19 June meeting notes; 26 June reading list

19 JUNE MEETING NOTES

Five people attended: Donna R., Glenda, Jo, Lance (a chapter from KDA Riviera Project), and Rosie (two chapters from In Arcadia Ego).

NEWS & NOTES

The Tustin Marketplace Corner Bakery is open! It’s in what used to be the Romano’s Macaroni Grill building across El Camino Real from the Regal Edwards Market Place theater. (We used to meet in the Corner Bakery next to the theater until 30 May last year, when it abruptly closed.) The resurrected Corner Bakery is clean, has a working soda fountain, a full pastry case, and an enthusiastic manager. Urban Plates has been an uneasy new home for us since we moved there a year ago. So, to test the waters: the 10 July PFL meeting will happen at the Marketplace Corner Bakery, 13652 Jamboree Road in Irvine.

Rosie will attend the 2025 North America Historical Novel Society Conference in Las Vegas next week. We’ll probably never hear much about it because what happens in Vegas…well, you know.

Upcoming author events for the next week:

• Saturday, June 21, 10 a.m.: Richard Bausch, A Word, and Then Another Word, and Then Another (in person for SCWA at 19 Restaurant, 24122 Moulton Pkwy, Laguna Hills; $25-35)
• Sunday, June 22, 3:00 p.m.: Sisters in Crime OC will host members of the Orange PD SWAT team (in person at Book Carnival)
• Thursday, June 26, 6:30 p.m.: Julie Clark, The Ghostwriter (in person at the Foothill Ranch Library, 27002 Cabriole Way, Foothill Ranch)

26 JUNE READING LIST

Donna R. (6/19)
Leighanne (6/12)
Glenda (6/19)
Jo (6/19)
Benafsha A. (5/29)
Joanne (6/5)
Burt (6/12)
Lance (6/19)
Rosie (6/19)