2011 Colorado Book Award Finalist Reading

Free Author Panel: Writing Teen Novels

Join this year's three finalists in the Colorado Book Awards Young Adult Book category as they answer questions and give tips on writing and publishing.

Amy Kathleen Ryan (Zen and Xander Undone)
Todd Mitchell (The Secret to Lying)
Laura Resau (The Ruby Notebook)

Tuesday, June 21 at 6 p.m. Barnes and Noble, 4045 S. College Ave., Fort Collins.
For more about the authors, please visit: www.amykathleenryan.com, www.toddmitchellbooks.com, www.lauraresau.com

Don't miss this chance to get the inside scoop from these acclaimed local authors! Teens and adults welcome!
For more about the authors, please visit: www.amykathleenryan.com, www.toddmitchellbooks.com, www.lauraresau.com

Hope you were there when several 2011 Colorado Book Awards finalists read

WHEN:    Friday, June 10th
WHERE:  Baur's Italian Restaurant
1512 Curtis Street, Denver, CO
TIME:      4:30 p.m. until...

Mountains of Writers. Reading Outloud. Cash Bar. Book Signing.
What a fabulous happy hour -- or three -- we had at Baur's! An unbeatable combination of good food and comraderie, the Colorado Book Award finalist reading was a great way to enjoy some of the the best writers Colorado has to offer.  They read from their nominated books, shared stories, and answered questions as we celebrated their success. This event was free and open to the public, thanks to Baur's generosity.  For more information on Baur's click here.

Writers Reading were:

Mary Voelz Chandler
Public Architecture: The Art Inside by Curtis Fentress and Mary Voelz Chandler, ORO Editions
Touchstones of Design: Redefining Public Architecture by Curtis Fentress, Images Publishing Group Pty Ltd

Steve Friesen
Buffalo Bill: Scout, Showman, Visionary, Fulcrum Publishing

Frank Gibbard
Steam, Steel & Statutes: True Tales from Colorado Legal History, Colorado Bar Association

Kathleen T. Pelley
Magnus Maximus, A Marvelous Measurer, pictures by S.D. Schindler, Farrar Straus Giroux

Sandy F. Fuller
The BLUES Go Birding Across America by Sandy F. Fuller and Carol L. Malnor, illustrated by Louise Schroeder, Dawn Publications

Dr. Dave Hnida
Paradise General: Riding the Surge at a Combat Hospital in Iraq, Simon & Schuster

Alexander Blackburn
Gifts from the Heart: Stories, Memories & Chronicles of Lucille Gonzales Oller, University of Colorado

Erin Blakemore
The Heroine's Bookshelf: Life Lessons, From Jane Austen to Laura Ingalls Wilder, Harper

Stephen Graham Jones
It Came from Del Rio: Part 1 of the Bunnyhead Chronicles, Trapdoor Books

Jacqueline St. Joan
My Sisters Made of Light, Press 53

Leah Rogin-Roper, Nancy Stohlman and Kona Morris
Fast Forward: The Mix Tape, Fast Forward Press

Barbara Ellen Sorensen
Song from the Deep Middle Brain, Main Street Rag Publishing Company