Craft on Draft Presents A WRITER’S VOICE – HOW TO DEVELOP YOURS AND YOUR CHARACTERS
Voice. It’s what every agent and editor is looking for and what reels readers in. Join Belle Brett (Gina in the Floating World), Stephanie Gayle (Idyll Hands) and Brendan Matthews (The World of Tomorrow).
Want in on the action? Submit a page of your own voice-filled fiction (max 250 words). One lucky winner will have their entry read and discussed by the authors, receive a GrubStreet pint glass + drink, and have their piece and an interview published on the Dead Darlings blog. Email submissions to info@craftondraft.org by October 13.
Another Round of MassMouth Story Slam at Trident
MassMouth continues its 2017-2018 Story Slam Season at Trident Booksellers & Cafe.
Doors open at 6pm. Slam begins at 7pm.
All slams, except semi-finals: $10 online or at the door.
Mass Poetry’s U35 Poetry Series at Trident Booksellers & Cafe
Join Trident Booksellers & Cafe, in conjunction with Mass Poetry, for a bi-monthly reading series that promotes and bolsters Massachusetts poets under 35 while giving them a venue to share their work and connect with other poets under 35.
This event is free.
FACT IN FICTION: RESEARCHING YOUR NOVEL
In honor of National Reading Group Month, WNBA-Boston invites you to FACT IN FICTION: RESEARCHING YOUR NOVEL, an evening with celebrated authors Ellen Meeropol, Lauren Davis Huber, and Beatriz Williams
Protecting the Planet: A Discussion of the Climate Crisis and Climate Visionaries
Join Trident Booksellers for a book talk with a focus on the science, communication, advocacy, and opportunity of climate change. The talk will focus on today’s climate crisis and climate visionaries, their inspiring work, and the promising solutions that could bring us to 100% wind, water and solar power by 2050.
The book in focus: Protecting the Planet: Environmental Champions from Conservation to Climate Change by authors MARIAH TINGER and BUDD TITLOW.
This event is free and open to the public.
Protecting the Planet is being sold by Trident Booksellers. You can purchase a copy in-store or online here.
NYC Cooking Demo with Food/Travel Journalist TRACEY CEURVELS
Trident Booksellers is pleased to host food/travel journalist TRACEY CEURVELS with a demonstration of her book The NYC Kitchen Cookbook.
Inspired by the local shops in her New York neighborhood, CEURVELS began cooking with exotic ingredients and writing about her experiments on her trendsetting blog, “The NYC Kitchen,” in 2010. Since then Tracey has tested hundreds of beautiful recipes, and shared the warmth of her friendly home kitchen with each reader.
In The NYC Kitchen Cookbook, Tracey shares her tasty adventures with foodie fans nationwide and explains how to use the flavorful ingredients found in NYC to make simple yet sensational meals for any occasion. Families can especially enjoy her dedication to cooking with her young daughter (featured prominently on her website and in photos in the cookbook), and the warm bond they share over their culinary creations.
This event is free and open to the public.
The NYC Kitchen Cookbook is being sold at Trident Booksellers. You can purchase a copy in-store or online here.
Sci-Fi author M.T. ANDERSON and award-winning novelist JULIA GLASS in conversation
Join Trident Booksellers for a night of conversation between authors M.T. ANDERSON and JULIA GLASS.
National Book Award winner M.T. ANDERSON returns to future Earth with Landscape with Invisible Hand, a sharply wrought satire of art and truth in the midst of colonization. When the vuvv first landed, it came as a surprise to aspiring artist Adam and the rest of planet Earth— but not necessarily an unwelcome one. Can it really be called an invasion when the vuvv generously offered free advanced technology and cures for every illness imaginable? As it turns out, yes.
In A House Among Trees, GLASS’s fifth book since her acclaimed novel Three Junes won the National Book Award, she gives us the story of an unusual bond between a world-famous writer and his assistant—a richly plotted novel of friendship and love, artistic ambition, the perils of celebrity, and the power of an unexpected legacy.
This event is free and open to the public.
FRED DEVECCA Shares his Mystery Novel, The Nutting Girl
Trident Booksellers hosts longtime screenwriter, photographer, director, actor, and free-lance writer/author FRED DEVECCA for a reading of his novel The Nutting Girl.
Middle-aged Frank Raven used to be a lot of things–a blind monk, a cop, a private detective, and a hard drinker. Now he doesn’t do much except run a funky old movie theater in bucolic Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, dance and sing with the local troupe of Morris Dancers, and record bird songs on his phone. A lanky young wunderkind director, Nick Mooney, brings his Hollywood film crew to town and hires the “retired” Raven to protect his star: the wild, unpredictable, gorgeous, and prodigiously talented twenty-one-year-old Juliana Velvet Norcross, aka VelCro. Reluctant at first, Raven takes on the job and slowly sees that there is more to VelCro than the troubled rebel she appears to be. On the eve of filming, storms ravage the small village, and the river that runs through the center of town floods its banks. The storm passes, VelCro recovers from illness that Raven’s girlfriend’s daughter, Sarah, helped nurse, and filming begins. But during the first shot, she is swept away into the river, leaving no trace.
This event is free and open to the public.
Darkansas: A Novel with debut author JARRET MIDDLETON
Trident Booksellers is pleased to host author JARRET MIDDLETON for a reading of his debut novel, Darkansas.
Jordan is a country musician living in the shadow of his father, bluegrass legend Walker Bayne. A man who has made a lifetime of poor decisions, Jordan bounces between dive bars, accruing women and drinking himself to the brink of disaster.
When he returns home to the Ozarks for his twin brother’s wedding, Jordan uncovers a dark vein in the Bayne family history: going back to the end of the Civil War, every generation of Bayne men have been twins―and one twin has always murdered their father.
This event is free and open to the public.