate summer nostalgia read, about an engaged woman who comes face to face with her first love who she hasn’t seen in fourteen years, but who she spent every …

A Right Worthy Woman

A Novel, Atria Books, June 13, 2023 In the vein of The Engineer’s Wife and Carolina Built, an inspiring novel based on the remarkable true story of Virginia’s Black Wall Street and the indomitable Maggie Lena Walker, the daughter of a formerly enslaved …

Last Seen in La Paz

Soho Press, A Novel, Published February 7, 2023 When a whirlwind romance leads to a brutal murder and the disappearance of a young Nigerian woman, PI Emma Djan resorts to dangerous undercover work to track her down in Accra. Just …

In Memory — Mihai Radulescu

November 7, 1941 – January 6, 2024

Mihai RadulescuThe son of a Greek mother, who was the daughter of an opera singer, and a Romanian father, who was a pharmacist and amateur musician, Mihai was the great grandson of Commander Gheorghe Pastia, a philanthropist and highly decorated war hero who served in the war that freed Romania from Ottoman Rule. The family was rich in vineyards, and early in the twentieth century, Pastia used the family wealth to build an Opera House and Regional Theater which he donated to his hometown of Focsani, a midsized city that sits in the wine region at the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains. This architecturally spectacular building, built over a century ago, remains a gathering place and home that celebrates music and the arts. The Romania into which Mihai was born was distinctly Latin in temperament and language, but also a Francophile country with ties to France that went back to the 1848 Cultural Revolution.

This was the backdrop that made Mihai the person he became: a lover of wine, people, music, beautiful architecture, and not least of all, freedom. After growing up under the thumb of one of the worst Communist tyrants of the past century, in a country where freedom of speech did not exist and where citizens could arbitrarily be imprisoned or tortured, Mihai became a passionate supporter of his adopted country as well as those in the American military who risk their lives to keep us free.

Mihai and Marly

While in Romania, Mihai studied architecture, philosophy and received a law degree. Before leaving for America, he learned English by listening to an Arthur Miller play so often he had memorized it. When he met his wife, Marly, he joked that he could speak English for an hour and a half “as long as no one interrupted me.” After their marriage, he opened a business in Soho, New York, serving architects, developers, and real estate firms.

Mihai’s Beaufort story began after he left the world of architecture to become a partner in his wife’s literary agency. Mihai became a fervent supporter of the agency’s many authors and particularly enjoyed presenting new books to the international book community at the annual London Bookfair. There, his gregarious personality and his skill in making tasty little sandwiches at the agency’s table made him popular with rights directors from around the world.

Mihai was a natural host, a skill he later joyously used in Beaufort when, as a regular patron of Saltus Bar and Grill, he felt responsible for making sure everyone around him had a great time. Every Tuesday was devoted to his Taco Tuesday group organized by his “brother from another mother,” Roland Gardner.

Among their agency’s clients was the celebrated Lowcountry writer Pat Conroy. Mihai became a friend and a passionate supporter of Conroy’s work. Following Pat’s death on March 4th, 2016, Mihai applied his marketing and computer skills to reach Pat’s readers from around the world in order to raise the financial support needed for The Pat Conroy Literary Center in the hometown that Pat so loved, a love that Mihai would come to abundantly share.

Mihai is preceded in death by his parents and his younger brother, Alex, a brilliant musician who taught at Berklee College of Music in Boston, and is survived by the love of his life, his wife of 39 years, Marly Rusoff, as well as an extended family which includes sister-in- law, Tamara Rusoff-Hoen; nephews, Daniel and Ben Rusoff; stepdaughters Kari Andrade (husband Arthur); Clea Felien. His grandchildren include Matthew Andrade, Allison Andrade, and Cooper Felien.

While there will be no monuments to Mihai, his deep spirituality and love of music carried him through many difficult times. Many will miss him terribly, but his spirit may live on in music. Mihai could not live without his playlist and was comforted daily by the song Seven Spanish Angels as sung by Willie Nelson and Ray Charles. On January 6th, 2024, when Mihai’s battle against cancer was over at Beaufort Memorial Hospital, we lost a great man when his “seven Spanish Angels took another angel home.” He will be remembered fondly by all those who knew his great heart, and its huge capacity for generosity and loving care.

Nina Siegal’s upcoming nonfiction debut The Diary Keeper’s is off to a great start with a starred Publishers Weekly Review on October 24th 2022
“This diverse and enlightening collection of excerpts from journals kept during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands is an essential contribution to the history of WWII. Drawing from an archive of more than 2,100 wartime diaries . . . [Siegal] contextualizes her primary sources with exhaustive research and analysis of contemporaneous records. . . .  [A] vivid portrait of the Nazi occupation as it unfolded, providing a wider lens than many Holocaust histories. . . . [A] treasure trove of firsthand perspectives.”—Publishers Weekly (starred)

This brilliant debut YOU BELONG HERE NOW is reminiscent of Christina Baker Kline’s The Orphan Train and Kristina McMorris’s Sold on a Monday. William Kent Kruger writes “You won’t find a finer debut novel anywhere.”
Over 1600 five star reader’s rave reviews
Finalist for the Willa Award
Shortlisted for The Reading West Award 2022

Dr. Homeira Qaderi, author of DANCING IN THE MOSQUE  (Harper Collins) was in Kabul during the summer of 2021 writing her next book and fighting for gender equality when her country fell to the Taliban. After several harrowing days and nights, she and her son Siawash were evacuated to safety, literally in the last hour. We thank Harper Collins US and UK and many of our authors, including Deborah Rodriquez, Masha Hamilton, Arthur Phillips, Meg Waite Clayton, and Homeira’s translator Dr. Zaman Stanizai for providing various means of support during this stressful time.

SLEEP WELL, MY LADY is officially an Amazon Best of the Year 2021, in Mystery, Thriller, Suspense!

A hearty Congratulations to John McMahon whose third novel A GOOD KILL earned a Publishers Weekly Starred Review.  See full text of the review here… It is also a June 2021 – Amazon Book of The Month in Mystery, Thriller and Suspense category.

Each spring, Mystery Writers of America present the Edgar® Awards, widely acknowledged to be the most prestigious awards in the genre. Congratulations to all the nominees but most especially to our client Kwei Quartey who made the very short list in fiction for his novel  THE MISSING AMERICAN in which he introduces Emma Djan, a female Accra private investigator whose first missing persons case takes her into the darkest depths of the email scams and fetish priests in Ghana, the world’s Internet capital. The 75th Annual Edgar® Award winners will be announced and celebrated on April 29, 2021…

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