Red Room Blog Post: My Favorite Bookstore?

Photo: Yours Truly doing a reading and booksigning at the Bookworks in Albuquerque NM. Today over at the Red Room Authors Blog: "C.M. Mayo Celebrates a Batch of Bookstores": Vroman's, Kelper's, the Book Works, Bookworks (yes, they are two different bookstores), Blue Willow, Seminary Coop, Riverby Books, La Sombra del Sabino, and more.

Novelist Leslie Pietrzyk to Read at Riverby Books on Capitol Hill

When it comes to Capitol Hill, fuggeddabout all those Congress Critters and the dog's breakfast they've made out of things. Think positive! Think Pietrzyk! Tomorrow evening my amiga, novelist Leslie Pietrzyk, will be reading in the venerable A Space Inside Reading series curated by Monica Jacobe at Riverby Books on Washington DC's Capitol Hill. Click here for the relevant info. More anon.

Ellen Prentiss Campbell: A New Writer to Watch

... because she's doing great work. I've read her novel in progress--- I have such a feeling, it's going to be big. She's reading next Wednesday January 23rd at the delightful (one of my all-time favorite bookshops--- this one even serves afternoon tea) Riverby Books, 417 East Capitol St. SE (just down the street from the Folger Library) in Washington DC--- yes, right there in the shadow of the U.S. Capitol, as part of Monica Jacobe's innovative A Space Inside reading series. The event is open the public. More anon.

Mary Kay Zuravleff's Mystery Reading at Riverby Books (Capitol Hill DC): November 28th

About a century ago (almost 2 years, actually) I read "The Building of Quality" in Monica Jacobe's very fun A Space Inside reading series at the venerable (they even serve afternoon tea!) Riverby Books. As I'll be out west, I'm going to miss the reading scheduled for November 28th, but if you're anywhere in the Washington DC area, don't miss it! Mary Kay Zuravleff will be reading something new... not from her elegantly witty DC museum-insider novel of manners, The Bowl is Already Broken. (I know this novel well; I had the priviledge of reading multiple drafts.) Nor will she be reading from her first novel, The Frequency of Souls, which one critic deemed “the best short comic novel ever written about refrigerator designers with psychic powers." Whatever it is she's going to read, this is sure to be a special evening. Here's the official info:

Mary Kay Zuravleff at Riverby Books on Capitol Hill
Old Books & New Stories
Wednesday, November 28, 2007, 7 pm
The reading is free, the books are used, and the wine is new. Spread the word.
Riverby Books is at 417 E. Capitol St., SE, near the Folger Theater.