With over seventy-eight million baby boomers alive today, a demand for women’s fiction that deals with age-appropriate issues has grown exponentially in recent years. Out of the ever-increasing number of novelists that feature characters in their 40’s, 50’s, and 60’s, best-selling author Allison Bottke has distinguished herself as a true “queen” of boomer lit.

This summer, Allison will launch her new Va-Va-Va Boom series, published by David C Cook, where vibrant, successful fifty-somethings share laughter, tears, and advice as they pop into each others’ lives via the Internet—and the airlines! Brought together in an online community known as Boomer Babes Rock, Susan, Patricia, and Mary form a fast friendship, even though they live in different parts of the country and lead completely different lives.

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Rostam: Battle with the Deevs released in time for Persian New Year.

Growing up as 1/2 American 1/2 Iranian kids during the 1970s in Tehran, childhood friends Bruce Bahmani and Jamie Douraghy spent their time reading, swapping and selling comic books with their friends. When not reading comics, they spent time listening intently as their fathers and uncles told fantastic stories about the great Persian heroes from The Shahnameh. Little did they know that 30 years later, after working together on a serialized educational comic book, that collective past experiences would inspire them to create a new world by blending ancient persian adventure stories, with the visual storytelling format of the modern american comic book; a true blending of cultures.

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