12:00 PM – Lisa Gardner & Karin Slaughter: Book Signing
Seattle Mystery Bookshop
Gardner will sign The Neighbor; Slaughter is signing Undone, the merger of two series.
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1:00 PM – Pacific Northwest Writers Association: PNWA Conference
Seattle Airport Hilton & Conference Center
The 54th Annual Summer Conference features Terry Brooks as Keynote speaker.
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7:00 PM – Brandon Scott Gorrell & Matthew Simmons: Cookie stuffing party!
Pilot Books
The local authors will stuff fortune cookies to promote their books. Stop by to say hi, and to check out Seattle’s newest indy bookstore, which is made of AWESOME with AWESOME SAUCE. Ahem.
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7:30 PM – Christopher Beha & James Fuerst: Reading
Elliott Bay Book Co.
Beha writes about reading the entire Harvard Classics series, while Fuerst shares his debut novel, Huge. EBBC seems to think that the Harvard Classics series had become obscure until Beha wrote about it, a notion that makes the top of my head pop off like an annoyed champagne cork.
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7:30 PM – Thom Hartmann: Threshold: The Crisis of Western Culture
Town Hall Seattle
Hartmann envisions a more just, equitable world, modelled on Scandanavian social democracies, but has trouble wrapping up his argument. Maybe he’ll do better in person, than on the page.
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