San Diego Inklings Local Authors Tour

Travel stories? Biographies?  Historical tidbits?  Films?  For these topics AND MORE come to our local authors book tour and discussion.  We will have four featured authors speaking on their books:

Sarah Bates, author of The Lost Diaries of Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Rafael Gutierrez, author of Off the Rails

Carlos Tarrac, author of Veva and the Beaver

Suzette Valle, author of 101 Movies to See Before You Grow Up

Copies of the books will be available for purchase and signing. Registration encouraged. Please scroll down.

The authors are members of the San Diego Inklings, a local author group writing myriad genres who appear at libraries to present their books where readers convene. They take their name from a famous group associated with the University of Oxford in the early 1930s to late 1949. The group includes a former journalist, an entertainment industry writer, a retired realtor, a physician, a writing tutor, 

Sarah Bates’ latest novel, The Lost Diaries of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, follows the journey of the famous suffragette from childhood to her marriage to Henry Stanton. Bates wove historical details through Stanton’s factual memoir to arrive at the colorful account of Stanton’s early life. Twenty-One Steps of Courage tells the story of a Soldier’s attempt to follow in his father’s footsteps until the path he walks abruptly ends. “I write stories about courageous people who standup to conflict and survive,” Bates says.

Carlos F. Tarrac has been a teacher in the California Public Schools for over twenty years. He writes, translates and illustrates books for children and adults, including poetry. His newest book for children, Veva and the Beaver (Veva y El Castor ), is a picture book about the friendship of a Beaver and a Tadpole. The book is available in English; an earlier edition is in Spanish. Veva and the Beaver was awarded Honorable Mention for Best Educational Children’s Picture Book at the 2017 International Latino Book Awards. His book, Simple Poems (Poemas Sencillos), earned an Honorable Mention at the 2011 Paris Book Festival, while More Simple Poems (Otros Poemas Sencillos) was a Finalist at the 2014 International Latino Book Awards.

Martial arts expert Dr. RH Guiterrez’ memoirs recount his traveling and training in martial arts. Cereus and the Rarest Thing is based on his odyssey to Okinawa, Japan dubbed The Island of the Happy Immortals by the Chinese. Dr. Guiterrez spent three months at the Okinawan Shogun Ryu Karate and Yamane Ryu Bojisu. Off The Rails follows a train trip up the California coast to study martial arts where along the way Guiterrez comes to terms with his parents’ American Dream.

“In a world of … too little family time, Suzette Valle’s book, 101 Movies to See Before You Grow Up has great movie choices that bring families closer,” says “Movie Mom”  Nell Minow. Valle focuses on entertainment as a source for family bonding and creating memories: watching movies and TV shows together. “What a great book, and not just because movies I've worked on are in it!” says, Dean Cundey, Director of Photography for the Back to the Future trilogy, Jurassic Park, Apollo 13 and Parent Trap. “Your book goes along with what I've been preaching about kids learning so much from movies that there should be a high school class about the literature of today...movies. So much to learn from good ones; values, history, storytelling.”101 Movies to See Before You Grow Up has sold over 60,000 copies and is a featured Scholastic book choice. Valle also

hosts the popular website, mammarazziknowsbest.com.