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:

February 6, 2010
Laugh along with Jill Conner Brown, the New York Times bestselling author of many Sweet Potato Queen books, as she shares stories from her latest, American Thighs: The Sweet Potato Queen’s Guide to Protecting Your Assets.

March 12, 2010
Explore the lessons of love with critically acclaimed author Amanda Eyre-Ward as she discusses her bestselling books, Love Stories in This Town, Sleep Toward Heaven and How to be Lost.

April 3, 2010
Mary Lou Quinlan is an internationally recognized marketing strategist with 30 years experience advising blue chip clients. She’s the author of two rule-changing books, Just Ask a Woman and Time off for Good Behavior. She has written for numerous magazines and has appeared on countless TV programs, radio and been interviewed for national magazines and newspapers around the country. She will be talking about her new groundbreaking book she collaborated on with two other powerhouse women, Jan Drexler and Tracy Chapman, What She’s Not Telling You: Why Women Hide the Whole Truth and What Marketers Can Do About It.

May 8, 2010
Book clubs took off back when Oprah started putting her stamp of approval on favorite selections. Whether you belong to a club or just are passionate about reading on your own, come celebrate books with local authors Sarah Bird and Spike Gillespie, who will be joined by Cyndi Hughes, Executive Director of the Writers' League of Texas. The trio will share thoughts on their favorite reads, discuss new ways of reading-- from Kindles to audiobooks-- and offer true confessions about some delicious, less-than-literary offerings (vampire romances, anyone?).

June 12, 2010
The Late, Lamented Molly Marx is a playful yet tender love story about a flawed but charming woman, forced—better late than never—to take responsibility for the choices in her complicated life. Author Sally Koslow, former editor-in-chief of McCall’s and Lifetime magazines, is the author of two other novels: Little Pink Slips, and With Friends like These, which Ballantine plans to publish in the near future. Sally has written articles and essays that appear frequently in venues including More, Real Simple, O the Oprah Magazine, Ladies’ Home Journal, Good Housekeeping, Readers’ Digest, wowowow.com, and The Huffington Post.

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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