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Our adoption event — with Buy Local, Kalamazoo Animal Rescue and Pet Vet Family Pet Care — was a blast. Lots of people stopped in, sweet cats & dogs and star of the show Samson (the big, sweet black cat looking wicked in the photo) found his forever home 🙂 Store cat Radio welcomed the visitors with typical grace.
What a great holiday party! We had a record 28 authors & illustrators here. That, combined with the region’s first snow, produced a wonderfully warm & spirited event.
Call outs: Bonnie Jo Campbell was hilarious for hours; Friends of Poetry were super supportive; SCBWI (Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators) brought the funnest books 🙂 Thanks to all who participated!
What a great crowd! No surprise that this was one of the best attended and most enthusiastic program of the year. Two hours–long by our standards–still left the crowd wanting more.
Weekday Morning with special events on Thursdays and Fridays! [Read more…] about September Mornings at Kazoo Books
Saturday, September 30 at 1pm    2413 Parkview Ave.  Free
Authors Kelly Fordon, Laura Hulthen Thomas, and Lolita Hernandez — each with titles published in Wayne State University’s Made in Michigan writers series — discuss how their fiction transforms home into character. How do writers use assumptions about familiar places to find the unexpected and surprising? When is a hometown the whole trouble, and also the last, best hope for change? They’ll also talk about how the unique landscape of the upper Midwest inspires their fiction.
This panel is preceded by a Local Writers Brown Bag Lunch & Gabfest at noon; drop in early to chat & check out the current roster of writers groups meeting at Kazoo Books.
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