Lit City:
What’s Going on in the Austin Book World Feb. 18th – Feb. 24th
Make sure to check out the new events coming up this week in the Austin Book World! From reading into your own
bookshelf, to enjoying local Indie authors sharing their work, there is an event for everyone this month of February.
Thursday, Feb. 18 (7 PM) @ BookPeople, join author Lydia Pyne talk about what’s in your bookshelf. Every
bookshelf tells a different story. Pyne will be speaking and signing Bookshelf.
Thursday, Feb. 18 (7 PM) @ BookWoman, come listen to Dr. Lori Swick on Getting To Know The Goddess: Dreaming with the Goddess. Explore the Goddess inside of you!
Friday, Feb. 19 (7 PM) @ Malvern Books, join your local book lovers for An Evening with Toni Sala, author of numerous novels and nonfiction works. He will be reading from one of his newest releases, The Boys.
Friday, Feb. 19 (7 PM) @ BookPeople, come listen to Michael Greger reading and signing How Not to Die: Discover Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease.
Saturday, Feb. 20 (1130 AM) @ BookPeople, enjoy BookKid’s I’m Not Afraid of the Dark Storytime! Get ready to read about Batman’s dark secrets and more!
Saturday, Feb. 20 (3-5 PM) @ Malvern Books, join three different local authors share their work and discuss how they made it to Indie publishing at the Indie Author Reading.
Sunday, Feb. 21 (4-530 PM) @ BookWoman, join Andrea Eames and Jenna Martin Opperman for An 
Afternoon of Poetry.
Tuesday, Feb. 23 (1030 AM) @ BookPeople, Go Green with BookKid’s Go Green Storytime! Get ready to read Bloom by Doreen Cronin and more!
Tuesday, Feb. 23 (6 PM) @ BookPeople, help welcome cartoonist Lincoln Peirce speaking and signing his new book, Big Nate Blasts Off.
Wednesday, Feb. 24 (1030 AM) @ BookPeople, get ready for BookKid’s Puppet Show Storytime! featuring some amazing puppeteers and a special, secret story!
Wednesday, Feb. 24 (7 PM) @ BookPeople, come join bestselling author Dennis Covington speaking and signing his newest release, Revelation: A Search for Faith in a Violent Religious World.
Upcoming Events and Classes at The Writing Barn
Six Weeks to Success: Analyzing & Writing the Great Commercial Novel with NYT best-selling author, Suzy Spencer:
We all dream of writing the next bestselling novel, and what’s wrong with that? After all, novels are built out of dreams and imagination. But what makes a commercial novel great? A bestseller?In Six Weeks to Success, we’ll break down and analyze the books of some of America’s great commercial novelists— from writers of legal thrillers to romance novelists to mystery writers and more—to learn how they made their books addictingly readable.
Language is the Story with Visiting Author David Elliott (PB to Adult):
This evening lecture/class is for ALL genres of Writing. From Picture Books to Adult Novels.In an NPR interview after the publication of Heir to the Glimmering World, Cynthia Ozick noted that the life of a novel is in the language. While Ozick was speaking of adult novels, this important concept is also true for work written exclusively for young people. This lecture/discussion will explore what Ozick might have meant by looking closely at the language of Carolyn Coman’s What Jamie Saw, Natalie Babbitt’s Tuck Everlasting, M.T. Anderson’s Feed, and Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are. We’ll pay particular attention to sentence structure and variety, syntax, diction and punctuation. Time permitting, the workshop will conclude with an exercise meant to sensitize participants to their own use of language in the stories they are telling. It is suggested that participants bring copies of the books we will examine.