{"id":4304,"date":"2006-11-11T23:26:57","date_gmt":"2006-11-11T23:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4304"},"modified":"2025-09-29T23:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T23:19:07","slug":"authors_evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4304","title":{"rendered":"Author&#8217;s evening in Croton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Two writers had an evening yesterday. It was held at my Church, HNM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The authors are a friend of mine, Maggie Barbieri, and a lady I don&#8217;t know very well, Cecilia Kochanowski.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maggie&#8217;s book is the first of a projected series of entitled <strong>Murder 101<\/strong>. It&#8217;s published by St. Martin&#8217;s and just came out. I am going to read and review it shortly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cecilia&#8217;s book was self-published, and is titled <strong>Plumbersutra: the art of living in the suburbs<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About 70 people attended and I had a great time &#8211; good wine, good food, lots of good gab eminating from me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s Maggie doing her reading<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/maggiececiliabooknight111006_006.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13789\" title=\"Maggiececiliabooknight111006_006\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/maggiececiliabooknight111006_006.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/maggiececiliabooknight111006_006-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The crowd loves it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/maggiececiliabooknight111006_008.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13790\" title=\"Maggiececiliabooknight111006_008\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/maggiececiliabooknight111006_008.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/maggiececiliabooknight111006_008-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/maggiececiliabooknight111006_009.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13791\" title=\"Maggiececiliabooknight111006_009\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/maggiececiliabooknight111006_009.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/maggiececiliabooknight111006_009-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s Cecilia up at bat<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/maggiececiliabooknight111006_019.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13792\" title=\"Maggiececiliabooknight111006_019\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/maggiececiliabooknight111006_019.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/maggiececiliabooknight111006_019-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/maggiececiliabooknight111006_014_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13793\" title=\"Maggiececiliabooknight111006_014_1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/maggiececiliabooknight111006_014_1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/maggiececiliabooknight111006_014_1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maggie appreciates Cecilia&#8217;s humor<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/maggiececiliabooknight111006_010_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13794\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/maggiececiliabooknight111006_010_1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/maggiececiliabooknight111006_010_1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lisa Gallagher and Kelly Thomann (my optometrist and a big runner &#8211; as well as a Fairfield alumnus) have a chat between readings<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/maggiececiliabooknight111006_013_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13795\" title=\"Maggiececiliabooknight111006_013_1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/maggiececiliabooknight111006_013_1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/maggiececiliabooknight111006_013_1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two writers had an evening yesterday. It was held at my Church, HNM. The authors are a friend of mine, Maggie Barbieri, and a lady I don&#8217;t know very well, Cecilia Kochanowski. Maggie&#8217;s book is the first of a projected series of entitled Murder 101. It&#8217;s published by St. Martin&#8217;s and just came out. 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