Kevin O'Brien - April's 1st Thursday Author April 5, 2012

Before his thrillers landed him on The New York Times Bestseller list, Kevin O’Brien was a railroad inspector who worked all the live long day and wrote novels at night. He grew up on Chicago’s North Shore, the youngest of six children, and studied Journalism at Marquette University in Milwaukee. He moved to Seattle in 1980. His railroad job took him all over the Pacific Northwest, and he wrote most of his first novel in Best Westerns and Red Lions. The result, ACTORS (1987) was translated into three languages. He took the advice of author, Terry Brooks, who told him: “Don’t quit your railroad job until you’ve made enough money on your writing to support yourself for two years.” And the rest is history.
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Each month, The Seattle Mystery Bookshop will invite a local author to be here to talk with folks about their own visual art, the written word. As in the gallery walk, when visitors look over an artist’s series of works, the authors will be here to talk about their own series of works in the visial media of words.

Authors will be present from 6-8pm. They may or may not have brand new books to talk about. There will be no formal program, so readers are encouraged to stop in on their rounds of gallery visits to chat with the author about their works, their approach to writing, their views on being creators of visual works – whatever may come to mind.

It is one more chance for fans of visual arts to meet another type of artist, the writer.

Official Website: http://www.seattlemystery.com/