EVENTS CALENDAR
JANUARY
January 21
School Visit – Unity Ecology Learning Center. Closed event.
January 29
3 p.m.
Presentation at Bartlett Woods, Rockland.
FEBRUARY
February 3, 2026 – In-person Author Talk!
6:30 p.m.
Maine Irish Heritage Center, Portland: Patrisha talks with Betsy Cornwell about her extraordinary memoir of being swept off her feet by a dreamy irish horse trainer who turned out to be a nightmare. More info here.
February 5 & 6, 2026
School Visit – Morse High School in Bath. Closed event.
February 8, all day
Cold Water Dip Fundraiser, you choose the place and time. Wear yellow!
Click here for details!
February 9 & 10
School Visit – Sanford High School. Closed event.
February 10 & 11
School Visit – George Stevens Academy, Blue Hill. Closed event.
February 13, 2026 — Online Author Talk!
2 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. EST
Jacqueline Connelly will be joining us from Ireland to talk about Deadly Silence, the heart-breaking and infuriating account of the murder of Jacqueline’s sister and three nephews by her brother-in-law.
2025 Nonfiction Book of the Year in the Irish Book Awards. Register here!
February 26
School Visit – Carrabec Middle School in North Anson. Closed event.
MARCH
Tuesday, March 3, 2026 – Online Author Talk!
4 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. Eastern Time
Roisin O’Donnell will be joining us from Ireland to discuss, Nesting, her “heart-pounding, life-affirming story about one woman trying to leave her marriage and start over.” Winner of Novel of the Year in the 2025 Irish Book Awards. Register here!
PRINT: A Bookstore will be partnering with us and will provide a discount on Nesting.
Partnering public libraries livestreaming this Author Talk!
Belfast Free Library
Camden Public Library
Patten Free Library, Bath
Scarborough Public Library
Skidompha Library, Damariscotta
Thursday, March 12, 2026
School Visit – MDI High School. Social Responsibility Day.
Tuesday, March 24, 2026 – Online Author Talk!
1 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. Eastern Time
Ring of Salt: A Memoir of Finding Home and Hope on the Wild Coast of Ireland by Betsy Cornwell
Betsy Cornwell will be joining us from Galway to discuss her memoir described as Maid meets Under the Tuscan Sun about a writer and mother who flees an abusive marriage and must learn to reclaim the story of her life through a search for home on Ireland’s wild, western coast. Register here!
Partnering public libraries livestreaming this Author Talk!
Belfast Free Library
Patten Free Library, Bath
Skidompha Library, Damariscotta
APRIL
April 1 & 2
School Visit – Richmond High School. Closed event.
April 8 & 9
School Visit – Sumner Memorial High School, Sullivan. Closed event.
April 14 Online Author Talk!
6 p.m. – 7:15 p.m.
The Girl with the Duck Tattoo by Sarma Melngailis
This will be a fascinating discussion with the raw food-star chef and entrepreneur about extreme coercive control and financial abuse. Sarma is the subject of the Netflix documentary Bad Vegan that is riveting but also misleading and sensationalist, and being abused as a domestic abuse victim by the media which I can definitely relate to is one of the topics we will discuss!
Register here!
April 15
School Visit – Machias High School. Closed event.
April 16
School Visit – Woodland Jr./Sr. High School in Baileyville. Closed event.
MAY
May 5
6 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Survivor Speaks Panel Discussion
Scarborough Public Library
Tuesday, May 12 – Online Author Talk!
6 p.m. to 7:15 p.m. EST
Beth Macy, author of the bestselling investigation of the opioid crisis
Dopesick, will join us to talk about the domestic violence weaving through her 2025 memoir of "home and family in a fractured America".
"In her new book Beth Macy returns to her home town of Urbana, Ohio, using it as ground zero for understanding right-wing radicalization." – The New Yorker
JUNE
Friday, June 19
11 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Presentation at Parker Ridge Retirement Community
JULY
Entire month of July
Third Annual “Into the Light!” Yellow Festival Fundraiser
AUGUST
Saturday, August 1
5 p.m.
“Into the Light!” Music Festival Fundraiser at Glendarragh Lavender Farm
SEPTEMBER
Tuesday, September 22 – Online Author Talk!
6 p.m.
Rosie Batty is joining us from Australia!
When Rosie's son Luke was beaten to death by his father in 2014 at a public sports match, this national hero turned unimaginable personal pain into a stunning movement for change all across Australia. We will contrast and compare the domestic violence landscape in Australia to what I see in Maine, and the chief hurdles and pathways to change as well as personal healing, I recommend you read her 2024 memoir Hope and also her first, Rosie: A Mother's Story