Scheduled Meetings

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Febrary 24, 2010

• Guest/program:
  
  Author Leslie Ann Moore

Leslie Ann Moore was winner of the Benjamin Franklin Award for Best First Book for her first book in the fantasy trilogy Griffin's Daughter.

The second volume of her trilogy Griffin's Shadow was published last year.

And, just out is her last volume wrapping up the trilogy Griffin's Destiny

The trilogy is about a human/elven woman shunned because of her mixed blood who discovers her gifts of magic and more as she travels towards her epic destiny.


• READING ORBIT- OCSFC Book Club:
  This month's book is "Tea With the Black Dragon"
  by R. A. MacAvoy
  
  "Tea with the Black Dragon" is about a woman named Martha MacNamara who was brought west to San Francisco by her daughter Elizabeth's disappearance. Mayland Long, an Asian gentleman who happens to be a 2,000 year old Chinese dragon, aids Martha in her search for her daughter. As they search for any clues as to why Elizabeth disappeared they discover hints of Martha's daughter being possibly mixed up in something dangerous.
  
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March 31, 2010

• Guest/program:
  
  Author Shauna S. Roberts

Shauna is an Orange County author and has a new book out Like Mayflies in the Stream. her first novel published late last year.

Shauna will talk about what authors (and in many cases, artists and musicians) can do to promote their books, what she did, and how well she thought her promotion strategy worked.


• READING ORBIT- OCSFC Book Club:
  This month's book is "Like Mayflies in the Stream"
  by Shauna S. Roberts
  
  In the great city of Uruk, there is no peace when Gilgamesh is restless, and he is never at rest. Shamhat, a priestess of Inanna, goes into the wilderness to find and civilize a match for Uruk's violently active God-King.
  
  "Like Mayflies in a Stream" brings new life to the Epic of Gilgamesh, diving into one of the earliest conflicts between civilization and wilderness, civic order and freedom, romance and sexuality. A book of the Hadley Rille Books Archaeology Series.
  
  

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