Blog Posts for Deborah Shlian

Dead Air: Sammy Greene blogs

Deborah Shlian — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:06:49 -0700

Sammy Greene, star of Dead Air by Deborah Shlian & Linda Reid has decided to start her own blog. Here's her first entry. Check out the Sammy Greene website for more info on Sammy - the 5 foot tall, feisty red head with her own radio talk show.

Dead Air named "hottest new thriller" by USA Book News

Deborah Shlian — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:42:04 -0700

Dead Air by Deborah Shlian & Linda Reid won the 2009 National Best Books Award by USA Books News. Named "hottest new thriller".

Rabbit in the Moon at the 2009 Miami Book Fair

Deborah Shlian — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:48:16 -0700

Joel and I have been invited to speak at the Miami Book Fair on Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 5PM. The panel will consist of other Gold Medal Winners of the Florida Book Award. Rabbit in the Moon won the Gold for Genre Fiction. Hope to see you all there. It may even be on Book TV!

Rabbit in the Moon at the 2009 Miami Book Fair

Deborah Shlian — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:48:08 -0700

National Public Radio reviews Rabbit in the Moon by Deborah & Joel Shlian

Deborah Shlian — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:32:11 -0700

The National Public Radio review of our novel Rabbit in the Moon was aired live Tuesday July 21. WeI sat listening with a certain level of anxiety, hoping the review would be positive. And it was! We were so excited that we had to share with our friends and fans. So here is the link to the archived podcast: http://wgcu.org/programs/floridabookpage/The book can be purchased from any retail ...

National Public Radio reviews Rabbit in the Moon by Deborah & Joel Shlian

Deborah Shlian — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:31:58 -0700

Rabbit in the Moon won a ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award

Deborah Shlian — Sat, 30 May 2009 09:33:20 -0700

Rabbit in the Moon won ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year Silver Medal for Mystery! According to founder and publisher, Victoria Sutherland, winners were selected by dozens of librarians and booksellers who are experts in the subject matter of the books they judged, and who make purchasing decisions daily for their collections or bookstores. Naturally, we are thrilled. Congrats to fellow ...

Rabbit in the Moon: Zhao Ziyang's secret memoir validates the novel's contentions about Tiananmen

Deborah Shlian — Fri, 15 May 2009 08:55:49 -0700

The backdrop of our novel, Rabbit in the Moon, is the seven weeks in 1989 between the April rise of the student Democracy movement and its fall with the Tiananmen massacre on June 4. During those few weeks in 1989 that we all watched on CNN, many of the UCLA students from Mainland China who we hosted were communicating with friends and family back home. In talking with them, it was clear that ...

Rabbit in the Moon by Deborah & Joel Shlian honored in Tallahassee for Florida Book Award

Deborah Shlian — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:22:10 -0700

We just returned home after a seven hour drive from Tallahassee. Wednesday night’s Florida Heritage Awards ceremony, which included the Florida Book Awards Gold Medal winners, was quite special. After a successful book signing sponsored by the Museum of Florida History, we were ushered into a “green room” for snacks and pre-ceremony instructions. At exactly 7PM, we were told to march ...

Rabbit in the Moon: China arrests former soldier who asks for reassessment of the Tiananmen massacre

Deborah Shlian — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 09:14:04 -0700

According to a report from Civil Rights and Livelihood Watch, a human rights group out of Beijing, China has arrested Zhang Shijun, a former soldier who recently posted a letter on the Internet asking President Hu Jintao to “use his wisdom” to reevaluate what the Communist Party called a counter-revolutionary incident, but in fact was a massacre of hundreds if not thousands of student ...