Monday, January 30, 2023

Just Around the Corner on NetGalley



During the month of February, my new novel Too Early to Know Who's Winning will be available for review on NetGalley! If you're a reader and reviewer curious to get an early look at this sometimes grim, sometimes humorous tale of liberal American women approaching retirement during the Trump presidency, the NetGalley e-version should be available starting February 1.

The novel is also available for preorder direct from the publisher. Use the code PREORDER2023 for a 15% discount!

Advance Praise:
“With clear eyes, courage, and wit, Karla Huebner’s Too Early to Know Who’s Winning captures the uncertainty, fear, desperation, and grief of the early Trump era. Through the eyes of her protagonist, professor and historian Jacobine Flaa, Huebner recounts the harrowing days of the new normal, a time in which everyday life seemed otherworldly and the unimaginable likely, in which hate-speech, bigotry, and outbursts of violence began to fray communities, and Americans rediscovered their capacity for protest. From ‘American carnage’ to alternative facts, from the Muslim ban to the Women’s March, from the Russia investigation to Charlottesville, Huebner documents the emotion and psychological fracturing of a nation. Too Early to Know Who’s Winning is also a penetrating exploration of mortality, companionship, mental health, and the search for glimmers of light in an ever-darkening world.”--Fredrick Soukup, author of Bliss and Blood Up North

Friday, January 27, 2023

Longlisted for the Somerset Award

In Search of the Magic Theater is one of an impressive longlist of books in the running for the 2022 Somerset Award, which is given for Literary and Contemporary Fiction as a genre division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

I'm hoping it will make it to the shortlist and, of course, on up from there!

Wednesday, January 25, 2023

Getting Ready for Another Goodreads Giveaway

If you haven't yet gotten a copy of In Search of the Magic Theater, I've arranged to do a second Goodreads giveaway--this one of twenty copies of the Kindle edition!
Karla Huebner's IN SEARCH OF THE MAGIC THEATER is a well-told, bittersweet tale that evokes the certainties and uncertainties of youth, as well as the regret at the missed opportunities of middle age, and the possibility of redemption.--Craig Jones, for IndieReader
The giveaway will begin February 13 and go through March 12.

Tuesday, January 24, 2023

Against the World

Historian Tara Zahra's new book Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars is out!

Prior to World War I, many people enthusiastically envisioned a borderless world—one with unrestricted travel, migration, and trade. International movements for women’s rights and world peace were also strong. Yet reaction was also growing, with strong support for nationalism. There was also recognition that the global economy threatened homegrown and local foods, domestically produced goods, and back-to-the-land communities. The “Spanish flu” heightened anxieties about migration, while the Great Depression intensified demands for economic autonomy. Immigration restrictions and punitive tariffs increased, yet social protections increased, colonialism lost favor, and there were efforts to make the global economy more equitable. Popular revolt against globalization took hold in democracies and dictatorships alike. Tara Zahra’s archival research in five languages will be informative reading for all who seek to understand the anti-global currents of the twentieth century, and today’s battles over international trade, immigration, public health and global inequality.

Thursday, January 19, 2023

New Novel Available for Pre-Order!

That's right, I've got a second novel on the way. (I've waited a bit to announce it in order to focus on promoting In Search of the Magic Theater.)

Too Early to Know Who's Winning, a novel of liberal women during the Trump years, is available for preorder NOW, and ONLY from the publisher, Black Rose Writing, at
https://blackrosewriting.com/womens/tooearlytoknowwhoswinning
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If you order before March 23, 2023, use the promo code PREORDER2023 for a 15% discount!


Copies will ship March 23.

It’ll show up on Goodreads, Amazon, and other sites very soon, including NetGalley starting February 1.

Sunday, January 15, 2023

Discussion Questions for In Search of the Magic Theater

Book groups are taking an interest in In Search of the Magic Theater, and I'm thrilled!

I've put together some discussion questions to get your book group started talking. (To save these, just right-click and download.)