Local Author Events

 

Dolly Viscardi   All Around Dogs
November 10  |  7pm   @ Aspen Grove

Dolly Viscardi spends most of her day chasing both dogs and grandchildren inside and outside in both Denver and Meeker, Colorado. A retired special education teacher, Dolly continues to bring her writing workshops and literacy presentations, “All Around Poetry and Writing to Go,” to elementary classrooms and libraries all over Colorado.

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Karen Gilleland   Diamond In The Desert
November 13  |  1pm   @ Colfax

Karen Gilleland was inspired to write Diamond in the Desert, featuring security diva Hope Diamond, thanks to an interview she did many years ago with Gavin de Becker, the man who created the security protection industry, as we know it today. Writing a mystery was put on the shelf because of her career as a corporate communication specialist. The fiction-writing experience proved so exhilarating that she is engaged in writing a sequel.

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Sarah Elizabeth Wilson   Sofia and the Shot
November 13  |  3pm   @ Stanley Marketplace

Sarah Wilson is a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner based in Broomfield, CO. After seeing the magic of children's books prepare her patients for a check up, she created Sofia and the Shot in order to help young children understand the importance of vaccines. When she is not working or writing children's books, Sarah enjoys traveling, baking, and spending time with her family and two cats.

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Danny Foster  The Dead's Hero
November 13  |  4pm   @ Colfax

Danny is a full time practicing personal injury lawyer in Denver, Colorado. He enjoys skiing, scuba diving, historical documentaries and terrorizing golf courses. He loves the Denver Broncos, Indiana Hoosiers, springer spaniels and red licorice. He is lucky to have a beautiful family that he adores.

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Sue Luxa  A Cabin in Cripple Creek; Denver Days; One Golden Summer
November 14  |  3pm   @ Aspen Grove

Sue Luxa is an author of historical Colorado fiction books for children (Children of Colorado Series):Denver Days, One Golden Summer and A Cabin in Cripple Creek.  Luxa is a former teacher and elementary-school librarian.  Her degrees are from Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) and Denver University.

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Andrea Antico  The Sugarplum Tree
November 14  |  3pm   @ Stanley Marketplace

My career as a school librarian took me to Colorado, Germany, and Japan. In retirement, I wrote BUSTER the BULLY: A Change in the Weather Helps Him Change His Ways, a children's book on bully prevention. I'm available for complimentary storytelling and bully prevention talks to students in the Denver Metro Area. 

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Connie Block and Jeanne Cahn  Lily and Otto Help Out
November 17  |  11am   @ Stanley Marketplace

Tattered Cover is pleased to welcome Colorado authors Connie Block and Jeanne Cahn to our Stanley Marketplace location on Wednesday, November 17th to read from their book Lily and Otto Help Out.

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Kay Olson    The Road to Angeland
November 17  |  7pm   @ Colfax

Kay Olsen writes thrillers, historical dramas, and short stories. She retired from a career as a corporate events manager in 2018 to devote herself to writing and playing with her granddaughter. At sixteen years old, she learned to fly fish in her home state of Colorado and continues this favorite pastime whenever possible.

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John Patrick Crum   Puppies Only 
November 20  |  3pm   @ Stanley Marketplace                            
November 21  |  3pm  @ Colfax

John Patrick Crum is an award-winning television producer and story-teller. After having two kids, and reading countless children's books, he couldn't help but write one inspired by them. His daughter Cassidy's first word was "puppy," and the rest is history. This is his first published story. He lives in Colorado with his wife, daughter, son, and the one and only Rufus Dog.

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Diane Jaffee   Sheba la Beba and her Furry Forest Friends
November 27  |  2pm   @ Colfax

After spending ten years in Breckenridge as a part-timer, Diane Jaffee is now a full-time resident. This is her second children’s book about a rescue dog. The first one, What Did Oliver Do??, is about a real-life Goldendoodle who thinks he is human. Her current book, Sheba La Beba and Her Furry Forest Friends was inspired by her own rescued Australian Shepherd Sheba.  Any chance she gets, Sheba loves to hike up the Sally Barber trail here in Breckenridge with all her dog friends.

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Veronica Randolph Batterson   Williamsburg Hill; Daniel’s Esperanza
November 28  |  3pm   @ Aspen Grove

Veronica Randolph Batterson is an author, photographer, and artist. She has published four books, over two dozen short stories, and has worked as a freelance writer, proofreader, ghostwriter, and editor.  Her photography is in private collections in Colorado, Illinois, Tennessee, Idaho, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Arizona, North Carolina,  New Mexico, Minnesota, Iowa, Virginia, California, Maryland, Michigan, and also in the United Kingdom. Frequently, she combines writing and photography for publications. After a long hiatus from painting, she is working with acrylics again.  

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Susan Gemmill   Blue Yonder
November 28  |  3pm   @ Colfax

Susan L. Gemmill is a deep-thinking rebel (born breech in the Year of the Tiger!) and a lover of all things that grow, including people, most especially her son and grandchildren. She currently lives in Colorado with her sixth betta fish named Voldemort. Having declared she would be a novelist at the age of nine, Susan lived a full and well-traveled life of adventure, and misadventure, as the only girl-child in an Air Force family. She wrote and researched several coffee table books for The Storyline Group, including the history of such gripping industries as surface preparation, water infrastructure, and an esteemed private school for boys, while at the same time profiling the most interesting of people for magazines, until Susan at long last segued into novel writing. Blue Yonder is her first book. Her next one is being outlined at this very moment.

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Chrysta Bairre  Beautiful Badass: How To Believe In Yourself Against The Odds
December 5  |  3pm    @ McGregor Square

About the Book:  "Look on the bright side!" "Just choose happiness!" "You can do anything you set your mind to!" We've all heard these things before, usually from well-meaning people who just want to help - but for those who have experienced significant hardship in life, these statements often miss the mark.  Positive thinking will only get you so far - especially when contending with trauma, mental illness, economic instability, and other factors that act as barriers to success. In this engaging blend of memoir and self-help, Chrysta Bairre shares heartfelt stories and lessons of overcoming abuse, poverty, and depression to create a life that works for her. Beautiful Badass: How to Believe In Yourself Against the Odds is an essential guide for women who are tired of being told to "think positive" and instead want to take command of their destinies and stop falling prey to the hardships that previously defined them.  Go beyond well-meaning platitudes and learn real, practical tools for improving your quality of life - regardless of the hand you've been dealt.

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Ariel Heart  Iced; Nailed; Spiked; Arrowed; The Society
December 5 | 3PM  @ Colfax

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Aleta Antoinette  Imagine Peace: A Year of Gifting
December 5 | 3pm  @ Aspen Grove

Committed to her dream of generating tranquility for humans around the world, Aleta Antoinette established the Imagine Peace Foundation. Her goals are to build a center where visitors explore the energy of peace, and to expand it with a PeaceMobile as a traveling exhibit of amity. Aleta's mission is to be a peace warrior by using creativity, imagination, gifts, and commitment with gratitude to bring forth a more peaceful world. Aleta's blog, A Year of Gifting recognizes various nonprofits to assist donors with a proper match to a cause. As an award-winning Realtor, Aleta hosts seminars, and sponsors community events in honor of people and their pets. Her Homes That Give program makes donations to charities based on a portion of her sales commission at closings. Inspired by the giving legacies of her grandmother and father, Aleta believes that supporting others who desire to create peace results in multiple rewards such as compassion, unity, freedom, joy, surprise, wonder, awe, and love. As humanity seeks more peace, Aleta leads the way.

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Jenny M. Iverstine  Circles and Scissors Handwashing
December 5 | 3pm   @ Stanley Marketplace

 

 

Vicki Mizel Love Remembers
December 8 | 7pm   @ Colfax

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Petra Perkins  Full Circle: A Hands-on Affair with the First Ferrari 250 GTO
December 12  | 3pm   @ Colfax

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Nancy Houser-Bluhm  Whispers for Terra
December 12 | 5pm  @ Aspen Grove 

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