Indie Next List Notables

April, 2010


Very happy to report that The Lotus Eaters is honored to be included on the Indie Next List.


U.K. Edition of The Lotus Eaters

January, 2010

  

Very happy to announce that HarperPress will be publishing the British Edition of the novel.  Now I have an excuse to go visit the British museum.

Audiobook Rights

November, 2009

  

Blackstone Audiobooks has purchased audio rights to The Lotus Eaters and will be releasing it as an audio book. No more excuses that you don’t have time to read because of the long drive time commuting! I’m excited to finally be able to hear all the Vietnamese words pronounced correctly!

Big Debuts

Publishers Weekly

April 20, 2009

  

Hilary Teeman at St. Martin’s won an auction for Tatjana Soli’s debut, The Lotus Eaters, with Nat Sobel at Sobel Weber selling North American rights. This novel, described by Richard Russo as “beautiful and harrowing,” follows an American combat photographer covering the Vietnam War as she breaks into the man’s world of war photojournalism and finds herself torn between two men. Soli’s short fiction has been twice listed in the “100 Distinguished Stories” in Best American Short Stories and nominated for the Pushcart. SMP plans a summer 2010 publication.


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News

The Lotus Eaters is included in

O Magazine's Books for Spring!

Lotus Eaters Lead Review in People

April 19, 2010 Issue

Appearances

West Hollywood Book Festival

September 26th, 2010   Time: TBA


Panel & Signing

647 N. San Vicente Blvd.

Los Angeles, CA

http://www.westhollywoodbookfair.org

news & events

Beverly Hills Women’s Club

September 24, 2010  10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.,        

                                    followed by Brunch

Reading & Tea

Beverly Hills Women’s Club

1700 Chevy Chase Drive

Beverly Hills, CA 90210

(310) 276-5804

http://www.bhwomensclub.org

Long Beach Festival of Authors

March 12, 2011  9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.


Long Beach Convention Center

300 East Ocean Boulevard

Long Beach, CA 90802

www.literarywomen.org

The Lotus Eaters Named Must-Read

for Summer on Huff Post

June 3, 2010


On Huff Post today, Nina Sankovitch named The Lotus Eaters as one of her 6 Best Reads for the Summer:


    "The emotional blockbuster and my absolute must-read for the summer is The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli. The book begins in 1975 Saigon, on the eve of its takeover by the North Vietnamese. For photojournalist Helen Adams the fall of Saigon means the end of what has been the most provoking, challenging, and addictive engagement of her life. Her work in Vietnam, taking pictures of the war, seemed like "the most important work in the world. Leaving was like dying." 


To read the entire article, go to:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nina-sankovitch/six-bang-up-books-for-sum_b_597906.html

Wordstock Book Fair

October 9-10, 2010  10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.


Panel

Saturday, October 9th 

11:00 a.m.

Panel Discussion “From the Front Lines” Writing about war-time with co-panelists Matt Bors, Kelong Ung, and the moderator, Tim DuRoche.

McMenamin’s Stage


Reading with Annabel Lyon

Saturday, October 9th 

2:00 p.m.

Wieden + Kennedy Stage


The Wordstock Book Fair @ the Oregon Convention Center

777 NE MLK Jr. Boulevard

Portland, Oregon

Tickets will be available at the door for $5.

Web Link:

Wordstock Festival

Booklists for Boomers

June, 2010


    Lotus Eaters was named an Editor's Pick by AARP Magazine in conjunction with Publishers Weekly! 

    "This suspenseful and eloquent novel illustrates the violence of the Vietnam War as witnessed by three photographers. It offers a harrowing depiction of how, as the country burned, love and hope triumphed."

Literary Orange

April 9, 2011  8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.


Panel TBA

Book Festival

UC Irvine Student Center

UCI Campus

http://www.literaryorange.org/index.php

Carmel Public Library Foundation

September 7, 2010   7:00 - 8:30 p.m.


Reading & Signing

Art & Literary Series

Sunset Center, Carpenter Hall

San Carlos and 9th Street

Carmel, CA

(831) 624-2811

http://carmelpubliclibraryfoundation.org/events-other-fun-stuff/upcoming-events-activities/

More Magazine Names Lotus Eaters Top Summer Read!

July, 2010

Between the Pages

September 16, 2010  7:30 p.m.


Reading with Jane Smiley, author, Private Life; Joshilyn Jackson, author, Backseat Saints; Josie Brown, author, Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives; and Eileen Goudge, author, Once in a Blue Moon. This event is a fundraiser for Kitsap Regional Library Foundation.


Bainbridge Island Performing Arts Center

200 Madison Avenue N.

Bainbridge Isle, WA 98110-1812

www.betweenthepagesevents.org

Book Club Luncheon

February 4, 2011   Time TBA


Manhattan Beach Badminton Club

Manhattan Beach, CA

AAUW Laguna Beach Literary Luncheon

March 19, 2011  10:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.


Reading & Signing with Other Authors - TBA

Surf & Sand Resort

1555 South Coast Highway

Laguna Beach, CA

Nancy Pearl’s Book Lust Forever Reviews The Lotus Eaters!

July 31, 2010


"... this is—not to mince words—a devastatingly awesome novel. It’s one of those books that I didn’t want to put down—I resented everything else that I needed to do in my life, because I didn’t want to stop reading it. In Greek mythology, the lotus-eaters were so addicted to the narcotic properties of the lotus plant that they were unable to live in the real world. The irony of Soli’s title is that what her characters become addicted to is the antithesis of narcotic bliss and lethargy, lassitude and dreaminess: it’s not sloth, a dream life, or being stoned that they crave, but rather the frightening narcotic of war and its attendant dangers."


To read the entire review, go to:

http://nancypearlbooks.wordpress.com/

Whittier College Book Fair

March 26, 2011 


Details TBA

Beverly Hills Literary Escape

October 22-24, 2010 


Details TBA