Blue Bicycle Books

Join us Thurs., Sept 19, at Blue Bicycle Books as essayist Mark Brennan Rosenberg signs copies of his newest book, Eating My Feelings: Tales of Overeating, Underperforming, and Coping with My Crazy Family (3 Rivers Press, pb., 256 pp, $16).

In the tradition of Chelsea Handler and others, Rosenberg’s hilarious and often scandalous essay collection tackles the author’s weight and body image both as a child of the 1980s and as a gay man in New York in the 2000s. This is his second book.

Blue Bicycle Books welcomes New York Times bestselling authors Mary Alice Monroe and Cassandra King, Sat., Sept. 7, 2013, 12 pm, for a special author luncheon at Hall’s Chophouse, 434 King St.

Cassandra King’s long-awaited new novel, Moonrise (Maiden Lane Press, hb., $27), is inspired by, Daphne DuMaurier’s classic Gothic romance, and tells the story of a woman living in the shadow of a beautiful and much-beloved woman. The author of The Sunday Wife, Queen of Broken Hearts and more, Cassandra lives in Beaufort with her husband, writer Pat Conroy.

Mary Alice Monroe’s latest novel The Summer Girls (Gallery Books, pb., $16) , the first in a trilogy set on Sullivan’s Island, explores the complex relationships of three half-sisters scattered across the country and a grandmother determined to help them reconnect. She’ll also be celebrating the release of A Butterfly Called Hope (Sylvan Dell, hb., $18) The author of 15 books, including The Beach House, Time is a River, and The Butterfly’s Daughter, Mary Alice lives on Isle of Palms.

Tickets are $30 and include lunch and talks.

To purchase tickets, please call Blue Bicycle Books at 843-722-2666 or click here.

Blue Bicycle Books is proud to welcome New York Times bestselling authors Laurie Notaro and Quinn Cummings, Fri., Sept. 13, 4 – 6 pm.

Laurie Notaro, author of The Idiot Girls’ Action Adventure Club, Autobiography of a Fat Bride, has been hailed as “the funniest writer in the Solar System” by the The Miami Herald. Her new book The Potty Mouth at the Table (Gallery Books, pb., $16), a collection of essays, is an exploration into human rudeness that takes no prisoners.

Quinn Cummings, Oscar-nominated child star of The Goodbye Girls, hilariously explores the world of homeschooling through her families own experiences in The Year of Learning Dangerously: Adventures in Homeschooling (Perigee, pb., $15).

Although scheduled initially for this event, Jen Lancaster will unfortunately not be able join us.

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Sunday, July 21, 2 – 4 pm, award-winning fiction writer Susan Crandall will sign her newest novel Whistling Past the Graveyard at Blue Bicycle Books.

About the book. It’s the summer of 1963 and sharp-tongued Starla Claudelle is running away from her Mississippi home and her strict Grandmother. She knows if she can just make it to Nashville and find the mother she hasn’t seen since she was three, she will be able to put her family back together. On the road, Starla meets Eula, a black woman traveling alone with a white baby. Together, the trio embarks on a journey that will forever change Starla and the way she sees the world.

About the author. Susan Crandall is the award-winning author of women’s fiction, suspense, romance and mystery. She lives in the small Indiana town she grew up in with her husband and their two dogs. Whistling Past the Graveyard is her tenth book.