Author Event

Please join us in welcoming architect, turned author/musician Heather Hoeksema presenting and signing FLASH LIGHT: 9 Girls' Stories for Grown Ups. 

"Inspired by personal life experience, and vignettes other women have gracefully shared with me, this series of short stories told from perspectives of women from all ages pays homage to the multi-generational woman.

"As a young woman, I often wanted to grow up fast. I wanted to be older, as it seemed women of experience knew secrets. As I grow older, I often look to the past for inspiration... as if youth sustained all the possibilities in the world. Now, as I resonate somewhere in the middle I’m happy with where I am. I’m at peace, residing in the present.

Please join us for a special evening with #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author W. Bruce Cameron celebrating the new paperback edition of A DOG'S WAY HOME.

Octavia Books will donate to The Louisiana SPCA a portion of the sales from each Bruce Cameron book you purchase at the event or using the online ordering links. 

Lucas Ray is shocked when an adorable puppy jumps out of an abandoned building and into his arms. Though the apartment he shares with his mother, a disabled veteran, doesn’t allow dogs, Lucas can’t resist taking Bella home.

Join us for a special evening with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Rick Bragg when he returns to Octavia Books to present and sign his new book, THE BEST COOK IN THE WORLD: Tales from My Momma's Table.

From the beloved, best-selling author of All Over but the Shoutin’, a delectable, rollicking food memoir, cookbook, and loving tribute to a region, a vanishing history, a family, and, especially, to his mother. Including seventy-four mouthwatering Bragg family recipes for classic southern dishes passed down through generations.

We had such a blast with middle grade book author and cartoonist Michael Fry last time, that he is coming back with his new books, HOW TO BE A SUPERVILLAIN: BORN TO BE BAD GOOD for a special after-school reading and signing. You must not miss this.

A sequel has never been this good...at being bad! In this highly anticipated follow-up to the bestselling How to Be a Supervillain, Victor Spoil must save the world from an evil scheme to enslave the superheroes and villains--to his parents' utter disappointment.

Independent bookstores are not just stores—they are community centers and local anchors run by passionate readers. They are entire universes of ideas that contain the possibility of real serendipity. They are lively performance spaces and quiet places where aimless perusal is a day well spent.

Please come by to celebrate Independent Bookstore Day with us and show your support for this amazing movement. We’ll have fun together along with stimulating activities all day long. And, we are also featuring some exclusive literary-themed art and gift items you will want to have to remember this special day.

It is becoming a New Orleans Independent Bookstore Day tradition.- Challenge Michael Tisserand, Eisner Award-Winning author of KRAZY, THE KINGDOM OF ZYDECO, and SUGARCANE ACADEMY, and contributing author to MY BOOKSTORE, to a blitz game of chess. Win a prize if you beat him. And, win or loose, be sure to get Michael to also sign a copy of KRAZY while you are here.

SNIPPETS OF NEW ORLEANS author/illustrator Emma Fick joins us on New Orleans Independent Bookstore Day to give a concise tutorial on "How to Draw a Shotgun House or a Crawfish." Enter your own drawing for a chance to win a prize. Of course, you will want to give yourself the prize of having Emma to sign a copy of SNIPPETS once you see how fabulous and fun it is.

Do you love cheese? Brie? Cheddar? Parmesan? Join national cheese expert and local author Liz Thorpe for a cheese tasting inspired by her new book, THE BOOK OF CHEESE. As part of our celebration of New Orleans Independent Bookstore Day, Liz will introduce you to the cheeses to look for when you're ready to upgrade from your go-to favorites. All this while also signing her beautiful, highly informative, and indispensable book.

James Beard Award-winning chef Alon Shaya, who just opened his new restaurant, Saba, a few blocks away from Octavia Book, will be here for New Orleans Independent Bookstore Day to meet and greet you, and sign copies of his splendid new book, SHAYA: An Odyssey of Food - My Journey Back to Israel.

Author Anya Kamenetz will not be able to join us on New Orleans Independent Bookstore Day due to unexpected circumstances. We hope to be able to reschedule an appearance for another date..