LA Road Trips Magazine - Buzz On B&B

For the July issue of Louisiana Road Trips magazine, I decided to use my column Peculiar Jaunts to share my experience travelling across the state line to Queen Kathy Patrick's bookstore/salon Beauty and the Book. While there I met a wonderful new Southern writer Allen Whitley (see older posts) from Austin, Texas. He will soon be signing books all across Alabama and Mississippi to promote his new book Where Southern Cross the Dog. You can pick up signed copies at Beauty and the Book.

Food & Fiction: July Book Selection

The Recipe Club: A Tale of Food and Friendship

by: Andrea Israel & Nancy Garfinkel

(hardback)

Find out your food and friendship personality...Take the quiz!

THE RECIPE CLUB is a “novel cookbook,” a deliciously funny, touching story of friendship, loss, and the ties that bind—with more than 80 recipes that keep the plot cooking. Compellingly readable, this heartfelt story celebrates the resilience and power of women’s friendships. It’s a charming pastiche of e-mails, hand-written childhood letters, third-person narration, photographs, illustration, and more than 80 delicious recipes. (official website)

“Each friend represents a world in us,

a world possibly not born until they arrive,

and it is only by this meeting

that a new world is born.”

—anaïs nin

Upcoming RRPQ Meeting!

Just a reminder that the next Red River Pulpwood Queen meeting will be Tuesday night (June 29) at 6:30, Columbia Cafe in Shreveport.

We will be discussing Abraham Verghese's novel Cutting For Stone as well as sharing our 15 Favorite Books lists (make sure you bring your list! For those who can't make it, make sure you bring your list next time!). See you ladies there...with crowns on!

Author Allen Whitley At Beauty And The Book

What do you get when you cross a writer, blues music and a stylish beauty salon? Lots of fun! Author Allen Whitley traveled to Jefferson, Texas all the way from Austin to promote his new book and CD Where Southern Cross the Dog. With his blues music playing in the background and his pen at the ready, I found Allen to be friendly, charming and eager to find out more about his public rather than gloating about his writing career. After spending the afternoon signing books at Queen Kathy Patrick's salon Beauty and the Book, this up-and-coming shining star in Southern fiction joined Kathy and her husband Jay for an evening of music and fun at the T-Bone Walker Blues Festival in Music City, TX. Contact Kathy Patrick to get your own signed copy of Where Southern Cross the Dog today!

Support La Author, Gulf

25% of proceeds from signed copies of The Sound of Building Coffins by New Orleans author Louis Maistros sold in his Ebay Store will be donated to America's Wetland Foundation to help clean up the Gulf oil spill. Purchase MUST be made using here for the donation to be made. Louis attended the 2009 Author! Author! Shreveport book festival as well as the 2009 Louisiana Book Festival.

What Are You Reading Now?

Finished with the June book selection? Reading something alongside Abraham Verghese's Cutting For Stone? I always keep a pile of books on my bedside table. What's in your pile?

What Queen Carey is reading:

In the Sanctuary of Outcasts by Neil White (now in paperback)

Delta Blues edited by Carolyn Haines

Oxford American magazine

Blues & Books - Special Event!

Beauty and the Book is please to announce author, Allen Whitley of Where Southern Cross the Dog, (book and blues CD) will be doing a book signing Saturday, June 19, 2010 from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. at Beauty and the Book, 608 North Polk Street, Jefferson, Texas. Read the interview that Kathy Patrick gave Allen Whitley here.