This will be just plain fun! We will meet on the third Wednesday of each month at 5:00 p.m.

We will discuss two books at this meeting:

“The Judas Pair” by Jonathan Gash

“A Killing in Antiques” by Mary Moody

We hope you can join us!

This will be just plain fun! We will meet on the third Wednesday of each month at 5:00 p.m.

We will discuss two books at this meeting:

“Midnight Rounds” by Richard Green

“The 39 Steps” by John Buchan

We hope you can join us!

This will be just plain fun! We will meet on the third Wednesday of each month at 5:00 p.m.

We will discuss two books at this meeting:

“In the Woods” by Tana French

“Wildfire at Midnight” by Mary Stewart

We hope you can join us!

This will be just plain fun! We will meet on the third Wednesday of each month at 5:00 p.m.

We will discuss two books at this meeting:

“Nine Tailors” by Dorothy Sayers

“Summer’s Lease” by John Mortimer

We hope you can join us!

This will be just plain fun! We will meet on the third Wednesday of each month at 5:00 p.m.

We will discuss two books at this meeting:

“Rebecca” by Daphne Du Mruier

“Dark Hollow” by John Connolly

We hope you can join us!

This will be just plain fun! We will meet on the third Wednesday of each month at 5:00 p.m.

We will discuss two books at this meeting:

“Wilds Lisand” by Antonia Fraser

“Knots and Crosses” by Ian Rankin

We hope you can join us!

This will be just plain fun! We will meet on the third Wednesday of each month at 5:00 p.m.

We will discuss two books at this meeting:

“Remember When” by J.D. Robb

“Twice Shy” by Dick Francis

We hope you can join us!

The Influence of Edna St. Vincent Millay

Celebrate National Poetry month at the Stockbridge Library as we host Peter Bergman, executive director of The Edna St. Vincent Millay Society.  Mr. Bergman will discuss Millay’s poetry and her influence upon modern poets.  A writer, journalist,  and artist, Mr. Bergman is from Pittsfield and served as the first managing director of The Berkshire Opera Company.

Hosted by Carole Owens, with Hester Velmans, Jana Laiz & Melissa Kennedy.

A Berkshire Festival of Women Writers Event.

A look at self-publishing as it has evolved over the years, from a poor second choice for authors to a canny business decision. In the rapidly changing publishing landscape, the stigma of the vanity press has begun to fade as authors discover the value of bypassing the gatekeepers of the large profit-driven publishing companies and strike out on their own. More and more authors these days are embracing cheap e-book technologies and social networking strategies in order to take their destiny into their own hands and find their niche audience.

Carole Owens is the author of The Berkshire Cottages and seven other published books including Bellefontaine: A Historical Narrative, The Lost Days of Agatha Christie, Who Killed Carrie Knox, The Berkshires: Coach Inns to Cottages, Pittsfield: Gem City in the Gilded Age. Owens has written feature articles for Country Inns,  Ladies Home Journal, The Boston Globe Magazine, New England Travel and Leisure, Berkshire Living and more. She writes a bi-weekly column in The Berkshire Eagle and The Berkshire Record. In 2006, she was named Scholar in Residence at the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities and between 2006 and 2008 she mounted three exhibitions on Berkshire history: Pittsfield During the Gilded Age, Fertile Ground: Berkshire Artists and Writers and Rockwell’s Vision of Melville’s World. Owens has been a consultant to or featured on A&E’s America’s Castles and City Confidential, PBS Chronicles, Travel Channel Haunted Hotels, History Channel Wealth and Power NE Cable New England Living and more.

Jana Laiz is the author of the triple Award Winning novel, Weeping Under This Same Moon; Elephants of the Tsunami, written to raise money for tsunami relief; and the co-author of “A Free Woman On God’s Earth,” The True Story of Elizabeth “Mumbet” Freeman, The Slave Who Won Her Freedom. Fascinated by other cultures, Jana studied anthropology and Chinese language at University. She is a teacher, a writer, an editor, a publisher, a photographer, a musician and a dreamer. She is passionate about our beautiful planet and endeavors to make a difference in the world and to work with others who feel the same. Her cautionary faerie tale, The Twelfth Stone, a novel for adults and young adults, is making its debut. Both Weeping Under This Same Moon and “A Free Woman On God’s Earth” have been optioned to be turned into films. www.janalaiz.com

This will be just plain fun! We will meet on the third Wednesday of each month at 5:00 p.m.

We will discuss two books at this meeting:

“Death in Holy Orders” by P.D. James

“A Morbid Taste for Bones” by Ellis Peters

We hope you can join us!