Sunday, October 1: Jean-Michel Smith and Christine Todd will be signing books at the Oswego Literary Fest. If the weather is good, the Red Anemone Books table will be located outside in front of the Oswego Library during the town’s festive Farmers Market. Fun, free event.  9:00 am – 1:00 p.m. 32 Jefferson Street, Oswego, […]

Saturday August 26, 10am-4pm: We’ll be signing books at the annual Clinton Book Festival. Meet 48 authors, sign up for writer presentations, interact with author panels, and bring the kids for Storytime in the library. Clinton Community College, 1000 Lincoln Blvd, Clinton, Iowa. Free Admission.

This weekend, June 8-9, the annual “Chicago Tribune Printers Row Lit Fest” is on!  Well-known authors, booksellers, musicians, performers, and lots of great food make this major book fair a wonderful, festive event. Be sure to stop by Red Anemone Books (table 152), where we’re launching Christine’s first collection of short stories, Tornado Days, and […]

Tornado Days was launched May 23, 2013. It’s a quirky short story collection. Here’s the cover blurb: “Whether she’s writing about an unscrupulous dentist, a courageous albino woman, a butcher with dark edges, or a grief-stricken couple, Christine Todd’s stories contain unexpected twists, and surprising “aha” moments. Like the bereaved couple in her title story, […]

Jean-Michel Smith’s debut science fiction novel Autonomy is published. The book has already received good reviews. For a great spring or summer read, you can find a copy here. When Cal Sheldon puts himself into an artificial coma and loads his mind onto the advanced computer he and his university colleagues secretly designed, he leaves […]