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Women in Literature: Join Acclaimed Authors at Skylight Books as They Read from Their Books & Discuss Writing
Join two wildly talented authors, Pamela Ribon and Dylan Yates as they
bring you coming of age tales quite unlike any you've read before.
Jules Finn and Samuel Trautman know that sorrow can sink deeply—so deeply it can drown the spirit. In The Belief in Angels, by J. Dylan Yates, these two wounded souls must decide: surrender to the grief
that threatens to destroy them, or find the strength to swim for the surface.
Growing up in a volatile hippie
household on a tiny island off the coast of Boston, Jules’s imaginative sense
of humor is the weapon she wields as a defense against the chaos of her
family’s household. But somewhere between gun-waving gambling debt collectors
and LSD-laced breakfast cereal adventures, her younger brother Moses dies—and
it’s a blow from which Jules may never fully recover.
Notes to Boys: And Other Things I Shouldn't Share in
Public is a "mortifying memoir" from bestselling author and
TV/film writer Pamela Ribon. Miserably trapped in a small town Texas
with no invention of the internet in sight, Ribon spent countless hours of her
high school years writing letters to her (often unrequited) crushes. The big
question is: Why did she always keep a copy for herself? Wince along with Ribon
as she tries to understand exactly how she ever thought she'd win a boy's heart
by writing him a letter that began: "Share with me your soul," and
ends with some remarkably awkward erotica. You'll come for the incredibly bad
poetry, you'll stay for the incredibly bad poetry about racism.
J. Dylan Yates pursued her BA from the University of
Colorado-Boulder. Yates worked with Boulder County's Voices for Children
program as a CASA volunteer for 15 years and now volunteers with the Big Sister
program. The Belief in Angels, Yates's debut novel, won the Alexis
Masters Scholarship Award at the February 2012 San Francisco Writers
Conference.
Pamela Ribon is a bestselling author, television
writer and performer. A pioneer in the blogging world, her first novel, Why
Girls Are Weird, was loosely based on her extremely successful website
pamie.com. The site has been nominated for a Bloggie in Lifetime Achievement,
which makes her feel old. Ribon created the cult sensation and tabloid tidbit
"Call Us Crazy: The Anne Heche Monologues", a satire of fame, fandom
and Fresno. Her two-woman show, "Letters Never Sent" (created with
four-time Emmy winner and "Jay Leno Show" favorite Liz Feldman) was
showcased at the 2005 HBO US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen. She has been
writing in television for the past seven years, in both cable and network,
including on the Emmy-award winning "Samantha Who?" starring
Christina Applegate. Using her loyal Internet fan base, Ribon sponsors book
drives for libraries in need.
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