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Apr 04, 2025
Time: 4-5 pm
Author Signings... Celebrating One Year of Martin House Book
Sponsor: Martin House Books
Location: 10 Canal St, Westerly, RI 02891
In celebration of our 1-year anniversary, we will be hosting 4 of our favorite local authors for a book signing on April 4th! Juliet Grames- 2 PM to 3 PM Christa Carmen- 4 PM to 5 PM Mark Raymond- 4 PM to 5 PM Luanne Rice- 4 PM to 5 PM Copies of each author's featured book will be available for purchase at the event (while supplies last.) We hope to see you there!
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Time: 4-5 pm
Author Signings... Celebrating One Year of Martin House Book
Sponsor: Martin House Books
Location: 10 Canal St, Westerly, RI 02891
In celebration of our 1-year anniversary, we will be hosting 4 of our favorite local authors for a book signing on April 4th! Juliet Grames- 2 PM to 3 PM Christa Carmen- 4 PM to 5 PM Mark Raymond- 4 PM to 5 PM Luanne Rice- 4 PM to 5 PM Copies of each author's featured book will be available for purchase at the event (while supplies last.) We hope to see you there!
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Apr 03, 2025
Time: 6:30 pm
Book Club event - The Daughters of Block Island
Sponsor: Pascoag Free Public Library
Location: 57 Church St, Pascoag, RI 02859
The Pascoag Free Public Library will be discussing The Daughters of Block Island for their April book club.
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Time: 6:30 pm
Book Club event - The Daughters of Block Island
Sponsor: Pascoag Free Public Library
Location: 57 Church St, Pascoag, RI 02859
The Pascoag Free Public Library will be discussing The Daughters of Block Island for their April book club.
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Mar 01, 2025
Time: 11 am - 5 pm
Dark Reads 2025
Sponsor: Horror Depot
Location: Student Union N. Providence, RI 02911
Dark Reads is a literary extravaganza with over 45 authors of horror, dark fantasy, true crime, poetry, and more! Also included will be presentations, interviews, and readings. Additionally, join Christa Carmen, Aron Beauregard, Victoria Dalpe, and Kristopher Triana for a "Paths to Publishing Fiction Q&A, moderated by TikTok's Book Bitch, at 2 pm!
$5 (+$2.18 processing fee)
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Time: 11 am - 5 pm
Dark Reads 2025
Sponsor: Horror Depot
Location: Student Union N. Providence, RI 02911
Dark Reads is a literary extravaganza with over 45 authors of horror, dark fantasy, true crime, poetry, and more! Also included will be presentations, interviews, and readings. Additionally, join Christa Carmen, Aron Beauregard, Victoria Dalpe, and Kristopher Triana for a "Paths to Publishing Fiction Q&A, moderated by TikTok's Book Bitch, at 2 pm!
$5 (+$2.18 processing fee)
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Feb 22, 2025
Time: 4 pm
The Art of Suspense
Location: Symposium Books
Christa Carmen and Jessa Maxwell discuss "The Art of Suspense."
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Time: 4 pm
The Art of Suspense
Location: Symposium Books
Christa Carmen and Jessa Maxwell discuss "The Art of Suspense."
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Feb 20, 2025
Time: 7 pm EST
Talkin' Talkies Hosted by Robert P. Ottone
Location: Instagram Live
Join Christa Carmen, Sonora Taylor, & Clay McLeod Chapman as they discuss their top 3 cult films with host Robert P. Ottone!
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Time: 7 pm EST
Talkin' Talkies Hosted by Robert P. Ottone
Location: Instagram Live
Join Christa Carmen, Sonora Taylor, & Clay McLeod Chapman as they discuss their top 3 cult films with host Robert P. Ottone!
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Jan 11, 2025
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Beneath the Poet's House Event
Barnes & Noble Wareham
and
6:00 PM
Author Reading w/Victoria Dalpe & Brandon Perras-Sanchez
Riffraff Bookstore & Bar
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Beneath the Poet's House Event
Barnes & Noble Wareham
and
6:00 PM
Author Reading w/Victoria Dalpe & Brandon Perras-Sanchez
Riffraff Bookstore & Bar
Dec 14, 2024
Beneath the Poet's House Event
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Wakefield Books
and
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Ink Fish Books
Beneath the Poet's House Event
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Wakefield Books
and
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Ink Fish Books
Dec 10, 2024
6:00 - 7:00 PM
OFFICIAL LAUNCH - Beneath the Poet's House
United Theatre, Westerly, RI (Martin House Books)
6:00 - 7:00 PM
OFFICIAL LAUNCH - Beneath the Poet's House
United Theatre, Westerly, RI (Martin House Books)
Nov 14, 2024
5:30 PM
'Writing Rhode Island' Authors Panel with Christa Carmen, Luanne Rice, & Vanessa Lillie (followed by Book Trivia!)
Sons of Liberty Brewery (Wakefield Books) - Register Here
5:30 PM
'Writing Rhode Island' Authors Panel with Christa Carmen, Luanne Rice, & Vanessa Lillie (followed by Book Trivia!)
Sons of Liberty Brewery (Wakefield Books) - Register Here
Nov 2, 2024
Horror on the Hudson
11 AM - Author Welcome
12:00 PM Book Talk in Lobby
1:00 - 2:30 Stanza Pop-up Bookstore
2:30 - 3:20 Panel: Gothic Horror, moderated by Rebecca Cuthbert How it started, where it is going & why we love Gothic horror. Types of Gothic horror? All-time favorites? New and noteworthy? Panelists: Christa Carmen, Meg Ripley, Dana McSwain, Aimee Hardy, L.C. Marino
3:30 - 4:30 Book Signing
4:30 - 4:50 Christa Carmen reading
5:00 - 5:30 Book Signing
5:30 - 7:00 Dinner
Horror Reader Weekend (Overlook Lodge in Bear Mountain State Park)
Horror on the Hudson
11 AM - Author Welcome
12:00 PM Book Talk in Lobby
1:00 - 2:30 Stanza Pop-up Bookstore
2:30 - 3:20 Panel: Gothic Horror, moderated by Rebecca Cuthbert How it started, where it is going & why we love Gothic horror. Types of Gothic horror? All-time favorites? New and noteworthy? Panelists: Christa Carmen, Meg Ripley, Dana McSwain, Aimee Hardy, L.C. Marino
3:30 - 4:30 Book Signing
4:30 - 4:50 Christa Carmen reading
5:00 - 5:30 Book Signing
5:30 - 7:00 Dinner
Horror Reader Weekend (Overlook Lodge in Bear Mountain State Park)
Dec 1, 2023
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
OFFICIAL LAUNCH - The Daughters of Block Island
United Theatre, Westerly, RI
Join us as we host local author Christa Carmen live at the United Theatre for the launch of her new book THE DAUGHTERS OF BLOCK ISLAND. Copies of the book will be available for purchase.
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
OFFICIAL LAUNCH - The Daughters of Block Island
United Theatre, Westerly, RI
Join us as we host local author Christa Carmen live at the United Theatre for the launch of her new book THE DAUGHTERS OF BLOCK ISLAND. Copies of the book will be available for purchase.
Jul 27, 2023
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Karen McManus in Conversation with Christa Carmen
Westerly Public Library, Westerly, RI
Directions
In partnership with Savoy Bookshop & Café, please join us for an author talk with Karen McManus and her new book One of Us Is Back. She will be in conversation with local author Christa Carmen. Copies of the book will be available for purchase. If you purchase a copy of One of Us Is Back during the event (or from Savoy Bookshop & Café before the event), you will be able to enter the signing line to get your book signed by Karen. Registration is required to attend.
Want the chance to win an EXCLUSIVE Karen M. McManus tour t-shirt? Attend her tour event in person for the opportunity to win one of 20 t-shirts that features the names of the entire Bayview Crew! The only way to win is to attend our event! Each tour stop will receive the shirt in a different color.
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Karen McManus in Conversation with Christa Carmen
Westerly Public Library, Westerly, RI
Directions
In partnership with Savoy Bookshop & Café, please join us for an author talk with Karen McManus and her new book One of Us Is Back. She will be in conversation with local author Christa Carmen. Copies of the book will be available for purchase. If you purchase a copy of One of Us Is Back during the event (or from Savoy Bookshop & Café before the event), you will be able to enter the signing line to get your book signed by Karen. Registration is required to attend.
Want the chance to win an EXCLUSIVE Karen M. McManus tour t-shirt? Attend her tour event in person for the opportunity to win one of 20 t-shirts that features the names of the entire Bayview Crew! The only way to win is to attend our event! Each tour stop will receive the shirt in a different color.
Jun 10, 2023
6:00 PM
Arcade Asylum Author Series
Join New York author DANIEL BRAUM at the Lovecraft Arts and Sciences Council book store in Providence Rhode Island to celebrate the release of the Cemetery Dance Publications edition of his short story collection The Night Marchers and Other Strange Tales. Authors Christa Carmen, Larissa Glasser, and John Langan will join Braum in a wide-ranging discussion about strange and uncanny fiction and will read from their work.
6:00 PM
Arcade Asylum Author Series
Join New York author DANIEL BRAUM at the Lovecraft Arts and Sciences Council book store in Providence Rhode Island to celebrate the release of the Cemetery Dance Publications edition of his short story collection The Night Marchers and Other Strange Tales. Authors Christa Carmen, Larissa Glasser, and John Langan will join Braum in a wide-ranging discussion about strange and uncanny fiction and will read from their work.
May 14 - 18, 2023
StokerCon 2023
Christa Carmen will be participating in several events as part of the HWA's convention:
StokerCon 2023
Christa Carmen will be participating in several events as part of the HWA's convention:
- Dave Simms offers a stunning review of The Daughters of Block Island for Cemetery Dance: “The gothic horror novel just received a massive shot of adrenaline to its bleak-but-beautiful-heart...a stunning novel that arrives in the final month of the year, just in time for the calendar’s longest nights of darkness. In this debut novel, Carmen doesn’t attempt to top the classics; instead, she subverts them in a unique manner. She embraces the tropes that made the subgenre what it is and forges an enthralling tale of two sisters, a strange town, and a cast of characters that would make the masters proud...If this is any indication of what Christa Carmen can bring into the world, readers will be smiling under candlelight for years to come. An exceptional new talent has arrived.”
- KIRKUS REVIEWS calls The Daughters of Block Island, “Great fun for readers who’ve done their background reading and want to try a Gothic Plus.”
- Of The Daughters of Block Island, Dead Headspace’s Brennan LaFaro writes, “What a fine line Christa Carmen has to walk with this book, and how masterfully she walks it… a layered tale that borders on cozy, while never quite allowing the reader to settle in too comfortably...Here lies mystery and secrets, and I was here for it.”
Interviews
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Frightful Interview
Emily Verona interviews co-host Christa Carmen
Read Interview -
Gwendolyn Kiste's Blog
Roundtable Interview: THE RACK: STORIES INSPIRED BY VINTAGE HORROR PAPERBACKS!
Read Interview Part I
Read Interview Part II -
Gwendolyn Kiste's Blog
Roundtable Interview
Read Interview Part I
Read Interview Part II