Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena features Michelle Rene Debellis, author of “The Music We Make,” and Catherine Demonte, author of “Beep! Beep! Get Out of My Way!” on Local Author Night, Tuesday, Dec. 13, starting at 7 p.m.
“The Music We Make” is a story of overcoming pain to achieve our dreams. Surviving an accident that takes his mother’s life, twenty-two-year-old songwriter, Santiago DeAngelo is consumed by grief, guilt, and the opiates he is prescribed for his injuries. Nearing rock bottom, he receives inspiration for a song from his late mother. As he struggles to write it, he falls in love with Kitty Holladay, a music producer who offers a rare shot at fame with a hidden agenda. Kitty seduces him into the fast-paced world of pop music where he records a hit album while fighting his opiate addiction to write the one song that will help him make peace with his mother’s death. But when their relationship ends over the betrayal of that song, Santiago must decide the real value of his life in a moment that nearly ends it.
“Beep! Beep! Get Out of My Way: Seven Tools for Powerful Creation and Living Your Unstoppable Life” is based on the seven transformative tools from the Abundance Circle groups created by psychotherapist Catherine DeMonte. This is the exact process which shifted her clients into manifesting mavens. It is a practical self-help book grounded in the author’s more than 25 years of clinical psychotherapy practice and shows the reader how to do the real work that creates lasting change. “Beep Beep” shares some of the stories of participants who were able to manifest what their heart deeply desired that had been elusive for years, even when the odds seemed impossible.
Author Paul Cuneo will also present “Little Morwenna’s Horror Alphabet Primer” at this event. In the spirit of Edward Gorey’s Gashlycrumb Tinies, Cuneo and illustrator Juno Abreu present the alphabet as taught by a new, gothic heroine for the age. She’s dead, but that won’t stop her from trying to make friends by sharing a few of her favorite things-like her axe, your burial, a good lament, and her dog Shivers, who seems to have picked up an odor under the floorboards.
Attendance at the event is free.
For more information, call (626) 449-5320 or visit www.vromansbookstore.com/local-author-day-december-13.
