July 9, 2009 Thursday
Anthony Maulucci
 Anthony S. Maulucci is an Italian American poet, novelist and painter. He worked in professional theatre and enjoyed a prominent career as a freelance writer before becoming a college professor of writing and literature. In 1989, he founded the Green Tiger Writers private workshops and in 1995 launched an independent press to bring out his first novel, The Discovery of Luminous Being, followed by Adriana’s Eyes and Other Stories, The Rosselli Cantata, Dear Dante, 100 Love Sonnets and Anxious Love. He has also published poetry chapbooks and writing guides for both fiction and poetry. Visit www.lorenzopress.com for further information. He holds an M.A. from Wesleyan University and is a recipient of the Rosengarten Award for Fiction (Harvard University) and the Jordan Davidson Poetry Prize (Barry College). He was born in Hartford, Connecticut and has lived in Boston,  Montreal, Toronto, and New York City. He currently resides in San Miguel.
He will read from Anxious Love. Twelve stories about the lives of people who struggle with the demons of love, desire, disappointment, and loneliness. A dying American artist asks his wife to dedicate her life to his legacy, a young woman falls in love with her female mentor, two children create a fantasy world in a public park, a science fiction writer finds and loses his muse on a deserted beach, a middle-aged woman is unwilling to become her aging husband's caretaker — each of the main characters in these contemporary tales must find the strength to survive in a complex and confusing world.
Lucina Kathmann
Lucina Kathmann will present two new children's educational books at Author's Sala. Both books take place in the same imaginary neighborhood, Payshapes' forest, a place her son Daniel invented when he was two years old, a feat he no longer recalls. Payshapes and the Bear is a book of stories, recently republished in bilingual (English/Spanish) edition with translations on facing pages, and A Forest of Mathematics is a math book! A Forest of Mathematics is, as far as the author knows, the only math book set in a forest. The standard curriculum of 5th and 6th grade math is presented in the form of stories in the daily life of the forest. It too is bilingual English/Spanish, with exercises and answer sheets, suitable not only for schoolchildren, but for anyone who never quite “got” math.
Born in the United States, Lucina Kathmann has lived in San Miguel de Allende for over 30 years. In her position as an International Vice President of International PEN, she travels the world meeting writers working in interesting and dangerous situations. At home in San Miguel, she is the mother of eight children, six of whom she and her partner Charles Kuschinski inherited one night 20 years ago when Lucina’s best friend died in childbirth. The newborn, whom she nursed along with her own baby, is one of the “twins” who are now college students. Her grandson Diego is now working with the math of Payshapes.
Lucina is a novelist, short story writer, journalist, and essayist in Spanish and English.
Posada San Francisco Hotel
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August 13, 2009 Thursday
Wayne Greenhaw
 With the 2009 publication of A Generous Life, the story of charismatic Alabama politician and businessman W. James Samford Jr., writer Wayne Greenhaw counts his 21st published book. In February of 2009, Greenhaw was the Neil & Henrietta Davis Lecturer at Auburn University in Alabama.
A previous book, The Thunder of Angels: The People Who Broke the Back of Jim Crow, according to Studs Terkel, “tells the bone-deep truth of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a pivotal moment in the civil rights struggle.”
Greenhaw has been presented the Harper Lee Award as Alabama’s most distinguished writer and the Clarence E. Cason Award for nonfiction.
Fannie Flagg, author of Fried Green Tomatoes, Greenhaw is “simply one of the best writers in America.” Harper Lee called Greenhaw “one of the best-ever writers of narrative.”
Wayne will talk about the art of writing history and biography. He will read from his latest book, A Generous Life, the biography of a charismatic politician and businessman who lived his life to the fullest. A wealthy and successful attorney, W. James Samford Jr. was a member of a distinguished Alabama family. His great-grandfather was governor of the state and he filled several high offices before becoming president of the Auburn University board of trustees.
Greenhaw will also talk about and read from The Thunder of Angels: The People Who Broke the Back of Jim Crow. In it, he writes about the early life of Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks as well as behind-the-scenes leaders in the bus boycott in Montgomery when the civil rights movement started.
Tony Silard
 Anthony Silard is the CEO of The Executive Leadership Institute and the President of The Center for Social Leadership, both based in Washington DC. Anthony is the author of Full Alignment: A Practical Guide to Transforming Your Life Vision into Action and The 11 Principles of Values-Driven Leadership (scheduled for release in spring 2010). Anthony was named a Visionary of the Year in 2002 by The Visionaries, a public-service television show. Anthony speaks about leadership often on U.S. national television and radio. A 30-minute PBS documentary on his life has aired on television stations in over 40 U.S. states and various film festivals. He has also been featured on MSNBC, Voice of America, the Presidential Summit for America’s Future, America’s Promise and over 100 television stations and newspapers across America.
Anthony will address the issue Success vs. Happiness – Which is More Important? from a variety of perspectives that debunk popular myths about each one, with particular emphasis on how the two can be balanced while living in San Miguel. He will also do a brief reading from his book Full Alignment: A Practical Guide to Transforming Your Life Vision into Action.
Anthony has received many awards for his work, including Harvard University's JFK School of Government’s most prestigious award, the Robert F. Kennedy Public Service Award, and Harvard’s Manuel Carballo Memorial Award. In addition to providing leadership consulting globally for many Fortune 500 companies, Anthony has been a Guest Lecturer on Corporate and Organizational Leadership at Harvard's JFK School of Government, Georgetown Business School, Stanford Law School, University of California/Berkeley, Howard University, George Washington University's Business School and many other universities. Anthony completed his Master's in Public Policy with a focus on Leadership at Harvard University and his B.A. at UC/Berkeley. He also served for two years in the Peace Corps in Kenya.
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September 10, 2009 Thursday
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October 8, 2009 Thursday
Kim Thomas
Since graduating from University of California, Berkeley in 1973, Kim has been involved in many ventures including owning an executive search firm, designing and operating two small inns, representing dozens of wineries and restaurants in the Napa and Sonoma Valleys with his media relations firm, creating art collectibles with such entertainers as Bob Dylan, Barbra Streisand, The Grateful Dead, Santana, The Rolling Stones among others and designing private label food products for such clients as Crate & Barrel, Pier I Imports, Nieman Marcus and Robert Mondavi.
Kim moved to San Miguel with his pregnant wife Nancy in April 2006. Their son Kipling was born a month later at Hospital de la Fe. While overseeing the construction of their home here in San Miguel, Kim wrote Bird of Prey. He is currently collaborating with local artist Oscar Martinez Heredia on a book of poetry mixed with art named Scenes From the 22nd Parallel.
I will be reading from my novel, Bird of Prey. Here is the synopsis that appears on the back cover of the book.
“In San Francisco, Ben Cahill receives an overnight package from his only child who is studying art in San Miguel de Allende, the Spanish colonial jewel in central Mexico. It contains a suicide note chronicling four incidents leading her to take her life - none of which her father knew of. What could he do? What should he do? Most importantly, what would he do? The answer plays out in his crusade as investigator, judge, jury and executioner when necessary. Pursuing a presumed serial killer is another single father, Detective Diego Montoya of the San Francisco Police who has trouble with his fourteen year old daughter. Cahill and Montoya cross paths often but only one knows of their secondary connection. Cahill’s actions send Montoya scurrying down rabbit holes while he probes the lives of the people behind the letter’s secrets. A game of cat and mouse ensues with only the cat knowing the rules”.
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November 12, 2009 Thursday
Sandra Gulland
Posada San Francisco
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December 10, 2009 Thursday
CM Mayo
 C.M. Mayo is the author of Miraculous Air:Journey of a Thousand Miles through Baja California, the Other Mexico (Milkweed Editions), which has been lauded by the Los Angeles Times as "a work of nonfiction that elides into modern myth" and by Library Journal as "one of the best books ever about Baja California." Her first work of fiction, Sky Over El Nido (Univ Georgia Press), which won the Flannery O'Connor Award. An avid translator of Mexican literaure, she is also founding editor of Tameme (a bilingial chapbook press) and editor of an anthology of 24 Mexican writers, Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion (Wherdabouts Press).Her website is www.cmmayo.com
 The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire (Unbridled Books).
http://www.cmmayo.com/last-prince-of-the-mexican-empire.html
Based on the true story, this sweeping historical novel is set in Mexico during the short, tragic, at times surreal, reign of Emperor Maximilian and his court. Even as the American Civil War raged north of the border, a clique of Mexican conservative exiles and clergy convinced Louis Napoleon to invade Mexico and install the Archduke of Austria, Maximilian von Habsburg, as Emperor. A year later, the childless Maximilian took custody of the two year old, half-American, Prince Agustin de Iturbide y Green, making the toddler the Heir Presumptive. Maximilian's reluctance to return the child to his distraught parents, even as his empire began to fall, and the Empress Carlota descended into madness, ignited an international scandal.
Jan Baross
 Jan Baross has been described as a “Renaissance woman”. Her career began early with painting, then photography which led to award winning animation and documentary filmmaking. Her film “Pioneer Women” premiered on A&E. She taught filmmaking at Oregon State University. She was a film critic journalist and wrote screenplays.
Her stage plays have been produced on the East Coast, West Coast and in Mexico. As a librettist, her opera, “Mata Hari”, is scheduled to be produced in Indonesia next year.
Ms. Baross will read from her novel “Jose Builds a Woman” which received first place for fiction, Kay Snow Awards and a Walden Fellowship. Ursula Le Guin calls it “ a romp through the extravagantly carnal Mexico of the imagination.” And her second book, “Ms. Baross Goes to Paris”, a slim dinning guide to Paris cuisine is done with charming illustrations and humorous commentary.
website: Barossmedia.com
Posada San Francis
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January 7, 2010 Thursday
Paul Headrick
 Paul Headrick was born and raised in Vancouver, Canada. He has an MA in Creative Writing from Concordia University, Montreal, and a PhD in English Literature from York University, Toronto. Before entering academics he worked in the forest industry and as a reporter in private radio. Paul’s short stories have been published in journals in the United States and Canada. His first novel, That Tune Clutches My Heart, was published this fall by Gaspereau Press. Paul teaches Creative Writing and English Literature at Langara College. He lives in Vancouver with his partner, novelist Heather Burt.
Reading: That Tune Clutches My Heart (a novel) On the eve of her first day of senior high, May Sutherland’s mother gives her a diary in which to record her experiences. It’s 1948 and the entire student body at Magee High in Vancouver is divided by a surprisingly vicious conflict between the fans of Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra. After losing her two best friends overnight, May struggles between her disdain for the debate and her loneliness as one of only a handful of neutrals.
Heather Burt
 Heather’s first novel, Adam’s Peak, was shortlisted for the 2008 Ethel Wilson Prize for fiction. Her short stories have been published in Canadian and American literary journals, and her second novel, Driving, is nearing completion.
Heather grew up in Montreal and Vancouver. She and her partner, novelist Paul Headrick, currently teach fiction writing and English literature at Langara College, Vancouver.
 Adam’s Peak, shortlisted for the 2008 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, weaves back and forth between a Montreal suburb and a Colombo private school, between a Ceylon tea estate at the end of WWII and a small Scottish town in the early 1960s, its characters struggling desperately to come to terms with themselves and with their powerful connections to the people and places they have tried to escape.
For more information, or to get in touch, please visit www.heatherburt.ca
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Febuary 5, 2010
Joch Whitehouse
 Jock Whitehouse was raised in Mexico where from the age of five he was immersed in its culture and language. There he experienced first hand the strange and mystical practices that are the essence of Mesoamerica’s spiritual traditions. Later in the US, as he assimilated Western beliefs he began to straddle the two conflicting cultures. Then one day, under the weight of deep personal crises his new beliefs simply collapsed, pitching him back into Mexico on a journey through the surreal mythology that opened his mind once again to the spiritual truths of his life.
Description of Presentation
Is the Mayan Prophecy for real? Is the world really going to end on December 21, 2012?
Given the economy, global warming, and the effects of terrorism and war, it’s not hard to imagine apocalypse in the making. And if your life has been affected by any of these conditions, the crisis can become very real.
Join us, as Jock Whitehouse presents inspiring excerpts from his new book, “The Ledge of Quetzal, Beyond 2012: A Magical Adventure to Discover the Real Promise of the Mayan Prophecy.” – a call to transcend fear and define a new life with the most powerful question of all, “What’s important?”
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April 2010
Mary Anne Anderson
Weber Lago |
June 10, 2010
Marc Egnal
Posada San Francisco
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