Upcoming Author Events & Readings
7 upcoming author events and readings from All She Wrote Books, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All readings in Greater Boston →
Wed Oct 7 · 6:30pm
Romance author Betty Corrello launches Back for Seconds, described as a sensory holiday story about how food, sex, connection, and community bring hope. The bookstore hosts a reading and conversation with the author, an audience Q&A, and a book signing. Starts 6:30 PM.
Fri Oct 16 · 6:30pm
Samantha Paige Rosen launches Living, Together, the anthology she edited on how people in the US are “thriving through collective care” amid the climate crisis, a hostile housing market and the loneliness epidemic. Contributors include Kristen Arnett, Rhaina Cohen and Kim Stanley Robinson. Rosen is joined in conversation by Rev. Jordan Harris, followed by audience questions and a signing; tickets are sliding-scale or include the book.
Sat Oct 17 · 7:00pm
Elsa Sjunneson, a Deafblind author and disability rights activist, launches Dear Blind Lady, “an unfiltered disability advice book” answering the awkward and complicated questions disabled and non-disabled people meet in everyday life. Sjunneson's earlier book is the memoir Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism. Becky Jackson Curran, a disability inclusion advocate and author, moderates, followed by audience questions and a signing, with ASL interpretation.
Sun Oct 18 · 6:30pm
Yuvashri Harish launches her debut YA horror novel Kill Your Darlings, in which a teen girl “faces the horrors of misogyny and racism—plus an evil witch and her horde of monsters.” Its heroine, Thulasi, is the dutiful daughter left babysitting her seven-year-old cousin on Halloween night when the evening turns. Harish reads and talks with Sara Farizan, author of If You Could Be Mine, before audience questions and a signing.
Thu Oct 22 · 7:00pm
Meghan Quinn, the New York Times bestselling romance novelist, brings her Christmas Staycation Tour to a concert hall rather than the shop. Christmas Staycation, set in Kringletown, turns on “fake fiancés, family pressure, and accidentally falling for your ex’s brother”: Taran has agreed to a fake wedding with her ex to keep her family’s holiday intact, and Nolan, a major league baseball player, is the ex’s brother.
Mon Oct 26 · 6:30pm
Launch celebration for Malavika Kannan's Unprecedented Times, a novel on friendship, family, and self-narrative for young American women. Kannan reads and appears in conversation with author Laura van den Berg, followed by an audience Q&A and a signing by both. Begins 6:30 PM.
Fri Oct 30 · 7:00pm
Emily Ladau, a disability rights activist and writer, launches the updated second edition of Demystifying Disability, her guide to being “a thoughtful, informed ally to disabled people,” with practical steps on what to say and do, and what not to. The launch includes a moderated discussion, audience questions and a signing, with ASL and CART services provided and sliding-scale tickets available.
