 On Thursday evening June 20th, 2013, Town House Books and Café in St. Charles will be hosting a VERY special book signing, dinner, and reading with Edward Kelsey Moore. E.K.M. will greet people and sign copies of his novel The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat at a Reception in the charming Garden Room at the bookstore from 6-7pm. The Reception is free of charge and open to the public. Copies of the book will be available for purchase.
At 7pm there will be a delicious Dinner, next door at the Town House Café, with a menu inspired by themes (or actual food described) in The Supremes. Dinner will be followed by a reading from the book by E.K.M., after which he will answer questions from the audience. Reservations are required for the Dinner -- the cost is $40 per person which includes the program, a three-course meal, tax & gratuity. Beer and Wine will also be available for purchase. For more information please call the Café at: (630) 584-8603. Don't miss your chance to enjoy a Supremely special evening with Edward Kelsey Moore! Book Signing & Author Dinner with Edward Kelsey Moore Thursday June 20th, 2013 Town House Books & Café 105 North 2nd Avenue St. Charles, IL 60174 Book Store: (630) 584-8600 Café: (630) 584-8603 E-mail: thb105@gmail.com www.townhousebooks.com/  Alfred A. Knopf, the publisher of The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat, has posted a bouquet of ten bright Tumblr pages for Spring! Each page highlights a separate moment from the novel. Click on the images to read each story panel.
 Many readers have asked me why I chose to have the ghost of Eleanor Roosevelt appear as a character in THE SUPREMES AT EARL’S ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT. At readings, I’m asked about her more often than any character other than Odette, the central character of the book. Early readers in Germany found her so interesting that the German translation of the novel was released with the title MRS. ROOSEVELT UND DAS WUNDER VON EARL’S DINER (Mrs. Roosevelt and the Miracle of Earl's Diner). The primary reason I included Eleanor Roosevelt as the companion of Dora, Odette’s mother, is that I truly revere her. She was an astonishing and inspirational woman who spent a lifetime speaking out for human rights and extending a hand to poor and oppressed people, both inside the United States and around the world. And she devoted herself to these important and noble causes at a time when doing so was not just unpopular, but dangerous.
But anyone who has read THE SUPREMES AT EARL’S ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT knows that the noble humanitarian I admire is not the same Eleanor Roosevelt who appears in the novel. The character in THE SUPREMES is a ghostly troublemaker. She drinks to excess. She loves bawdy stories. She climbs trees. My fictional Eleanor Roosevelt came about because I love the idea that, perhaps, when you are one of the major forces for positive change during your century, your reward might be to spend eternity doing any little thing that strikes you as fun. Why Eleanor Roosevelt? Because I wrote a novel about friendship that proposes that dead people are enjoying the afterlife, unseen, here beside us. And because I believe if any spirit deserves the pleasures of an afterlife of unbridled good times and wildness if she chooses, it’s Mrs. Roosevelt. -- Edward Kelsey Moore Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down. Eleanor Roosevelt, YOU LEARN BY LIVING No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt, THIS IS MY STORY The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life. Eleanor Roosevelt, "My Day," September 16, 1943 |
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