READERS & WRITERS CALENDAR: FROM SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

September 2015 Articles

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Readers

September 6 (Sunday, 12:00 pm) — Weekend with Locals Program we will be hosting Susan A. LeBron author of No Fig Leaves Allowed.

September 8 (Tuesday, 12noon) – A Journey of Discovery: Raymond M. Wong was a lonely and resentful man before going on a trip to Hong Kong in 1996. He met a father, encountered his family, and discovered a new world, one of forgiveness and compassion, in a city he had abandoned for nearly three decades. He will discuss his award-winning memoir, I’m Not Chinese: The Journey from Resentment to Reverence.

Fallbrook Village Rotary Club: Fallbrook Library, 124 S. Mission Road, Fallbrook, CA 92028. E-mail: Karen Utley at keufvr@gmail.com or (760 pm) 731-7321. Site: www.raymondmwong.com

September 8 (Tuesday, 10:00 am) — Come enjoy free coffee, scones, and book recommendations from a Warwick's Bookseller!

September 9 (Wednesday, 7:00 pm) — San Diego Book Discussion Group.

Mysterious Galaxy, 5943 Balboa Ave, Suite 100, San Diego. For additional information, go to http://www.mystgalaxy.com/ or call (858) 268-4747.

September 9 (Wednesday, 7:30 pm) — Warwick's is hosting Alephonsion and Benson Deng with Judy Bernstein to present the special tenth anniversary edition of their revolutionary and eye-opening memoir, They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky. This event is free and open to the public. Reserved Seating is available. Only books purchased from Warwick's will be signed.

This is the tenth anniversary edition of the stunning literary survival story of three young Sudanese boys, two brothers and a cousin hailed by the Los Angeles Times as a moving, beautifully written account, by turns warm and tender.

Between 1987 and 1989, Alepho, Benjamin, and Benson, like tens of thousands of young boys, took flight from the massacres of Sudan's civil war. They became known as the Lost Boys. With little more than the clothes on their backs, sometimes not even that, they streamed out over Sudan in search of refuge. Their journey led them first to Ethiopia and then, driven back into Sudan, toward Kenya. They walked nearly one thousand miles, sustained only by the sheer will to live.

They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky is the three boys account of that unimaginable journey. With the candor and the purity of their child's-eye-vision, Alephonsian, Benjamin, and Benson recall by turns: how they endured the hunger and strength-sapping illnesses: dysentery, malaria, and yellow fever; how they dodged the life-threatening predators: lions, snakes, crocodiles and soldiers alike, that dogged their footsteps; and how they grappled with a war that threatened continually to overwhelm them. Their story is a lyrical, captivating, timeless portrait of a childhood hurled into wartime and how they had the good fortune and belief in themselves to survive.

September 10 (Thursday, 7:30 pm) — Warwick's is hosting the #1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel James Brow to present his young readers edition of The Boys in the Boat. He grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and attended Diablo Valley College, the University of California at Berkeley, and UCLA. His primary interest as a writer is in bringing compelling historical events to life as vividly and accurately as he can. This event is free and open to the public. Reserved Seating is available. Only books purchased from Warwick's will be signed. This is the beloved story about the Greatest Generation freshly adapted for the next generation.

Berlin, 1936. The Olympic finals of the eight-oared rowing race. Germany, Italy, USA. The American boat touches the finish line first, beating all odds and sending Hitler away in a silent rage. In the midst of the Great Depression, the nine rowers showed the world what true grit really meant. They were western, working-class boys who never expected to beat the elite teams of the East Coast and Great Britain, yet they did. At the center of the tale is Joe Rantz, whose personal struggle and ultimate triumph captures the spirit of his generation, the one that would prove in the coming years that the Nazis could not prevail over American determination and optimism.

This deeply emotional yet easily accessible middle-grade adaptation of the New York Times bestselling The Boys in the Boat shows readers how we can find hope in the most desperate of times.

September 11 (Friday, 7:30 pm) — Twenty-two-year-old Stephanie Diaz wrote her debut dystopian novel, Extraction, when she was a film student at San Diego State University. Now the action-packed trilogy comes to a close with the release of Evolution and we’re thrilled to host her launch party. Clementine and Logan’s world is on the brink of destruction and they have no choice but to retreat to the Core. Unfortunately, this means Clementine and Logan must form a tentative alliance with their sworn enemy but it’s the only way for the rebels to survive. Don’t miss this pulse-pounding conclusion to a gripping series that fans of The Hunger Games will love.

Clementine's world is on the brink of destruction. An army of aliens from the distant planet Marden has arrived with a massive fleet of battleships, intent on finally putting an end to the war Kiel's old rulers initiated. With the Alliance headquarters reduced to rubble and one of the rebel leaders close to death, Clementine and her friends have no choice but to retreat to the Core to escape the alien ships attacking the Surface.

But safety in the Core means forming a temporary alliance with their sworn enemy, Commander Charlie. He's a ruthless man and a liar, but striking a bargain with him – his pardon in exchange for their help defeating the Mardenites – is the only way the rebels might survive the war. And Charlie needs their help too, for Marden's force is more powerful than anyone anticipated, with weapons and technologies never before seen on Kiel. Unless old feuds can be set aside long enough for a diplomatic solution to be found, all of Kiel's people will be destroyed, and everything Clementine and her friends have sacrificed in their fight for peace will have been for nothing.

Mysterious Galaxy, 5943 Balboa Ave, Suite 100, San Diego. For additional information, go to http://www.mystgalaxy.com/ or call (858) 268-4747.

September 12 (Saturday, 5:30 pm) — Warwick’s & USD's College of Arts & Sciences present Salman Rushdie in conversation to discuss his newest novel, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights. Tickets are $30.24 & include a copy of the book. Check-in and doors open at 4:45 pm and seating is first-come first-served.

Salman Rushdie is the author of twelve novels—Grimus, Midnight’s Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker), Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Moor’s Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Fury, Shalimar the Clown, The Enchantress of Florence, Luka and the Fire of Life, and Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights—and one collection of short stories: East, West. He has also published four works of nonfiction: Joseph Anton, The Jaguar Smile, Imaginary Homelands, and Step Across This Line, and co-edited two anthologies, Mirrorwork and Best American Short Stories 2008. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. A former president of American PEN, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature.

Rushdie’s new novel is a wonder tale about the way we live now, a rich and multifaceted work that blends history, mythology, and a timeless love story to bring alive a world – our world – that has been plunged into an age of unreason. Inspired by 2,000 years of storytelling tradition yet rooted in the concerns of our present moment, it is an enduring testament to the power of the imagination.

In the near future, after a storm strikes New York City, the strangenesses begin. A down-to-earth gardener finds that his feet no longer touch the ground. A graphic novelist awakens in his bedroom to a mysterious entity that resembles his own sub–Stan Lee creation. Abandoned at the mayor’s office, a baby identifies corruption with her mere presence, marking the guilty with blemishes and boils. A seductive gold digger is soon tapped to combat forces beyond imagining.

Unbeknownst to them, they are all descended from the whimsical, capricious, wanton creatures known as the jinn, who live in a world separated from ours by a veil. Centuries ago, Dunia, a princess of the jinn, fell in love with a mortal man of reason. Together they produced an astonishing number of children, unaware of their fantastical powers, who spread across generations in the human world.

Inspired by the traditional “wonder tales” of the East, Salman Rushdie’s new novel is satirical and bawdy, full of cunning and folly, rivalries and betrayals, kismet and karma, rapture and redemption.

The location of the talk is the University of San Diego Institute for Peace and Justice Theater, 5998 Alcala Park, San Diego, CA 92110

September 12 (Saturday, 4:00 pm) — Mysterious Galaxy celebrates the release of Cindy Pon’s newest novel, Serpentine! Inspired by the rich history of Chinese mythology, this sweeping fantasy is set in the ancient Kingdom of Xia and tells the coming of age story of Skybright, a young girl who worries about her growing otherness. As she learns of her dark destiny, she must struggle to retain her sense of self – even as she falls in love for the first time. Join us for a fantastic discussion on love, magic, and danger.

Returning to the world of Silver Phoenix (2009), Pon adeptly weaves together fantasy elements and Chinese traditions and folklore in this coming-of-age fantasy. Growing up in Yuan Manor has been good for Skybright, a foundling orphan who was taken in by a wealthy family. Though her role is that of a handmaid to daughter Zhen Ni, the two girls have been best friends since birth. When a seer arrives from the capital, Skybright's future proves to be as murky as her past, with Madame Lo "unable to see her clearly." Soon after, Skybright is shocked one night when she transforms (temporarily) into a serpent demon, "a thick serpent coil snak[ing] behind her, where her legs should have been." With a war between the demons looming, Skybright learns to embrace her demon side, striking a balance between her newfound duties as leader and the normalcy of her previous life. Action, secrets, love, and a search for identity combine in a powerful tale about what ensues when the underworld and the real world collide. – Publishers Weekly

Mysterious Galaxy, 5943 Balboa Ave, Suite 100, San Diego. For additional information, go to http://www.mystgalaxy.com/ or call (858) 268-4747.

September 13 (Sunday, 2:00 pm) — In Reed Farrel Coleman’s newest addition to Robert B. Parker’s New York Times bestselling Jesse Stone series, The Devil Wins, a massive storm hits Paradise, and Police Chief Jesse Stone worries about potential storm damage. But when the bodies of two teenage girls are discovered in the wake of the storm, Jesse must dig up secrets of the past that have been buried for over twenty-five years.

William S. Kirby has traveled extensively which inspired him to write his first mystery novel, Vienna, a sexy stylish thriller that follows two women as they plunge into a bizarre love affair amidst high fashion European photo shoots – inspired in part by a Sherlock Holmes short story.

A Nor'easter blows into Paradise and churns up the past in the stunning new addition to Robert B. Parker s "New York Times" bestselling series featuring Police Chief Jesse Stone.

In the wake of a huge storm, three bodies are discovered in the rubble of an abandoned factory building in an industrial part of Paradise known as The Swap. One body, a man s, wrapped in a blue tarp, is only hours old. But found within feet of that body are the skeletal remains of two teenage girls who had gone missing during a Fourth of July celebration twenty-five years earlier. Not only does that crime predate Jesse Stone s arrival in Paradise, but the dead girls were close friends of Jesse s right hand, Officer Molly Crane. And things become even more complicated when one of the dead girls mothers returns to Paradise to bury her daughter and is promptly murdered. It s up to Police Chief Jesse Stone to pull away the veil of the past to see how all the murders are connected.

Mysterious Galaxy, 5943 Balboa Ave, Suite 100, San Diego. For additional information, go to http://www.mystgalaxy.com/ or call (858) 268-4747.

September 13 (Sunday, 12:00 pm) — Weekend with Locals Program Warwick’s will be hosting Louise Loria author of, Maggie Gets Her Wish.

September 20 (Sunday, 3:00 to 5:00 pm) — The Ed Brown Center for Active Adults invites the community to attend “A Mad Hatter’s Tea Party” at the Center. This madcap event includes fragrant teas; delicious food; handsome waiters; fabulous prizes; croquet on the lawn; and entertainment in a kooky, congenial atmosphere. All ages are welcome to attend. Guests are encouraged to wear flamboyant hats to honor the afternoon’s host — the Mad Hatter!

Performing popular tunes from the ’50s to ’70s will be Mark Shatz on his guitar. Mark also will accompany members of the Greater San Diego Music Coterie Choir. Walter Ritter, founder of Write-Out-Loud – a local performance group that reads great literature aloud – will read a selection from Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland.

The cost to attend The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party is $35 per person. Proceeds from the event will benefit the Ed Brown Center for Active Adults and will be used to support the many programs and activities that serve residents in Rancho Bernardo and surrounding communities. Reservations are necessary, and may be made by calling (858) 487-9324 before 3:00 p.m. Wednesday, September 16, 2015, or by coming to the Ed Brown Center, 18402 West Bernardo Drive, in Rancho Bernardo Community Park.

Writers

Workshops, Classes, Seminars, Book Festivals, Contests and Authors Exhibits

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September 6 (Sunday, 12:00pm to 3:00pm) — The Writers Coffeehouse is open to everyone. The Coffeehouse is a bunch of writers sitting around talking about writing … with coffee. No agenda … just chat about the latest trends in the industry, about the craft of writing, about markets, about pitching and selling, about conquering frustration and defeating writers block, and about all of the good things that come from the community of writers. No previous publishing experience necessary … the Writers Coffeehouse attracts everyone from absolute beginner to award-winners and bestsellers. We're all writers. The Coffeehouse will be a regular event that meets on the first Sunday of every month from noon to 3:00 PM. And join the free Message Board online: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/WritersCoffeehouseOnline/info.

Mysterious Galaxy, 5943 Balboa Ave, Suite 100, San Diego. For additional information, go to http://www.mystgalaxy.com/ or call (858) 268-4747.

September 11 to 13 — Writers once again have the opportunity to work on their craft at the Fourth Annual San Diego Writers, Ink Fall For Writing Conference. Pre-registration discounts are available at this affordable writer’s conference.

"Fall for Writing is a great time for aspiring writers to take that first writing class or experienced writers to try a different genre or take a class from a new instructor, " said Kristen Fogle, Executive director of SDWI.

Classes and workshops will cover everything from fiction, memoir and, poetry writing, to collage and marketing classes. The full weekend of classes, workshops, and parties is open for pre-registration now. There will be a kick-off party with a well-known speaker that will be announced at a later date.

The cost is $120 for members or $140 for non-members for up to 10 sessions. At the door it’s $5 more for each or $25 a class. Membership is $35 a year.

The Ink Spot, NTC Liberty Station, 2730 Historic Decatur Rd., Barracks 16, Suite 202, San Diego. Go to http://www.sandiegowriters.org and click on Classes & Workshops.

September 12 (Saturday, 11:30 am to 3:00 pm) — Local organization San Diego Writers, Ink, nurtures writers and fosters a literary community by serving as a hub for the literary community, promoting literature, providing artistic development for writers at all levels, and facilitating artistic collaboration through writing & reading groups and classes & workshops. Presenters include: Tammy Greenwood, Mark O'Bannon, Judy Reeves, Lisa Kessler, Carlos de los Rios, Marni Freedman, Jill G. Hall, and Jenny Lane. MG will pop-up at the conference on Saturday with a selection of recommended writing guides.

For more information and to sign up please visit the San Diego Writers, Ink website. http://www.sandiegowriters.org/911-913-fall-for-writing-2015/

Mysterious Galaxy, 5943 Balboa Ave, Suite 100, San Diego. For additional information, go to http://www.mystgalaxy.com/ or call (858) 268-4747.

September 19 (Saturday) — The Pacific Southwest Chapter of the American Medical Writers Association (AMWA) is hosting a one-day symposium titled "Medical Writers’ Toolbox Decoded”, at Amgen in Thousand Oaks. We would like to extend an invitation to members of your organization.

This symposium will be useful for anyone interested in learning about how medical writers practice their craft. In addition, it will serve as a great networking opportunity. Registration by Friday, September 4 is required but is free, courtesy of Amgen. We would like to thank Amgen for generously hosting this free event.

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