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Start: 2:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
This year we join bookstores around the country in celebrating the first annual National Bookstore Day, a day devoted to celebrating bookselling and the vibrant culture of bookstores.
So we decided to invite booksellers (buyers, owners, managers) from other So Cal bookstores to a unique "meet and greet" reception and they'll bring info about their stores. You can say hello to old friends from other bookstores and learn about others.
And to highlight the publication of the lovely new book, Art of the Bookstore: The Bookstore Paintings of Gibbs Smith, in which a number of these stores are featured, they will sign copies of the book.
At press time, the indie bookstores being represented so far are Skylight Books, Book Soup, Metropolis Books, Portrait of a Bookstore, StoriesLA, Chaucer's in Santa Barbara, as well as 2 legendary indies which are now closed -- Doug Dutton of Dutton's Brentwood and Adele Wallace of Sisterhood Books. We expect additional bookstores will join us.
If you can't make it to this event, use the day to stop in at ANY independent bookstore and be reminded how varied and fascinating these 'bricks and mortar' bookstores can be.
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm
Chocolate Bliss: Sensuous Recipes, Spa Treatments, and Other Divine Indulgences (Celestial Arts)
Susie Norris will present a chocolate tasting and discuss and sign her new book!
Susie Norris is a cookbook author, artisan chocolatier, pastry chef/instructor and TV producer. Her chocolate business, Happy Chocolates, was featured on Food Network and in More Magazine. Her articles have been printed in numerous publications. She served as Associate Chef/Instructor at California School of Culinary Arts (Le Cordon Bleu Program) and her first book, Chocolate Bliss, will be released by Random House/Celestial Arts in October 2009. She currently writes for Zester Daily (www.zesterdaily.com) and her next book is about vanilla.
Prior to her work in the food business, Susie was Vice President of Series Television at and held similar positions at Nickelodeon, CBS, NBC and Turner Network Television. She has a B.A. degree in English Literature from Boston College and a Certificate in Professional Baking from Epicurean School of Culinary Arts and Barry Callebaut Chocolate
Academy. She also produces television programming with her husband, TV writer Jacob Epstein, and divides her time between Los Angeles and the Berkshires of Massachusetts.
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