Join us at Back Pages Books & Lincoln Studios, for the release of Johnny Carrera's Pictorial Webster's Dictionary. Waltham based author/printer/compiler Carrera, of Waltham's Quercus Press, will discuss the long journey of Pictorial Webster's Dictionary in galleries hung with original prints, engravings and other works from the creation of this visual masterpiece.

Pictorial Webster's: Inspiration to Completion from John Carrera on Vimeo.

Come celebrate the birthday
of Frankenstein author Mary Shelley with the New England
members of the Broad Universe Writers Group at Back Pages Books . 
Part of a weekend of birthday
events, the Back Pages party will feature several local female genre
authors, including vampire fiction authors Inanna Arthen and Morven
Westfield, past Nebula Award nominee and Waltham author Jennifer Pelland,
fantasy author Elaine Isaak, and Julie Andrews.  Trisha J. Wooldridge,
author, journalist and educator, will offer brief talks about Shelley's
themes and influence, and Phoebe Wray, a member of Broad Universe's
governing body, will present highlights from the author's life. 
All the authors will be reading in a rapid-fire format from their poetry,
stories and novels. 

The party will feature an introduction to Shelley's life and works,
including a discussion of her most famous work Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. 

Broad Universe is an international
organization supporting women writers of science fiction, fantasy, and
horror, which honors Shelley, author of the first science fiction novel,
as their patroness.  When she was just 18 years old, Shelley started
writing Frankenstein, spurred by a challenge from Lord Byron
to craft a supernatural tale all her own. The work first appeared in
print anonymously in 1818, and remains in print to this day.  It
has also spawned dozens of movie adaptations, as well as countless derivative
works that take Frankenstein's monster to places that Shelley likely
never imagined.