Summer vacation is drawing to a close, and so is Book Nest’s summer series of author lunches. But we are going out on a high note with: Melissa Hart, author of Wild Within: How Rescuing Owls Inspired a Family Thursday, 21 August at Noon at Book Nest (located inside Indulge! Antiques) Hart’s future husband, Jonathan,…
Book Launch for Wild Within by Melissa Hart: August 16th at 5 PM, Tsunami Books About Wild Within: How Rescuing Owls Inspired a Family It’s impossible to be depressed about a lethargic adoption process when a baby owl sporting a bad mullet sits on a perch in your nursery. Although my husband and I struggled…
August 2014 – book-lover and writerly events at Eugene Public Library All events FREE. Summer Reading for All Ages at Eugene Public Library Through August Sign up and join in the fun at Eugene Public Library with this year’s Summer Reading theme, “Fizz! Boom! Read!” All summer, visit any Library location — Downtown, Sheldon, or…
WWW Kicks Off with Kathleen Kerr Introducing WWW: Wordcrafters & Wine on Wednesdays! Want to chat with the editor of a publishing company? Find out the inner workings and secrets of getting published? Wordcrafters & Wine on Wednesdays presents Kathleen Kerr, senior editor of Harvest House publishers. July 16, 7-9pm at Territorial Vineyards and Wine…
All Eugene meetings are on the first Thursday of the month (except January 2015, which meets the 2nd Thursday) 2014 4 September 2014 activity: What We Learned at the WWC14 talk: Nina Kiriki Hoffman 2 October 2014 activity: Plotting Questions to Ask Yourself while Planning Your Current Book talk: Jimmy Edgeworth 6 November 2014 activity: Learn…
Eugene author Janet Fisher announces the launch of her first book, A Place of Her Own: The Legacy of Oregon Pioneer Martha Poindexter Maupin. Event details: Elkton, Oregon, at the ECEC library Sunday, 1 June, at 1:00 pm Future events include a reading at Tsunami Books, Saturday, 21 June, 5:00-7:00 pm For more information, go…
Mary Lowd has released two short anthologies of space opera short stories — Welcome to Wespirtech and Beyond Wespirtech. They’re available from Smashwords, Kindle, and other e-book retailers around the web. Welcome to Wespirtech: A Collection of Short Fiction At the Western Spiral Arm Planetary Institute of Technology, the best scientists from around the galaxy…
Does art have the power to transform? Jon Baxter has big dreams. Make cool art, meet hot girls, dive a Porsche. His reality is a million miles away – beer guzzling father, naive mother, house a shambles and the little town a dead end. Not to mention the fact that he’s just been arrested –…
PEN/Faulkner Award Winner Karen Joy Fowler to headline the 2014 CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium: “Family, Animal, Story” May 1 – 3 You’re invited to the third annual CSWS Northwest Women Writer’s Symposium — “Family, Animal, Story” — a 3-day symposium on women writers held on the UO campus and at the downtown Eugene Public…
All events are free and open to the public. More information: 541-682-5450 or www.eugene-or.gov/library Roaring ’20s Party Friday, April 4, 5:30 p.m., Downtown Eugene Public Library, 10th & Olive Wind up The Big Read of The Great Gatsby with a bang! Come to a Roaring ’20s Party featuring live music and dancing with the Calamity…
