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April 11, 2014 (San Diego's East County) - For complete Calendar including Authors Events, go to www.SDWriteWay.org
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April 8 (Tuesday, 6:00 to 7:30 pm) — Writers Read at Fallbrook Library presents a Celebration of National Poetry Month with open mic and featured poets Stacy Dyson, Penny Perry and Conney WIlliams. At Fallbrook Library, 124 S. Mission, Fallbrook, CA. For more information, contact K-B Gressitt at kbgressitt@gmail.com or 760-522-1064, or visit www.excusemeimwriting.com/writers-read/.
April 9 (Wednesday, 7:30 pm) — An Evening with Paul Farmer – Physician, Activist, and Humanitarian to Haiti and Beyond. Known as "the man who would cure the world," Farmer works to provide first world health care for third world peoples and is one of the founders of the worldwide organization Partners in Health. This evening will provide the rare opportunity to hear from the man himself, followed by an interview with Dean Nelson, founder of PLNU's Writer's Symposium by the Sea.
Author of "To Repair the World" and "Pathologies of Power Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor," Farmer was also the subject of Tracy Kidder's "Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World." Learn more about Dr. Farmer's mission and Partners in Health here.
Tickets for this event may be purchased at www.pointloma.edu/farmer
Event sponsored by the Department of Literature, Journalism, and Modern Languages at Point Loma Nazarene University, Brown Chapel, 3900 Lomaland Drive, San Diego, (619) 849-2200.
April 9 (Wednesday, 6:30 pm) — Adventures by the Book , is pleased to introduce a new series, the Lit & Libations Adventure, featuring New York Times bestselling author Ryan Winfield, who will discuss and sign his book, Jane’s Melody at Mission Hills Books & Collectibles, 4054 Goldfinch Street, San Diego. This is a ticketed event ($15), and is open to the public.
About the Event: Join us for the launch of our exciting new series, Lit & Libations, featuring New York Times bestselling author Ryan Winfield. Lit & Libations Adventures are designed especially for men and women who have a Reading Problem You Love to Wine About. Enjoy an engaging book discussion, Q&A, and book signing with a fabulous author (the “Lit”), share a glass of wine and light appetizers with fellow reading enthusiasts (the “Libations”), socialize, network with other readers and authors, and see how books can indeed connect people and communities.
About the Book and Author: Ryan Winfield is a New York Times bestselling author of multiple books, including his most recent, Jane’s Melody (Atria Books). You may think of Ryan as the indie Nicholas Sparks, a wonderful storyteller with rich and dynamically drawn characters and settings. Jane’s Melody follows a forty-year old woman on a romantic discovery after years of struggling alone. What happens when this grieving mother takes in a young street musician she believes can tell her more about her daughter’s death – only to find herself falling for him.
For more information regarding the event, please contact Susan McBeth at (619) 300-2532 or at susan@adventuresbythebook.com.
April 9 (Wednesday, 4:30 pm) — Warwick's will host author Megan McDonald, creator of the beloved children's character Judy Moody. This will be McDonald's La Jolla stop on her "Big Bad Blackout Tour," highlighting her new book Judy Moody & Stink: The Big Bad Blackout. For more information, please call Warwick's Books Department at (858) 4540347.
About the books: Judy and Stink and the whole Moody family hunker down with beans and batteries, ready to wait out the storm. But along with massive rain and strong winds, Hurricane Elmer throws down ghosts, squirrels, and aliens. Just when things couldn't possibly get any freakier – flicker, flicker, gulp! – the lights go O-U-T out. The Moodys are smack dab in the middle of a big bad blackout! Grandma Lou proposes musical board games and some good old-fashioned storytelling. Will Hurricane Elmer go down in Moody family history as bad news, a happy memory, or simply an LBS (Long Boring Story)? And Stink? Stink now stars in the new Stink and the Shark Sleepover.
For more information regarding the event, please contact Warwick's Books | 7812 Girard Avenue | La Jolla, Ca | 92037 | Ph. (858) 454-0347 | www.warwicks.com.
April 10 (Thursday, 7:30 pm) — Warwick's will host local author Natasha Josefowitz as she discusses and signs her newest book, Living Without the One You Can't Live Without. This event is free and open to the public. Please call the Warwick's Book Dept. at (858) 454-0347 for details. Only books purchased from Warwick's will be signed.
About the book: A collection of powerful, gritty, candid, and inspiring poems about living life after loss, Living Without the One You Cannot Live is a telling book about pre- and post-grief.
For more information regarding the event, please contact Warwick's Books | 7812 Girard Avenue | La Jolla, Ca | 92037 | Ph. (858) 454-0347 | www.warwicks.com.
April 10 (Thursday, 3:00 - 4:00 pm) — eReader eClinic: Learn to Download eBooks. Mira Mesa Library. MORE
April 11 (Friday, 7:30) — Capt. Scott Campbell, Jr., Star of Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch comes to San Diego. Join Capt. Scott Campbell, Jr., star of Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch and San Diego author Jim Ruland for a book singing and Q&A at 3rdSpace 4610 Park Blvd San Diego, CA 92116. To celebrate the release of their new book, Giving the Finger: Risking It All to Fish the World’s Deadliest Sea (Lyons Press, April 2), Ruland and Campbell (who goes by Junior) will engage in a spirited conversation full of salty tales about his life as an Alaska crab fisherman. Books will be available for purchase and a signing will follow.
Giving the Finger tells the story of Junior’s adventures at sea before he joined the cast of Deadliest Catch. The son of a crab fisherman, Junior had to work extra hard to convince his taskmaster father that he had what it took to brave the long hours and brutal conditions of the Bering Sea. Then he learned the hard way that his father wasn’t kidding: during the course of his career he’s run his boat aground, decapitated part of his finger, and lost a member of his crew during a freak accident.
Scott Campbell, Jr. aka Junior grew up in Walla Walla, Washington. Junior first started salmon tendering with his dad when he was four years old and has been crab fishing since he was sixteen. The captain of the F/V Seabrooke has been a member of Deadliest Catch 2010.
Jim Ruland is a veteran of the Navy, author of the short story collection Big Lonesome, and host of the reading series Vermin on the Mount, now in its tenth year. Ruland is the recipient of an NEA fellowship and was the grand prize winner of Reader’s Digest 2012 Life Stories Contest. Tyrus Books will publish his debut novel, Forest of Fortune, later this year.
3rdSpace is a modular, dynamic hub of creativity and connectivity, where the co-working experience is complimented by unique events, workshops, and discussions in a relaxed, conductive and fun environment that will redefine how you work, play and find your inspiration. 3rdSpace has been the San Diego home of Jim Ruland’s irregular, irreverent reading series Vermin on the Mount since 2012.
Giving the Finger: http://www.lyonspress.com/giving_the_finger-9780762791316.
Deadliest Catch: http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/deadliest-catch.
Scott Campbell Jr. on Twitter: @CaptScottJr; Jim Ruland: http://vermin.blogs.com/bl; Vermin on the Mount: http://verminonthemount.com: 3rdSpace: http://3rdspace.co; For more details, contact Jim Ruland at verminonthemount@yahoo.com.
April 16 (Wednesday, 7:00 pm) — 3rd Wednesday of the month Open Mic Poetry? The New Alchemy Poetry Series is organized by Seretta Martin, a talented author, poet, teacher, and editor of San Diego Poetry Annual. Featured guest poets are Una Nichols Hynum & Clifton King.
Participate in the discussion and share your own poetry with the group. Each meeting features an open mic segment. Come and be a part of San Diego’s lively poetry scene! For additonal information, contact Seretta Martin at wordsoup@juno.
April 16 (Wednesday, 7:30 pm) — Warwick's will host Gina Frangello in conversation with T. Greenwood as she discusses and signs her new novel, A Life in Men. This event is free and open to the public, however Reserved Seating is available. Please call the Warwick's Book Dept. (858) 454-0347 for details. Only books purchased from Warwick's will be signed.
About the book: As young women, childhood friends Mary and Nix embarked on a summer vacation in Greece. It was a trip initiated by Nix, who had just learned that Mary had been diagnosed with a disease that would cut her life short and who was determined that it be the vacation of a lifetime. But by the time their visit to Greece was over, Nix had withdrawn from their friendship, and Mary had no idea why. Three years later, Nix is dead, and Mary returns to Europe to try to understand what went wrong, and in the process meets the first of many men who join her in her travels.
For more information regarding the event, please contact Warwick's Books | 7812 Girard Avenue | La Jolla, Ca | 92037 | Ph. (858) 454-0347 | www.warwicks.com.
April 17 (Thursday, 7:00 pm) — Warwick's will rock Girard Avenue as Paul Stanley, a lead vocalist and frontman of the legendary band KISS, appears to sign his memoir, Face the Music: A Life Exposed. Tickets are $31.31 and include admittance for 2 adults as well as a copy of Face the Music. In order to be signed the book must be purchased from Warwick's. Tickets must be printed and brought to the event.
About the book and Paul Stanley: Well known for his onstage persona, the "Starchild," Paul Stanley has written a memoir blending personal revelations and gritty tales of the highs and lows both inside and outside of KISS. Born with a condition called microtia (an ear deformity rendering him deaf on the right side), Stanley's traumatic childhood experiences produced an inner drive to succeed in the most unlikely of places: music. Lots of photos, all that make-up, and plenty of stories.
For more information regarding the event, please contact Warwick's Books | 7812 Girard Avenue | La Jolla, Ca | 92037 | Ph. (858) 454-0347 | www.warwicks.com.
April 17 (Thursday, 6 pm) — Meet children’s author and illustrator Salina Yoon as she reads aloud from her newest picture book, Found, an adorable story about love and friendship. Bring in your favorite stuffed animal and Salina will create and personalize a drawing of your stuffed animal for you to take home.
Barnes & Noble, Oceanside, 2615 Vista Way, Oceanside: Lisa Kovach - Community Relations Manager, at 760-529-0270 or crm2153@bn.com for additional information.
April 17 (Thursday, 7 pm) — Join us for a reading of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, get your picture taken with the Cookie Mouse, participate in fun crafts and activities, plus treats and more.
Barnes & Noble, Oceanside, 2615 Vista Way, Oceanside: Lisa Kovach - Community Relations Manager, at 760-529-0270 or crm2153@bn.com for additional information.
April 18 (Friday, 7 pm) — Join us for Pajamarama storytime featuring If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and the Cookie Mouse himself. Get your picture taken with the Cookie Mouse, participate in fun crafts and activities, plus treats and more. Don’t forget to wear your pajamas.
Barnes & Noble, Oceanside, 2615 Vista Way, Oceanside: Lisa Kovach - Community Relations Manager, at 760-529-0270 or crm2153@bn.com for additional information.
April 19 (Saturday, 11 am) — Join us for a reading of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, get your picture taken with the Cookie Mouse, participate in fun crafts and activities, plus treats and more.
Barnes & Noble, Oceanside, 2615 Vista Way, Oceanside: Lisa Kovach - Community Relations Manager, at 760-529-0270 or crm2153@bn.com for additional information.
April 19 (Saturday) — Help Solve the Mystery at Sherlock Holmes Day. Sherlock Holmes Final Adventure. Come and celebrate all things Sherlock Holmes! The free event at the Central Library @ Joan Λ Irwin Jacobs Common will feature performances by Coronado Playhouse actors, Sherlock Holmes related crafts, a Sherlock photo booth and mysteriously fun family activities.
The event celebrates the Coronado Playhouse's presentation of Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure based on the 1899 play by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and William Gillette. The Playhouse is offering a $5 library discount when purchasing tickets. Receive $5 off any ticket with proof of a San Diego area library card. Order online or call the box office using the discount code IREAD. READ MORE
April 19 (Saturday, 7:00 pm) — Northern California poet Roy Mash will read from his new book Buyer’s Remorse; and Steve Kowit, the Poet Laureate of San Diego, will read from his book The Dumbbell Nebula at D.G.Wills Books, 7461 Girard Avenue, La Jolla, 858-456-1800, www.dgwillsbooks.com.
Buyer’s Remorse is a celebration of the small, the overlooked, and the underrated. Doggedly anti-lofty, reveling in the This-Worldly, the poems caper around the themes of the body, of mathematics and rationality, adolescence and middle-age, love and fear and death. The tone ranges from the irreverent to the wistful – the spritz of seltzer in the face of the Creature from the Black Lagoon to the lover standing in one sock. Drawing on sources from The Three Stooges to Archimedes, Lavoisier to Tweety Bird, Mash is a latter day Anti-Oracle, a nail in the tire of post-modernity, an incorrigible wag who’s smuggled his pea shooter into the Church of Poetry. Be ready to duck.
Roy Mash is a long time board member of the Marin Poetry Center. In a previous life he held degrees in English, Philosophy, and Computer Science. His poems have appeared widely in journals such as Agni, Atlanta Review, Barrow Street, Nimrod, Passages North, Poetry East, Rhino, and River Styx.
Steve Kowit is the Poet Laureate of San Diego. He studied poetry with Ned O’Gorman at Brooklyn College, Stanley Kunitz at the 92nd Street Y, and Robert Lowell at the New School for Social Research. Kowit has taught at Southwestern College and San Diego State University for many years. His books include Lurid Confessions; Crossing Borders; The First Noble Truth; The Gods of Rapture; and In the Palm of Your Hand; and he edited the noted anthology The Maverick Poets.
April 19 (Saturday, 2:00 pm) — Warwick's welcomes author Jeff McMahon for a children's poetry reading. McMahon will read from his Swimming to the Moon: A Collection of Rhymes Without Reason. Readership level 7+ . For more information, please contact the Warwick's Book Department at (858) 454-0347.
About the book: With Swimming to the Moon, McMahon aims to keep the tradition of hardcover books and bedtime reading alive with a collection of tall tales and silly stories told in a whimsical and wonderful way.
For more information regarding the event, please contact Warwick's Books | 7812 Girard Avenue | La Jolla, Ca | 92037 | Ph. (858) 454-0347 | www.warwicks.com.
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April 6 (Sunday, 10:00 am) — Adventures by the Book is pleased to present the next SoCal Author Academy Workshop: Author Video Presentations, instructed by Kathi Diamant, local television personality, award-winning author, and SDSU Kafka Project Director, together with Andy Trimlett, Emmy award-winning KPBS producer at Hera Hub, 8885 Rio San Diego Drive, #237, San Diego. This workshop is ticketed and spaces are limited ($109 per person; discounts available for groups and returning students).
About the Event: The workshop will include a morning session with Kathi to rehearse and be coached on interview and presentation skills covered in the previous Presentations Workshop, an afternoon session with Kathi and Andy in which each participant will be taped for a 5-minute on-camera single shot interview, a 30 minute break for lunch, a high definition video of their in-class interview for every class participant that can be posted on their website or used for promotional purposes, and the opportunity to slate the interview with the author’s name and book title which the author can later upload as a Vimeo video, with an embedded code, to You Tube, Facebook, or a website, or used later as part of a book trailer.
About the SoCal Author Academy: As an author events coordinator, Susan McBeth is frequently asked advice by writers who are overwhelmed with the marketing and event planning process.
For more information regarding the event, please contact Susan McBeth at (619) 300-2532 or at susan@adventuresbythebook.com.
April 9 (Wednesday, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm) — The free LGBT Writing Workshop is a new, hour-long guided discussion and generative free-write directed at members of the LGBT community. Over the course of an hour, the group will be guided through a topic discussion, a period of in-class writing, and an opportunity to share at the end. Come out all over again, make friends, and feed your creative streak! ALL ARE WELCOME.
Artlab Studios, 3536 Adams Ave., San Diego; (619) 750-3355.
April 7 to May 4 — Online UCSD course, Marketing for Copyeditors: How to Get the Word Out.
You've perfected your editing skills, taken out your business license, and printed business cards. Now what? You've got to get the word out! Learn how to identify your area of expertise, determine niche markets, and investigate ways to market your services through online and offline strategies. Develop your marketing message and create promotional materials and presentations that relay your message.
At the end of the course, you will have a 3-month marketing plan and schedule to get you into action. Build in support, accountability, follow up, and monitoring to help stay on track. As you work through assignments, you will see results and soon be a marketing pro! Sign up now at http://extension.ucsd.edu as class size is limited. Four week class is $195. Instructor Andrea Susan Glass of WritersWay and The eBook Academy has written or edited more than 100 books or ebooks and is an award-winning author.
April 9 (Wednesday, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm) — The free LGBT Writing Workshop is a new, hour-long guided discussion and generative free-write directed at members of the LGBT community. Over the course of an hour, the group will be guided through a topic discussion, a period of in-class writing, and an opportunity to share at the end. Come out all over again, make friends, and feed your creative streak! ALL ARE WELCOME.
Artlab Studios, 3536 Adams Ave., San Diego; (619) 750-3355.
April 18 (Friday, 5:00 pm) — Deadline for the 2014 SPJ San Diego-Area Journalism Competition and the new SPJ Scholarship Competition is now accepting entries! Get your submissions in soon--To enter, go to their website, http://www.spjsandiego.org/, and click on their Journalism Contest page along the right side.
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Sam Warren is the publisher and editor of www.SDWriteWay.org. Visit the site for additional news and calendar events for both Readers and Writers. Sam now lives in Tijuana, Mexico, and is available for tours.
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