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SUMMARY:Sisters in Crime Showcase (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special virtual showcase featuring eleven Sisters in Crime authors! Each author will read for five minutes\, followed by a few questions from the moderator\, Robin Stuart. Don’t miss this unique chance to hear from a broad collective of authors writing in the mystery and thriller genres! \nAuthors Include: \nMysti Berry\nMysti Berry is a proud member of multiple Sisters in Crime (SinC) chapters. She is a lifetime National SinC member and is publishing the second volume of voting justice stories in Low Down Dirty Vote (July 2020) featuring stories by Northern California authors. Her short story “Brewery Gulch” is featured in the SoWest: Lady Killers anthology. \nM. M. Chouinard\nM.M. Chouinard’s first fiction story was published in her local paper when she was eight\, and she fell in love with Agatha Christie novels not long after. While pursuing a Ph.D in psychology and helping to found the first U.S. research university of the new millenium\, the stories kept rattling around inside her skull\, demanding to come out. For sanity’s sake\, she released them. Her latest thriller is Her Daughter’s Cry. \nLinda Howe Steiger\nLinda Howe Steiger is an Oakland-based teacher and author of the Morgan Kendall series\, the latest of which is Terroir. \nSusan Kuchinskas\nSusan Kuchinskas is a journalist writing about technology and business and the author of three previous books: Chimera Catalyst\, the first book in the Finder series. Going Mobile: A Guide to Real-time Mobile Applications That Work\, and The Chemistry of Connection: How the Oxytocin Response Can Help You Find Trust\, Intimacy and Love. Her latest is the second in the Finder series\, Singularity Syndrome. \nDeb McCaskey\nDeb McCaskey is a former newspaper editor and author of stories featuring the people and movies of Hollywood’s Golden Age\, spotlighting America’s Kid Sister\, Frankie Franklin. Deb lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and their independent-minded rescue dog\, Mrs. Hudson. Her latest mystery in the Frankie Franklin series is Stardusted. \nAnn Parker\nAnn Parker is a science writer by day and fiction writer at night. Her award-winning Silver Rush mystery series features Inez Stannert\, a woman with a mysterious past\, a complicated present\, and an uncertain future\, the latest of which is Mortal Music. \nPriscilla Royal\nPriscilla Royal writes the Prioress Eleanor/Brother Thomas thirteenth century English mystery series. The Twice-Hanged Man is her fifteenth book. She can be found at plays\, ruled by cats\, and reading biographies of other crazy writers or fiction of greater and lesser violence. \nCindy Sample\nCindy Sample is the author of a national bestselling mystery series featuring single soccer mom\, Laurel McKay\, set in the California Gold Country\, the latest of which is Dying for a Double. Cindy is a five-time finalist for the Lefty Award for Best Humorous Mystery and a two-time finalist for the Silver Falchion award for best traditional mystery. \nJoseph Schneider\nJoseph Schneider lives with his wife and two children in California. His professional affiliations include The Magic Castle and the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing. One Day You’ll Burn is his debut novel. \nKelli Stanley\nKelli Stanley is the critically acclaimed and multiple-award winning bestselling author of the Miranda Corbie literary noir series set in 1940 San Francisco\, including City of Dragons\, City of Secrets\, City of Ghosts\, and City of Sharks. Her other works include historical mysteries set in Roman Britain and numerous short stories and essays. A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist\, her proudest achievements have been her inclusion as a literary heir of Dashiell Hammett by his granddaughter in Publisher’s Weekly\, and her founding of Nasty Woman Press on November 9th\, 2016. Her next novel is set in 1985 in Humboldt County\, California. She is featured in the anthology Shattering Glass\, the first in a series of remarkable anthologies published by a most unique publisher: Nasty Woman Press\, a non-profit\, 501(c)(4) founded to help fund other non-profits threatened by the rise of autocracy and the ongoing war against civil and human rights. A scintillating mixture of top-flight fiction from bestselling authors in multiple genres\, fascinating articles\, and thought-provoking essays\, conversations\, and interviews\, Shattering Glass takes as its broad theme the empowerment of women\, with all profits from the book donated to Planned Parenthood. \nCJ Verburg\nCJ Verburg is an award-winning playwright and theater director\, editor of two international literature collections\, and the author of two crime-fiction series. Her friendship with artist Edward Gorey inspired her multimedia memoir Edward Gorey On Stage\, her award-winning play Spin\, or Twilight of the Bohemians\, and her Edgar Rowdey Cape Cod mystery novels\, starting with Croaked and Zapped. Coming soon: Scalped\, or The Toastrack Enigma. CJ’s Cory Goodwin mystery novels star the international-journalist daughter of NY detective Archie Goodwin and include the world’s first multimedia mystery\, the Paris rock-&-roll adventure Another Number for the Road. Coming up in Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #30 is CJ’s first Holmes and Watson story\, “Scandal at the Savoy: The Monocle Murder.” She also has stories in two recent anthologies: “Birdbrain” in Sisters in Crime NorCal’s Fault Lines\, and “Peccata Mundy” in Seascape: Best New England Crime Stories of 2019\, released November 2019.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Leila Slimani and Lisa Taddeo
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Saturday\, July 18 at 12pm PDT when Leila Slimani discusses her new book\, Sex and Lies: True Stories of Women’s Intimate Lives in the Arab World\, with Lisa Taddeo on Zoom. \nZoom Login Info \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82087204644 \nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,82087204644#  or +12532158782\,\,82087204644#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799  or +1 646 558 8656\nWebinar ID: 820 8720 4644\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kAbKeHefP\n \nPraise for Sex and Lies \n“Vivid\, at times unbearable testimonies . . . In an act of rare humility and generosity\, Slimani offers [these women] what they’ve been deprived of: a space to tell their stories\, to exist.” —San Francisco Chronicle\n \n“I salute Leila Slimani for writing this important\, honest and brave book. . . . As a writer from a Turkish background\, I am moved by Slimani’s words. The women she talks to could just as well have been Lebanese\, Syrian\, Jordanian\, Palestinian\, Iranian\, Turkish.” ­—Elif Shafak\, New Statesman \n“Like Adèle did before it\, this slim book of impassioned pleas\, and of human impulses that resonate\, is one step to more women breaking free.” —Evening Standard \n\nAbout Sex and Lies \n“As revealing as Lisa Taddeo’s bestseller Three Women\, but it has a more urgent political mission.” —Evening Standard \nA fearless exposé of the secrets and lies of women’s intimate lives\, by the bestselling author of The Perfect Nanny and Adèle \n“All those in positions of authority–politicians\, parents\, teachers–maintain the same line: ‘Do what you like\, but do it in private.‘ “ \nLeila Slimani was in her native Morocco promoting her novel Adèle\, about a woman addicted to sex\, when she began meeting women who confided the dark secrets of their sexual lives. In Morocco\, adultery\, abortion\, homosexuality\, prostitution\, and sex outside of marriage are all punishable by law\, and women have only two choices: They can be wives or virgins. Sex and Lies combines vivid\, often harrowing testimonies with Slimani’s passionate and intelligent commentary to make a galvanizing case for a sexual revolution in the Arab world.
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SUMMARY:Book Talk with Roselle Lim
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, July 18th at 2pm | FREE Zoom Event\nPresented by Eastwind Books of Berkeley Book Club.\n—\nTo follow our June book club discussion\, Roselle Lim\, author of “Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck & Fortune” will join us for an online discussion of her book! Bring your questions and recipes to share! \nAbout the book:\nLush and visual\, chock-full of delicious recipes\, Roselle Lim’s magical debut novel is about food\, heritage\, and finding family in the most unexpected places.\nAt the news of her mother’s death\, Natalie Tan returns home. The two women hadn’t spoken since Natalie left in anger seven years ago\, when her mother refused to support her chosen career as a chef. Natalie is shocked to discover the vibrant neighborhood of San Francisco’s Chinatown that she remembers from her childhood is fading\, with businesses failing and families moving out. She’s even more surprised to learn she has inherited her grandmother’s restaurant.\nThe neighborhood seer reads the restaurant’s fortune in the leaves: Natalie must cook three recipes from her grandmother’s cookbook to aid her struggling neighbors before the restaurant will succeed. Unfortunately\, Natalie has no desire to help them try to turn things around—she resents the local shopkeepers for leaving her alone to take care of her agoraphobic mother when she was growing up. But with the support of a surprising new friend and a budding romance\, Natalie starts to realize that maybe her neighbors really have been there for her all along. \nAbout the Author:\nRoselle Lim was born in the Philippines and immigrated to Canada as a child. She lived in north Scarborough in a diverse\, Asian neighbourhood.\nShe found her love of writing by listening to her lola (paternal grandmother’s) stories about Filipino folktales. Growing up in a household where Chinese superstition mingled with Filipino Catholicism\, she devoured books about mythology\, which shaped the fantasies in her novels.\nAn artist by nature\, she considers writing as “painting with words.”
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Judith Martin\, aka "Miss Manners" (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Conversations with Authors is our free virtual event series! Join us every Saturday and Sunday at 7:00pm ET/4:00pm PT for a new chat with a different author. \n  \nJudith Martin’s Minding Miss Manners in an Era of Fake Etiquette\, is a modern guide to modern manners in which Miss Manners guides you through these turbulent times with her timeless wisdom and archly acid wit. \nAlso known as Miss Manners\, Judith has made tireless efforts to expand the understanding and exercise of etiquette which have not escaped official notice. During a White House ceremony In November\, 2005\, she was awarded the nation’s highest honor in the humanities\, the National Humanities Medal\, in recognition of her contributions to society as America’s foremost etiquette columnist and author. \nJudith’s “Miss Manners” newspaper column—distributed thrice-weekly by the Universal UClick and carried in more than 200 newspapers in the United States and abroad—has chronicled the continuous rise and fall of American manners since 1978. Since 1996\, she has been writing an additional “Miss Manners” column for the Microsoft Network\, and she is a contributor to the Financial Times.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-judith-martin-aka-miss-manners-virtual-event/
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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling's 'Jackpot' Livestream
DESCRIPTION:Our next Livestream’ed Bawdy will happen on Zoom on Saturday\, July 18th at 7 PM PST/9 PM CST/10 PM EST. \nTickets are available in Tiered Pricing (starting at $10 for Pandemic Pricing\, all the way up to our Exhibitionist Panel – where you’re a part of the show\, and join our performers on the screen!) The Best Deal? Become a member of Bawdy’s Patreon (at the Sexy Sidekick – $10/month level and higher) and you’ll get FREE tickets to our Livestreams – plus the Replays\, too. Please get your tickets right away to make sure you can be part of each night of one-of-a-kind stories\, weird antics\, and open-minded community. \nThe Butt Plug Club means you get one of our limited Panelist spots\, plus: \n• a Bawdy Buttplug \n• a black velvet Buttplug drawstring cozy \n• portable ampoules & packets of Uberlube \n• a Bawdy button • our brand new Bawdy sticker \n• a Bawdy Buttplug \n• a hand-signed note (with #BPC instructions) from Dixie \n• #DressUpForUs \nBut DO IT NOW because the deadline for exhibitionist tickets and the Butt Plug Club is this SUNDAY JULY 12th.  \nNot a member of Bawdy’s Patreon yet? Become a member NOW and in addition to ad-free podcast episodes and our new behind-the-scenes story coaching series\, you’ll get free tickets and free replays for Bawdy’s Livestreams!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytellings-jackpot-livestream/
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