Comments on Reading Tonight

Greetings to The Stranger, which I've been reading faithfully for about two decades. (Sheesh, I'm getting old.)

Thank you for noting my reading tonight at Third Place Books. I've been writing these stories in coffee shops and pubs all over Seattle for the last 12 years, so it's exciting to finally share The Auralia Thread with my neighbors.

Two quick corrections: The series is called The Auralia Thread. (The first book is called Auralia's Colors.)

More info here: http://auraliascolors.com

Secondly, it's not a young adult fantasy series... I wrote the series for adults, but I've been pleasantly surprised to find that young people are discovering and enjoying the stories as well.

Since "Cyndere's Midnight" is very loosely based on "Beauty and the Beast," I'll be talking about the value of fairy tales, and why it is that we are so consistently drawn to stories about monsters and transformation... from Frankenstein to Alien to the vampires of Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series.

Anyway, thanks for the many years of news and commentary (and a special kudos to the local film critics).

Jeffrey Overstreet