Wonderland Book Club

Wonderland Book Club Meet Joseph Mills

May 31, 2013 · 10:00 AM
Center for Excellence

Sending Christmas Cards to Huck and Hamlet (poetry) by Joseph Mills

**Author Appearance**

Join us on the last Friday of every month from 10:00 am to 12:00pm at Center for Excellence, 3803-B Computer Drive, Suite 106, Raleigh, NC 27609. It is just south of 440 off of Six Forks Road.

This month we welcome Joseph Mills from Winston-Salem, NC. Joseph Mills has degrees in literature from the University of Chicago (B.A.), the University of New Mexico (M.A.), and the University of California-Davis (Ph.D). A faculty member at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, he holds the Susan Burress Wall Distinguished Professorship in the Humanities. His published work includes poetry, fiction, drama, and criticism. In addition to his most recent collection which we’re discussing at Wonderland Book Club, he has published three volumes of poetry with Press 53: Angels, Thieves, and Winemakers, Somewhere During the Spin Cycle and Love and Other Collisions. Joseph and his wife, Danielle Tarmey, are the authors of A Guide to North Carolina's Wineries (John F. Blair, Publisher). The second edition was released in 2007. Find out more about Joseph at http://www.josephrobertmills.com/

Many of us read fiction like writers, so this group is especially attuned to aspiring writers who want to know more about the craft of writing. The books we chose are all available in paperback and can be found at the library in print or audio.

The Wonderland Book Club is sponsored by the North Carolina Writers' Network (NCWN) www.ncwriters.org

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Alice Osborn, W.

Joe Mills enchanted us today at Book Club with his warmth, honesty, and humor. He may not call himself a poet, but he's a writer who'll get folks to enjoy poetry again! Yay, Joe! Thanks so much to everyone who came--I love Wonderland Book Club--it's the favorite part of my month:)

0 · June 1, 2013
A former member

Joe, thank you for being part of our book club today. Your book is great and it was so nice to be able to get to talk to you about your writing. Having access to writer's makes this such a great and unique experience.

1 · May 31, 2013
Joan R

Joseph Mills spoke easily and candidly, sprinkling his comments with genuine humor and a huge dose of fun. His presentation, in conjunction with observations and questions from the members of this book club, gave much food for thought, providing a diverse perspective on how to view poetry more openly. Once again, a great meeting!

1 · May 31, 2013
Laura A.

Wonderful! I have never been that interested in poetry before, but after meeting the author, poetry has been put on my "to read" list.

1 · May 31, 2013

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Alice Osborn, W.

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Thanks to the News & Observer posting the Wonderland Book Club in their “Triangle Reads” section, our Meetup group’s numbers have swelled from a hundred members to over 150. I can easily see why. Since its inception, Wonderland has been about getting members to read books they wouldn’t normally read. And more recently, Wonderland features the actual authors of the books we’re reading each month. We’re a very warm, accepting group—you don’t need to be a member of the North Carolina Writers’ Network to join (although that would be nice!), nor do you need to be working on your next novel. But I think the number one reason we’re growing is because we’re easy to join and easy to find on the Internet. Through a web connection and a physical event, Meetup brings folks together who share a common interest. In fact, if I hadn’t made Wonderland a Meetup group nine years ago, we’d be long gone by now. Most book clubs that aren’t library or bookstore-related form from friendships, neighborhoods or clubs—there’s no county-wide book club directory and you need to be “in the know” to be invited. That’s what’s so neat about Wonderland Book Club: newcomers to the Triangle love it, it’s free and there’s no special code or association to join the fun!

So what do our guest authors discuss for two hours from 10 a.m. to noon? Usually the first hour is taken up with the book discussion, the author reads a few passages and then in the last hour the floor is opened for the story behind the book. How was this book published and marketed? How long did the author take to write the book? Did the plot or characters come first? And the questions continue when we take the author to lunch.

Want to join? It’s easy! Sign up as a free member at http://meetup.com/wonderlandbookclub so you know the details of our next meeting. We typically meet the last Friday of every month from 10 am to noon at the Center for Excellence, 3803‐B Computer Dr. Ste. 106 Raleigh, NC 27609. And if you don’t sign up beforehand, we want you to come anyway. I promise you our veteran members don’t bite and we love seeing new folks.

Published authors! Interested in being our guest in 2019? Email Alice at avosborn@earthlink.net. All of our spots are now filled for 2018, but if you'd like to be considered for 2019 please email Alice your interest and a link to your author website as well as industry reviews as well as Amazon/Goodreads reviews.

May 26 Diane Chamberlain, Pretending to Dance (novel)

June 23 AlexSandra Lett, The Harvest (nonfiction, self-help)

July 28 Bridgette Lacy, Sunday Dinner (nonfiction)

Aug 25 NO BOOK—ENJOY A MONTH OFF

Sept 29 Miriam Herin, A Stone for Bread (novel)

Oct 27 Hugh Willard, Degotoga (YA novel)

Nov 17 Leslie Tall Manning (TBA)

Dec 15 Open House (no book)