Come join us on Friday, May 17th from 5:30 pm – 8 pm for a wonderful night of food, Friends, and food-titled fiction! Our own Shari Lane, founder of WORD! Writers Open Mic Night at the Lopez Library, is launching her first publication, Two Over Easy All Day Long.
* 5:30 Drinks and nibbles, mix and mingle!
* 6:00 – 7:00 Potluck with an egg-dish theme (to stay on theme with Shari’s book title). Please remember to bring a dish to share, a label of what’s in it, your own plate, utensils, cup and napkin.
* 7:00 – 8:00 Shari Lane Author Talk, Reading and Q&A
The event will be held in conjunction with the Friends of the Library’s annual meeting (very brief update on what the Friends have been up to), and the Friends will be literally sweetening the deal by providing dessert.
Giles Anthony Maurice Gibson, Manhattanite and president of ABC Toys, floats through life on a cloud of wealth and privilege. Until now. When his company’s negligence results in tragedy, the judge, weary of a world where justice is rarely served, sentences Giles to a year of community service in rural Oregon, and supervised work at Sunnyside Up, a local diner. Renamed “Tony,” and fitted with an ankle monitor to keep him in his place, he must find a way to make amends for the consequences of always choosing the easy way.
Shortly after Giles-learning-to-be-Tony arrives, the curmudgeonly cook finds a dead body in the dumpster behind the restaurant. Tony and the other misfits working at the diner are soon suspects, but—though they will eventually work together to figure out “whodunnit”—Two Over Easy All Day Long isn’t a murder mystery; it’s a human mystery, asking how far a person can bend before breaking, and whether breaking isn’t the point, after all.
Shari Lane Bio
Shari Lane was reading voraciously by the time she entered kindergarten, and she has been writing for almost as long. Her history is multidimensional: teacher, mother, lawyer, arbitrator, advocate for the houseless, the food insecure, migrant farmworker communities, and the earth—all adding up to possibilist. Shari believes in building bridges through the stories we share, and surrounds herself, whenever and however possible, with readers and writers. She currently sits on the Lopez Island Library Board of Trustees, leads WORD!, an open mic for writers, and is the managing editor of SHARK REEF Literary Magazine. Shari has a self-published upper middle grade series called The UnFairy Tale, and a self-published novel, What the Dogs Know, part of The Dogs of Looser Island trilogy, which was published online in serialized format. Shari’s stories have appeared in Evening Street Review, Adelaide, Antithesis, Cape Magazine, and others. This is her first traditionally-published novel.
Learn more about the novel and sign up for a monthly(ish) newsletter at www.sharilane.com, and reach out to Shari directly at sharilaneauthor@gmail.com