Sibyls Brigit Binns, author of forthcoming Rottenkid: A Succulent Story of Survival and Susannah Kennedy, author of 2023 release Reading Jane: A Daughter’s Memoir are set to speak on a panel about memoirs and telling your story as a writer at Adventure by the Book’s Super Book Weekend in San Diego, CA.
20 authors will be featured at the event on February 18th, alongside Binns and Kennedy. Binns’ and Kennedy’s panel “Go Tell Your Story” will be featured 2:00-2:45 p.m. and moderated by Binns’ husband, “Paso Wine Man” Casey Briggs.
Tickets to the Super Book V can be found here.
Rottenkid: A Succulent Story of Survival is set to be released by Sibylline Press on March 5th, 2024.
A memoir sauteed in Hollywood stories, world travel, and always, the need to belong.
Prolific cookbook author Brigit Binns’ coming-of-age memoir—co-starring her alcoholic actor father Edward Binns and glamorous but viciously smart narcissistic mother—reveals how simultaneous privilege and profound neglect lead Brigit to seek comfort in the kitchen, eventually allowing her to find some sense of self-worth.
About Brigit Binns: Brigit’s cookbook Eating up the West Coast was her 29th. A prolific cookbook author, her titles have sold over 100,000 copies. In addition, she’s helped some of the U.S.A.’s most respected chefs, like New York’s Michael Psilakis and Los Angeles’ Joachim Splichal, turn their cookbook dreams into reality. During the 10 years she lived in Europe, Brigit graduated from England’s Tante Marie cooking school, lived and catered in Spain, and edited the Costa del Sol’s English-language magazine. Brigit and her dishes have been featured on The Today Show multiple times. She now lives full-time in California’s Central Coast wine country with her dog and fabulous husband, Casey, (aka the Wine Spectator-award-winning Paso Wine Man).
Reading Jane: A Daughter’s Memoir was released by Sibylline Press on September 5th, 2023.
A gripping memoir that shows what freedom looks like when we choose to examine the uncomfortable past. As Susannah Kennedy re-lives her life through her mother’s eyes, she grapples with the ties between mothers and daughters and the choices parents make.
About Susannah Kennedy: Susannah Kennedy is the author of Reading Jane: A Daughter’s Memoir. A Berkeley and Oxford-educated anthropologist, Susannah Kennedy was born in India and raised in the United States. Later, she traveled extensively on her own, first in Italy, and then through the Middle East and India, settling for two years in Egypt before becoming a reporter in Dallas, Texas. At Oxford University, she specialized in Arab culture and politics, receiving her DPhil in social anthropology. She and her psychoanalyst husband lived and worked in Germany, raising three children in a thatched-roof farmhouse in the countryside outside Hamburg. Her mother’s suicide and its aftermath brought them back to Santa Cruz, California in 2017. They now reside in Marin County.
Preorder Rottenkid: A Succulent Story of Survival here.
Purchase Reading Jane: A Daughter’s Memoir here.