* 12:00 PM: Seattle Mystery Bookshop gets back in the game with two guest authors, today. Charlie Huston will be signing The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death. I can hardly wait to read this one! Huston tacks in a new direction, with a slacker protagonist that gets a job as a trauma cleaner. Huston claims that the story is based on the old TV show The Rockford Files [the whatever]. “Freeze, turkey!”
Tim Maleeny will sign Greasing the Piñata, third in his Cape Weathers series. Cape Weathers is a character, not a place, by the way. In this installment, Weathers investigates the death of a US Senator found on a Mexican golf course. And, ew, some of his parts are missing! Maleeny writes twisty, tricky mysteries with lots of snappy dialogue and appealing characters.
If you work downtown, go on your lunch hour. Quit eating at your desk, it’s not good for you.
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* 6:30 PM: Ballard author Kristine Leander reads from Norwegian Seattle at SPL’s Ballard Branch. Of course. Sponsored by Secret Garden Bookshop.
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* 7:00 PM: The U-District UW Bookstore hosts Maria Semple, to read and sign her satirical novel, This One is Mine. Semple is a television writer and producer; in this book, she taps her own experience to tell the story of a TV writer who quits working to have a baby.
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* 7:00 PM: Cheap Wine and Poetry is back at Richard Hugo House. Join playwright and director Keri Healey and poets Rebecca Hoogs, Jeremy Richards and Ed Skoog. Hosted by Charla Grenz.
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* 7:30 PM: Local publishing company Black Heron Press is pleased to present Ron Dakron at Elliott Bay Books. Dakron is promoting his new novel, Mantids, and the paperback edition of Hammers, his third book (1998).
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