What Start Bad a Mornin’ was released on September 19, 2023 and we have a lot of activities planned to celebrate! I hope that you can join me at one or more of the events. Check back here or follow me on IG @WriteWithCarol for updates. Also read the reviews.
If I don’t have an event scheduled near to you, talk about the book at your favorite bookstore or if you know of a location that might be interested in hosting an event, please let me know. And if your book club is discussing the book, I would be happy to Zoom in to the discussion.
All times are in EST.
- August 9-10, 2023: Virginia: New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Conference
- August 12, 2023 5 p.m.: Online: Reading at LIT BALM: An Interactive Livestream Reading Series
- August 21, 2023: 1:00 p.m.: Online: Interview with Krylios and Erin Palmer of Team Rayceen. We talk about the origins of What Start Bad a Mornin’, the key takeaways, and what I’m working on next. View video.
- August 29, 2023 8 p.m.: Online: Join me as I talk with Eva Greene-Wilson about motherhood and more. Watch on YouTube or on Facebook.
- September 10, 2023 12 p.m.: New York University, 370 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY: New York pre-launch event at the 2023 Brooklyn Caribbean Book Festival
- September 19, 2023 7 p.m.: Washington D.C.: D.C. Launch at Sankofa Video, Books & Cafe
- September 23, 2023 2:30 p.m.: Harlem, NY: Harlem Book Fair
- October 7, 2023 7 p.m.: New Dominion Bookshop, Charlottesville, VA: New Dominion Bookshop Author Event.
- October 9, 2023 7 p.m.: Scrawl Bookstore, Reston, VA: Scrawl Books Author Event. A conversation with author Donna Hemans.
- October 14, 2023 11 a.m.: Old Town Hall, Fairfax, VA Fall for the Book Festival Voices of the Caribbean: Family, Memory & Secrets with Joanne Skerett
- October 17, 2023 7 p.m.: Washington, D.C.: Reading at the InnerLoop Reading Series.
- October 20, 2023: Private book club meeting
- October 28, 2023 7 p.m.: Basseterre, St. Kitts: St. Kitts Launch, Book Talk, and Signing for What Start Bad a Mornin’ by Carol Mitchell in conversation with Nerissa Golden.
- November 22, 2023: Private book club meeting
- February 9, 2024 12:10 p.m.: Kansas City, Missouri: AWP 2024 Panel. Mek We Talk: Language and Identity in Caribbean Writing and Beyond.
- February 29, 2024 6:30 p.m.: Perry Hall Library, Maryland: Conversation with author Jewel Amethyst at the Perry Hall Branch of the Baltimore Public Library
- April 12, 2024 1:00 p.m.: Zoom: Conversation with authors, Fairfax County Public Library.
- April 21, 2024: Sleepy Hollow, New York: Reading at Hudson Valley Writers Center
- April 23, 2024 5:00 p.m.: Zoom: CFBC Authors’ Forum, St. Kitts.
- April 26, 2024 1:30 p.m.: NALIS, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad: 2024 Bocas Lit Fest, Take Two. I will be reading alongside Shinie Antony (Can’t) and discussing our novels about how secrets from the past complicate the present, in conversation with Caroline Mackenzie.
- April 26, 2024 4:30 p.m.: NALIS, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad: 2024 BOCAS Literary Festival. A festival fixture returns: members of the Writers Union of T&T share their latest work and offer a snapshot of current directions in contemporary Caribbean writing, with special guest Carol Mitchell.
- July 11, 2024 7 p.m.: Book Soup 8818 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood, CA: Discussion with Kaci Hamilton at Book Soup
- August 3, 2024 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.: National Harbor, MD: Mahogany Books’ Black Books Matter Fest: IndiePenned Edition
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Please check back often as this list will be updated as more events are confirmed.
About the Book
Amaya Lin has few memories of the years before she turned eighteen. Now in her forties, she has compensated by carefully cultivating a satisfying life as a wife, mother, and business professional. Her husband’s law practice is on the brink of major success; her neurodiverse son has grown into an independent adult; and she has come to terms with her aunt’s dementia. This sense of order is disrupted when she encounters a stranger who claims to have an impossible connection, launching Amaya on a tumultuous journey into the past.
Using three interwoven narratives spanning the US, Trinidad, and Jamaica, Carol Mitchell’s debut gives voice to an immigrant woman forced to confront her repressed memories of violent trauma.