by MARIA ELENA SANDOVICI<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Genre: Historical Fiction \/ Ghosts<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Publisher: Independently Published<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Date of Publication: March 26, 2020<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Number of Pages: 252<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n \nWhile Katie is not afraid of the ghost stories she\u2019s heard, she is afraid of the monster storm approaching. As even die-hard Islanders evacuate, her fears grow\u2014fear of the looming hurricane, fear that she\u2019s talentless as a painter, fear that her relationship with her boyfriend is already over. As Katie struggles against her fears, the past whispers to her of the women who died there and the haunting similarities they share with Katie\u2019s own life. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Through three different timelines, Storms of Malhado<\/em> weaves a story of Galveston\u2019s past, underscoring its danger and isolation, as well as its remarkable resilience, and its capacity for both nostalgia and reinvention. Full of contradictions, at once insular and open to the world, Galveston Island is as much a character of the novel as Katie, Suzanne, Betty, their lovers, and their confidantes.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n CLICK TO PURCHASE<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Amazon<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sandovici is a 2008 graduate of John Ross Palmer’s Escapist Mentorship Program, a program that teaches artists business skills. She resigned from her tenured academic position in December 2018 and opened her own private gallery space. Her previous works of fiction are Dogs with Bagels, Stray Dogs and Lonely Beaches, Lost Path to Solitude, The Adventures of Miss Vulpe<\/em>, and Lone Wolf.<\/em> She is also the author of Stop and Smell the Garbage<\/em>, a volume of poetry in the voice of her dog, Holly Golightly. You can follow her daily adventures on her blog <\/span>HaveWatercolorsWillTravel.blog<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n WEBSITE<\/span><\/a> \u2551 <\/span>FACEBOOK<\/span><\/a> \u2551 <\/span>TWITTER<\/span><\/a> \u2551 <\/span>INSTAGRAM<\/span><\/a> \u2551 <\/span>YOUTUBE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n PINTEREST<\/span><\/a> \u2551<\/span>AMAZON AUTHOR PAGE<\/span><\/a>\u2551 <\/span>GOODREADS<\/span><\/a> \u2551 <\/span>BOOKBUB<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Click for direct links to reviews and special feature posts. <\/strong><\/p>\n
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ABOUT THE BOOK: <\/strong>Galveston Island, Texas, September 2008. Katie doesn\u2019t believe in ghosts. And she certainly doesn\u2019t believe the rumors that her family\u2019s home is haunted, despite its tragic history: two young women who lived there in different eras died in hurricanes\u2014one during Hurricane Carla in 1961, one during the Great Storm of 1900, the greatest natural disaster to befall the United States. But that was the past, a fact Katie reminds herself of when she returns to Galveston to await Hurricane Ike with her parents and boyfriend in her family\u2019s Broadway mansion, hoping to rekindle her flailing relationship. <\/span><\/span><\/span>
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: <\/strong>Maria Elena Sandovici is a full-time writer, artist, and gallery owner living in Houston, Texas. After obtaining a Ph.D. in political science from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 2005, her curiosity led her to Texas, where she taught at Lamar University for fourteen years. She felt attracted to Galveston Island from her first visit and lived there part-time for three years before her artistic career took her to Houston. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.lonestarliterary.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/article_body_images\/LoneStarBookBlogTours_6.png\")
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