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Start: 1:00 pm
End: 5:00 pm
Book Passage Class
Corte Madera store, $60
Register for Class Spiritual memoir uses the raw material of your life to reveal the deeper intelligence of your soul’s journey. In this workshop we weave into words as truthfully and tenderly as possible the ongoing thread of our lives that runs through our days. The workshop provides a relaxed and nonjudgmental space in which to share your work and to receive supportive feedback. You are welcome to bring work for which you would like feedback. To unearth the content of our story, we will sharpen the tools of style, language, metaphor and imagery. Spiritual memoir can fit easily into poetry, nonfiction, fiction, or journal writing. This workshop is suitable for beginners and also for writers with some experience.
Roger Housden’s work includes the Ten Poems series, the novella Chasing Rumi, Sacred Journeys in a Modern World, Seven Sins for a Life Worth Living, and How Rembrandt Reveals Your Beautiful, Imperfect Self. His new work Saved By Beauty: Adventures of an American Romantic in Iran, will be published in June 2011. Roger is from England and now lives in the Bay Area.
Start: 2:00 pm
Preferred seating with purchase of book
Corte Madera store
Order a signed copy Alexander McCall Smith presents The Charming Quirks of Others ($24.95). A couple who are old friends of Isabel’s ask for her help in a tricky situation: A successor is being sought for the headmaster position at their alma mater, and one of the finalists has a serious skeleton in the closet. Smith’s The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series is a Book Passage favorite.
Start: 2:00 pm
$5 members/$10 non-members per meeting
Corte Madera store “No More Excuses—Write That Book!”:
with Kathi Kamen Goldmark and Sam Barry The
Marin branch of the California Writers Club meets monthly at Book
Passage. Meetings are free to attend. The Marin branch was chartered in
1999 and celebrates ten years with California Writers Club and with Book
Passage. CWC, a 501c educational corporation, is the nation’s oldest
professional club for writers ... “educating writers of all levels of
expertise in the craft of writing and in the marketing of their work.”
More info at: http://www.calwriters.org.
Start: 5:00 pm
Speaker: Rachel Sarah, Author of Single Mom Seeking: Play Dates, Blind Dates, and Other Dispatches from the Dating World
Corte Madera store Writing Mamas Salon®
A Writing Group • Led by Dawn Yun
2nd Sunday each month • 5:00-8:00 pm. • $120 per year
The Writing Mamas
is where motherhood meets writinghood and finds a happy neighborhood at
Book Passage. Improve your writing! Meet great mothers who are writers!
Learn to perform your work before the public! Get published! All this and more when you join the popular Writing Mamas!
We will write, workshop, gab, and hear speakers. Many members have gone
on to be published. Why not you? Let the other mothers/writers help
you, while the speakers inspire you. This year lots of Writing Mamas
are getting their books, articles, and blogs published. Inspiration is
found in the fabulous speakers we have lined up. For a complete list of
all speakers, go to www.writingmamas.com.
Start: 5:00 pm
 This event is now SOLD OUT.
Cooks with Books Event!
Wayfare Tavern, San Francisco
Tickets: $125 per person ($200 per couple)
Reserve by phone at (415) 927-0960, ext. 1
Not attending the event? Order a signed copy Join us for a very special evening with Tyler Florence, superstar chef, Food Network host, cookbook author, and the proprietor of Wayfare Tavern. Florence is famous for championing simplicity, freshness, and culinary honesty in the kitchen. In this new cookbook, he brings it all home to working with wholesome and locally fresh ingredients. Not only is this event a super launch for his latest cookbook but we will also be celebrating the opening of his new restaurant, Wayfare Tavern in San Francisco! The ticket price includes the meal, wine, coffee, tax,
tip & a
signed copy of the author’s book.
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Start: 10:00 am
Free Event - Open to the Public
Corte Madera store
Order a signed copy Special for kids!
Peter Sis discusses Madlenka Soccer Star ($16.99). Madlenka—that little girl whose city block is a world of its own—is back and ready to play! When she dribbles her new soccer ball out the door, it seems that everyone wants to get in the game —the mailbox, a dog, even a parking meter, but especially all the neighborhood cats!
Start: 7:00 pm
Free Event - Open to the Public
Corte Madera store
Order a signed copy Larry Colton talks about No Ordinary Joes: The Extraordinary True Story of Four Submariners in War and Love and Life ($26.00). On April 23, 1943, the 70-man crew of the USS Grenadier scrambled to save their submarine—and themselves—after a Japanese torpedo sent it crashing to the ocean floor. Miraculously, the men were able to bring the sub back to the surface, only to be captured by the Japanese.
From John Strawn (www.johnstrawn.com):
Larry Colton has a new book coming out next month, one he’s worked on for almost ten years. Called No Ordinary Joes, it’s his fourth book and, unlike the others, doesn’t rely on Larry being a participant observer in the events he’s writing about to drive the narrative. No Ordinary Joes is about a group of men from his dad’s generation, the guys who fought WW II. I read an early draft, and was moved by it, and over the last couple of weeks have read the final version, which I think is superb. Continue reading
Start: 7:00 pm
Speakers: Critique Group The Revisionaries, with Maria Van Lieshout, Gianna Marino, Jim Averbeck, Karen Ehrhardt, Lynn E. Hazen, & Yuyi Morales
Corte Madera store Members
of a 10 year-old Critique Group - The Revisionaries discuss their
work, the pros and cons of critique groups, and what makes theirs work.
Maria
Van Lieshout is the Author and Illustrator of the
Critically acclaimed “Little Book” series, TUMBLE, PEEP, BLOOM,
and SPLASH, which received starred reviews from PW
and School Library Journal. She was born and lived in Holland
until she fell head over wooden shoes in love with San Francisco, where
she currently lives in a 100-year old Victorian with her husband Peter
and their son Max.
www.mariavanlieshout.com
Gianna
Marino has been a full time illustrator and writer in
the San Francisco Bay Area for the last 20 years. After several years
in a corporate box with no windows, Gianna left for good and was soon
invited into the Revisionaries writer's group to expand her writing and
illustration. She has published numerous articles for travel magazines
and more recently, two picture books—Zoopa: An Animal Alphabet
and One Too Many (Chronicle Books).
www.giannamarino.com
Jim
Averbeck’s first book, In a Blue Room,
won a Charlotte Zolotow Honor for writing. He is the
illustrator of the serialized novel, A Long Walk to Water
by Newbery winner Linda Sue Park. His second picture book, Except
If, will be published by Atheneum in Spring 2011, OH NO!
(Atheneum, Spring 2012) and The Market Bowl.
(Charlesbridge, Fall 2012).
www.JimAverbeckBooks.com
Karen
Ehrhardt’s swinging debut, This Jazz Man,
landed on the N.Y. Public Library's list “100 Titles for Reading and
Sharing,” and is one of the "Multicultural Books Every Child Should
Know" (NEA). Featuring jazz immortals such as Louis Armstrong, this
sing-along picture book was praised by The New York Times as,
“a whole lot of fun,” and Publishers Weekly called it “just
right as an uptempo introduction for the youngest music lovers.” Karen
gives author talks and teaches writing workshops for kids.
www.ThisJazzMan.com
Lynn
E. Hazen’s young adult novel, Shifty was
chosen as VOYA’s top shelf fiction, a CCBC Choice,
and a Smithsonian Notable. Her younger books include: Mermaid
Mary Margaret (a middle grade novel which Kirkus
called “a winner”), Cinder Rabbit, The Amazing
Trail of Seymore Snail, and Buzz Bumble.
Lynn teaches classes in writing at Stanford Continued Studies.
www.LynnHazen.com
Yuyi
Morales is an award winning Illustrator/Author with such
beautiful books as Little Night, My Abuelita,
Harvesting Home, and Sand Sister. As
of right now, she is the one member of the Revisionaries who is unable
to join our panel. But we’re crossing our fingers she’ll figure out a
way to make it work!
www.yuyimorales.com
****************** Kid Lit Salon
Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators Salon • Led by Lissa Rovetch
4th Monday each month • 7:00-9:00 pm • $120 per year
The Kid Lit Salon
is for both established and beginning children’s book writers and
illustrators. Come socialize with like-minded, creative types in your
field. Our evenings include a wildly diverse array of speakers, member
updates, events, conferences, and insider tips. Writer and illustrator Lissa
Rovetch is the author of Ook the
Book
and the Hot Dog
and Bob chapter book series.
She illustrated her 84 year-old mother's book There
Was a Man
Who Loved a Rat and Other Vile Little Poems,
writes the "Ask Arizona" series for Highlights Magazine, and teaches at the
California College of the Arts. Vist www.lissarovetch.com.
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Start: 12:30 pm
NOTE VENUE CHANGE:
This signing will now be held at Book Passage in the San Francisco Ferry Building Tues., Oct. 26 at 12:30 pm. For those attending the signing, books will be available for purchase at the Ferry Building before entering the signing line. Please purchase books there. Can't attend the signing? Order a signed copy San Francisco store
President Jimmy Carter signs copies of White House Diary ($30.00). The edited, annotated diary of President Carter—filled with his relationships with friends and foes, and his lasting impact on issues that still preoccupy America and the world—presents an astonishingly intimate view of his presidency.
Start: 6:00 pm
Free Event - Open to the Public
San Francisco store
Order a signed copy Rosecrans Baldwin talks about You Lost Me There ($25.95). By turns funny, charming, and tragic, Rosecrans Baldwin's debut novel takes us inside the heart and mind of Dr. Victor Aaron, a leading Alzheimer's researcher at the Soborg Institute on Mount Desert Island in Maine. Victor spends his days alternating between long hours in the sterile lab and running through memories of his late wife, Sara. He has preserved their marriage as a sort of perfect, if tumultuous, duet between two opposite but precisely compatible souls.
But one day, in the midst of organizing his already hyperorganized life, Victor discovers a series of index cards covered in Sara's handwriting. They chronicle the major "changes in direction" of their marriage, written as part of a brief fling with couples counseling. Sara's version of their great love story is markedly different from his own, which, for the eminent memory specialist, is a startling revelation.
Start: 7:00 pm
This event is canceled.
Free Event - Open to the Public
Corte Madera store
Order a signed copy Peter Orner presents Hope Deferred ($24.00). Zimbabwe represents one of the worst humanitarian emergencies today. This book asks the question: How did a country with so much promise—a stellar education system, a growing middle class, a liberal constitution, an independent judiciary—go so wrong? Orner is the author of Esther Stories.
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Start: 10:00 am
Free Event - Open to the Public
Corte Madera store
Order a signed copy Special for kids!
James Dashner presents The Scorch Trials ($17.99). The Gladers are far from finished with running. Instead of freedom, they find themselves faced with another trial. They must cross the Scorch, the most burned-out section of the world, and WICKED has made sure to adjust the variables and stack the odds against them!
Start: 6:30 pm
Cooks with Books Event!
Left Bank Restaurant, Larkspur
Tickets: $140 per person/ $195 per coupleReserve
by phone at (415) 927-0960 ext. 1
Not attending the event? Order a
signed copy
Within a year of its opening, Michael Chiarello’s restaurant Bottega in the Napa Valley was selected as one of America’s best new restaurants by Forbes and Esquire and a top new-comer by Zagat guides. Chiarello’s signature dishes are full of big, bold Italian flavors, which draw inspiration from his Calabrese roots. Chiarello has been a fixture on Top Chef Masters, the Food Network, and PBS. Now, with Bottega, home cooks can enjoy the Bottega experience. The ticket price includes the meal, wine, coffee, tax,
tip & a
signed copy of the author’s book.
Start: 7:00 pm
NOTE: This event is rescheduled to Tues., Nov. 23 at 7:00 pm. Due to the excitement & interest surrounding the Giants in the World Series Wednesday night, this event with Michael Krasny will be postponed until November.
Corte Madera store
Order a signed copy
Michael Krasny talks about Spiritual Envy: An Agnostic’s Quest ($22.95). Unlike recent authors who emphatically say “No!” or “Yes!” to God, Krasny is among the millions who know they don’t know. As a radio host, professor, and scholar, he has spent decades leading conversations on every imaginable topic. He takes readers on an exploration of morality, mortality, why we do good, and why evil sometimes triumphs.
Phil Cousineau's books include Stoking the Creative Fires: 9 Ways to Rekindle Passion and Imagination, The Art of Pilgrimage: The Seeker's Guide to Making Travel Sacred, and Wordcatcher: An Odyssey Into the World of Weird and Wonderful Words.
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Start: 1:30 pm
End: 3:30 pm
Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Musee d’Orsay
Book Passage Class
Three Thursdays: Oct. 28-Nov. 11
Corte Madera store, $45
Register for Class
Join Art Historian Kerrin Meis
for an in-depth study of the artists represented in this exhibit at the
De Young Museum, including late works by Monet and Renoir, followed by
the highly individualist style of Seurat and Signac (the so-called
Neo-Impressionists). We’ll study Cezanne’s experiments with space and,
in contrast to these almost scientific approaches, the highly
introspective paintings of Van Gogh and Gauguin. Toulouse-Lautrec will
show us Paris at night; and Henri Rousseau, a world of dreams. Gorgeous
decorative panels by the Nabi painters Bonnard and Vuillard round out
our virtual tour.
Start: 6:00 pm
Free Event - Open to the Public
San Francisco store
Order a signed copy Myla Goldberg presents The False Friend ($25.95). From the bestselling author of Bee Season comes a complex psychological drama with a simple setup: two 11-year-old girls, best friends and fierce rivals, go into the woods. Only one comes out. Djuna disappeared, and for 20 years Celia blocked out how it happened.
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 8:45 pm
Book Passage Class
Two Thursdays: Oct. 28 & Nov. 4, 6:30-8:45 pm, $130
Corte
Madera store, $105
Register
for Class Literary Agent Amy Rennert demystifies the publishing process for fiction and nonfiction writers. She discusses what to do before approaching agents, how to write query letters and proposals that will get attention, how to develop strong relationships with the right agents and editors, and how to make sure your book reaches the widest audience possible. The Amy Rennert Agency represents award-winning and N.Y. Times bestselling authors, including singer/songwriter Jimmy Buffett, NBC’s Dr. Nancy Snyderman, and author of the bestselling Maisie Dobbs series, Jacqueline Winspear.
Start: 7:00 pm
Tickets $35 ($25 members/$15 students)
Reserve at www.imow.org or by phone at (415) 543-4669, ext. 27
Schwab Center, San Francisco
Order a signed copy Book Passage and the International Museum of Women present Ingrid Betancourt
Moderated by Jeanne Carstensen
Join us as Ingrid Betancourt discusses Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle. Betancourt tells the story of her six and one-half years of captivity in the Colombian jungle, describing her resilience, resistance, and faith. In 2002, while campaigning as a candidate in the Colombian presidential elections, she was abducted by the FARC. Chained day and night for much of her captivity, she never stopped dreaming of escape. Attending as intimately to the landscape of her mind as she does to the events of her capture and captivity, this work is a meditation on the very stuff of life—fear and freedom, hope and what inspires it.
Start: 7:00 pm
Free Event - Open to the Public
Corte Madera store
Order a signed copy Ian Frazier discusses Travels in Siberia ($30.00). Frazier trains his eye for unforgettable detail on Siberia. He explores many aspects of this storied, often grim region, which takes up one-seventh of the land on earth. He writes about the geography, the resources, the native peoples, and the history. This work is also an account of Russia since the end of the Soviet Union.
(author photo credit Sigrid Estrada)
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Start: 12:30 pm
The ticket price of $55
includes lunch and a signed book
Call (415) 927-0960 ext. 1 to reserve
Corte Madera store
Isabel Allende talks about her new novel Island Beneath the Sea. This tale, set in Haiti and the southern United States during the 18th Century, follows the life of a young woman sold into slavery at age nine to the head of a large sugar plantation. Allende is the author of many internationally acclaimed novels, including House of the Spirits, Portrait in Sepia, and Daughter of Fortune. She has written three memoirs, including My Invented Country, Paula, and The Sum of Our Days, as well as a trilogy of children’s novels. Her books have been translated into more than 27 languages. Book Passage hosts literary luncheons with
celebrated authors at our Marin store. These events are catered by the
outstanding Insalata’s Restaurant of San Anselmo.
Start: 7:00 pm
Corte Madera store
Order a signed copy Co-presented with the Marin School
In celebration of 10 years of partnership with The Marin School
Maya Khosla & Ravi Chandra talk about Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry ($24.95). The first anthology of its kind, Indivisible brings together 49 American poets who trace their roots to Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.
Maya Khosla received the Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize for her first poetry collection, Keel Bone (Bear Star Press, 2003). Her other publications include a chapbook of poetry, Heart of the Tearing (Red Dust Press, 1996), and a collection of nonfiction, Web of Water (Golden Gate National Park Association, 1997). Her poems have appeared in the Wisconsin Review, the Seneca Review, the New Orleans Review, the Literary Review, and Permafrost, and she has received the Ludwig Vogelstein Award and residencies from the Headlands Center for the Arts and the Sanskriti Foundation in New Delhi. Having lived in Bangladesh, Burma, Bhutan, England, India, and several places in the United States, she now works as a consultant in biology and toxicology in California. She has just completed her second collection of poetry, Clingstone (working title).
Having graduated from Brown University with a degree in biology, Ravi Chandra subsequently attended Stanford Medical School. He now practices psychiatry at a community mental health clinic, where he serves predominantly an Asian and Russian immigrant population, and is also in private practice. He was awarded first prize in a poetry contest at Stanford Medical Center, which also published his poetry in its chapbook. Slam poetry then became his passion, and he was an alternate on the 2002 San Francisco Slam Team. He is involved with the biennial Asian Pacific Islander American Poetry Summit. He lives in San Francisco, where he writes a blog, “Memoirs of a Superfan,” for the International Asian American Film Festival.
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Start: 10:00 am
Grand Hyatt Hotel Sacramento
Individual Ticket Price $95, Call (916) 798-9022
You are invited to join Sacramento’s prominent corporate and civic
leaders for the
17th Annual Sacramento Authors Luncheon on October 30, 2010
at the Grand Hyatt Hotel.
Each year more than 850 people are captivated by the fascinating stories, wit and humor of six (6) nationally-known authors, while enjoying a gourmet lunch. Participants have the opportunity to meet each author personally during the book signing sessions preceding and following the luncheon.
For 2010 Sacramento Authors Sponsorship Information click here. Proceeds from this event support services for patients and families
served by the National Kidney Foundation Serving Northern California.
For more information on the Sacramento Authors Luncheon, please contact
Abby Vlautin, Event Manager, at (916) 798-9022
abby.vlautin@kidney.org
Start: 11:00 am
Free Event - Open to the Public
San Francisco store
Order a signed copy Market to Table Event!
Laura Stec talks about Cool Cuisine: Taking the Bite Out of Global Warming ($24.99) and presents a cooking demo. On Saturday mornings, chefs and cookbook authors lead free cooking demonstrations using seasonal ingredients from the Farmers Market. Join them in the CUESA kitchen (North Arcade) for tips, recipes, and a sample. We’ll be there with the books.
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 3:00 pm
Book Passage Class
Corte
Madera store, $45
Register
for Class Are you working on a manuscript and getting confused about which version is your most recent? Are you nervous because your entire book is one large document? Bring your laptop and learn quick secrets for making writing in Word easier. Learn how to keep your drafts clear, make global changes, and avoid accidental loss of material. Learn how to how to print in another program and prepare a file for submission to a publisher.
Leslie Keenan has been in publishing for 28 years as an editor, agent, publisher, writer, and teacher. She has helped hundreds of writers find and complete their writing projects. A student wrote, “Leslie is inspiring, compassionate, and has a natural gift for creating a safe place for a writer. She’s like a living life preserver.”
Start: 2:00 pm
 Free Event - Open to the Public
Corte Madera store
Order a signed copy
Cosponsored by Marin Humane Society
Trainer of the First Dog, Bo Obama, Dawn Sylvia-Stasiewicz talks about The Love That Dog Training Program ($23.95). Sylvia-Stasiewicz draws on lessons she learned from raising three children to train dogs to be joyful, obedient, and devoted members of a family.
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