Book Talk and Signing-Local Author Alycia Vreeland

Chaucer’s Books hosts local author Alycia Vreeland for an in-store book talk and signing of both her illustrated memoir Baby Darlin’  and poetry collaboration with her late husband Jon Vreeland, titled Laughing in Her Sleep.

About Baby Darlin’  

Most of them are dead.  Silence is broken and the secret unearthed.

Surviving the Cajun Curse, her mentally ill momma calls her Baby Darlin’.  Pig calls her Brillo and takes away her innocence by using her to escape his own twisted mind. Her cousin Willy, calls her snaggle, but she doesn’t care, she thinks they will marry someday.  her Papa, a recovering alcoholic, her hero.  Her Grandma, the ever present, Shamer is a dark shadow to remind her of her worth.  her drug and love addiction takes her through a series of abusive love stories and finally she proudly escapes into the loving arms of her higher power.  This illustrated memoir brutally rips the bandaid and exposes the stigma around child sexual abuse, with compassion and insight through the yes of a brave little girl, Baby Darlin’.

Alycia Vreeland, is the author of  Baby Darlin’, an illustrated memoir. Her art is featured in the documentaries, The Cure, and Guns, Bombs, War, A Love Story and journals, Tuck Magazine, Rebelle Society, Painted Cave and The Montecito Journal. She is the creator of Didi Rock’s Greeting Cards, inspired in the spirit of empowering women.

About Laughing in Her Sleep

“Jon passed and yet, here are his words, his heart still beating.” Jack Grisham,
Author, Director,  Musician

This collection of poetry is the love child of two creative minds.

Jon Vreeland, the author of The Taste of Cigarettes, was a self-proclaimed reincarnation of Hemingway and highly influenced by Bukowski’s crude humor and womanizing grit. He claimed writing poetry gave his brain a respite from his struggle with drug addiction.Alycia Vreeland’s illustrations and photos are a visual representation of Jon’s words. The manuscript of this book was discovered and resurrected by Alycia Vreeland, Jon Vreeland’s wife, after Jon’s unexpected death on September 15, 2020.