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Meg Cabot at Winter Park Public Library

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On October 18, Writer’s Block Bookstore will partner with Winter Park Public Library to host YA Author Meg Cabot, most notable for her series “The Princess Diaries.” The event will be OCTOBER 18 from 6PM – 8PM and is intended for ages 12 and up. Meg Cabot will be promoting her newest book “The Boy is Back.”

Meg Cabot is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of books for both adults and tweens/teens. There have been over 25 million copies of Meg’s nearly 80 published books sold in 38 countries. After working for ten years as an assistant residence hall director at New York University (an experience from which she occasionally draws inspiration for her best-selling Heather Wells mystery series), Meg wrote the Princess Diaries series, which was made into two hit movies by Disney. Meg’s most proud of the letters she’s received from fans thanking her for helping them to overcome their “dislike of reading.

In The Boy is Back Reed Stewart thought he’d left all his small town troubles—including a broken heart—behind when he ditched tiny Bloomville, Indiana, ten years ago. Then one tiny post on the Internet causes all of those troubles to return . . . with a vengeance. Becky Flowers has worked hard to build her successful senior relocation business, but she’s worked even harder to forget Reed Stewart ever existed.

Now Reed and Becky can’t avoid one another—or the memories of that one fateful night.  And soon everything they thought they knew about themselves (and each other) has been turned upside down, and they—and the entire town of Bloomville—might never be the same, all because The Boy Is Back.

 

 

For those who are hoping to pre-order The Boy is Back, go to the following link:

http://www.writersblockbookstore.com/event/meg-cabot-winter-park-public-library

 

About Writer’s Block Bookstore

A community bookstore in your neighborhood, we have been located off of Park Ave for almost two years and have been bringing your favorite authors into town. We curate our stock based on the community’s wants and needs, but always have the latest releases. We have your favorite book.

~ Lauren Zimmerman

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Walking the Edge Book Launch Party

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Bookmark It will host a book launch party for Walking the Edge, a Southern Gothic Anthology edited by Joan Leggitt of Twisted Road Publications, with an introduction by Dorothy Allison, at 7 p.m. on Saturday, October 22nd at Blue Bamboo Center for the Arts.

Hear talented writers Pat Spears, Jane Edwards, Gale Massey and Jamie Poissant read their stories, and get your books signed.

1905 Kentucky Ave., Winter Park, FL 32789

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Man in the Blue Moon, by Michael Morris

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Not that many men can write a female protagonist I believe in. Michael Morris is such a writer. In Man in the Blue Moon, Morris also manages to portray small-town, turn-of-the-century Florida with such realism I could feel the sweltering heat, smell the pine resin, and see the firefies flicker. Ella Wallace’s dreams, as a young woman, of studying art in France are cruelly smashed when her drug-addicted husband leaves her to run their country store and raise their three sons on her own. When the mysterious Lanier shows up and begins to help her in ways that we’re not sure are from God or the Devil, Ella’s family and the town are torn apart by events that keep the reader guessing, right up through the thrilling climax.

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Blue Territory: A Meditation on the Life and Art of Joan Mitchell, by Robin Lippincott

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There are so many things I want to study and understand in this one, short life. I have mostly studied writing, but art, music, and dance have a hold on my imagination, as well, so I love to read about such things, even as I realize I’ll never have the time or passion to pursue them.

Abstract art is such an area. Sure, I’ve heard of the greats, and viewed some of their work in some of the great galleries around the world. But I confess, I’ve never been taken with it much, knowing there was depth there, and tremendous skill required, but lazily deciding to emphasize more accessible work in the limited time I had to focus on art and artists.

In reading Blue Territory, I found in Robin Lippincott what I most needed, to dip my toe into the water: a talented writer whose passion for Mitchell’s work and dedication to studying it and bringing it to the world through the medium of words allowed me to see who she was and what she accomplished with her work.

I deliberately avoided viewing images of the artist’s work while I read Lippincott’s book, in the same way he says he avoided using those images in his publication, to allow the words to paint the story in the mind of his readers. Only after I finished his pages did I finally see her paintings on the screen, with a depth of understanding and feeling I surely would have lacked, viewing them cold.