BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:-//com.denhaven2/NONSGML ri_cal gem//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Ten local Chicken Soup for the Soul writers will sign books a t three independent bookstores in the St. Charles/St. Louis area on Satu rday\, December 8\, 2012. The annual combination book signing and canned food drive has expanded this year from its original venue at Main Stree t Books in St. Charles to include the other two stores in honor of Chick en Soup for the Soul&rsquo\;s upcoming twenty-year anniversary. Customer s may bring in a canned good to be donated to area food pantries and rec eive 20% off their entire purchase that day.\nMain Street Books will fea ture:\n-Cathi LaMarche\, author of the novel While the Daffodils Danced. Her stories appear in eight Chicken Soup for the Soul books\, as well a s other anthologies. She currently teaches composition and literature\, and she writes in her spare time.\n-Linda O'Connell\, published in seven teen Chicken Soup for the Soul books and many other anthologies\, magazi nes and books.\n-Lynn Cahoon\, an Alton\, IL contemporary romance author with a love of hot\, sexy men\, real and imagined-ranging from rogue wi tch hunters to modern cowboys. She blogs at her website (www.lynncahoon. wordpress.com) about writing\, lessons learned while surviving breast ca ncer\, and living the dream.\n-Pat Wahler\, who resides in St. Peters wi th her husband\, dog\, and cat. She is a grant writer by day and freelan ce writer by night and has been published in dozens of local and nationa l venues. A life-long animal lover\, Pat ponders critters\, writing\, an d life's little mysteries at www.critteralley.blogspot.com.\nSince 1993\ , more than 112 million copies of Chicken Soup for the Soul anthologies have been sold in the United States and Canada alone\, with titles trans lated into more than 40 languages. Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing\ , LLC\, is a world leader in life improvement. For more information\, pl ease visit: www.chickensoup.com. URL:http://stcharles.patch.com/events/chicken-soup-for-the-soul-canned-so up-for-the-body-book-signing SUMMARY:"\;Chicken Soup for the Soul\, Canned Soup for the Body"\ ; Book Signing LOCATION:Main Street Books: 307 S Main St\, Saint Charles\, MO END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR