Book Event Archives - Shelley Blanton-Stroud

It’s a two-festival weekend!

Shelley Admin2025-05-26T23:21:24+00:00#amwriting, An Unlikely Prospect, AUTHOR, Bay Area Book Festival, Best mysteries, Book Event, Book signing, Catriona McPherson, historical fiction, History, Sacramento Book Festival|

We are warming up to book festival season. Next week will be a two-festival weekend for me. Saturday, May 31, [...]

Constant vibration of violence and precariousness

Shelley Admin2025-03-04T17:44:06+00:00#amwriting, Akashic Books, Book Event, Book launch, CapLit, Craft, Fact and fiction, feminist noir, Sacramento Noir|

"The best crime stories, the most relatable—and this applies for noir, too—involve people driven to do things because of understandable [...]

Sacramento Noir at CapLit

Shelley Admin2025-02-25T21:26:31+00:00#amwriting, Akashic Books, AUTHOR, book club, Book Event, CapLit, Sacramento Noir|

So excited to have my story, "Take as Needed," in Sacramento Noir, the latest offering from Akashic Books’ popular Noir [...]

Shelley Admin2025-02-10T17:06:46+00:00#amwriting, An Unlikely Prospect, AUTHOR, Book Event, parents|

What does it mean to write (or paint or sing or crochet) in times of profound change? Join me and [...]

A Pre-Launch Convo with Ashley E. Sweeney

Shelley Admin2024-11-12T22:12:24+00:00AUTHOR, Book Event, Book launch|

I and my stalwart writing group would love it if you join us for a Pre-Launch Conversation to celebrate Ashley [...]

Chop Wood, Carry Water

Shelley Admin2024-11-12T21:58:54+00:00#amwriting, advice, AUTHOR, Book Event, creativity, eneagram|

I have been down this week, so I’m trying to do positive things, in the present, worrying less about the [...]

Once upon a time, people used to read

Shelley Admin2024-08-21T22:46:22+00:00#amwriting, 916 Ink, Book Event, Bouchercon 2024, Carmen Amato, historical fiction|

I’ve been thinking about pre-adult reading lately because next week at Bouchercon I get to moderate an author panel on [...]

Bring in June with history and culture

Shelley Admin2024-05-08T21:18:58+00:00AUTHOR, Book Event, Book signing, Fact and fiction, historical fiction, History, Rosie the riveter, San Francisco, women in history, world war ii|

I'm looking forward to a great, bookish weekend coming up with Poster Girl. Saturday, June 1, I'll spend the day [...]

What is this for?

Shelley Admin2024-04-01T18:22:46+00:00AUTHOR, Book Event, Fact and fiction, historical fiction, History, Rosie the riveter|

My friends know that I keep a sticky note attached to my computer monitor. It reads, What Is This For? [...]

Tonight! ASK ME ANYTHING at A Seat At The Table

Shelley Admin2024-03-07T23:00:26+00:00AUTHOR, Book Event, Book signing, historical fiction, Indie Bookstores|

Writers and readers, come ASK ME ANYTHING about writing, publishing, historical research, reading... 5-6 pm, TONIGHT, with host author Jason [...]