Local self-published author Richard L. Wren will be sharing his tricks of the trade Saturday\, May 19th at 7\:00 p.m. He will be discussing his new book\, KISS (How to Write and Publish Your Fiction Novel).
Are you looking for a down to earth\, nuts and bolts\, practical writing guide?
You've found it!
Richard L Wrenn's KISS (How to Write and Publish Your Fiction Novel) has been selected as required reading at university level Writing and Publication courses. This short\, concise guide helps you get started and before you know it you've written your first novel!
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Local author Juliet Bell (who looks an a lot like our good friend Sylvia Brownrigg) will be reading from her debut novel\, Kepler's Dream\, on Wednesday\, May 23rd at 7\:00 p.m.
A young girl makes her fractured family whole again with the help of a very special book
When eleven-year-old Ella's mother has to be hospitalized to undergo a dangerous cancer treatment\, Ella spends the summer at "\;Broken Family Camp"\; with her eccentric grandmother\, whom she's never met. The situation is hardly ideal for either of them. Ella is scared her mother may die\, but her grandmother seems to care more about her library full of books than she does about her very own granddaughter.
But when a rare and beloved book\, Kepler's Dream of the Moon\, is stolen from her grandmother's amazing library\, Ella and her new friend Rosie make up their minds to find it. Finding the beautiful book her grandmother loves so much could even be the key to healing Ella's broken family.
An affecting and beautifully written story of family\, forgiveness and the wonder of the stars\, Kepler's Dream is a sparkling and memorable debut.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120517T145955Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120530T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120530T030000Z UID:http://www.ggpbooks.com/event/melanie-gideon-wife-22 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.ggpbooks.com/event/melanie-gideon-wife-22 SUMMARY:MELANIE GIDEON -- WIFE 22 DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the release of Wife 22 with GGP's good friend Melanie Gideon on Tuesday\, May 29th at 7\:00 p.m.
For fans of Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Diary and Allison Pearson’s I Don’t Know How She Does It comes an irresistible novel of a woman losing herself . . . and finding herself again . . . in the middle of her life.
Maybe it was those extra five pounds I’d gained. Maybe it was because I was about to turn the same age my mother was when I lost her. Maybe it was because after almost twenty years of marriage my husband and I seemed to be running out of things to say to each other.
But when the anonymous online study called “Marriage in the 21st Century” showed up in my inbox\, I had no idea how profoundly it would change my life. It wasn’t long before I was assigned both a pseudonym (Wife 22) and a caseworker (Researcher 101).
And\, just like that\, I found myself answering questions.
7. Sometimes I tell him he’s snoring when he’s not snoring so he’ll sleep in the guest room and I can have the bed all to myself.
61. Chet Baker on the tape player. He was cutting peppers for the salad. I looked at those hands and thought\, I am going to have this man’s children.
67. To not want what you don’t have. What you can’t have. What you shouldn’t have.
32. That if we weren’t careful\, it was possible to forget one another.
Before the study\, my life was an endless blur of school lunches and doctor’s appointments\, family dinners\, budgets\, and trying to discern the fastest-moving line at the grocery store. I was Alice Buckle\: spouse of William and mother to Zoe and Peter\, drama teacher and Facebook chatter\, downloader of memories and Googler of solutions.
But these days\, I’m also Wife 22. And somehow\, my anonymous correspondence with Researcher 101 has taken an unexpectedly personal turn. Soon\, I’ll have to make a decision—one that will affect my family\, my marriage\, my whole life. But at the moment\, I’m too busy answering questions.
As it turns out\, confession can be a very powerful aphrodisiac.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120517T145955Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120531T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120531T030000Z UID:http://www.ggpbooks.com/event/victoria-zackheim-kathi-kamen-goldmark-sam-barry-zoe-fitzgerald-carter-exit-laughing-how-humor URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.ggpbooks.com/event/victoria-zackheim-kathi-kamen-goldmark-sam-barry-zoe-fitzgerald-carter-exit-laughing-how-humor SUMMARY:VICTORIA ZACKHEIM\, KATHI KAMEN GOLDMARK\, SAM BARRY\, ZOE FITZGERALD CARTER -- EXIT LAUGHING\: HOW HUMOR TAKES THE STING OUT OF DEATH DESCRIPTION:We're happy to welcome editor Victoria Zackheim along with controbutors Kathi Kamen Goldmark\, Sam Barry\, and Zoe FitzGerald Carter to GGp to read from their new anthology\, Exit Laughing\: How Humor Takes the Sting Out of Death\, on Wednesday\, May 30th at 7\:00 p.m.
Exit Laughing is more than a collection of twenty-four personal stories\, written by some of our country's finest authors\, on the subject of death and humor. It's a reminder that all of us approach death in very different ways. Whether we face our death or the death of a loved one with fear\, sorrow\, joy\, or confusion\, and whether or not we believe in an afterlife\, we cannot deny that death happens.
Exit Laughing reminds us that in death there is a place for humor.
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