News & Events

Next month I’m really excited to be participating in Litquake in San Francisco & the Texas Book Festival in Austin. If you’re in either city, here’s a link to the festivals below. I’d love to see you there.

For Litquake I’ll be participating in two events:

October 10th, New Voices, which is part of Off The Richter Scale, a weekend of events at Z Space. New Voices goes from 12:45 – 2:30.

October 12th, First-Time Authors Reveal All at 3pm at the Foundation Center.

For The Texas Book Festival:

The festival dates are 10/17 & 10/18. Their event schedule will be up mid-September. Here’s a link to the festival’s site.

 

The last day of August is here and since I haven’t updated my website for a while I thought I’d give a brief snapshot of my book adventures over the summer in one big post.

In late June I went to Denver for the Historical Novel Society conference. I really enjoyed this conference and there were so many highlights, including David Blixt’s weapons training workshops with the broadsword, short sword, rapier, and dagger.

I met Diana Gabaldon, which was another highlight – I’ve been a fan of hers forever. And I joined in the book signing before the banquet.

Next from historicals to thrillers… This year I was a part of ITW’s Debut Author Class at ThrillerFest in New York. I really loved Thrillerfest and meeting all the other debuts. The conference hosted The Debut Breakfast on Saturday and later that day we signed books.

Another highlight in NY – seeing my agent again. Here is the lady, Brianne Johnson, who got this whole journey started.

A few days later I was back in LA for Book’d In Burbank – a fun night of author readings at Theatre Banshee and I read a scene I had never done before. (When Bryan and Linz meet at the museum for the first time and play chess at the park.)

 

Two more readings finished off the summer. The first was at Barnes & Noble in Torrance. I decided to read the opening three pages of the book and then when Linz first sees Bryan’s paintings at the gallery. It’s been interesting switching up the readings and I have to say these two in combination have become my favorite to do.

Next I did a reading at Redondo Beach Library. I’ve been to this library before to attend an event and it’s such a beautiful building. I love this wall of windows. Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore came to sell copies of the book and the library’s Events Director was a wonderful host. Somehow I didn’t end up with one picture of the reading, but we had a great audience and in-depth Q&A afterwards.

Other news this summer – The Memory Painter was a beach read pick in Coastal Living which was exciting and also the inaugural pick for the AB-Ootlanders’ new book club, a lively bunch of Outlander fans up in Canada. I did an online chat with them at the end of July. I also received my copies of the Canadian edition. Below is a picture of the two covers together.

 

Now I’m on hiatus working on my next novel but there are several more book events in October and November I’ll be doing that I’m looking forward to. In the meantime, I do post more regularly on Twitter or Facebook if you’d like to connect there.

Happy summer’s end as we enter September. Cheers!

 

 

 

Here’s a guest blog post I just did for The Undercover Soundtrack discussing key pieces of music that inspired me while writing The Memory Painter.

Special thanks to Roz Morris, Author of My Memories of a Future Life for inviting me to write the post. I really enjoyed looking back at all the music that helped me at the keyboard.

Click here to take a look and visit all the links provided to hear some of the wonderful music from artists Anne Akiko Meyers, Paul Horn, Philip Glass and many others.

 

I’m excited to share the news that for one week there is a Goodreads Giveaway going on to win one signed hardcover of THE MEMORY PAINTER, open to anyone in the world.

Who will win and what country will they be from? I can’t wait to find out!

CLICK HERE TO ENTER!

 

This Sunday 5/31 at 3pm EST, I’ll be doing an online chat with the Goodreads book club The Life of a Book Addict.

If you’ve read The Memory Painter and would like to join in the discussion, first join the group on Goodreads if you aren’t already a member and then here’s the link to the discussion thread:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/2210279-the-memory-painter-by-gwendolyn-womack

Hope to hear from you there!

Yesterday marked one month for the launch of The Memory Painter, so it was perfect timing that I had an event to celebrate the end of May.

{pages} is such a charming bookstore and right near the water in Manhattan Beach. Just walking there you feel like you’re on vacation. Here’s the outside:

A group of wonderful ladies I used to work with surprised me by coming. They were all cheerleaders for my writing career for many years. 

 

Discussing the road to publication at the very cute {pages} podium…

 

Special thanks to Craig and Casey. Here they are at the counter with the books – These two were a joy to hang out with and talk about all things writing.

 

 

Thank you {pages} for a wonderful night!