Longtime sportscaster’s new book shares the highs and lows of the business

Mel Proctor has spent decades behind a microphone, describing thousands of sporting events from baseball and basketball games to college football and boxing. These days, he’s using a different medium to tell stories — a word processor.

Del Mar author sheds new light on the Hollywood dream in unique new book

Is Hollywood the happiest place on Earth or the most miserable? This is the question that author and popular culture maven Susan Marg, a Del Mar resident, pondered as she pored over piles of glossy magazines and newspaper gossip columns searching for the best celebrity quotations that might answer her query.

For TPHS alumnus and Solana Beach author, fantasy comes alive

When 27-year-old Matt Wolf was attending Torrey Pines High School in Carmel Valley about 10 years ago, he was a stellar student.

“I was this crazy, 4.17 GPA honors kid and I didn’t even care about reading and writing at the time,” he explains from his Solana Beach home. “I continued on that road for awhile until I hit a breaking point.”

Solana Beach Library holds monthly Author Book Club

The Solana Beach Library hosts an Author Book Club at 6:30 p.m. on the last Wednesday of each month.
For May, participants may read any book by multi award-winning Tony Hillerman, writer of both fiction and nonfiction. He is best known for his detective novels involving the Navajo Tribal Police. The club will meet on Wednesday, May 29, at 6:30 p.m. at the Solana Beach Library.

Solana Beach Library to hold used book sale

The Friends of the Solana Beach Library will hold a used book sale at the Solana Beach Library, 157 Stevens Ave., from April 15-19. Shoppers may fill a paper grocery bag with chosen books for $5. Shoppers are encouraged to bring their own paper grocery bags.

Literary Society author’s first published novel — ‘Rules of Civility’ — a New York Times best seller

Amor Towles was in his 20s when he wrote an idea for a novel on a matchbook cover and threw it into a drawer

Canyon Crest Academy’s Creative Writing Club to hold 2nd Annual CCA Writers Conference

Best-selling authors and many other writing professionals will provide inspirational and educational workshops to students of eight local high schools.

Local author’s new book hits NY Times Best Sellers list

The subtitle calls it “A business fable about taking your game and your team to the next level.”

Local resident’s new novel combines high seas adventure with legal drama

V. Frank Asaro brings together many of his areas of expertise — philosopher, lawyer, inventor and composer — in his new novel, “The Tortoise Shell Code.”

Carmel Valley resident’s new novel combines high seas adventure with legal drama

V. Frank Asaro brings together many of his areas of expertise — philosopher, lawyer, inventor and composer — in his new novel, “The Tortoise Shell Code.”