By Erika Davis

Thursday, January 21st, 2010
– Joanne Perry & Friends, Singer-song writers talk about their music as they perform covers and original songs.
Friday, January 22nd, 2010
– Sarah Horner Band with Greg Carroll, Expect an evening of great music when Sarah’s amazing voice blends with Greg’s superb guitar playing.
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010
– The Barrigar Brothers, Loren and Kevin both have new CDs out so come join the party!
Friday, January 29th, 2010
– Jon Peterson’s Song Writer’s Night, Jon brings together new talent to share their songs and stories.
Saturday, January 30th, 2010
– Doolittle & Bone, WinterFest and Doolittle & Bone, be sure to put this date on your calendar.

Check out the Creekside website for more details!

Contributed by: Erika Davis / Creekside Books & Coffee

Creekside Books & Coffee announces that Gary and Justin VanRiper, Father and son co-authors of the well-known Adirondack Kids book series will make an appearance at Creekside’s first local children’s author day on Saturday, May 16 at 1:00 pm.  Creekside will be their first venue to introduce the ninth book in the Adirondack Kids series, Legend of the Lake Monster.

“The Adirondack Kids series has been incredibly popular with our young readers; especially during the summer months.  We are so excited to be hosting the Van Riper’s again and we are looking forward to seeing and hearing about their newest release in the series,” says Erika Davis, owner of Creekside Books & Coffee.

Contributed by: Erika Davis / Creekside Books & Coffee

Store Events

Saturday, May 9th at 10 am & 11:30 am
Cooking Class & Demonstration: “Decorate a Cake for Mom” with local caterer Cheryl McDonald.  Let your child surprise you with a delicious treat they can make themselves! Two sessions available. $25 class fee. Registration is required. Call Creekside at 685-0379 or stop by the bookstore to sign up!
Watch for details on adult cooking class, “Easy Summer Appetizers and Cold Soups”, Thursday, May 28th at 6:30 in the Coffeehouse.

Saturday, May 9 at 7 pm
“Women in Poetry” Poetry Reading
Join us for an evening of poetry written by and for women. Listen to local poets including, Rachel Guido deVries, Mary Gardner, Heidi Nightengale, Elizabeth Patton and Helen O’Leary.

Contributed by Bob Comenole

Thursday Evenings at Creekside Books
7:00 – 8:30pm
September 25th – October 23rd 2008

Purpose: Everyone has a great story to tell. Our lives are unique and worthy of exploration. How will your life be documented…what will you leave behind?
This seminar is designed to help participants decide what life story to tell and the most powerful and effective way of telling it. Participants will learn to employ the various techniques involved in the craft of writing memoir and autobiography.

Format: Workshops are conducted at Creekside in an informal, interactive atmosphere. Instructor will offer mini-lectures, conduct small group discussions, and facilitate peer critiques. Participants will refine their own works-in-progress, in and out of class.

Instructor: For 20 years Bob Comenole has taught writing, literature and communications at several colleges, including Miami University, Siena College, the State University of New York and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Mr. Comenole, author of Bushel & Lamp and the novella The Long Night of Clement C. Craggogre, has just completed work on a collection of short stories, Perplexed by the Egg & Other Stories, as well as a collection of essays.

Contributed by Erika Davis / Creekside Books & Coffee

Creekside Books & Coffee, an independent bookstore and coffeehouse in Skaneateles, welcomes author Jay Lynch and illustrator Frank Cammuso of the newly released children’s book Otto’s Orange Day which is aimed at readers in the 5 to 8 year range, on Saturday, June 14, 2008 at 1PM.

About the authors:

Jay Lynch, who wrote Otto’s story, was born in Orange, NJ, (honest, ORANGE, NJ!) and now lives in upstate New York with his wife, his dog, and way too many cats. He is the founder of Bijou Funnies, one of the first and most important underground comics of the Sixties, and for many years wrote the weekly syndicated comic strip, Phoebe and the Pigeon People. He has helped create some of Topps Chewing Gum’s most popular humor products, such as Wacky Packages and Garbage Pail Kids.

Frank Cammuso, who drew Otto’s adventure, lives in Syracuse, New York, where he is the award-winning political cartoonist for the Syracuse Post-Standard. He is the Eisner-nominated creator of Max Hamm Fairy Tale Detective, selected as one of the Top Ten Graphic Novels of 2006 by Booklist, and is at work on Knights of the Lunch Table, a middle school version of King Arthur and his Knights. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Village Voice and Slate.  http://www.cammuso.com/

By Christine Briel / Skaneateles Design

Yesterday a group of local business owners (about 12 of us) got together underneath the book store at Creekside Books & Cafe for a little lesson on blogging on SkaneatelesTalk. The main point of the meeting was to convey to everyone that blogging is FREE on SkanTalk and it will give your business more exposure on the Internet. Now, who can argue with that!

We talked about the great search engine ranking that SkaneatelesTalk.com is receiving on Google, Yahoo, etc. and by blogging with us local businesses and individuals will enjoy those rankings too. I walked everyone through some of the tricks of using the WordPress back-end, which is what SkaneatelesTalk is based on. We talked about adding text to an article, adding photos to an article and the VERY important topic of “categories” and “tags”.

Within an hour I was working on my laptop back at the office and several people from the meeting had already signed up and were working to post an article. It really isn’t that hard to create a blog on SkanTalk and post your article for the world to see. Below I’ve included a roster of the attendees to serve as a way to “link” to their websites – at the meeting we also covered the importance of getting others to link to you (the back and forth increases web traffic).

Erika Davis & Mary Beth Bronk – Creekside Books & Cafe

Mary Anne Spencer – 1st National Gifts

Steve Donigan – Steve Donigan Agency

Laure Lillie – laure lillie photographie

Curtis Feldmann – Skaneateles Suites

Dale Look – Associate Broker Aaron Moss Real Estate

Marion Kraute & Annette Pickup – Licensed Sales Associates Gallinger RealtyUSA

Bob Trapani

The event was sponsored by Meg Brooks – Real Estate Agent RE/MAX
and me (Christine Briel) – Skaneateles Design

There were alot of people interested in attending the meeting but couldn’t make it. We are talking about another one in April that would be a Thursday evening meeting. If you have any interest in attending please e-mail me at briel@skaneatelesdesign.com.

I will send out a newsletter when we have things firmed up. Happy Blogging