SATURDAY CONTINUED

1:00-2:00 Mrs. Piggle Wiggle Returns! Mrs. Piggle Wiggle (actress Jennifer Carroll) performs stories of Betty MacDonald's enduring character, Mrs. Piggle Wiggle, whose amazing cures for the well-known ailments drive parents to distraction and children wild with delight!

Location:Vashon Library
17210 Vashon Highway SW, Vashon WA 98070


2:30-4:00:  Adult Writing Workshop: Writing about “Place”  Island poet, storyteller, and writing coach Merna Hecht leads a creative nonfiction workshop with a focus on writing about place. Includes discussion about the importance of place when so many people on the planet are placeless.

Location: Vashon Library
17210 Vashon Highway SW, Vashon WA 98070  


2:30-3:30: The Brave New World of Writing and Publishing The genteel world of literature has been transformed by electronic media and the Internet. It’s not enough to have a good book; today a book needs a “platform.” Host: Jane Adams, Speakers: Karen Burns and Kit Bakke

Location: Heron Room
Vashon/Maury Island Land Trust Building
10014 SW Bank Road, Vashon WA 98070


4:00:  Robert Dugoni: The New York Times bestselling author reads from his just-released legal thriller, Wrongful Death.

Location: Books By-The-Way
9928 SW Bank Road, Vashon WA 98070

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4:00-7:00 OPEN MIC AT THE BIKE: Public Reading Party at The Red Bicycle! Host: Brian Brown, print, radio, and television reporter, magazine editor, film writer, speech writer, and gag writer. Published island and regional authors invite unpublished authors to perform 5 minute “flash” readings of their prose work before a convivial audience at the Red Bicycle Restaurant’s performance stage.

Location:Red Bicycle Restaurant and Stage
17618 Vashon Highway SW, Vashon WA 98070


SUNDAY
“Bookstore Appreciation Day”

10:00-11:30: Panel: From Story to Book - Succeeding with Agents and Publishers: Island novelist and former literary agent Alice Orr talks about how to prepare to run the commercial publishing gauntlet. The Self-Publishing Option: Island authors talk about the perils and possibilities of self-publishing. Fiction: Kajira Wyn Berry Fiction: Jean Davies Okimoto.

Location: Heron Room
Vashon/Maury Island Land Trust Building
10014 SW Bank Road, Vashon WA 98070


12:30-1:30:  Panel: Pixels or Paper? Online Author Magazine editor Bill Kenower joins bookstore owner Jenni Wilke and Vladimir Verano for a spirited discussion of the future of the printed book in an age of e-books.

Location: Heron Room
Vashon/Maury Island Land Trust Building
10014 SW Bank Road, Vashon WA 98070

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