Author Talk & Signing with Lisa Campion — Awakening Your Psychic Ability — June 15 at 6 p.m.

From Reiki master Lisa Campion—author of The Art of Psychic Reiki and Energy Healing for Empaths—comes her latest book Awakening Your Psychic Ability: A Practical Guide to Develop Your Intuition, Demystify the Spiritual World, and Open Your Psychic Senses. This transformative and practical guide will help you understand, develop, and harness your own psychic ability, so you can live your life with a greater sense of meaning and purpose. 

On Thursday, June 15 at 6 p.m., Campion will share insights from the book that can begin to deepen your intuition and open your psychic senses, along with answering reader questions and signing copies. 

Books will be available for purchase at the event, and in store.

About the Author

LISA CAMPION is a psychic counselor and Reiki master teacher with more than twenty-five years of experience. She has trained more than one thousand practitioners in the hands-on, energy-healing practice of Reiki, including medical professionals; and has conducted more than fifteen thousand individual sessions in her career. Campion is author of several books, including The Art of Psychic Reiki. Based near Providence, RI, she specializes in training emerging psychics, empaths, and healers so they can fully step into their gifts—the world needs all the healers it can get!

Author Talk & Signing with Calvin Baker — A MORE PERFECT reUNION — April 3 at 7 p.m.

Ink Fish Books is proud to be a partner bookstore for this upcoming event at Rogers Free Library in Bristol.

The Rogers Free Library invites you to a reading and conversation with author Calvin Baker. Calvin Baker is an American novelist, educator, essayist, and editor who has chronicled the African American experience from the colonial era to the present, centering the Black voice and perspective within the context of trans-Atlantic history.

He will read from his nonfiction book, A More Perfect Reunion: Race, Integration, and the Future of America.

Roger Williams University Library's Mary Tefft White Lecture Series, "Talking in the Library" presents notable authors and scholars to the Bristol community in partnership with the Rogers Free Library.

Co-sponsored by Roger Williams University's Bermont Fellowship, the Mary Tefft White Endowment, and the Rogers Free Library's Jane Bodell Endowment.

This event is free and open to the public. Please register on the library’s website at rogersfreelibrary.org/calendar.

The books will be available for purchase at the event, and in store.

Author Talk & Book Signing with Julie Gerstenblatt — DAUGHTERS OF NANTUCKET — March 23 at 6 p.m.

Join Ink Fish Books as we welcome local author Julie Gerstenblatt who will transport readers to the windswept world of 1846 Nantucket — and a dramatic event that changed the tiny island forever — in her sweeping historical fiction debut, Daughters of Nantucket (released March 14, 2023). 

About the Book

Centered around Nantucket’s Great Fire of 1846, the story follows Eliza, Meg and Maria: three very different women whose lives intersect as they fight to survive the blaze and overcome their own personal struggles.

Whaling captain wife Eliza Macy is waiting for her husband to return from a long voyage — while simultaneously hiding her financial trouble — when, in desperation, she turns against her progressive ideals and targets Meg Wright, a pregnant, free Black woman trying to relocate her store to the town’s Main Street. Meanwhile, Maria Mitchell spends every night observing the stars as she runs Nantucket’s Atheneum, but is hiding her own secrets of the heart.  

At the time, women experienced an unusual independence for the 1800s as the island’s men went out to sea, sometimes for years. Daughters of Nantucket explores how these characters both struggle with and enjoy the rare freedom they have — and how the town’s thriving Black community lives an almost-equal, yet separate existence from their Quaker neighbors. 

Praise for Daughters of Nantucket

"Daughters Of Nantucket is thoroughly enjoyable historical fiction, beautifully researched and very authentic. You will be swept up from page one!"
—Jane Green, author of SISTER STARDUST and THE BEACH HOUSE

“Gerstenblatt artfully weaves in modern issues and challenges in this gorgeously written novel, leaving us wiser and more optimistic for our own times.”
—Nancy Thayer, Best-selling author of SUMMER LOVE

“Meticulously researched, Gerstenblatt presents a fascinating look at an island ahead of its time, where women exercised privileges often reserved for men and where blacks shared in the civil liberties of their white neighbors. At its heart, this is a story of love, loss and redemption.”  
—Renee Rosen USA Today best-selling author THE SOCIAL GRACES

About the Author

Julie Gerstenblatt holds a doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction from Teachers College, Columbia University. Her essays have appeared in The Huffington Post and Cognoscenti, among others. When not writing, Julie is a college essay coach, as well as a producer and on-air host for A Mighty Blaze. A native New Yorker, Julie now lives in coastal Rhode Island with her family and one very smart shichon poo. Daughters of Nantucket is her first novel.

Books will be for sale and signing at the event. You can purchase copies in advance online here, or if you would like a signed copy email the store at info@inkfishbooks.com.

Author Talk with David W. Blight, Ph.D — Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom — February 26 at 3 p.m.

Ink Fish Books is proud to be a partner bookstore for this upcoming event with Linden Place and Rogers Free Library.

On Sunday, February 26 at 3 p.m. in the ballroom at Linden Place, a keynote address will be presented by David W. Blight, Ph.D., author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom.

Dr. Blight was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in History in 2019 for this work. He is currently Sterling Professor of History, Yale University and the Director of The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. Dr. Blight’s address will include the importance of Douglass and his relevance today, and will also touch on the crucial roles that libraries, museums, historians and teachers have in presenting full, inclusive, honest and accurate histories.

As Dr. Blight once said: “American history is a deep river. [Current events] remind us that history is never finished and we have to keep crossing over this river, with all the honesty and truth we can muster from the spirituals and the blues, from historical knowledge, and from our greatest storytellers and poets.”

The 3 p.m. talk will be preceded by an author’s reception, including refreshments, inside Linden Place from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Tickets for the Keynote program are $35, $30 for Linden Place members.
Tickets for the author reception and program are $55, $50 for members.

Tickets can be reserved via Eventbrite.
Books will be for sale and signing at the event. Purchase copies, in advance, online here or email the store at info@inkfishbooks.com.

Join us for an author event during Art Night! Meet Elizabeth Gonzalez James author of Mona at Sea. Elizabeth will discuss her debut book, do a reading, Q&A, and sign copies.

Mona At Sea - Elizabeth Gonzalez James

In this sharp, witty debut, Elizabeth Gonzalez James introduces us to Mona Mireles — observant to a fault, unflinching in her opinions, and uncompromisingly confident in her professional abilities. Mona is a Millennial perfectionist who fails upwards in the midst of the 2008 economic crisis.

Despite her potential, and her top- of-her-class college degree, Mona finds herself unemployed, living with her parents, and adrift in life and love. Mona’s the sort who says exactly the right thing at absolutely the wrong moments, seeing the world through a cynic’s eyes. In the financial and social malaise of the early 2000s, Mona walks a knife’s edge as she faces down unemployment, underemployment, the complexities of adult relationships, and the downward spiral of her parents’ shattering marriage. The more Mona craves perfection and order, the more she is forced to see that it is never attainable. Mona’s journey asks the question: When we find what gives our life meaning, will we be ready for it?

About the Author:

Before becoming a writer, Elizabeth Gonzalez James was a waitress, a pollster, an Avon lady, and an opera singer. Her short story, “Cosmic Blues,” was a finalist in Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers, and her stories and essays have received multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominations. She’s attended the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Tin House Writers Workshop, and Lit Camp. Find her on Twitter and Instagram: @unefemmejames

Books available for purchase in store or here online.