This monthly salon, hosted by Barbara DeMarco-Barrett, features authors, literary agents, and others involved in the field of writing. Set in the atmospheric Scape Gallery in Corona del Mar, the salon is a mecca for literary devotees who listen to readings, take part in discussions, and attend book signings.

Join the salon on Tuesday, March 15 at 7 pm when authors Tatjana Soli and Lisa Fugard visit to discuss their books. They will join Marrie Stone, writer and co-host of Writers on Writing, which airs on KUCI-FM on Wednesday mornings at 9 am PT. 

Tatjana Soli is a novelist and short story writer. Born in Salzburg, Austria, she attended Stanford University and the Warren Wilson MFA Program. Her debut novel, The Lotus Eaters, was a New York Times Bestseller and 2010 New York Times Notable Book. Her short stories have appeared in The Sun, StoryQuarterly, Confrontation, Gulf Coast, Other Voices, Third Coast, Sonora Review and North Dakota Quarterly among other publications. Her work has been twice listed in the 100 Distinguished Stories in Best American Short Stories and nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

Lisa Fugard was born in South Africa and came to the United States in 1980. After working in the theater, performing in New York, London and South Africa, she turned her attention to writing. Her short fiction has been published in Story, Outside and literary magazines. Her many travel articles, essays and book reviews have been published in the New York Times. Skinner's Drift, her first novel has been published in the USA, UK, and South Africa. Named a notable book of 2006 by the New York Times, Skinner's Drift was also a finalist for the LA Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the runner-up for the 2007 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. 

On Thursday, March 17 from 3 to 4 pm authors Cara Black and Libby Fischer Hellmann will appear at the Laguna Beach Library. Laguna Beach Books will be selling their books at the event.

Cara Black frequents a Paris little-known outside the beaten tourist track-- a Paris she discovers on research trips and interviews with French police, private detectives, and cafe owners. She lives in San Francisco with her husband, a bookseller, and their teenage son. She is a San Francisco Library Laureate and a member of the Paris Societe Historique in the Marais. Her nationally bestselling and award-nominated Aimee Leduc Investigation series has been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, and Hebrew. Several of her books have been chosen as BookSense picks and Indie Next choices by the American Booksellers Association. Her latest book is Murder in Passy.

Libby Fischer Hellmann, an award-winning crime fiction and thriller author, has released her seventh novel. Set the Night on Fire, a stand-alone thriller, goes back in part to the late sixties in Chicago. She also writes two crime fiction series. Easy Innocence and Doubleback feature Chicago P.I. Georgia Davis. In addition, there are four novels in the Ellie Foreman series, which Libby describes as a cross between Desperate Housewives and 24. She has also published over fifteen short stories in Nice Girl Does Noir and edited the acclaimed fiction anthology Chicago Blues. Originally from Washington, D.C., she has lived in Chicago for thirty years and claims they'll take her out of there feet first. 

In Paris for a weekend visit, Bard sat down to lunch with a handsome Frenchman -- and never went home again. Lunch in Paris is a memoir about a young American woman caught up in two passionate love affairs -- one with her new beau and the other with French cuisine. Bard finds that the deeper she immerses herself in the world of French cuisine, the more Paris itself begins to translate. French culture, she discovers, is not unlike a well-ripened cheese -- there may be a crusty exterior, until you cut through to the melting, piquant heart.