Featured Events

SEWARD, NEBRASKA

Saturday, November 16, 2024

2:30-4pm Author visit

Chapters Books and Gifts

548 Seward Street

CRETE, NEBRASKA

Crete Reads! Program

Saturday, November 16, 2024

7pm Keynote

Crete Library — 1515 Forest Ave

ISSAQUAH, WA

Sunday, February 16, 2025, 2pm

Keynote and signing

Issaquah Library—10 W. Sunset Way

BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON

March 12-15, 2025

Whatcom Reads Program

Various events and locations

For more info: https://www.whatcomreads.org/

GENEVA, ILLINOIS

Sunday, April 13, 2025 1:30-3pm

One City, One Book Community Reads Program

Structured and Audience Q&A with author

227 S. Seventh Street

Media Coverage

Hope Prose Podcast / Episode 99 – Removing Ego in Creativity w/ Erica Bauermeister

Listen as Erica showers them in wisdom about the craft of getting out of the way of your character, the art of the linked story, how to tell when you are ready to write your story idea, and the risks we take to share our work with others. Listen now…

The Seattle Times / March 2020

THE HOUSE STOOD at the top of a hill, ensnarled in vegetation, looking out over the Victorian roofs of Port Townsend and beyond, to water and islands and clouds. It seemed to lean toward the view as if enchanted, although we later learned that had a lot more to do with neglect than magic… Read more…

Leslie A. Lindsay / March 2020

A meditation of space, home, and what it means to be a mother, a wife, and a writer in this transformative memoir. Can a home be cathartic? I think so. Can a home teach us life lessons? Absolutely! I know we’re not supposed to fall in love with a book based on its cover but OMG!.. Read more…

Drink in Life / November 2021

Have you ever come across a whiff of something that instantly takes you back to an old memory? Whether a distinctive scent that reminds you of your grandmother’s cooking or a trip to the ocean, scents have a way of sinking into our brains as memories and they stay there until a familiar aroma brings them rushing back. Whether it is a batch of freshly baked cookies, a favorite perfume or the smell of freshly cut flowers from the garden, our sense of smell allows us to appreciate all of the fragrances we encounter in our everyday lives… Read more…

Focus on Fiction / September 2022

After reading The School of Essential Ingredients, I struggled with how to describe this debut novel from Erica Bauermeister, who has since gone on to write four other wonderful books. Was it a book about cooking: how to cook, what to cook, the interplay of ingredients in a single dish, the way food nourishes not just the body but the soul and sometimes, provides a way back from wherever the person has been?.. Read more…

Book Browse / January 2009

An interview with Erica Bauermeister. Erica Bauermeister talks about her first novel, The School of Essential Ingredients, romantic meals on cold nights, the satisfaction of buying locally grown foods and much more… Read more…

The Reading Frenzy / December 2011

Erica thank you so much for agreeing to spend time with us here at the General Fiction forum for B&N.com it’s our pleasure to have you with us for the month of January. Since it’s the first month of a new year I have to ask, do you make resolutions?… Read more…