Where the Authors Are '06

The holidays are over (except for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, of course), so authors are starting to make their way to Seattle again, ready to read excerpts and sign autographs so that you'll be tempted to buy their latest title. Here's a cheat sheet for the week in book tours.

Monday, January 9

• 5:30, EB: Timothy Noah, editor of the late Marjorie Williams' The Woman at the Washington Zoo: Writings on Politics, Family, and Fate


• 7:00, TP-LFP: various contributors, Literary Mama: Reading for the Maternally Inclined and It's a Boy: Women Writers on Raising Sons


• 7:30, EB: Marisa de los Santos, Love Walked In

Tuesday, January 10

• 7:00, UW: Heather Sharfeddin, Blackbelly
  
• 7:00, TP-LFP: Richard Reeves, President Reagan: The Triumph of Imagination
  
• 7:30, EB: Catherine Wing, Enter Invisible
  

Wednesday, January 11

• 7:00, TP-LFP: Donna Smallin, Cleaning Plain & Simple
  
• 7:30, EB: Richard Paul Russo, The Rosetta Codex
  

Thursday, January 12

• 5:30 and 8:00, UW: Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (at Town Hall Seattle, $5 admission at the door)
  
• 7:00, Fremont Place: David Neiwert, Strawberry Days
  
• 7:00, UW: poets contributing to Pontoon 8
  
• 7:00, TP-LFP: Jayne Anne Krentz, All Night Long
  
• 7:30, EB: Christine Deavel and Kary Barrett Wayson, poetry chapbooks from Seattle's LitRag Press
  

Friday, January 13

• 6:30, TP-LFP: Steve Horn, Pictures Without Borders
  

Saturday, January 14

• noon, SMB: Elizabeth Sims, Easy Street
  
• 7:30, EB: Rocky Barker, Scorched Earth: How the Fires of Yellowstone Changed America
  

Sunday, January 15

• 2:00, EB: Brian Turner, Here, Bullet, and Andrew Himes, Voices in Wartime: A Collection of Narratives and Poems
  

Store Key:
EB: Elliott Bay Book Co.
Fremont Place: Fremont Place Books
SMB: Seattle Mystery Bookshop
TP-LFP: Third Place Books, Lake Forest Park
UW: University of Washington Bookstore