Legendary Locals of Oakland - ( Arcadia Publishing)

I just got word today that my new book, Legendary Locals of Oakland will be published by the end of this year!  

This will be the Oakland book Oakland has been waiting for...  Legendary Locals of Oakland! 
See you later... Jerry

Books Inc. Alameda Presents: A Few Good Men: A Celebration of new voices, legacies and to the spirit of the 1930's literary society... hosted by Jerry Thompson

Books Inc.  Alameda Presents: 

A Few Good Men:

A celebration of new voices, legacies,

and to the spirit of the 1930’s literary society...

Hosted by Jerry Thompson

 A FEW GOOD MEN #1 

The Men Series #1 Joshua Mohr Sam Benjamin  

Saturday, February 25^th at 7pm  

SF Noir meets Oakland Noir 

Mr. Mohr joins the conversation as he reads from

and discusses his novel:  DAMASCUS

      

Mr. Benjamin joins the conversation as he reads from and discusses 

his memoir: AMERICAN GANGBANG :  A Love Story     

    

A Few Good Men: #2

    

The Men Series #2  Gary D. Sproul meets Peter Allison

Saturday, March 24^th at 7pm

Locked Up meets Locked Down

Mr. Sproul joins the conversation as he reads from and discusses

his novel:  THE LENGTH OF THE LEASH

  

Mr. Allison joins the conversation as he reads from and discusses

his novel: LOCKYER OWN STORAGE

   

A Few Good Men: #3

          

Readings /Cocktail Reception /First Book Summit

Saturday, April 28^th at 7pm

Discussing the novel:  RULES OF CIVILITY by  Amor Towles   

                  

Set in New York City in 1938, Rules of Civility tells the story of a watershed year in the life of an uncompromising twenty-five-year-old named Katey Kontent. Armed with little more than a formidable intellect, a bracing wit, and her own brand of cool nerve, Katey embarks on a journey from a Wall Street secretarial pool through the upper echelons of New York society in search of a brighter future.
“Put on some Billie Holiday, pour a dry martini and immerse yourself in the eventful life of Katey Kontent…[Towles] clearly knows the privileged world he’s writing about, as well as the vivid, sometimes reckless characters who inhabit it.” –People
-  Also , meet the bay area’s new generation of first and second novelists as they raise their glasses and books to bestseller lists and to each other

A Few Good Men:#4

The Men Series # 4:  Robert Fisher meets John Brennen

Saturday, May 26^th at 7pm

The Vets meet Vietnam

Robert Fischer joins the conversation as he reads from and discusses

his novel: THE RETURN OF PRIVATE FISHER

   

John Brennen joins the conversation as he reads and discusses his book:

"US Army Helicopter Names In Vietnam"

John Brennan’s experience with U.S. Army helicopters began with a twelve-month tour in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam assigned to the Army’s 114th Assault Helicopter Company as a Flight Operations Coordinator.
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Oakland Noir/ ( Oakland based mystery writers Anthology Project )

I am beginning to build the list of Oakland based writers for my Oakland Noir Anthology.  I'm putting my latest book, Legendary Locals of Oakland on the front burner... but this project is next on my list... Send me a message if you have stories set in Oakland, and if you'd like me to keep you mind once I begin to build the anthology...  Send message to - blkspring@gmail.com

Jerry

The Book of Yes ( Big Yes Society Book Club )

This book project is a spin-off from a book club held at Books Inc. in Alameda...  The Big Yes Society.  We are attempting to keep a "yes" journal, compiled of all the things, events, situations we've said "yes" to during the month....  over a period of time.

The book will be called... The Book of Yes.
Join us at Books Inc.  every 3rd Thursday of the month at 7pm.
We usually have author special guests and we always have a book chosen for discussion even if we don't actually discuss the book... because we love when the author of our chosen book is there to talk about the book for us... keeps it fun, and present moment! 

See ya later... Jerry