After this incredibly hot summer, it's time to come up for air (yes, pun intended). We are only two weeks from the release of Coming Up for Air, and this is when the fun starts (and I love fun)!

I would so love to see you at any event, so look below and see if I'll be anywhere near you. If I'm just too, too far away, I'll be endlessly talking about the fun on Facebook and Twitter! And keep going back to my website for the latest updates and added tour dates.

Please join Room & Board for the National Launch and Hardcover Debut of Coming Up for Air, the eighth novel by New York Times bestselling author Patti Callahan Henry.

Monday, August 15th 2011
7-9 p.m.
Room & Board
1170 Howell Mill Road NW
Atlanta, GA
404-682-5900

Featuring:

• Sinless Margaritas
• Sinful Small Bites by YEAH! BURGER
• ATL Cake Pops
• Surprises!!
• Books for sale by A Capella Books, with a percentage of sales to SCAD
• A benefit for SCAD's Cultural Arts & Writing Scholarship Program

For more information, visit my website.

If you can't make the launch party, please see my schedule of upcoming appearances here. I am excited to visit some new stores and venues this year, as well as to say hello to old friends in familiar haunts. Keep checking the Events page for updates!

On the coast of Alabama, there is a house cloaked in mystery, a place that reveals the truth and changes lives...

Ellie Calvin is caught in a dying marriage, and she knows this. With her beloved daughter away at college and a growing gap between her and her husband – between her reality and the woman she wants to be – she doesn’t quite seem to fit into her own life.

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