UPCOMING EVENTS
Thursday, April 26, 2012
6 pm
San Diego Junior League Spring Fundraiser
San Diego Writing Women Panel
*Ticketed Event
Saturday, May 12, 2012
2pm
Asian Pacific Island Festival at the Japanese American National Museum.
Fact to Fiction Panel:
Join a remarkable panel of novelists featuring New York Times bestselling author Jamie Ford (Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet), Kristina McMorris (Bridge of Scarlet Leaves), Margaret Dilloway (How to Be an American Housewife), and Paula Yoo (Good Enough). Topics will include the influence of Asian American history on today’s literature, weaving true and personal accounts into fiction, and cultural education through storytelling.
Saturday, June 23
1:30 -3
American Library Association Conference (ALA), Anaheim
Reading from THE CARE AND HANDLING OF ROSES WITH THORNS, followed by signing
*Ticketed event
Saturday, July 7, 2012
2-3pm
Author Talk: Corona Public Library
Corona, CA
Friday, July 20, 2012
California State Summer School for the Arts
3:30-5 pm
CalArts, Valencia, CA
Alumni Talk & Signing
Friday, September 7, 2012
1 pm
Author Talk: San Carlos Library, San Diego, CA
Saturday, September 29, 2012
Keynote Speaker & Guest of Honor , Omega Nu Fundraiser, Sacramento, CA Ticketed Event. How to Be an American Housewife theme!PAST EVENTS
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
6:30 pm
Author Talk Series & Signing
Mission Valley Library
2123 Fenton Parkway, San Diego, CA 92108-4739
Tuesday August 9, 2011
7:30 pm
Talk & Signing
Warwick’s Books
7812 Girard Avenue
La Jolla, CA 92037
Monday, August 15, 2011
7 pm
Talk & Signing
Bellevue Regional Library
w/University Bookstore
Bellevue, WA
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
7 pm
Redondo Beach Library Great Summer Reads program
w/Mysterious Galaxy bookstore
Talk & Signing
Redondo Beach, CA
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
7 pm
Talk & Signing
Books, Inc. at Opera Plaza
San Francisco, CA
Friday, August 26, 2011
Luncheon, Talk & Signing (ticketed event)
Adventures by the Book
Japanese Friendship Garden, Balboa Park
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Southern California Writers’ Conference LA
Saturday Keynote Speaker
Monday, November 28, 2011
Talk & Signing
1:30 pm
Lemon Grove Library
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Book Fair Benefit for San Diego Friends of the Library
Talk & Signing
Mission Valley Barnes & Noble, San Diego
12 pm
Bostonia Women’s Club Speaker
Private event
January 12-15, 2012
Jefferson, Texas:
Author panel at the Pulpwood Queen’s Annual Girlfriend’s Weekend book festival
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Author Talk
6:30 pm Benjamin Library, San Diego
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA 2 pmTalk & Signing Double Header with Nina Revoyr, author of WINGSHOOTERS
Profile about me in Discover Nikkei Magazine Monday, March 12, 2012
7 pm Horizons Book Club The Upstart Crow Seaport Village 835C West Harbor Dr, San Diego This event is free and open to the public. The book will be sold at a 25% discount.
Tuesday, March 20, 20126:30
Warwick’s Author panel: Discussion workshop of Publishing Industry and How to Get Published, with Caitlin Rother, Marjorie Hart, and Laurel Corona of San Diego Writing Women. Warwick’s Books, La Jolla, CA
Hi,
My book group is discussing your book on Thursday, Aug. 18. I know my members will ask me if you have another book in the works. Would you care to share any future plans with us?
Thank you!
Hi Noreen…
Here’s the next book info.
Thanks for reading!
Thirty-six year old Gal Garner lives a regimented life. Her job teaching biology and her struggle with kidney disease keep her toggling between the high school, the hospital, and home
on strict schedule. Only at home, in her gardens, does Gal come alive. But even her passion, rose breeding, has a tangible and highly structured goal: Gal wants to create a new breed of rose, win Queen of
Show in a major competition, and bring that rose to market…
Then one afternoon Gal’s niece Riley, the daughter of her estranged sister, arrives.
Unannounced. And their lives will never be the same…
I can’t thank you enough for this book. My Aunt Hisako was always a sort of mystery to me growing up. She had married a serviceman and moved to America with him after the war, and I was told not to ask her about her life before she came here, because it would be too painful. I’m not sure if anyone ever asked her how she felt about that. I feel that I now at least have some frame of reference to help me understand who she was.
Thanks for sharing, Roxana. I’m touched by your story.