Features
Sarah Lobban
Sherrilyn Kenyon
7 p.m. Wednesday
Barnes & Noble
6100 N. May
843-9300
bn.com

OKG7 things to do
Gazette staff
Apparently, people love reading about vampires. That’s good news for bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon, who specializes in urban fantasy with hits like The Dream-Hunter and Bad Moon Rising. She’ll read from and sign copies of her brand-new, 22nd novel, Time Untime, 7 p.m. tonight at Barnes & Noble, 6100 N. May. She also promises “plenty of prizes.” Call 843- 9300 or visit bn.com, and read our interview with Kenyon at okgazette.com.

Wednesday

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• Sherrilyn Kenyon interview

Features
Mia Ledet
Gena Showalter and P.C. Cast
7 p.m. Tuesday
Barnes & Noble
6100 N. May
bn.com
843-9300

Nonfiction
Rod Lott
The Man Who Created Halloween is not director John Carpenter, but producer Irwin Yablans, who came up with the idea of the tormented babysitter story, inadvertently changing forever not only the face of horror, but the potential of independent film.

OKG7 things to do
Gazette staff
Perhaps this meets with your Approval: Local author Judy Savage will sign her children’s book, Rossi the Approval Poodle, from 10 to 11 a.m. Saturday at Full Circle Bookstore, 1900 Northwest Expressway in 50 Penn Place. Call 842-2900 or visit fullcirclebooks.com. And then from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 12, she’ll also sign at the gift store of Integris Baptist Medical Center at 3300 Northwest Expressway.

Saturday,
Wednesday, Dec. 12

Nonfiction
Rod Lott

 

OKG7 things to do
Gazette staff
Until your home requires more square footage, one never can own too many books or videos. So buy some more from among more than 600,000 items available at the 34th annual Friends of the Metropolitan Library System Booksale! It’s open from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at State Fair Park’s Oklahoma Expo Hall, 3001 General Pershing. Admission is free. Visit mlsfriends.org.

Saturday-Sunday

Features
Alyssa Grimley
A comic book shop is more than just a place to buy the latest gotta-have graphic novel. It also can be the start of a creative partnership.

Nonfiction
Rod Lott
When Tom Folsom terms his new nonfiction work, Hopper, as “a rebel biography,” he’s not kidding. Not only is his subject a rebel, but so is his approach. A you-are-there POV, fonts that interrupt the narrative — you’ve never read a celebrity bio quite like it, and that’s certainly befitting of its star.

Nonfiction
Rod Lott
Curtis Harrington’s autobiography is how I imagine the man to have been: soft-spoken, honest and intelligent. Those wondering, “Who’s Curtis Harrington?” should know that is part of the book’s point. Here was a talented filmmaker who never quite got his due, for reasons that had nothing to do with creativity and everything to do with commerce. Here was an artist who worked in a system that had no interest in art.