Reader's Garden Poetry Reading

Many thanks to the people that came to hear Poet Keith Ainsworth (in world as Threik Wilkinson) Sunday in the Reader's Garden. If you missed this event and wish to hear Keith (he IS really funny and affable and I'd listen to him anytime in a nano second), here are his scheduled events:

May 1, 3PM SLT-- Faeria

May 2, 3PM, -- Library of laputa

May 9, 3PM SLT,--UK Writer's Guild, Milkwood

SL Book Fair Events April 26th & 27th

Greetings,

Please don't miss poet and environmentalist Keith Ainsworth reading from his newest book of poetry, The Courage of Intimacy, in the Reader's Garden, Sunday April 27th at 11:00 SLT. Hope to see you there!

Best,
Sonja

Here are other events happening:

SL Book Fair 200825-27 April Book Island and Publishing Island
EVENT AREAS: (stage sponsored by SLGuides, Virtual Learning Centre) (stage sponsored by Rez Magazine) (area sponsored by Third Life Books) (stage sponsored by sl-newspaper.com)

EVENT SCHEDULE:

Saturday 26th
6am discussion: Death Penalty, Right or Wrong? Selina Greene (Beach Area)7am tbc8am Nebbisk Oh - 'Fictionary' game where you make up definitions to fool your opponents. (Beach Area)9am Madddyyy Schnook - Marketing and Sales in virtual worlds (Book Island stage)10am Babu Writer - Amazon and POD - what's going on? (Publishing Island stage)10am Selina Greene - the RL Book publishing process - talk and Q&A (Book Island stage)11am Cricket Gears - How Art and Music Can Change the World (Cartland Court stage)12pm Trinity Dechou, Voodoo Buwan - Rez Magazine debate on inworld Publishing (Cartland Court stage)1pm Noble Charron - Characterization - the Soul of the Story - Lecture and Q&A by bestselling author, Michael A Stackpole (Beach Area)2pm Elan Neruda - Paying the Bills While Paying Your Dues: a partially practical guide to writing genre fiction for a living (Publishing Island stage)2pm-4pm Miriam Antonelli DJ (Cartland Court)3pm Madddyyy Schnook - Building for Beginners (SLGuides)4pm Diana Allandale - Promoting Yourself, from and Author's POV, workshop with author Diana Hunter (Beach Area)5pm Wilbur Rich - reading
Sunday 27th
6am discussion: What's SLove got to do with it? RL/SL relationship pleasures and pitfalls. Selina Greene (Beach Area)7am DJ Doubledown Tandino spins his signature blend of nujazz and house in a live turntable mix (Cartland Court)8am discussion - What makes a book a cult book, rather than just a good book? Selina Greene (Beach Area)9am Jilly Kidd hosts readings from writers in the Written Word group (beach area)10am Sean Voss - Author Sean Percival, The Second Life In-World Travel Guide talk, Q&A (Book Island stage) 10am Madddyyy Schbook - Building for Beginners (SLGuides)11am Simeon Beresford - Literary quiz (Book Island stage)12pm Poetry and prose readings from INKsters and ANON magazine (Publishing Island stage)1pm Kitumscheid Writer - the publishing process for illustrated books, based on experiences from her book, Pirate's Alphabet (Publishing Island stage)1pm-3pm - DJ Ravishal Bentham from Kona Radio (Cartland Court)3pm - Diana Allandale - The Ins and Outs of Writing Erotica workshop with author, Diana Hunter (Beach Area)4pm Arton Tripsa - The Writing Life: The Creation Of A Novel, a talk/Q&A with Jane Watson, author of the Hindustan Contessa (Book Island stage)5pm Closing ceremony and afterparty (Cartland Court)

Events for Reader's Garden & Traffic

Greetings,

Some events to keep in mind for the Reader's Garden and for Bookish Folk everywhere :).

The Second Life Book Fair 08 on Book and Publishing Islands on the 25th through the 27th. Don't miss this terrific event. For information, please IM Arton Tripsa.

In the Reader's Garden, April 27th at 11:00 a.m. SLT meet author Keith Ainsworth (aka Threik Wilkinson in SL), poet of The Courage of Intimacy.

In the past four weeks, our visitor counter recorded 228 avatars visiting the Reader's Garden.

Please IM me with any questions or if you'd like to use the Reader's Garden for your own event.

Best,
Sonja