Lake Austin Spa Resort Presents "For the Love of Books Club"

Book Club Features New York Times® Bestselling Authors, Informal Readings, Writing Classes and Journaling

AUSTIN, TX – Instead of grabbing their Jimmy Choo shoes and heading to the latest restaurant, more and more women are reaching for their favorite bottle of wine, casserole dish and book and going to their friend’s house for book club. This year Lake Austin Spa Resort welcomes a variety of authors, including New York Times® bestselling authors to the shores of beautiful Lake Austin where friends will gather amongst great food, delectable spa treatments and engaging conversations with some of the most prominent literary names today. The “For the Love of Books Club”, features author’s discussions, book club cooking demos, journaling classes and more. Authors and guests enjoy discussing the writing process, exchanging titles, sharing informal book reviews and debating about wireless reading devices.

Notable authors include Brunonia Barry (The Lace Reader), Kate Jacobs (The Friday Night Knitting Club), Annie Barrows (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society), Jill Connor Browne/The Sweet Potato Queen (American Thighs), Ron Hall (Same Kind of Different as Me), Jane Hamilton (Laura Rider’s Masterpiece), Chris Bohjalian (Skeletons at the Feast), Mary Lou Quinlan (What She’s Not Telling You) and Sally Koslow (The Late, Lamented Molly Marx).

Sample Activities

Food for Life
Listen to excerpts from famous food memoirs, learn tips on creating your own food memoir, and enjoy reliving your funniest, most delicious, most poignant meals and memories.

Book Club
Join us for a wine and cheese book chat as we host great guest authors in a lively discussion about all things literary and not so literary.

Journal Writing for Health
Learn how to jumpstart a journal, or keep your current journal going. Classes will include discussion, writing exercises and optional sharing.

Cooking Demonstration
Learn how to create healthy dishes to take to your next book club gathering.

For the Love of Books Club 2010 Dates:

August 21, 2010
New York Times bestseller Wendy Corsi Staub is the award-winning author of more than seventy published novels and has sold more than three million books worldwide. Under her own name, Wendy achieved New York Times bestselling status with her single title psychological suspense novels. Those novels and the women's fiction she writes under the pseudonym Wendy Markham have also frequently appeared on the USA Today, Barnes and Noble Top Ten, and Bookscan bestseller lists. Her latest thriller, Live to Tell received a starred review in Publishers Weekly and marks the first title in a suspense trilogy to be continued with Scared to Death (Avon Books, January 2011) and Hell to Pay (Avon Books, 2011).

August 28, 2010
Whether you are struggling to figure out what’s next, or need practical ideas for getting there, Claire Cook, author of Must Love Dogs and her latest novel, Seven Year Switch has some reinvention tips and strategies to share. Claire Cook wrote her first novel in her minivan when she was 45. At 50, she walked the red carpet at the Hollywood premiere of her second novel, Must Love Dogs starring Dianne Lane and John Cusack. She is now the bestselling author of seven novels. Claire Cook has taught reinvention workshops across the country and has been featured on The Today Show.

September 25, 2010
Julie Metz is a writer, graphic designer, and artist and author of Perfection: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal. In addition to Perfection she has written essays and commentary for publications including The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Hemispheres and Glamour. She received a MacDowell Fellowship in 2008 where she completed work on Perfection and began work on a novel. Julie lives in Brooklyn, NY.

ABOUT LAKE AUSTIN SPA RESORT

Nestled along the shores of scenic Lake Austin in the beautiful Texas Hill Country, Lake Austin Spa Resort offers guests the sanctuary of a world-class spa and the warmth of a best friend’s lake house. Lake Austin Spa Resort offers all-inclusive vacation packages, which include accommodations in one of 40 charming lakeside guest rooms, three gourmet meals daily, indoor and outdoor fitness activities and classes, and a selection of spa and body treatments.

The resort has received numerous awards from prestigious national travel and spa magazines since its multi-million dollar renovation and expansion in 2004. Condé Nast Traveler, Travel + Leisure, Allure, the Zagat Survey, Health, Garden Design, SpaFinder Lifestyle, Spa Magazine and American Airlines’ Celebrated Living magazine have recently honored Lake Austin Spa Resort as one of the best in the country and in the world.

For additional information and reservations, call 800-847-5637, or visit www.lakeaustin.com

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