Writers Block Bookstore

124 E. Welbourne Avenue

Winter Park, Florida 32789

407.335.4192

www.writersblockbookstore.com

info@writersblockbookstore.com

 

SATURDAY MARCH 7TH

1:00 – 3:00 PM

GLENDA BAILEY-MERSHON

Young Eve Gates flees the tragedy that besets her childhood friend, and the haunting mystery of her Romani grandmother’s demise, for the romantic places she has conjured through her love of reading––only to be called back by her mother’s illness. In this honest portrayal of girls growing up in a Southern mill town, three generations of women evoke the power of friendship and family.

 

SUNDAY MARCH 8TH

1:00-3:00 PM

CATHERINE GILDINER

COMING ASHORE

 

Catherine Gildiner wrote the New York Times best selling childhood memoir titled Too Close to the Falls. A decade later, she published a sequel, a teenage memoir of life in the 60’s called After the Falls. Her newly released third and final memoir called Coming Ashore, which covers her life as a student at Oxford in England, teaching in the burning ghetto in Cleveland, and finally her graduate school years in Toronto.

 

MONDAY MARCH 23^RD

1:30-3:00

• MARY ELISE LOVE
• JM BARLOU
• SHERYL FREDRICK

 

 

SATURDAY MARCH 28

12:00-2:00

LINDA ROOKS

THE BUNNY SIDE OF EASTER

On Easter morning, as parents’ watch their children scurry about the yard, looking for Easter eggs, many feel disconnected between the legend of the Easter bunny and the real meaning of Easter. The Bunny Side of Easter fills the gap, taking children on an exciting and charming adventure with hints of allegory that point children to the true significance of Easter.

 

STAYED TUNED FOR APRIL EVENTS:

April 2^nd -Book Launch for Cecilia Rodriquez Milanes

“Oye, What I’m Going to Tell You”

April 3^rd weekend -Laura van den Berg

“Find Me”

April 13^th – Ester Abbott

“Living Far Away”

April 16^th – An evening with Carol Frost

“Entwined,” “Love and Scorn” and a few winners of the Florida Book Award in 2010

April 17th An evening with David Sedaris at the Bob Carr – 8:00 PM   (We are  the official bookseller for the event.)

April 23^rd – Darlyn Finch Kuhn

“Sewing Holes”

April 8th – noon – Brown Bag Book club

April 19th – 4:00 PM – YA Book club

April 22nd – 6:00 PM Bookworm Book Club 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NY Times and USA Today bestselling author Cathy Maxwell will speak at the monthly meeting of the SpacecoasT Authors of Romance (FL STAR) on Saturday, February 28th at the West Melbourne Public Library, W. Melbourne, FL, from noon to 4 PM.   Guests are welcome to attend this event at no charge. Come and listen to Cathy’s inspiring talk! FL STAR is a chapter of Romance Writers of America.   For more information, please visit our website at www.authorsofromance.com

Best-selling novelist Amy Bloom will be on the Rollins Campus February 24-27, and will give a Master Class and Reading on February 26.  Click here for details:  http://www.rollins.edu/winter-with-the-writers/index.html

Amy Bloom is the author of two novels and three collections of short stories. Her New York Times best-selling novel Away (Random House, 2007) was called a “literary triumph” by the Times, while The Washington Post declared it, “desperate and impassioned, erotic and moving—absolutely hypnotic.” Her first novel, Love Invents Us, was called “an unsettling tale of desire.”

Bloom’s short fiction includes Where the God Of Love Hangs Out (Random House, 2010), also a New York Times best seller; Come to Me, a National Book Award finalist; and A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Her first nonfiction book was Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops and Hermaphrodites with Attitudes, now a staple of university sociology and biology courses. Her work has been translated into 15 languages. Her next book, Lucky Us, is forthcoming in August 2014.

A practicing psychotherapist for 20 years (after being a waitress, a bartender, an actor, and a peanut-picker), Bloom has an acute understanding of human nature and an ear especially attuned to the inner and outer voices of her characters. “I spent my professional life exploring the gap between what people said and how they said it, the chasm between what they felt and what they said they felt,” she has said.

Amy Bloom is a National Magazine Award winner. She has demonstrated her versatility and wit in the essays she has written for magazines such as The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Vogue, The Atlantic Monthly, Slate and Salon, on subjects as diverse as cooking lasagna, marrying at 50, and a history of portrait-painting. She is the University Writer-in-Residence at Wesleyan University.