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Author Catherine O'Connell (Well Bred and Dead, Well Read and Dead) walks propective authors through the publishing process.

This month the group will discuss "Woman's World" by Graham Rawle. Purchase your copy at Room and get 10% off!Everyone is welcome to attend book club meetings!

Please join us for a reading of "Finding Your Voice, Telling Your Stories" by Carol LaChapelle.Several contributors to the book are Madison residents and will be joining Carol to share their stories!Visit www.carollachapelle.com for more author information

Michael Schuler is Parish Minister at the First Unitarian Society of Madison. He will be reading from his book, "Making the Good Life Last: Four Keys to Sustainable Living".

THIS MONTH THE HUSSIES WILL BE DISCUSSING "THE BOOK THIEF" BY MARKUS ZUSAKPurchase your copy at Room and get 10% off!

Celebrated children's book author Ann Whitford Paul will be giving a workshop at A Room of On'es Own Bookstore on the unique practice of writing picture books. Ann is the author of 19 award-winning picture books, as well as a brand new guide to the art and craft of creating them. Aspiring authors of ... (more)all ages are welcome to take advantage of this unique opportunity! This event is free and open to the public. Visit Ann Whitford Paul's website here.

Celebrated children's book author Ann Whitford Paul will be giving a workshop at A Room of On'es Own Bookstore on the unique practice of writing picture books. Ann is the author of 19 award-winning picture books, as well as a brand new guide to the art and craft of creating them. Aspiring authors of ... (more)all ages are welcome to take advantage of this unique opportunity! This event is free and open to the public. Visit Ann Whitford Paul's website here.

Playwright Maryann Lesert's work has appeared in The Art of the One-Act and Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2007. Lesert currently teaches writing at Grand Rapids Community College in Michigan. "Base Ten" is her first novel.

Dina Elenbogen is an award winning poet and writer. Her poetry, essays and stories have appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines including Bellevue Literary Review, Prairie Schooner,
and the Anthology Where We Find Ouselves: Jewish Women around the World Write about Home
(SUNY, 2009). Dina's first ... (more)poetry collection, "Apples of the Earth", was published in 2006. Her poetry travels from Midwest to middle eastern landscapes, from the world of motherhood to social activism.

Lucille Lang Day's new book of poems is The Curvature of Blue; Alicia Ostriker enthuses about it, "Intelligence enjoying itself, awareness at play, attentiveness dancing through life's minefields smiling at itself in its new black car. . . a wonderful book and I feel lucky to have read it." Lucille Day ... (more)has published four previous books of poetry, including Infinities, Wild One, and Self-Portrait with a Hand Microscope, her first, for which she won the Joseph Henry Jackson Award. She is the founder and director of Scarlet Tanager Books, a literary press in the Bay Area. Roz Spafford's new book of poems is Requiem, winner of the 2008 Gell Poetry Prize, with a foreword by Carl Dennis: "All the poems in Requiem may be read as attempts to confront the presence of death in our lives. . . What is remarkable about this steady focus, which offers no easy consolations, is that it leads to a book that is more challenging than it is querulous or elegiac. . . a book that confronts our limitations in a way that makes us feel larger rather than diminished." Spafford has been a writer, teacher, and activist for the last three decades. She wrote book reviews and a newspaper column of media and cultural criticism called 'Mediations' for much of that time. Her poetry and fiction have been widely published in literary magazines.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Malibu is totally stoked to host an afternoon with award-winning journalist and surfer Jaimal Yogis as he discusses and signs his memoir, Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer's Quest to Find Zen on the Sea.Fed up with suburban teenage life, Jaimal Yogis ran off to Hawaii with little more ... (more)than a copy of Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha and enough cash for a surfboard. His journey is a coming-of-age saga that takes him from communes to monasteries and the icy New York shore. Equal parts spiritual memoir and surfer's tale, this is a chronicle of finding meditative focus in the barrel of a wave and eternal truth in the great salty blue.Join us!

DIESEL, A Bookstore in Brentwood is pleased to have local author Dylan Landis as she discusses and signs Normal People Don't Live Like This. This event is free and all are welcome! Normal People Don't Live Like This will be published Sept. 8 by Persea Books. It is a debut collection of ten linked stories—praised ... (more)by Janet Fitch, Elizabeth Strout and Lisa Glatt— about the hidden lives of a teenager and her mother, and how they struggle to negotiate emotional damage and open themselves to love. The girl, Leah, yearns for belonging and worships the most delinquent girls at school, while her mother, Helen, secretly rents a welfare hotel room that she obsessively decorates. The stories – quirky and darkly humorous -- mostly center on Leah, but they're also about the disturbing, sometimes transformative lives of the girls and women she knows. These stories have appeared in anthologies such as Do Me: Tales of Sex & Love from Tin House; Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003; Women on the Edge: Writing from Los Angeles; and Bestial Noise: The Tin House Fiction Reader, among others, and in literary magazines such as Tin House, Bomb, the Santa Monica Review and others. All were written while she lived in LA, from 2000 to 2008.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland is pumped to present former Diesel employee and local high school English teacher Nina LaCour in celebration of her first novel, Hold Still!!
Nina LaCour grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her first job was at fourteen in an independent bookstore, and she has since ... (more)worked in two others. She has tutored and taught in various places, from a juvenile hall to a private college. She now teaches English at an independent high school, and lives in Oakland, California.