Thanks Ridge!

We had a lovely afternoon in beautiful autumnal Ridgefield, we being

Laura Toffler-Corrie

Caragh O'Brien

Ann Haywood Leal

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Sari Bode

Michaela MacColl

Thanks Ridgefield Library and Books on the Common!

You're next Waterford---Get ready for Laura, Ann, Rose Kent and yours truly!

Books, Critiques and More at the Split Charity Auction

Bid on a personalize/signed copy of Three Rivers Rising and help a worthy cause!

To honor National Domestic Violence Awareness month, author Swati Avasthi has combined a blog tour for her debut novel, Split, with a charity auction. Over 40 authors, agents and editors have donated manuscript critiques, personalized books, and more to an online auction that anyone---reader, writer, booklover---can bid on and buy. All proceeds go to the Family Violence Prevention Fund. In addition to the auction, Avasthi is donating $1/comment on her 26-stop, month-long blog tour, coordinated by Kari Olson at Teen Book Scene. If we reach the goal and cap of $250, Swati will double the donation to the Family Violence Prevention Fund. The CDC estimates that one in four women will experience intimate partner abuse during her life and UC Davis estimates that a child who grew up witnessing abuse is four times as likely to perpetrate abuse, 25 times more likely to commit rape and 6 times more likely to commit suicide. Family Violence Prevention Fund has some great initiatives, including Coaching Boys Into Men and Start Strong, that are about breaking the intergenerational cycle and preventing abuse. So, follow the tour, get stuff you want, and make a difference.

Kidlit Author Panel

Hope to see you there! Bring questions!

Saturday October 16, 2010
1:00 PM until 3:00 PM

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Ridgefield Library in association with SCBWI of Lower Fairfield County and ‘Books on the Common’ present: A ‘kidslit’ Writers' Panel: ‘Talk from the Trenches: Six published authors give advice on writing, finding an agent and selling your children’s book.’

The writers are:
Ann Leal - ALSO KNOWN AS HARPER
Jame Richards - THREE RIVERS RISING
Michaela MacColl - PRISONERs IN THE PALACE
Sari Bodi - THE GHOST IN ALLIE'S POOL
Caragh O'Brien - BIRTHMARKED
Laura Toffler-Corrie - THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF AMY FINAWITZ.

Books will be for sale and signing after the event thanks to Books on the Common. No registration.

230-Book Giveaway!!!!

Do you have a teen book club? Wanna win a free pack of books---ten copies of each book---from Class of 2k10 debut authors? Read the deets on our blog and please, spread the word!

We want to give you free books---seriously---not kidding!

Comment on the Class of 2k10 blog post to win. And help us finish out our debut year in style.