Friday, April 25 at 5:00 p.m.

Whoo-hoo! The biggest event of our year kicks off as usual at the store on Friday evening at 5:00 p.m. We're co-sponsoring this event with our friends at the Southern California chapter of Mystery Writers of America (SoCalMWA), and dozens of authors will be dropping in over the course of the evening, in addition to three formal signings. We'll have food, drink and wall-to-wall literary celebrities from 5:00 until 9:00 p.m., or whenever we manage to kick everyone out.




Authors who have promised to drop in include Sheryl J. Anderson, Sandi Ault, Deborah Turrell Atkinson, Brett Battles, James Scott Bell, Cara Black, Robert Gregory Browne, Mark Coggins, Jennifer Colt, Ed Decter, Dan Fesperman, Bill Fitzhugh, Michelle Gagnon, Brent Ghelfi, Lee Goldberg, Tod Goldberg, Eli Gottlieb, Denise Hamilton, Libby Fischer Hellmann, Naomi Hirahara, Sue Ann Jaffarian, Darrel James, Susan Kandel, Harley Jane Kozak, Leslie Klinger, Rita Lakin, John Lescroart, Robert S. Levinson, Dick Lochte, Lisa Lutz, Cody McFadyen, T. Jefferson Parker, Jim Pascoe, Cornelia Read, Peter Robinson, John Shannon, Susan Arnout Smith, Mark Haskell Smith, Eric Stone, Louise Ure, Sarah Weinman and Edward Wright.




Because the crowds for this event are so large, and things get so confusing, we ask that you not bring personal books to this event. We would hate for you to set a bag of books down and lose them, and it's too hard for us to keep track of what's being brought in from outside. Thanks for your understanding and cooperation.