Writers' Night chez Grace - II

After the delightful and successful first Writers' Night a couple weeks ago, the second in the series will take place chez moi this Friday.

Three authors, three books!

This is part reading, part panel discussion, part Q&A.

Sherry Jones is the author of five biographical fiction books: The Sharp Hook of Love, about the famed 12th-century lovers Abelard and Heloise; The Jewel of Medina and The Sword of Medina, international — and controversial — best sellers about the life of A’isha, who married the Muslim prophet Muhammad at age nine and went on to become the most famous and influential woman in Islam; Four Sisters, All Queens, a tale of four sisters in 13th century Provence who became queens of France, England, Germany, and Italy, and White Heart, an e-novella about the famous French “White Queen” Blanche de Castille.

Reine Arcache Melvin Born and raised in Manila, Reine Arcache Melvin now lives in Paris. A collection of her fiction, “A Normal House and Other Stories,” won the Philippines’ National Book Award for fiction and was translated into French. Since then, she has published short stories in literary journals, magazines and anthologies in the United States, France and the Philippines, won a few prizes and fellowships along the way, and worked on a very long novel that is finally coming to an end. She will be reading excerpts from “The River,” a short story recently published in an Asian edition of Esquire. An adaptation from a chapter in her novel, “The River” features a man and a woman in bed, a sense of betrayal, and a woman using sex, sensuality and silence to bring him back to her.

and the surprise author is Heather Stimmler-Hall is an American-born, award-winning travel writer and guide living in France since 1995. Her bylines (http://www.secretsofparis.com/travel-author-editor/)have appeared in Fodor’s, TimeOut, Moon Metro Guides, Michelin's Green Guides, ELLE, The London Times, The Guardian, France Magazine, easyJet in-flight magazine, Hemispheres, and the Robb Report. Heather’s Secrets of Paris (http://www.secretsofparis.com/) newsletter and “Off-the-Beaten-Tourist-Track” tours (http://secretsofparis.squarespace.com/customtours/) have been giving visitors a more in-depth Parisian experience since 1999. After receiving countless “discreet inquiries” into the more risqué aspects of her adopted city, she decided it was time to write "Naughty Paris".

Drinks, snacks, lively discussion, surprises, and intellectual stimulation guaranteed!