Meet the Authors Series At National Steinbeck Center:
G.M. Weger author of East Garrison
When: Friday, Sept. 3, 2010 :: 6:30 - 8:30 PM
Where: National Steinbeck Center
One Main Street
Salinas, CA 93901 http://www.steinbeck.org
For more information call Patrick J. Dunn (831) 775-4721
Details:
Join us as we launch G.M. Weger's debut, award-winning novel, "East Garrison". The evening will begin at 6:30 p.m. with a public reception with the author, cash bar and some nibbles. At 7:00 p.m. join us in the Salinas Room for a discussion and PowerPoint presentation of the book titled: A Journey From Fort Ord to East Garrison. The author will discuss her process writing the novel and the development of the characters
through specific settings on the Former Army base. Book-singing and Q&A to follow the talk. All books must be purchased at the National Steinbeck Center to be signed.
PROJECT GIVING THANKS update. Here’s a note from a soldier who was sent a book:
Dear G.M.,
Thank You so much for the signed copy of "East Garrison"! I was shocked and amazed when I opened the package to see a book about a place I know so well by someone that lives there! I was stationed at 'The Planet' from 83 to 86 with 4th Bn 9th Infantry on the hill beside the hospital. I can't wait to read the book and loan it (temporarily) to the guys with me here.
Thank you again for sending it!
And later from the same soldier…
I did finish the book already and I enjoyed it immensely. I could literally taste the salt in the air and feel that old fog rolling on again. Ah, the memories....I feel very lucky that your package actually caught me here. I'll share the book with a few of the guys here, but I hope you don't mind that I hang on to it for good. Thank
you for an amazing coincidence and a truly great book.
God Bless!
In addition to the local sources below,
G.M. will also take orders for books through
P.O.
Box 1841 Salinas, CA 93902.
Send a check for $13.95, the shipping
address, and an inscription, if any.
Signed copies of EAST GARRISON available at:
Star Market
1275 S. Main
Salinas, CA
(831) 422-3961
Ord Market
2700 Imjin Parkway
Marina, CA
(831) 994-0835
The Ventana Inn Gallery
Hwy 1
Big Sur, Ca. 93920
(831) 667-2331
The Phoenix / Nepenthe
48510 Highway 1
Big Sur, Ca. 93920
(831) 667-2347
National Steinbeck Center
One Main Street
Salinas, CA 93901
(831) 775-4721
Unsigned copies of EAST GARRISON available at:
Luminata Books & Gifts
631 Cass Street
Monterey, CA
(831) 333-1110
Borders Books Music Movies & Café
2080 California Avenue
Sand City, CA
(831) 899-6643
Capitola Book Cafe
1475 - 41st Avenue
Capitola CA 95010
(831) 462-4415
East Garrison started from my imaginings, staring out my foggy office window on the former Army base, Fort Ord. I drove and hiked around the eerily-empty decrepitude and wondered what it would be like for a woman to be stranded on part of the deserted base (where even the police don't patrol) under the most physically difficult circumstance I’d been through (having a baby), and then I added a mountain lion protecting her cubs. A screenwriting teacher summed up the formula well, "I got my protagonist up a tree and then began chucking rocks at her."
I hope people will find East Garrison a good read. At least that was my intention.
