10:00 AM – Emerald City Comicon: Washington State Convention and Trade Center
Do I really need to explain this?
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12:00 PM – Vicki Delany: Valley of the Lost
Seattle Mystery Bookshop
Second in a series set in a small BC town. Constable Molly Smith and Sargeant John Winters are puzzled by a corpse and an infant.
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2:00 PM – Finishing Line Press: Poetry Reading
Elliott Bay Book Co.
A quartet of local poets published by Finishing Line Press features Jane Alynn, Elizabeth Aoki, Lana Hechtman Ayers, and Julene Tripp Weaver.
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2:00 PM – La Jefa: Cultural Collisions: Women Poets & Their Craft
Richard Hugo House, Cabaret
Four Seattle women writers–JT Stewart, Pesha Gertler, Felicia Gonzalez and Jourdan Keith–who collectively represent at least 16 cultures, will present an interactive audience panel and a reading of their work.
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4:00 PM – Reader’s Choice of Poetry, Prose, or Public: Poetry Reading
SPL Greenlake Branch Library
Chris Jarmick, Cathy Ross. Open mike. MC J. Glenn Evans.
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4:30 PM – Stuart Brown, MD: Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul
Elliott Bay Book Co.
The Founder of the National Institute for Play visits Seattle and confronts the challenge of a lifetime.
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6:00 PM – Jaime Hernandez & Stan Sakai: Art Opening & Book Signing
Fantagraphics Bookstore
The artists behind Love & Rockets (Hernandez) and Usagi Yojimbo (Sakai) sign. Special Guest: Paul Hornschemeier
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7:30 PM – William Dietrich: The Dakota Cipher
Elliott Bay Book Co.
Third in a historical mystery series. Ethan Gage sets out to find Thor’s Hammer and/or a tribe of Caucasion native Americans.
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