Join us for a wonderful gourmet sandwich and salad buffet and meet our acclaimed authors. Invite your book club members, aspiring writers, teenagers that are considering writing, and any family or friend that just enjoys reading. You don’t want to miss our Second Authors’ Luncheon, in partnership with Towne Center Books. This unique experience offers a delightful gathering for book lovers and aspiring writers alike.
The event will include:
- Book sales and signings by our guest authors
- Raffle prizes including a Two Night Luxury Napa Valley experience and much more
When: Saturday, April 11, 2026, Doors open at 11am and we will finish no later than 3pm
Where:
Garrè Vineyard, Restaurant, & Event Center
7986 Tesla Rd
Livermore, CA 94550
Price: $72
By participating in this fundraiser, you support our ALAV organization’s efforts to transform the lives of children, families, and seniors throughout the Tri-Valley. When essential needs are met in our community, families flourish.
Special Guest Authors
Brian Copeland, Our Moderator for the Luncheon and Author
Brian Copeland, our moderator, is an award-winning actor, comedian, author, playwright, television and radio talk show host based in the San Francisco Bay Area. His one-man play, “Not a Genuine Black Man,” went on to become the longest-running solo show in San Francisco theatrical history, recently celebrating its 1,000th performance. He is a 2025 inductee in the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame. His debut thriller, Outraged, was released in 2024. The second Topher Davis thriller, Shadows of Justice, was published in April 2025.
Cara Black
Cara Black is the author of twenty-one books in the New York Times bestselling Aimée Leduc series as well as the WWII thrillers Three Hours in Paris and Night Flight to Paris. She has won the Médaille de la Ville de Paris and the Médaille d’Or du Rayonnement Culturel and received multiple nominations for the Anthony and Macavity Awards.
Michelle Chouinard
Michelle Chouinard is the Mary Higgins Clark Award nominated, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and San Francisco Chronicle bestselling author behind The Serial Killer Guide to San Francisco mysteries, The Vacation, and the Detective Jo Fournier series. She has a Ph.D. in developmental psychology from Stanford University and lives in the Bay Area.
Julie Leong
Julie Leong is the USA Today and Sunday Times bestselling author of The Teller of Small Fortunes and The Keeper of Magical Things. Her debut novel, The Teller of Small Fortunes, was a Book of the Month pick, an Amazon Editor’s Pick, and named one of 2024’s Best Sci-fi, Fantasy, & Horror novels by BookPage. A second-generation Malaysian Chinese immigrant and a Yale graduate, she currently lives in San Francisco with her husband.
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