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The Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Library and Alamosa Books are teaming up to bring popular science fiction novelist Cory Doctorow to the South Broadway Cultural Center, 1025 Broadway SE, at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 27.
His latest book is “Homeland,” a sequel to his “Little Brother,” a New York Times best-selling and multiple award-winning cult favorite. Doctorow’s novels have been translated into dozens of languages.
Tickets are available online at www.alamosabooks.com/specialevent/cory-doctorow-in-albuquerque. Each $20 ticket will admit two people and includes a copy of “Homeland.”
AT TREASURE HOUSE BOOKS and GIFTS: Local author RJ Mirabal will sign his Southwestern fantasy novel “The Tower of Il Serrohe” from 2-4 p.m. Saturday, March 2 at the bookstore, 2012 South Plaza NW in Old Town.
“The Tower of Il Serrohe” pulls the reader into the deteriorating life of Don Vargas, thrown out of the house by his promiscuous wife. He lands in a dilapidated casita, which is a portal to another world.
Mirabal is a retired award-winning teacher at Los Lunas High School.
The event is free. For more information call 242-7204.
BOOK FAIR: Page One Bookstore’s self-published and local author fair will take place from 3-5 p.m. Saturday, March 2. Authors are invited to take their books to promote independently and sell.
Page One is at 11018 Montgomery NE. The fair is free and open to the public. For more information call 294-2026 or visit www.page1book.com.
HILLERMAN PRIZE: WORDHARVEST and St. Martin’s Press are seeking the best first mystery novel for the Tony Hillerman Prize. The contest winner will receive a publishing contract for the novel with St. Martin’s and a $10,000 advance.
The contest is open to any professional or nonprofessional writer who has never been the author of a published mystery. Murder or another serious crime must be at the heart of the story, and the novel must be set in the Southwest.
Manuscript entries must be received or postmarked no later than June 1. For further rules and guidelines and to enter go to www.wordharvest.com/contest.php.
BOOKWORKS EVENTS: At 3 p.m. today Ari Kelman, associate professor at the University of California-Davis, talks about his book “A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling Over the Memory of Sand Creek” (Harvard University Press). Kelman unearths the stories of those who lived through the atrocity, as well as those who grappled with its troubling legacy to reveal how the intertwined histories of the conquest and colonization of the American West and the U.S. Civil War left enduring national scars.
At 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 26, Linda Martin talks about her new book “Lighten Up,” which looks at weight loss as a spiritual journey.
Retired Los Alamos scientist Leandro Thomas Gonzales reads from his Sunstone Press novel, “Follow the Spinning Sun,” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 27.
Santa Fe poet Miriam Sagan reads from her new book of poetry, “7 Places,” with Albuquerque poet Sari Krosinsky reading from “god-chaser” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 28.
Bookworks is at 4022 Rio Grande NW.
AT COLLECTED WORKS: The bookstore will present a reading and book signing with poets Jane Lipman, author of “On The Back Porch Of The Moon,” and Steven Edwin Counsell, author of “Imaginations: The Geography of the Mind,” at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 26. The store is at 202 Galisteo St., Santa Fe. Free.
Please send information on book signings and other author events to Rene Kimball at rkimball@abqjournal.com. Materials should be received two weeks before the Sunday the information should appear.
