Award winning author Mitali Perkins is starting 2009 on an exciting note! Her newest book Secret Keeper, published by Random House, is being released on January 13th. (Watch a trailer for the book here on Mitali’s blog.) To celebrate, Mitali is inviting everyone in the San Francisco area to a Chai and Samosa Reception at Not Your Mother’s Book Club at the Town & Country Village in Palo Alto between 6 – 7pm Thursday, January 15th.

From 7-8 p.m that same evening, Mitali will lead a writing workshop entitled “MAGIC CARPET: Creating a Sense of Place in Story,” a fun, hands-on, stress-free event for writers of all stages and ages. The session will start with tips and techniques, continue with prompts to inspire a time of writing, and end with personalized feedback. This event will be a great shared memory for parents and teens, and a welcome escape for stressed-out students who want to relax with an ungraded creative exercise. No experience necessary, but to sign up for the workshop, you must send an email confirmation to NYMBC (at) booksinc (dot) net, as space is limited to twenty participants.

For those in the Seattle area, Barnes and Noble (Bellevue Downtown) will host a launch party for Secret Keeper on January 18 at 2pm. Mitali will be in attendance and looks forward to discussing and signing copies of her new book. Later that day, teens are invited to join Mitali for an Indian Dinner/Teen Writers Workshop at the Bellevue Regional Library. Again, pre-registration is required.

Mitali is a regularly featured author and contributor to the PaperTigers website. In 2007 she and her mother, award winning alpana painter Madhusree Bose, took part in our first PaperTigers Outreach Program at the San Francisco Waldorf School. Mitali will be contributing an article on “The Power of Children to Make a Difference” in our upcoming issue of PaperTigers due out February 1st.

Posted by: Corinne | This entry was posted on Thursday, January 8th, 2009 at 11:35 am and is filed under Cultures and Countries, Eventful World, India. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Tags: Children's book events, Children's Books, Mitali Perkins, PaperTigers Outreach, Secret Keeper