A note from Kelly Justice, owner of the Fountain:

I adore this book and this author. If you're looking for a great night out with your book club, start planning now.

This book is published by the same people who brought you Water for Elephants. Need I say more?

This is Robert's second visit with us and he does a wonderful program. So get your book club together and bring them out, or just bring yourself and enjoy a great evening with a superb author at the top of his craft.

From The Washington Post: "Columbia Pictures has already grabbed the rights for what could be an inflammable movie." Read the review in full here.

“Astonishing, complex, beautifully written, and brilliant, A Reliable Wifeis a nearly-forensic look at love in all its incarnations, with all itsdamages, deceptions, and obsessions, run through with points of lightand pinned with ruinous truths.”—Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants

Enough...put it on your calendar already.

Brand-new stories by: Tom Robbins, Laura Browder, Howard Owen, Yazmina
Beverly, Tom De Haven, X.C. Atkins, Meagan J. Saunders, Anne Thomas
Soffee, Clint McCown, Conrad Ashley Persons, Clay McLeod Chapman, Pir
Rothenberg, David L. Robbins, Hermine Pinson, and Dennis Danvers.

Wake us up! We're dreaming!

Indeed, this is some kind of Richmond Author Dream Team creation. In our most ardent fantasies we couldn't have come up with a collection like this.

Dennis Danvers, Dean King, Howard Owen, Meagan Saunders, and Anne Thomas Soffee are all going to be here! Come meet them!

Thanks to editors:

Tom De Haven is the author of seventeen books, including Freaks' Amour, Sunburn Lake, It's Superman! and the Derby Dugan trilogy of novels.

Andrew Blossom is the founding editor of Makeout Creek. He lives in Richmond, Virginia.

Brian Castleberry is a playwright, novelist, and music critic. He lives in Virginia with his wife and their two mangy dogs.

This is almost too cool for words.

3-5 PM Reading
8-9 PM Concert

For More Info call The Gay Community Center at 804 266-4313

"Womyn's music legend..."
— Spin

"biting...inventive...uncompromising...
imaginative"
— New Age Journal

"Her
wit, razor-sharp patter and quick-on-her-feet manner have made her one
of the most important and controversial figures in the women's movement
since before it was called that... important for her insight and
catalytic energy to bring people together and get things done."
— Oakland Express

"Dubbed
'the original Riot Grrrl...still a hellraiser, she keeps spreading
affirmation and empowerment to all women (and even men, if they can
take it)"
— Metro, Santa Cruz

....devoted to the works of Sherman Alexie.

Call Kelly or Tess to sign up for book club. 804-788-1594.

Purchase of the book from Fountain Bookstore is required to participate.

Come on our and meet us the 4th Monday of each month in the non-smoking back room of Rosie Connelly's.

Join at any time. This book group will continue through April.

Extra credit...rent Smoke Signals on dvd.

Born and raised in Saskatchewan, Kathleen Grissom is now happily rooted
in south-side Virginia, where she and her husband live in the
plantation tavern they renovated. "The Kitchen House" is her first
novel.

Please join us in welcoming her to Richmond.  Let's give her a warm reception for her notable first effort!

We have been waiting a long, long, long, LONG time to get Tim Dorsey. (Doc is especially excited. Come to the event...he actually might faint! Wouldn't that be fun?!?)

Don't be late for this very important date!

Join us in celebrating all things mad and magical in the wonderful world of Lewis Carroll and those inspired by Alice in Wonderland!

A week of activities and specials awaits you as well as our second Movie Date Night with the Fountain Booksellers on Monday, March 8 at the Movieland Bowtie theater! Stay tuned to win free tickets to Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland movie. Also, 20% off these titles all week for "Mad About Alice" Week!

 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjMkNrX60mA

Don't be late for this very important date!

Join us in celebrating all things mad and magical in the wonderful world of Lewis Carroll and those inspired by Alice in Wonderland!

A week of activities and specials awaits you as well as our second Movie Date Night with the Fountain Booksellers on Monday, March 8 at the Movieland Bowtie theater! Stay tuned to win free tickets to Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland movie. Also, 20% off these titles all week for "Mad About Alice" Week!

 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjMkNrX60mA

Don't be late for this very important date!

Join us in celebrating all things mad and magical in the wonderful world of Lewis Carroll and those inspired by Alice in Wonderland!

A week of activities and specials awaits you as well as our second Movie Date Night with the Fountain Booksellers on Monday, March 8 at the Movieland Bowtie theater! Stay tuned to win free tickets to Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland movie. Also, 20% off these titles all week for "Mad About Alice" Week!

 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjMkNrX60mA

Don't be late for this very important date!

Join us in celebrating all things mad and magical in the wonderful world of Lewis Carroll and those inspired by Alice in Wonderland!

A week of activities and specials awaits you as well as our second Movie Date Night with the Fountain Booksellers on Monday, March 8 at the Movieland Bowtie theater! Stay tuned to win free tickets to Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland movie. Also, 20% off these titles all week for "Mad About Alice" Week!

 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjMkNrX60mA

Don't be late for this very important date!

Join us in celebrating all things mad and magical in the wonderful world of Lewis Carroll and those inspired by Alice in Wonderland!

A week of activities and specials awaits you as well as our second Movie Date Night with the Fountain Booksellers on Monday, March 8 at the Movieland Bowtie theater! Stay tuned to win free tickets to Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland movie. Also, 20% off these titles all week for "Mad About Alice" Week!

 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjMkNrX60mA

Don't be late for this very important date!

Join us in celebrating all things mad and magical in the wonderful world of Lewis Carroll and those inspired by Alice in Wonderland!

A week of activities and specials awaits you as well as our second Movie Date Night with the Fountain Booksellers on Monday, March 8 at the Movieland Bowtie theater! Stay tuned to win free tickets to Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland movie. Also, 20% off these titles all week for "Mad About Alice" Week!

 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjMkNrX60mA

Don't be late for this very important date!

Join us in celebrating all things mad and magical in the wonderful world of Lewis Carroll and those inspired by Alice in Wonderland!

A week of activities and specials awaits you as well as our second Movie Date Night with the Fountain Booksellers on Monday, March 8 at the Movieland Bowtie theater! Stay tuned to win free tickets to Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland movie. Also, 20% off these titles all week for "Mad About Alice" Week!

 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjMkNrX60mA

Stay tuned to our Twitter account to win free tickets to the show and join your Fountain Booksellers for a glass of wine and a great night at the movies. Thanks, Bowtie Cinemas!

The movie starts at 7:20...arrive early to join your bookseller dates early to socialize.

Ahhh...the power of passionate booksellers....

Deanna moved to Virginia from Texas a few years ago and was looking for bookstore homes in her new digs.

Tess read Deanna's books first.

She told Kelly to buy one.

Since then we have sold hundreds (yes hundreds) out of our tiny little 1000 square foot bookstore.

How did this happen?

Short of armwrestling every customer even mildly interested, we used every power of bookselling persuasion we have to share our love of her books. The attendance at her first event with us was small, but it sure won't be this time. Deanna's got loads and loads of Virginia fans now.

Come join the party as we celebrate one of our favorite author adoption success stories. Deanna: you rock!!!