{"id":260,"date":"2016-03-27T21:34:32","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T04:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chicolibrary.org\/blog\/?p=260"},"modified":"2016-03-28T09:45:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T16:45:04","slug":"northern-california-author-to-speak-at-annual-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chicolibrary.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/27\/northern-california-author-to-speak-at-annual-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern California Author to Speak at Annual Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Annual meeting, May 17 at 7PM in the Chico Branch Library Meeting room, promises to be a popular event.\u00a0 The Speaker this year is Catriona McPherson (<a href=\"http:\/\/catrionamcpherson.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/catrionamcpherson.com<\/a>).\u00a0 Catriona was born in Scotland and lived there until 2010, before immigrating\u00a0to California.\u00a0\u00a0A former academic linguist, she is now a full-time fiction writer,\u00a0the multi- award-winning author of the Dandy\u00a0Gilver detective stories, set in Scotland in the 1920s.\u00a0 She also writes a strand of award-winning contemporary standalones including THE DAY SHE DIED and THE CHILD GARDEN.<\/p>\n<p>Catriona is a proud member of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, The Crimewriters\u2019 Association, The Society of Authors, and Scottish PEN.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_261\" style=\"width: 206px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicolibrary.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Quiet-Neighbors-by-Catriona-McPherson.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-261\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-261\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-261\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chicolibrary.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Quiet-Neighbors-by-Catriona-McPherson-196x300.png\" alt=\"Quiet Neighbors author to speak at May 17 Annual Meeting.\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.chicolibrary.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Quiet-Neighbors-by-Catriona-McPherson-196x300.png 196w, http:\/\/www.chicolibrary.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Quiet-Neighbors-by-Catriona-McPherson.png 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-261\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Quiet Neighbors author to speak at May 17 Annual Meeting.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Catriona\u2019s next book, <a href=\"http:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/Quiet-Neighbors-Novel-Catriona-McPherson\/dp\/0738747629\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1459139362&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=mcpherson+quiet+neighbors\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>QUIET NEIGHBORS<\/strong><\/a>, will be published April 8<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0 This new book has a librarian (a cataloguer) as a heroine and is set in a bookshop.\u00a0 There will be books available to purchase and can be signed.\u00a0 All profits from book sales benefit the Chico Friends of the Library.<\/p>\n<p>The speaker will be preceded by a short business meeting during which officers and board members for 2016-2018 will be elected.\u00a0 Speaking of electing officers, we are in need of a President for the 2016-2018 term, so if you love the library, can run a meeting and answer Email please do let us know ASAP and we\u2019ll get in touch with you (CFOL Nominations Committee Katherine Gould and Rupert McDowell c\/o the library 530-891-2726).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Annual meeting, May 17 at 7PM in the Chico Branch Library Meeting room, promises to be a popular event.\u00a0 The Speaker this year is Catriona McPherson (http:\/\/catrionamcpherson.com).\u00a0 Catriona was born in Scotland and lived there until 2010, before immigrating\u00a0to &hellip; 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