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Here's what we've scheduled for February. Click
to see March.
Check back often because we update all the time with exciting
new events.
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& Musician Scrapbook link to get a peek at some
past events.
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An evening with Bestselling
Author, Deborah Crombie
Thursday, February 9, 7 pm: Bestselling author
Deborah Crombie comes to the WRC! Join
us for an exciting evening. Deborah, a New York Times Notable Author
comes her most suspenseful and eerie tale to date in her chilling
mystery, NO MARK UPON HER.
New York Times bestselling author Deborah Crombie
makes her mark with this absorbing, finely hued tale of suspense—a
deeply atmospheric and twisting mystery full of deadly secrets, salacious
lies, and unexpected betrayals involving the mysterious drowning of
a Met detective—an accomplished rower—on the Thames.
When a K9 search-and-rescue team discovers a woman's body tangled
up with debris in the river, Scotland Yard superintendent Duncan Kincaid
finds himself heading an investigation fraught with complications.
The victim, Rebecca Meredith, was a talented but difficult woman with
many admirers—and just as many enemies. An Olympic contender
on the verge of a controversial comeback, she was also a high-ranking
detective with the Met—a fact that raises a host of political
and ethical issues in an already sensitive case.
To further complicate the situation, a separate investigation, led
by Detective Inspector Gemma James, Kincaid's wife, soon reveals a
disturbing—and possibly related—series of crimes, widening
the field of suspects. But when someone tries to kill the search-and-rescue
team member who found Rebecca's body, the case becomes even more complex
and dangerous, involving powerful interests with tentacles that reach
deep into the heart of the Met itself.
Deborah Crombie grew up near Dallas,
Texas, but from a child always had the inexplicable feeling that she
belonged in England. After earning a Bachelor's degree in Biology
from Austin College in Sherman, Texas, she made her first trip to
Britain and felt she'd come home. She later lived in both Chester,
England, and Edinburgh, Scotland, where she failed to make as good
a use of being cold and poor as JK Rowling.
It was not until almost a decade later that, living once more in Texas
and raising her small daughter, she had the idea for her first novel,
a mystery set in Yorkshire. She had no credentials other than a desire
to write and a severe case of homesickness for Britain. A
SHARE IN DEATH, published in 1993, was short-listed for both
Agatha and Macavity awards for Best First Novel and was awarded the
Macavity.She is the author of more than a dozen novels, including
the recent NECESSARY AS BLOOD and DREAMING
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The
critics rave about NO MARK UPON HER:
“Crombie has laid claim to the literary territory of moody psychological
suspense owned by PD James and Barbara Vine.” — Washington
Post
“A master storyteller who weaves a compelling, richly textured
tale…Highly recommended.” — Boston Globe
“A masterful novelist.” — Denver Post
“Rich and complex.” — Times (London) |
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Writing Workshop: Author
Branding: Standing Out in a Very Large Crowd
Saturday, February 11, 2 pm: What is
a “brand”? Simply stated, says Kris
Tualla, author of LOVING THE NORSEMAN
and LOVING THE KNIGHT, it is the prompt
that makes readers, editors, and agents think specifically of you.
Do you already have a tag line: a short, snappy phrase that describes
your writing? Come learn more and do some brainstorming to discover
your unique brand! Kris says branding is not just for writers about
to be published, but even more useful for pre-published writers It
not only helps them solidify what they write, it gives them a handle
to sell themselves to editors, agents, and the public.
In a few short years, Kris Tualla has
built a dynamite career and become a rising star who creates great
buzz wherever she appears. She writes with a fast-paced and succinct
style. Her plots are full of twists, passion, and very satisfying
outcomes. Kris started in 2006 with nothing but a nugget of a character
in mind, and has created a dynasty - The Hansen Series. Norway is
the new Scotland!
An enthusiastic speaker and teacher, Kris is an active member of both
Romance Writers of America and the Historical Novel Society. In LOVING
THE NORSEMAN, Grier MacInnes has buried three fiancés
in the Black Death; soon she'll be replaced by her cousin's teen bride
as Lady of Durness Castle. After two decades in Greenland, Rydar Hansen
is desperate to return to Norway and reclaim his inheritance ~ if
he still has one. Thrown together by a North Sea storm, they don't
speak the same language. But apart from each other, they have no future.
The Pen and Muse Reviews describes it as: “…a great read
with intriguing and memorable characters!" |
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Meet & greet bestselling
author, Michael Gruber
Friday, February 17, 7 pm: We are extremely
honored to be hosting a meet and greet with NYT Bestselling author,
Michael Gruber. With over ten million
books in print, Michael Gruber Michael Gruber is a well acknowledged
master of the thriller novel, whose latest book, THE
GOOD SON has been compared to the works of John Le Carré
and Graham Greene.
The critics are raving about THE GOOD SON.
Booklist wrote in its starred review, “Is there anything Gruber
can’t write about? In this richly textured tale…there
are twists and tensions aplenty—ideas, too.” Publishers
Weekly’s coveted starred included, “The brilliant character
development and the labyrinthine plot line, not to mention the absorbing
history of modern jihadism and the U.S. war on terrorism, make this
a provocative thriller that readers won’t soon forget.”
The Denver Post described him as a member of "the elite ranks
of those who can both chill the blood and challenge the mind"
Some of his other titles include THE BOOK OF
AIR AND SHADOWS and THE FORGERY OF VENUS.
THE GOOD SON summary: Somewhere in Pakistan,
Sonia Laghari and eight fellow members of a symposium on peace are
being held captive by armed terrorists. Sonia, a deeply religious
woman as well as a Jungian psychologist, has become the de facto leader
of the kidnapped group. While her son Theo, an ex-Delta soldier, uses
his military connections to find and free the victims, Sonia tries
to keep them all alive by working her way into the kidnappers' psyches
and interpreting their dreams. With her knowledge of their language,
her familiarity with their religion, and her Jungian training, Sonia
confounds her captors with her insights and beliefs. Meanwhile, when
the kidnappers decide to kill their captives, one by one, in retaliation
for perceived crimes against their country, Theo races against the
clock to try and save their lives.
A true Renaissance man, he has studied octopus behavior for his PhD
in marine sciences. He has also been a chef at several Miami restaurants,
and at other times in his life he has been a self-described hippie,
a roadie for various rock groups, a Dade County manager, and eventually
worked in the Carter White House and as a speechwriter at the EPA.
His first commercial writing job was to write a courtroom thriller
for Robert K. Tanenbaum, which was published under Tanenbaum’s
name.
Come and meet this extraordinary writer.
Michael will also be conducting a 2-day workshop on writing the thriller,
Saturday & Sunday, February 18 & 19, at the Sedona Art Center.
Click for more
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Native American
Program: Walking the Spiritual Road in Harmony with Nature….
The Indigenous Way
A Talk and Discussion Circle with Jim ‘Graywolf’ Petruzzi
Friday, February 24, 7 pm: Come enjoy
an evening with Jim "Graywolf" Petruzzi
and the circle that forms. Jim’s talk will circle around his
book WHITE MAN, RED ROAD, FIVE COLORS and
the spiritual road he has walked with Native American and other
indigenous teachers for the past twenty-five years.
The Discussion Circle will invite questions
of Jim and discussions of other spiritual paths based on the teachings
of ancestors and the Earth Mother. Jim will also speak to the changes
we are all going through now in this time predicted in many cultures,
and how we work with these shifts.
Come so we can talk together about what we have learned, but also
how we now act as times of great change are upon us
Jim Petruzzi
grew up in Pennsylvania in an Italian American household. After
years of operating his own businesses, Jim moved to Colorado in
1991. There he studied environmental impacts at Colorado State and
met the Native American teachers who changed his path to a spiritual
one. He has worked and studied with indigenous people in many parts
of the world. Today he travels around Turtle Island (USA), teaching
and sharing his healing and spiritual knowledge |
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Writing Workshop: A Writer’s
Workout
Saturday, February 25, 2 pm: Do you want
to be a better writer? Come to a workshop that teaches you to fix
common writing problems.
Desert Sleuths, the Arizona chapter of
Sisters in Crime, will lead you through exercises to round out your
characters and tighten your plots. Our panel of published authors
will show how to pump up your style so that your distinctive voice
emerges.
Handouts will provide “before” and “after”
visuals of better writing. At the end of the training session, you’ll
have a workout by rewriting a piece of flabby prose into a dramatic
scene.
The Desert Sleuths will be here to debut their newest anthology, SOWEST,
SO WILD. Bestselling author Meg Gardiner write of it: “Arizona
proves hot, dry and deadly…There’s something for everyone
to enjoy here, in tales of murder ranging from the humorous to the
macabe.” |
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