Meet the Authors and Check Out These Summer Reads at Inkwood Books

Summer is the perfect time to relax by the swimming pool with a good book.
But which book?

And Inkwood Books at 216 S. Armenia Ave., Tampa, is giving you a chance to preview some choices and meet the authors.

Beatriz Williams, author of A Hundred Summers, will be at the bookstore Thursday, June 20 at 7 p.m. to discuss and sign copies of her novel about New York socialite Lily Dane, who has just returned with her family to the idyllic oceanfront community of Seaview, R.I., on Memorial Day, 1938, and is expecting another placid summer season among the familiar traditions and friendships that sustained her after heartbreak.

But when newlyweds Nick and Budgie Greenwald, Lily's former best friend and former fiance, arrive, a wildfire of gossip is set off among the elite of Seaview, who have summered together for generations. 

Williams, who lives in Greenwich, Conn., also wrote Overseas.

If you're looking for something more adventuresome, visit the bookstore Monday, June 24 at 7 p.m. to meet Kent Wascom, who will read from and sign copies of his new book, The Blood of Heaven.  

Considered to be one of the most powerful and impressive debuts Grove/Atlantic has ever published, The Blood of Heaven is an epic novel about the American frontier in the early days of the 19th century.

It tells the story of Angel Woolsack, a preacher’s son, who flees the hardscrabble life of his itinerant father, falls in with a charismatic highwayman, then settles with his adopted brothers on the rough frontier of West Florida, where American settlers are carving their place out of lands held by the Spaniards and the French. 

A New Orleans native, Wascom received his master's degree in fine arts from Florida State University. In 2012, he won the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival Prize for fiction for The Blood of Heaven, his first novel. Wascom now lives in Tallahassee.

Author Lori Roy will visit Inkwood Books Thursday, June 27 at 7 p.m. to discuss and sign copies of her newest novel, Until She Comes Home.    
                                                               
Winner of an Edgar Award for Best First Novel for Bent Road, Roy, who lives in west-central Florida, returns with a tale of suspense in which a pair of seemingly unrelated murders crumbles the facade of a changing 1958 Detroit neighborhood.

For more details, visit Inkwood Books' website or call  813-253-2638.