Local author Wendy Boucher has added artist to her ever-expanding list of accomplishments (to list just a few: travel writer, lawyer, mommyblogger, fiction author, public speaker, former Sticks contributor and genuinely nice person possessing a wonderful sense of humor). Boucher’s first solo art exhibit opened May 1 at the TECO Public Art Gallery (702 North Franklin Street in downtown Tampa) and will run through June 29. All the exhibit pieces are mixed media/paper collages that convey her love of Asian culture.
On May 17, the TECO gallery is hosting a reception to celebrate Boucher’s art exhibit and the publication of her second book Letters From A Dead Armadillo. The reception will be from 6 to 9 p.m. and is free and open to the public. (Please RSVP to wendy(at)wendyboucher.com.) Copies of Boucher’s new book, along with her first book Parvenue Throws A Party, will be available for purchase at the reception, thanks to Inkwood Books. Boucher will donate ten percent of all sales from the reception to the Mental Health Care Foundation of Tampa.
I first heard of Letters From A Dead Armadillo about a year or so ago when Boucher was the guest speaker at a Barnes and Noble book club meeting I attended. I fell in love with the title instantly and have been anticipating its release, no matter what the plot. For the record, however, the plot sounds good too:
It only takes a couple of weeks for transfer law student Sally Cotton to become embroiled in an extortion scheme with one new friend and to become another new friend’s best hope for exoneration for murder. Sally and her friends will have to solve not one but two murders in order to save their own skins and keep their friend Karen out of prison. Suddenly, the philosophical debates they’ve been having at school about the death penalty and the criminal justice system aren’t merely academic.
Boucher’s other upcoming appearances include book signings at the South Tampa Barnes and Noble on May 19 and the South Tampa Borders on May 27. Visit www.wendyboucher.com to learn more. Don’t forget to mark your calendars for May 17!
(cross-posted at www.tampabookbuzz.com)
