READ MEET THE AUTHOR from Well Worn books
LISTEN TO WVIA (NPR AFFILIATE) INTERVIEW on 3-BOOK EVENT
READ Q & A with Deborah Kalb on ALMOST: MY LIFE IN THE THEATER
LISTEN TO GOOD GRIEF INTERVIEW with Cheryl Jones on ALMOST
The ALMOST book launch/return to the stage is a
Chronogram Hudson Valley Weekend Pick!
ALMOST: MY LIFE IN THE THEATER
AVAILABLE NOW on
Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Bookshop.org
PUBLICATION DATE: SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
THE CHOCOLATE JAR & OTHER STORIES
“Engrossing…An engaging collection of tales”
—Kirkus Reviews
ORDER on Amazon , Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org
or on Goodreads.
Featured Fiction on Chick Lit Central
Covergirl at last!
Read the profile: LivingRhinebeck_July2020
Roselee’s debut novel,
TRIAL BY FAMILY,
Apprentice House Press, Loyola University MD is
AVAILABLE NOW on
Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Apprentice House.
Trial by Family received a GOLD MEDAL in the
2020 Independent Publisher Book Awards
for Mid-Atlantic Best Regional Fiction
Watch:
PANDA TV YOUTUBE Trial By Family interview
(start at minute 15:26)
Read: Roselee’s Q & A on Trial by Family with Deborah Kalb
Read: Review of Trial by Family in
“Earmark These 7 Books for October Reading,”
Chronogram Magazine, 10/1/19
Listen:Good Grief VoiceAmerica interview 10/16/19
World Premiere of
Roselee’s drama, TIKKUN,
on Jewish assimilation, legacy and spiritual repair
at the Center for Performing Arts in Rhinebeck,
Jan 31-Feb 2, 2020
Watch:
PANDA TV YOUTUBE Tikkun interview
Watch:
Meet the Playwright Interview on Tikkun
Read:
Chronogram on Tikkun:
Events Worth Leaving the House for in January
A revival of Roselee’s 90s comedy,
REHEARSING FOR OSCAR,
by the Center for Performing Arts in Rhinebeck received raves:
“Laugh-A-Minute…delivers on every level–
laughs, emotional and intellectual wit…
relevant, wise and absurdly delicious.”
read the full review here.
Dying in Dubai is:
2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year WINNER
2017 Eric Hoffer Book Award Finalist
Attention Libraries: DYING IN DUBAI is now
available in hardcover.
Apprentice House Press published Dying in Dubai
10/1/16;
Available through Amazon , Barnes & Noble,
and Apprentice House Press
or your favorite local independent bookstore;
mine is Oblong Books & Music.
Listen to Roselee’s interview on Good Grief Radio!
Watch Roselee’s interview for Author-ized!
as NOV.’16 AUTHOR OF THE MONTH for BCCLS,
a consortium of 77 New Jersey libraries.
Read Roselee’s interview w/ The Daily Voice.
Read her interview w/ book blogger Deborah Kalb.
Listen to Roselee’s interview on The Kathryn Zox Show .
Listen to her WQUN interview:
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Watch Roselee’s talk for the
Quinnipiac University YAWP! Series
(An Open Dialogue on Creativity and the Arts)
2016 EVENTS
Jacob Sears Memorial Library
Pre-Launch Book Talk
August 23, 2016, East Dennis, MA
Event Coordinator, Janet Robertson says:
“Compliments on your presentation
keep rolling in:
‘excellent speaker’…
‘Roselee spoke with feeling and authenticity’
…’can’t wait to read the book’…
‘loved the passages
she read.'”
Launch Reading/ Signing
Watchung Booksellers
October 1, 2016 Montclair, NJ
Hudson Valley Launch, Reading & Signing
Oblong Books & Music
October 6, 2016 Rhinebeck, NY
Reading & Signing, The Golden Notebook
November 6, 2016 Woodstock, NY
Barnes & Noble, Reading/Signing
November 16, 2016
Kingston, NY
Red Hook Public Library Book Group Discussion
December 13, 2016
2023 EVENTS
July 30th–Signing for The Chocolate Jar & Other Stories
and Almost: My Life in the Theater
Barnes & Noble, Kingston, NY.
July 15th–Summer Author Series, WELL WORN BOOKS,
Middletown, NY with Marina Antropow Cramer
June 3rd–Vassar College Alumni Author Meet & Greet
At Well Worn Books, Middletown, NY (2/23)
2022 Events
LISTEN TO WVIA (NPR AFFILIATE) INTERVIEW
on 3-BOOK EVENT:
Sunday, November 6th, 3 p.m.
Keystone Theater, Towanda, PA:
Roselee Blooston discusses 3 books––
Dying in Dubai, Trial by Family, and The Chocolate Jar & Other Stories
ALMOST: MY LIFE IN THE THEATER
Performance/Book Launch
CENTER for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck
9/30, 10/1, 10/2 For INFORMATION CLICK HERE
April 26th BOOK LAUNCH for
THE CHOCOLATE JAR AND OTHER STORIES
OBLONG BOOKS, RHINEBECK, NY
April 30th,
INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE DAY
DISCUSSION AND SIGNING
with Marina Cramer, author of Anna Eva Mimi Adam,
and Roselee Blooston on The Chocolate Jar and Other Stories.
BLACK DOG BOOKS, LAFAYETTE, NJ
With authors Marina Cramer and Michelle Vosper,
Women Writing Across Cultures Panel
2021 EVENTS
TBD: Reading–ANT Bookstore Series, Clifton, NJ
TBD: Ivy Bookstore Zoom Apprentice House Authors Event
TBD: Reading and Signing w/ Marina Cramer
Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz, NY
TBD: Manasquan Book Club, Manasquan, NJ
(Dying in Dubai)
TBD: Bradford County, PA book events (D in D and TBF)
2020 EVENTS
1/14 REAP
(Retired Educators & Professionals)
Reading and Signing, JCC Palisades, NJ
1/24-1/26 World Premiere of “Tikkun”
CENTER for Performing Arts in Rhinebeck
3/5 Manasquan Book Group, Manasquan, NJ
2020 GOLD MEDAL WINNER,
Independent Publisher Book Awards
9/18 Barnes & Noble Signing, Colonie, NY
10/13 Red Hook Public Library Book Group
Zoom discussion, 2:30 p.m.Red Hook, NY
2019 EVENTS
10/1–Official Trial by Family Book Launch: Oblong Books & Music,
Rhinebeck, NY
10/5–Trial by Family Reading & Signing, Watchung Booksellers, Montclair, NJ
10/10–Private Book Party, Dinallo Kelleher Wealth Mgmt, Troy, NY
10/19–Trial by Family Reading & Signing, Barnes & Noble,
Kingston, NY
11/19 Ladies of the Lake Book Group, Red Hook, NY
1/19 Play “Rehearsing for Oscar” in Rhinebeck
2018 EVENTS
REAP (Retired Executives & Professionals)
at JCC on the Palisades
Tuesday, February 13, 2018, Tenafly, NJ
Vassar Alum Author Meet and Greet
Saturday, June 9, 2018 2:30-4:30 p.m.
Vassar College Bookstore
60 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY
2017 EVENTS
with memoir authors Franz Nicolay
and Kassi Underwood at
Volume Reading Series (flanked by co-hosts Dani Grammerstorf and Hallie Goodman)
February 11, 2017
Spotty Dog Books & Ale, Hudson, New York
Montclair NJ Book Group 2/16/17
Women’s History Month Story Slam
March 24, 2017 Red Hook, NY
WRITE YOUR LIFE:
A MEMOIR WRITING WORKSHOP
on-going class in Rhinebeck, NY & online anywhere
for more info email roselee@roseleeblooston.com
w/ authors Jene Luciani, Cheryl Eaton, Eric Devine,
Peter Aaron, Jim Coyne at
Spring Local Authors Day & Signing
Barnes & Noble, Albany
April 1, 2017
w/ Apprentice House Press Director Kevin Atticks
Apprentice House Author Reading &Reception
Loyola University, MD May 4, 2017
Great Writers Book Group
Watchung Booksellers Montclair, NJ
May 5, 2017
Millbrook Literary Festival – “Debut Authors/Writing Friends: Finding Support on the Way to Publication” a conversation w/novelist Marina Cramer, on our connected writing lives.
May 20, 2017 Millbrook Library, Millbrook, NY
Hitting the West Coast
Queen Anne Book Company‘s event coordinator Karla Pruneda,
Reading & Signing, Seattle, WA, June 15, 2017
San Diego Marriott Marquis & Marina
August 11, 2017
Starr Library, Rhinebeck, NY
October 14, 2017
a reprise of the 5/20/17 Millbrook Literary Festival presentation
Quinnipiac University 
October 24-(Talk Yawp! Series) &
October 25 -noon (Master Class)
Albert Schweitzer Institute, Hamden, CT
Camp Widow Toronto
Featured Presenter: “Things Left Unsaid“– a Writing Workshop & a reprise of “Becoming A New You”
Toronto Marriott Eaton Centre, Ontario
November 11, 2017