Name: Viola Shipman, Book Launch for THE PAGE TURNER
Start: 2025-04-08T18:30:00-04:00
Location: FoxTale Book Shoppe

Viola Shipman, Book Launch for THE PAGE TURNER

VENUE CHANGE! THIS EVENT WILL NOW TAKE PLACE AT FOXTALE BOOK SHOPPE!
Come celebrate Viola Shipman aka Wade Rouse, and his new book THE PAGE TURNER with us, April 8th, at 6:30pm. This is a book purchase required event. Please save your pre-order receipt as there will be a grand giveaway from Wade! It will total over $1,500 in cash and prizes! WOW!
Preorder your book here: https://foxtalebookshoppe.com/Shipman
THE PAGE TURNER
A young romance writer makes a discovery that throws her elitist family into chaos in this sharp, witty and entirely delightful family drama for fans of Elinor Lipman and Jennifer Weiner.
Emma Page grew up the black sheep in a bookish household, raised to believe that fine literature is the only worthy type of fiction. Her parents, self-proclaimed “serious” authors who run their own vanity press, The Mighty Pages, mingle in highbrow social circles that look down on anything too popular or mainstream, while her sister, Jess, is a powerful social media influencer whose stylish reviews can make or break a novel.
Hiding her own romance manuscript from her disapproving parents, Emma finds inspiration at the family cottage among the “fluff” they despise: the juicy summer romances that belonged to her late grandmother. But a chance discovery unearthed from her Gigi’s belongings reveals a secret that has the power to ruin her parents’ business and destroy their reputation in the industry—a secret that has already fallen into the hands of an unscrupulous publishing insider with a grudge to settle. Now Emma must decide—as much as she’s dreamed of the day when her parents are forced to confront their own egos, can she really just sit back and watch The Mighty Pages be exposed and their legacy destroyed?
Whisking you from the wealthy enclaves of the Hamptons to the sparkling shores of Lake Michigan, The Page Turner is a delectable glimpse inside the world of publishing and Viola Shipman’s most glittering achievement yet!
VIOLA SHIPMAN (WADE ROUSE)
Wade Rouse is the USA TODAY, Publishers Weekly and internationally bestselling author of 13 books, including four memoirs and nine novels. His latest book, The Secret of Snow, was an instant national and indie bestseller.
Wade’s books have been translated into 21 languages and have been bestsellers across the world. He chose his grandmother’s name, Viola Shipman, as a pen name to honor the working poor Ozarks woman whose heirlooms and family stories inspire his fiction. His first holiday and winter novel, The Secret of Snow, is a deeply moving story about family tradition, loss, coming home, the beauty of winter and second chances. The Secret of Snow was named a Best Book of Fall by Country Living Magazine and a Best Holiday Book by Good Housekeeping. Publisher’s Weekly raved, “A beautifully written story about second chances. Fans of women’s fiction won’t be able to put this down.”
Wade will publish three new books in 2022, including his first memoir in a decade, Magic Season (May/Hanover Square Press) about how the love of baseball was the only thing to bond him and his conservative Ozarks father (“Eloquent, profound, and as funny as it is heartbreaking, Magic Season is a poignant reminder that those of us who’ve had rocky upbringings have a choice—we can turn mean, or we can go down to our tenderest parts and truly be ourselves, open to love. Wade’s story will make you realize that things in life—like people—can always change, if you just don’t give up on them. This glorious memoir hits it out of the park.”—Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of With or Without You).
Wade will also publish his new summer novel, The Edge of Summer, inspired by his grandmother’s button jars in July as well as an upcoming winter/holiday novel (Graydon House Books).
A noted humorist of four memoirs, Wade was a finalist for the Goodreads Choice Awards in Humor (he lost to Tina Fey) and was named by Writer’s Digest as “The #2 Writer, Dead or Alive, We’d Like to Have Drinks With” (Wade was sandwiched between Ernest Hemingway and Hunter Thompson).
Wade’s previous novels include The Summer Cottage (a USA TODAY bestseller); The Clover Girls (a #1 Great Lakes & Midwest Indie Bestseller); The Charm Bracelet (a 2017 Michigan Notable Book of the Year); The Hope Chest; The Recipe Box; and The Heirloom Garden.
Wade’s books have been selected multiple times as Must-Reads by NBC’s Today Show, featured in the Washington Post, USA Today and on Chelsea Lately and chosen three times as Indie Next Picks by the nation’s independent booksellers.
His writing has appeared in a diverse range of publications and media, including Coastal Living, Time, All Things Considered, People, Good Housekeeping, Parade, Salon, Forbes, Writer’s Digest and Publisher’s Weekly.
Wade earned his B.A. from Drury University and his master’s in journalism from Northwestern University. He divides his time between Saugatuck, Michigan, and Palm Springs, California, and is also an acclaimed writing teacher who has mentored numerous students to become published authors.
Wade hosts the popular Facebook Live literary happy hour, “Wine & Words with Wade,” every Thursday at 6:30 p.m. EST on the Viola Shipman author page where he talks writing, inspiration and welcomes bestselling authors and publishing insiders.