Creative Academy member book readings
Saturday, August 6, 2022
10 to 11 a.m. PDT / 1 to 2 p.m. EDT
Join us to celebrate new book releases from some of the Creative Academy’s author members!
Two memoirists and three romance authors share short excerpts from their new publications and answer questions from readers – like you!
If you are just finding the Academy not to worry, this amazing event was recorded. Watch the recording here!
Authors Reading in this Event
Lisa Duncan
Lisa Duncan’s outdoor pursuits and love of nature have taken her all over the world. When she isn’t teaching, writing, or travelling, she spends her time hiking and biking the trails near her home in Squamish, British Columbia.
Lisa will be reading from her memoir, Chasing Africa: Fear Won’t Find Me Here, to be published on November 1, 2022.
Barry Truter
Welcome to Barry Truter’s world of words and songs — a smorgasbord of international offerings with a common theme: connection through music. Barry was born in India and has lived in Hong Kong, Fiji, U.S.A, Pakistan, England, and Canada. By turns a seafarer, IT professional, business consultant, musician, and writer, he lives in Vancouver, Canada where the sea breeze blows.
Barry will be reading from his memoir, Traveller: Stories and Songs in the Key of Connection, published September 21, 2021.
Brenda Margriet
Brenda Margriet writes savvy, slow burn, contemporary romances with ordinarily amazing characters. In her own ordinarily amazing life, she had a successful career in radio and television production before deciding to pilfer from her retirement plan to support her writing compulsion.
Readers have called her stories “poignant,” “explicit and steamy,” “interesting, intriguing and entertaining,” and “unlike any romance you’ve read before” (she assumes the latter was meant in a good way).
Brenda is reading from Loving Between the Lines, a romance published on July 15, 2022.
Sharon Michalove
Sharon Michalove writes romantic suspense and traditional mystery. A historian and former librarian, she loves theater and travel. Sharon lives in Chicago with her two cats.
Sharon will be reading from her romantic suspense novel, At The Crossroads, published May 25, 2022
Gabbi Grey
USA Today bestselling author Gabbi Grey lives in beautiful British Columbia where her fur baby chin-poo keeps her safe from the nasty neighborhood squirrels. Working for the government by day, she spends her early mornings writing contemporary, gay, sweet, and dark erotic BDSM romances. While she firmly believes in happy endings, she also believes in making her characters suffer before finding their true love. She also writes m/f romances as Gabbi Black and Gabbi Powell.
Gabbi is reading from Hugh, a gay romance, published on July 19, 2022.