Oct. 11, 2006
MEDIA ADVISORY
'Lovely Bones' Author Alice Sebold to Speak at Cal Poly Thursday Night
TO: Assignment Editors, City Editors, Photo Editors, Lifestyle Editors
WHO: Alice Sebold, author of the best-selling novel "The Lovely Bones,"
WHAT: Speaking/signing books at Cal Poly in the Performing Arts Center
WHEN: 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 12
WHERE: Performing Arts Center's Christopher Cohan Center at Cal Poly
The event is free and open to the public. Sebold will sign copies of "The Lovely Bones" following her presentation. The book centers around a young girl who is sexually assaulted and murdered; her character narrates the book from heaven as she watches her family deal with the event. Sebold as will talk about the process of writing, the difference between memoir and fiction, and the a"Lopproach she takes to her work.
For more information, visit www.preface.calpoly.edu or call 805-756-1380.