Five Writers to See at the CALM Luncheon
On Saturday, March 10 at 10 a.m. inside Fess Parker’s DoubleTree Resort, CALM (Child Abuse Listening and Mediation) is hosting its Celebrity Authors’ Luncheon, which features Q&As and book-signings with writers big and small. See calm4kids.org or call 682-3925 for tickets. Here are five you mustn’t miss.
#1) Peter Falk: The famous glass-eyed actor’s memoirs are called Just One More Thing: Stories from My Life.
#2) Mariel Hemingway: Ernest’s granddaughter is an actress who’s overcome much hardship, and tells all in her book, Mariel Hemingway’s Healthy Living from the Inside Out.
#3) Jane Heller: A volunteer at Cottage Hospital, Heller turned her experiences into an enjoyable novel called Some Nerve about an entertainment journalist.
#4) Lynne Cox: The famous endurance swimmer and UCSB grad, whose Swimming to Antarctica won rave reviews, has a new book called Grayson, about a 17-year-old girl who reunites a mother whale with its calf.
#5) James Rollins: A Sacramento veterinarian by day and bestselling author by night, Rollins’s latest novel, Black Order, mixes up historical mystery with globe-trotting adventure.