websites of our author friends - a list of websites for some of the fine writers that we did events with in our previous bookstores
It's been a long time since many of these events went down, but it's always great to see a familiar face and remember a good time with these special people...writers.

Walt Anderson with Inland Island: The Sutter Buttes
Peter Beagle (on facebook) with Unicorn Sonata in October 1996, Giant Bones in August 1997,  Tamsin in October 1999
Linda Book with us for many entertaining times
Georgeanne Brennan with Potager in March 1994, Aperitif in April 1997, Backyard Bouquets in April 1998
Max Byrd with Grant in September 2000
Jon Carroll with Real Life Experiences in March 1996
Kevin Clark with Widow Under a New Moon in March 1990
Bei Dao (on facebook) with Waves, Old Snow, August Sleepwalker in February 1996
Ed Darack with 6194 Denali Solo in Jan. 1995, Wind Water Sun in Dec. 1998, Wild Winds in Feb. 2002 - many great readings and slide shows
David J. Dionisi with American Hiroshima in October 2005
Robert Eversz with Burning Garbo in February (?) 2003, Digging James Dean in February 2005, Zero to the Bone in February 2006
Molly Fisk read her fine poetry in April of 2009
Jack Forbes with Columbus and Other Cannibals in July 1992, Only Approved Indians in May 1995, Red Bloods in August 1997
Karen Joy Fowler with Black Glass, Sarah Canary in April 1998, Sister Noon in September 2001, The Jane Austen Book Club in June 2004
Amy Goodman & Democracy Now with Static in October 2006
Sue Grafton with "E" is for Evidence
Jack Grapes with On the Bus, New Los Angeles Poets in December 1994
Brad Herzog with Small World
Kahled Hosseini Woodland Reads 2004 author with The Kite Runner - May 2005
John Lescroart with us many times, with many different books, for many good times
JoAnn Levy with Unsettling the West in June 2000
Deborah Madison with Greens Cookbook in December 1987 and Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone in December 1997
David Masiel with 2182 Kilohertz in May 2000 and again with The Western Limit of the World in January 2006
David Mas Masumoto Woodland Reads 2003 author with Epitaph for a Peach in November 2004 (before in October 1995)
      and Letter to the Valley in November 2004
James McBride with The Color of Water in January 1997
Indigo Moor with Tap-Root - at Raven's Tale in September of 2008
Yan Nascimbene with A Day in September in October 1995
Michael Perry with Population 485
Robert Scheer & truthdig.com with Playing President in October 2006
Amy Tan with The Joy Luck Club in April 1989
Jennifer Traig Woodland Reads 2006 author with Devil in the Details in October 2004
Candy Tutt with Ten Dragon Tails
Katherine Vaz with Sandade January 1996 and with Mariana and Fado & Other Stories in October 1997
Clarence Walker with Deromanticizing Black History in June 2001 and  We Can't Go Home Again in June 2001

 book signings, readings, book clubs & other special events
Since we opened as Mansion Book Merchants back in 1987, we have held hundreds of events in and outside of our stores, we were always open to all sorts of different kinds of events - the limits were just time, money & public interest.          • with us more than once

here are SOME of the writers that we have hosted in our stores, or sold books for at other events

We would like to give thanks for the many times that the local musical group, trio ma non troppo, has played in our different stores over the years. I like to call them our "house band" from Woodland. They are a small and very talented group that play flute and strings. They were always a pleasure, as they made our different stores sound so good..

previous Placerville poets
Here are the excellent poets that read at our Raven's Tale Poetry Readings
which were co-hosted by the Red Fox Underground.

April '09 - Molly Fisk
March '09 - Rebecca Morrison, Jeanine Stevens, Brigi Truex and Charlene Ungstad.
February '09 - Bob Eakins and Shawn Pittard
January '09 - Cleo Fellers Kocol and Phil Weidman
November '08 - Moira Magneson and Wendy Patrice Williams
October '08 - Albert Garcia and Joshua McKinney
September '08 - Quinton Duval and Indigo Moor
August '08 - Susan and Joe Finkleman
July '08 - Brigit Truex and Kathy Kieth
June '08 - Jeanine Stevens and Kimberly White

What books did the Raven's Tale Book Club feature while in Placerville?

March '09 - Blindness by Jose Saramago
February '09 - How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman
January '09 - Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin

December '08 - The Exception by Christian Jungersen
October - '08 Stealing Buddha's Dinner by Bich Minh Nguyen
August '08 - Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
July '08 - Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver