My dear friend and past editor Julie Pheasant-Albright and her lovely co-author Celeste Smith are having a book signing tonight for Images of America: Private Clubs of Seattle at the Swedish Cultural Center. As the Swedish Club states in their newsletter, “At what other bookstore can you get a drink?” And I would add, a good strong drink at a very reasonable price at that! And then there’s the view! Best in the city bar none. And of course the opportunity to mingle not only with the hoi polloi but those select few actually pictured in the book not to mention the charming authors themselves.
I have yet to buy my copy and am eager to get my hands on one. As mentioned previously in this blog, the Woman’s Century Club (and one of its prominent members, Mayor Bertha Landes) is playing a major role in the graphic novel that my husband Tony Hicks and I are currently working on (albeit a Steampunk tinged version of said.) Source material – yea!!
7:00pm tonight at 1920 Dexter Ave N – see you there!
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