‘101 Nights’ Author Full Of Advice
Laura Corn won’t reveal her age.
She’s being coy, of course. She’s flirting with someone who can give her the publicity that any author craves and most need.
Corn’s problem with publicity is compounded by the fact that she self-publishes. Of course, the Santa Monica, Calif., writer compensates by publishing books with catchy titles.
Titles such as “101 Nights of Grrreat Sex” and “101 Nights of Grrreat Romance,” both of which she’ll be hawking in Spokane on Wednesday.
Corn will appear with the KZZU Breakfast Boys from 7 to 10 a.m. where, according to promotions manager Mike Ellis, she should talk a lot about how men can help their mates have “bingos” - if you catch the drift.
Afterward, Corn will sign copies of both books from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at B. Dalton Booksellers downtown, 702 W. Main, and from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at Auntie’s Bookstore, Main and Washington.
Corn says that she’s sold some 200,000 copies of her “Sex” book, at $29.95 a pop, and she has 25,000 copies of the “Romance” book in print. Show up, purchase a copy and she’ll likely sign it while telling you all the secrets that you can handle.
Maybe even her age.
Harvest of words
Spokane writers Chris Crutcher, John Keeble, Nance Van Winckel and Derrick Johnson all will read selections from banned books as part of Share Our Strength’s fifth-annual nationwide Writer’s Harvest benefit, which begins at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Birkenbeiner Brewery, 35 W. Main.
All proceeds from the Writer’s Harvest events go to anti-hunger programs. Tickets are $10, $5 for students, and are available at Birkenbeiner, Street Music and the Children’s Corner Book Shop.
A Junior Writer’s Harvest will be held at 3:30 p.m. at the Spokane Children’s Museum, Post and Spokane Falls Boulevard (suggested donation $2).
As part of Writer’s Harvest, Patrick F. McManus will read at Auntie’s Bookstore Thursday at 7:30 p.m., admission is $7, $4 for children under 12.
The reader board
Sue Grafton, author of “M is for Malice,” will read from her book at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Auntie’s.
Michael Gurian, author of “The Wonder of Boys,” will read from his book at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Auntie’s Bookstore.
Patrick F. McManus, author of such humor books as “The Shoot Canoes, Don’t They?” and “The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw,” will do a Writer’s Harvest (see above) benefit reading at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Auntie’s Bookstore.
Jeanette Ingold, author of “The Window,” will read from her book at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Auntie’s Bookstore.
Paul Wilkes, author of “The Good Enough Catholic: A Guide for the Perplexed,” will read at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Auntie’s Bookstore.
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