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Events
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Start: 12:00 pm
End: 12:30 pm
After failing a mandatory test, 16- year old Alenna is sent to live on the Wheel, a prison camp for would-be-criminals. The novel is set in a dystopian future where Canada, the U.S.A. and Mexico have joined together to become the U.N.A. Join author Lisa Stasse and other Rebel Readers and get 20% off The Forsaken. There is still room in the group, just show up!
Start: 1:00 pm
Authors Leigh Bardugo (Shadow and Bone) and Jennifer Bosworth (Struck) will discuss common mistakes made by first-time authors and the things they wish they’d done differently on the road to publication. Topics will include:how to build a better first draft, balancing critique and community with the integrity of personal voice, researching and approaching agents, what to expect when you’re on submission, and how to evaluate your publishing deal.
Start: 2:00 pm
Ralph Pezzullo and Karna Small Bodman will discuss how real-life international intrigue can inspire and inform fiction. Ralph has teamed up with non-fiction partner Don Mann, with whom he wrote Inside Seal Team Six: My Life and Mission with America's Elite Warriors, to create a fictional Seal Team Six novel series. Hunt the Wolf, the first in the series, takes the elite military team on a quest to eradicate the threat of international terrorists.
Start: 2:00 pm
Karna Small Bodman and Ralph Pezzullo will discuss how real-life international intrigue can inspire and inform fiction. Karna continues to incorporate not-quite or former government secrets into her novels with Castle Bravo. Her first book, Checkmate,
was inspired by President Reagan's missile defense program, Star Wars;
Castle Bravo is named for a once classified project dealing with nuclear
tests conducted back in the 1940s and 1950s, after World War II.
Start: 2:00 pm
End: 5:00 pm
Come party with us as our thank you to all of you who have made Catalina Coffee Café possible. We'll have a big bounce house so please bring your kids!!
Information about all of the festivities for the weekend are in the flier below.
Start: 2:00 pm
End: 3:00 pm
Fans of multiple-award-winning mystery and suspense author Laura Lippman are invited to join us at the gorgeous Cerritos Library for an afternoon discussion of her latest stand-alone novel, And When She Was Good. Maryland suburban mom Heloise is a woman with a secret life who is forced to make desperate choices to save her son and herself. Laura’s books include the Tess Monaghan series, the most recent of which is The Girl in the Green Raincoat; a half-dozen previous standalones; and short story collection Hardly Knew Her.
Start: 8:00 pm
Fans of multiple-award-winning mystery and suspense author Laura Lippman
are invited to join us at the Sophos Cafe at the Hub on Venice for an evening discussion of her latest stand-alone novel, And When She Was
Good. Maryland suburban mom Heloise is a woman with a secret life who is
forced to make desperate choices to save her son and herself. Laura’s
books include the Tess Monaghan series, the most recent of which is The
Girl in the Green Raincoat; a half-dozen previous standalones; and short
story collection Hardly Knew Her.
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