Life just got more interesting for Iowa author Tracey Garvis-Graves – seven figures more interesting. Penguin Group’s Plume imprint picked up her self-published novel, “On the Island,” inking a ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of omaha.com stories. Cancel anytime. Meet Tracey Garvis Graves, author of “On the Island,” at momaha’s next book club meeting 1 p.m. Sunday at Jones Bros. Cupcakes, near ...

The Canton family lived the idyllic modern life. Handsome husband, beautiful wife, two children (one boy and one girl, of course) and a dog living on a street with like-minded, mostly compatible ...

Like most self-published authors, Tracey Garvis Graves just always wanted to write a novel and was determined not to let her “100% rejection” by agents and publishers stop her. The Des Moines wife and ...

After getting 14 form-letter rejections from literary agents, Tracey Garvis Graves figured there wasn't a market for her debut novel, a romance about two castaways stranded on a remote tropical island ...

I loved ABC's "LOST." I loved "Lord of the Flies," by William Golding (1954) and, admittedly, "The Blue Lagoon" — both 1980 film and book by Henry De Vere Stacpoole (1908). "On The Island," by Tracey ...

Bestseller Graves (On the Island) skillfully tugs on the heartstrings in this nuanced tale of two lost souls finding each other on an Oregon hiking trail. After Wren Waters’s fiancé, Rob, dies in a ...

Des Moines-based author Tracey Garvis Graves will discuss how her initially self-published novel, "On the Island," sold 365,000 copies and made the New York Times bestseller list at 7 p.m. Thursday at ...

The Cinderella story of Tracey Garvis Graves and her romance novel, "On the Island," is definitely a writer's dream. She wrote the book while working full time, then decided to self-publish it. Then ...

Meet Tracey Garvis Graves, author of “On the Island,” at momaha’s next book club meeting 1 p.m. Sunday at Jones Bros. Cupcakes, near 67th and West Center ...