Location: Monrovia, CA 91016, United States

An intuitional, Secret Story writing workshop conducted by S.L. Stebel, successful novelist, playwright and screenwriter. Designed for all writers—whether coffee house scribblers, journal memoirists, or published authors—who have ever felt the pull of a story struggling to emerge only to be frustrated by blind alleys, dead ends or a seeming failure of inspiration. Using simple but powerful techniques developed over the past few decades in workshops he has conducted in the U.S. and abroad, Stebel's method is designed to unblock writers and free them to tell the stories they were born to tell. Writers who wish to have their work mined for hidden treasures should bring three pages of a novel, short story, memoir or script.

Talent can't be taught but writing can! Read Double Your Creative Power by S.L. Stebel, the man Ray Bradbury called "the best writing teacher that ever was!"

No sign-up required- just come to the event and get ready to learn!

Location: Street: 695 E. Colorado Blvd City: Pasadena, Province: California Postal Code: 91101 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

We’ve got action, romance, humor and adventure!
We’ve got music, FREE parking and refreshments!
We’ve got Hollywood LIVE!

The ONLY thing we’re missing is YOU!

This week's feature: "Death Waits at Sundown" a Western by L. Ron Hubbard.

Enter a world where bold men and woman come to life – in stories that take you by surprise and spark your imagination.

Admission: $10 per person (first time FREE)
To reserve your seat, call (323) 798-1635 or
email: Jonil@AuthorServicesInc.com (MARKUSWUETHRICH)… (more)

Robert Diemer discusses and signs The Widow's Son: A Tropical Island Mystery The Widow's Son is a tropical island mystery. For a lawyer practicing in paradise, Drake Burnham has a betel nut basket packed with problems. Burnham agrees to defend a nightmare client, Jangle Elwell, before Maximum Max Coleman, a hanging judge. But Burnham's initial troubles pale when Jangle is murdered.

Beverly Magid discusses and signs Sown in Tears Set in Czarist Russia, 1905, a time of turbulence and rampant anti-Semitism. After a brutal attack on her village, Leah Peretz is left alone to care for her two young children; life is complicated by the attentions of Captain Ivan Vaselik, who is drawn to her despite his antipathy towards Jews.

Barbara Jacobs discusses and signs Second Chances The remarkable story of a charmed life that takes you from New York to an Indian burial ground in Oklahoma to the canals of Venice, leaving you to wonder whether guardian angels really do exist.

Location: Street: 695 E. Colorado Blvd City: Pasadena, Province: California Postal Code: 91101 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Playwright, author, and activist Eve Ensler has devoted her life to the female body—how to talk about it, how to protect and value it. Yet she spent much of her life disassociated from her own body—a disconnection brought on by her father’s sexual abuse and her mother’s remoteness. “Because I did not, could not inhabit my body or the Earth,” she writes, “I could not feel or know their pain.”

But Ensler is shocked out of her distance. While working in the Congo, she is shattered to encounter the horrific rape and violence inflicted on the women there. Soon after, she is diagnosed with uterine cancer, and through months of harrowing treatment, she is forced to become first and foremost a body—pricked, punctured, cut, scanned. It is then that all distance is erased. As she connects her own illness to the devastation of the earth, her life force to the resilience of humanity, she is finally, fully—and gratefully—joined to the body of the world.

Unflinching, generous, and inspiring, Ensler calls on us all to embody our connection to and responsibility for the world.

Event Details (Updated 5/14): - This event will take place at All Saints Church

- Event begins at 7pm, doors open 6pm.

- Free and open to the public, however you must buy a copy of the book from Vroman’s to get it signed. Your Vroman’s receipt will get you a line ticket.

Location: Street: 132 N Euclid Ave. Additional: All Saints Church City: Pasadena, Province: California Postal Code: 91101 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

“One day I will tell you the story of my life,” promises Emma Brockes' mother, “and you will be amazed.” Brockes grew up hearing only pieces of her mother's past—stories of a rustic childhood in South Africa, glimpses of a bohemian youth in London—and yet knew that crucial facts were still in the dark. Looking to unearth the truth after her mother's death, Brockes begins a dangerous journey into the land—and the life—her mother fled from years before.

Those wishing to get books signed will be asked to purchase at least one copy of the author's most recent title from Vroman's. For each purchased copy of the newest title, customers may bring up to three copies from home to be signed. This policy applies to all Vroman's Bookstore events unless otherwise noted. Save your Vroman's receipt; it will be checked when you enter the signing line.

Can't make an event? Call us at (626) 449-5320 and we'll try to get a book signed for you.

Location: Street: 695 E. Colorado Blvd City: Pasadena, Province: California Postal Code: 91101 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Thursday, May 30, 5pm Phil Jackson signs Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success

Eleven times, Jackson led his teams to the ultimate goal: the NBA championship—six times with the Chicago Bulls and five times with the Los Angeles Lakers. This book is full of revelations: about fascinating personalities and their drive to win; about the wellsprings of motivation and competition at the highest levels; and about what it takes to bring out the best in ourselves and others.

If you have any questions, please call (626) 449-5320.

Event Details (Updated 5/16/13): - This is a ticketed event. Lettered signing line tickets will be given with the Vroman's Bookstore purchase of Eleven Rings ($27.95 + tax) and will be available for pick-up at Vroman's main store and Vroman's Hastings Ranch starting on the book's release date of 5/21/13. Pre-orders for books and tickets are now being taken at both locations.

- Tickets/ books are available from the Vroman's main store Will Call Department and the Vroman's Hastings Ranch. location.

- This is a signing only. Phil Jackson will not be speaking. Customers will be able to have a maximum of 5 copies of Eleven Rings signed.

- No personalizations or memorabilia. Mr. Jackson will only be signing copies of Eleven Rings.

- Photos and video are NOT permitted.

- Tickets and books will be available the day of the event, while supplies last.

- The event begins at 5pm- please be in line no later than 4:30pm. The line will form outside of the parking lot entrance to Vroman's main store. Guests should line up according to the group letter on their ticket.

Location: Street: 695 E. Colorado Blvd City: Pasadena, Province: California Postal Code: 91101 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Anne Carson (Autobiography of Red, Decreation, Men in the Off Hours, Plainwater, The Beauty of the Husband, If Not, Winter, Caretaking a New Soul, Red Doc>)

Anne Carson was twice a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; was honored with the 1996 Lannan Award and the 1997 Pushcart Prize, both for poetry; and was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2000. In 2001 she received the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry–the first woman to do so; the Griffin Poetry Prize; and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She currently teaches at the University of Michigan. (added from Random House)… (more)

When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his daughter Julia has any idea where he might be…until they find a love letter he wrote many years ago, to a Burmese woman they have never heard of. Intent on solving the mystery and coming to terms with her father's past, Julia decides to travel to the village where the woman lived. There she uncovers a tale of unimaginable hardship, resilience, and passion that will reaffirm the reader's belief in the power of love to move mountains.

Those wishing to get books signed will be asked to purchase at least one copy of the author's most recent title from Vroman's. For each purchased copy of the newest title, customers may bring up to three copies from home to be signed. This policy applies to all Vroman's Bookstore events unless otherwise noted. Save your Vroman's receipt; it will be checked when you enter the signing line.

Can't make an event? Call us at (626) 449-5320 and we'll try to get a book signed for you.

Location: Street: 695 E. Colorado Blvd City: Pasadena, Province: California Postal Code: 91101 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Larry Tye (Satchel, Superman)

Larry Tye was an award-winning journalist at The Boston Globe and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. A lifelong Superman fan, Tye now runs a Boston-based training program for medical journalists. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Satchel as well as The Father of Spin, Home Lands, and Rising from the Rails, and co-author, with Kitty Dukakis, of Shock. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts, and is currently writing a biography of Robert F. Kennedy. (added from Random House)… (more)

After pulling world-class cons in California and New Mexico, Radar Hoverlander and his crew, including girlfriend and grift artist Allie Quinn and their hapless buddy Vic Mirplo, are back in action, this time in Austin. So many rich fools to bamboozle—but is Radar having a crisis of conscience? A smart, fast-paced, funny work—crime caper fiction at its best.

Location: Street: 695 E. Colorado Blvd City: Pasadena, Province: California Postal Code: 91101 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

On November 28, 1979, squadron commander and Navy pilot Peter Rodrick died when his plane crashed in the Indian Ocean. He was just thirty-six and had been the commanding officer of his squadron for 127 days. Eight thousand miles away on Whidbey Island, near Seattle, he left behind a grief-stricken wife, two daughters, and a thirteen-year-old son who would grow up to be a writer - one who was drawn, perhaps inevitably, to write about his father, his family, and the devastating consequences of military service.

Location: Street: 695 E. Colorado Blvd City: Pasadena, Province: California Postal Code: 91101 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)