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By TIMES STAFF WRITER
Published July 9, 2006
AUTHOR APPEARANCES Sara Gruen Water for Elephants, 6 p.m., July 19, Inkwood Books, 216 S Armenia Ave., Tampa. EVENTS Lary Crews (Kill Cue and Extreme Close-up) will be the featured author at the monthly meeting of the St. Petersburg Group of the Florida Writers Association at 7 p.m., Thursday at the St. Petersburg Main Library, 3745 Ninth Ave. N. For information, call Richard Budin, (727) 461-3897 or e-mail: DickBudin@juno.com. A panel of Florida authors, including Cody Fowler Davis (Green 61), Ann Turner Cook (Shadow Over Cedar Key) and Tom Corcoran (Air Dance Iguana), will be featured at the next Four Seasons Author Series lunch, presented by the Friends of the Tampa-Hillsborough County Library. The discussion will focus on writing and marketing books. It is at noon Friday at the University Club of Tampa, One Tampa City Center. The cost is $25 for one lunch; $100 for four consecutive luncheons. For information, call the Friends of the Library, (813) 273-3616. To place an item in Book Talk, please send the author's name and book title, appearance time and date and the venue name, phone number and address to Piper Jones Castillo, Book Talk, St. Petersburg Times, P.O. Box 1121, St. Petersburg, FL 33731-1121. Items also may be sent by fax to (727) 893-8675 or by e-mail to pcastillo@sptimes.com Deadline is 14 days before publication.
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