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Featured Events
PORT TOWNSEND
Friday, April 26th, 2024 — 4pm Cotton Building
Victorian Heritage Festival
Talk/reading for House Lessons: Renovating a Life
PORT TOWNSEND, WA
Saturday, April 27th, 2024 10am-4pm
The House Lessons house will be on the AAUW Live Home Tour
To learn more/register: https://porttownsendhomeandkitchentour.com/
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, WA
Saturday, June 1, 2024 10am-2pm
Poetry Meets Fiction — Writing Class taught with Michele Bombardier
BARN — 8890 Three Tree Lane NE, Bainbridge Island
To register: https://www.create.bainbridgebarn.org/AssnFe/ev.asp?ID=5319223
BELLINGHAM, WA
June 28-29th, 2024
Chuckanut Writers’ Conference
To learn more/register: https://chuckanutwritersconference.com/
SEATTLE, WA
July 9th, 2024 7pm
Paperback Book Launch
Third Place Books, Ravenna
6504 20th Ave NE
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, WA
July 11th, 2024 6:30pm
Eagle Harbor Book Company
157 Winslow Way East
ISSAQUAH, WA
Sunday, November 3, 2024 2pm
Friends of the Library keynote
Media Coverage
No Two Persons
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…
House Lessons
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…
The Scent Keeper
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…
The School of Essential Ingredients
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…
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…
Joy for Beginners
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…
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