Six years ago The Sitting Room began producing a small publication every Spring based on a particular theme. The 2009 publication, edited by Rosemary Manchester, will be devoted to people's travel experiences.

The community's many readers and writers contribute to these volumes. They are then compiled by J.J. Wilson, with essential help from Sarah Baker, Michael McCaffry, Karen Petersen, and others.

This simple process has resulted in some wonderfully readable anthologies that combine well-known writers beside people publishing for the first time on such evocative subjects as War and Peace (2003), Nature (2004), Humor (2005), and Books (2006 & 7), Spirit Matters (2008), and Travel (2009). Public readings from these compilations occur at the Sitting Room birthday parties, the annual Sonoma County Book Festival, and indeed anywhere we are invited.....The books are "sold" for $5 or more donation and are given away too. Archive copies are, of course, always available for reading at The Sitting Room.

The 2010 theme is Surprise!. For more information on what this theme encompasses, along with publication guidelines, go to Surprise publication specifics.