The annual Mid-Valley Willamette Writers Author Celebration happens next week when several members are selected to read from their published works. I’m excited to be one of the readers again. At this year’s event I’ll be reading from my new historical novel, The Shifting Winds. Pulling up some pleasant memories, here’s the group that read …
Janet Fisher ♦ May 15, 2016 ♦ 2 Comments
The Axe & Fiddle, a pub in historic downtown Cottage Grove, offers a change of pace this coming Tuesday night, May 17, when the entertainment turns to words. Poetry Night happens just once a month at this restaurant and public house known for its live music and craft brews, full bar, and locally sourced food, …
Janet Fisher ♦ May 4, 2016 ♦ 2 Comments
I spoke at the Roseburg Rotary Club meeting last night. They invited me to talk about my new book The Shifting Winds, and when I began putting together my speech for this I struggled a bit. What could I say in 20 minutes to give the essence of this full-length novel and still entertain an …
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THE SHIFTING WINDS has been named a Finalist for PNWA’s 2017 Nancy Pearl Book Award
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Book Signing
Fort Umpqua Days
ECEC – 15850 State Highway 38
Elkton, Oregon
Saturday & Sunday, September 2, 3
10 am – 4 pm
Speaking Engagement
Coast Branch Willamette Writers
Newport Public Library
35 NW Nye Street
Newport, Oregon
Sunday, September 17, 2 – 4 pm
Book Signing
Florence Festival of Books
Florence Events Center
715 Quince Street
Florence, Oregon
Saturday, September 30, 10 am – 4 pm
Speaking Engagement
An Association of Writers
Roseburg, Oregon
Monday, October 9, 10:45 am
Speaking Engagement
AAUW of Roseburg
Jasmine’s
809 SE Main Street
Roseburg, Oregon
Tuesday, March 6, 2018, 5 pm
Where we had thought to travel outward, we will come to the center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone, we will be with all the world.
--Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
And the more we dare to try out new paths, like all explorers of new territory, the more we open up further paths that make it possible for us to experience life in ways we never thought possible.
--Riane Eisler, author of The Chalice and the Blade, quoted from Sacred Pleasure
