Monday January 28 Book Club
NEW DATE: Wednesday, February 13-Rules of Civility
7:30 pm Upstairs@Meadowlark

Led by Donna Miele
Join us for a cup of tea or glass of wine and refreshments as we discuss one of the best books of 2012.
Sign up at info@cuppapulp.com or call Meadowlark at 845-290-1572

Monday February 4 Exploding Writer’s Block
with Emmy Laybourne
6:00 pm Pearl River Public Library

A reprise of our fall 2012 workshop. Free and open to the public. See the PRL Events calendaror call Christina Linder at 845-735-4084 for further details.
The Pearl River Public Library is located at 80 Franklin Avenue, Pearl River, New York.

Monday February 11 Open Write-and-Read workshop
7:30 pm Upstairs@Meadowlark

Led by Donna Miele. Join us to read and discuss your work. Bring a notebook, pen, and anything you have been working on. Be prepared to read 3-5 pages (up to 1000 words) aloud for compassionate comment from fellow writers. You can do this!
Sign up at info@cuppapulp.com or call Meadowlark at 845-290-1572.

And Coming Up This Spring…

Saturday March 23 Genre Workshop
with author Max Ellendale
10:00 am-12:00 pm Upstairs@Meadowlark

Paranormal romance author Max Ellendale (Glyph, Breathless Press 2012) will lead a 2-hour workshop on all aspects of beginning a plot-driven novel.  Optional individual consult.  Sign up at info@cuppapulp.com or call Meadowlark at 845-290-1572.
$20 2-hour intensive
$10 optional consult

Last Sunday, November 18, we brought in a few dozen of the best cookies ever, put out some great, big, shiny balloons, and called it a Grand Opening Party—and what a lovely afternoon it was! Readers and writers arrived from throughout the Chestnut Ridge community and beyond to wish us luck, share a bite and a cuppa, and tour the writer’s space and store.

We were especially delighted that two of our favorite authors came by!

James King and wife Joanne came down from Connecticut to congratulate us, taking advantage of a lingeringly lovely fall afternoon. James signed a few copies of Bill Warrington’s Last Chance, his novel, for us—come and get them!

Ed Bieber is pictured here pardoning a turkey (albeit a little late…) as the beloved Thurston of Nature Place Day Camp fame. His book, What Color Is the Wind?, a nature activity guide for families, has been a Meadowlark bestseller this season. We were thrilled to hear from Ed that What Color Is the Wind? has also proven itself a bit of a sleeper hit at the big local chain too—but remember, we carried it first!

Below is Donna, Cuppa Pulp proprietress, showing off Bill Warrington’s Last Chance alongside The Pull of Gravity, a middle-grade novel by his friend, Gae Polisner.

May all of our local writers one day have the thrill of seeing their names printed sideways on the spine of a book at a store!

Of course, authors’ names look equally good in the stacks of our local libraries. Not one, but two local librarians—I won’t mention names here, but you know who you are—paid us visits as well. Contrary to popular myth, librarians are among the heartiest of partiers. Ply them with cookies and watch the fun unfold!

Thank you to all who came out, and thank you for supporting Cuppa Pulp Booksellers and the Writer’s Space! Our most recent blog post is full of thanks, too—please read it here.

Fall Book Club: The Night Circus

Thursday, October 4, 8:00 pm
NEW DATE: MONDAY, OCTOBER 8
Upstairs @ Meadowlark
Led by Julie Goldberg

Explore one of the season’s most talked-about books and meet a community of readers.

Improv Workshop: Exploding Writer’s Block!

Thursday, November 8, 8:00 pm
Green Meadow Waldorf School-Music Room
Led by Emmy Laybourne

Exercises and discussion on how to move forward in writing fiction and nonfiction.
GMWS is located at 307 Hungry Hollow Road, Chestnut Ridge, New York.
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Writing Workshop: The Gift List

Thursday, December 6,
NEW DATE: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13
8:00 pmUpstairs @ Meadowlark
Led by Donna Miele

Exercises in character development that might help you pick gifts for the hardest-to-please on your list.

Sign up for all workshops either at Meadowlark or via email to info@cuppapulp.com. Thank you!

Cuppa Pulp’s very first book club meeting will be on Thursday, October 4, NEW DATE! MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2012, 8:00 pm.

Local blog-star and author Julie Goldberg (Perfect Whole) will lead a discussion of The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern. Join us for a book and a cuppa! (Wine and tea will be available, in real glasses and mugs.) Space is limited in our cozy rooms, so please sign up at Meadowlark Toys, or email us at info@cuppapulp.com. Snacks are welcome. If you are so inclined, please let us know what you’d like to bring. Thank you!

The Night Circus is Ms. Morgenstern’s debut novel. Since its publication in September, 2011, it has received numerous critical acclamations and has spawned fan clubs the world over. Here’s a taste from Erin Morgenstern’s website:

It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.

Behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway—a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco. Unbeknownst to them, this is a game in which only one can be left standing, and the circus is but the stage for a remarkable battle of imagination and will. Despite themselves, however, Celia and Marco tumble headfirst into love…

True love or not, the game must play out, and the fates of everyone involved, from the cast of extraordinary circus per­formers to the patrons, hang in the balance, suspended as precariously as the daring acrobats overhead.