12 Noon Sherry Knowlton-Booked for Lunch
Monday, October 17, 2016-Bosler Memorial Library
Bring a bag lunch and we will supply bottled water and healthy snacks!
Spend an hour with Sherry Knowlton as she discusses her writing of suspense novels!
Books are available for purchase.
Biography: Sherry Knowlton is the author of the successful Alexa Williams series of suspense novels: DEAD of AUTUMN and DEAD of SUMMER. When not writing the next Alexa Williams th rill er, Knowlton works on her health care consulting business or travels around the world. She and her husband live in the mountains of South Central Pennsylvania. Her next novel, DEAD of SPRING, will be released in the next few months .
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12 Noon Patricia Valdata-Booked for Lunch
(Poetry & Pizza)
Friday, October 21, 2016-Bosler Memorial Library
We will supply pizza and bottled water and Pat talks about her wonderful new book, Where No Man Can Touch!
Would you be interested in finding out who the first woman pilot was? Which woman tlew a powered aircraft before the Wright Brothers? And what achievement you'd be rewarded with for staying aloft for 30 seconds in 1929?The answers are in my new book, Where No Man Can Touch, which won the 2015 Donald Justice Poetry Prize. It celebrates the lives of women aviation pioneers who once were very famous, but who have been mosty forgotten today. Each poem is written in the voice of these woman pilots, telling their stories from the era of hot-air balloons to breaking the sound barrier. I have a PowerPoint presentation that I combine with a poetry reading that generates a lively Q&A.
Biography: Pat Valdata has an MFA in fiction writing from Goddard College. She is the author of two novels: Crosswind (Wind Canyon Books, 1997) and the award-winning The Other Sister (Plain View Press, 2008). She has judged fiction competitions for the Wisconsin Fellowship of Writers, the Maiyland Writers Association, and the Writer's Center of Bethesda, Maryland. She has taught writing and literature courses for the University of Maryland University College (UMUC), University of Delaware and Cecil College. Pat is a 2013 recipient of a grant f om the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation for a residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
Pat also writes poetry. Her first full-length poetiy book, Inherent Vice, was published in 2011 by Pecan Grove Press. Her chapbook, Looking for Bivalve, also by Pecan Grove Press (in 2002), was a competition finalist. Pat's work has appeared most recently in Little Patuxent Review, Passager and the anthologies Challenges for the Delusional (ed. Christine Malvasi, Jane Street Press, 2012) and The Cento: A Collection of Collage Poems (ed. Theresa Welford, Red Hen Press, 2011).
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12 Noon Bob McLeod-Booked for Lunch
Thursday, October 20, 2016-Bosler Memorial Library
Bob McLeod wrote and illustrated Superhero ABC, a humorous alphabet book published by HarperCollins which received starred reviews. It features his own fun superheroes he created just for the book, and us-es humorous alliteration to help teach the alphabet. He is also a well-known comic book artist and has pencilled or inked all of the major heroes for Marvel and DC, including Spider-Man, The X-Men, Super-man, Batman, Wonder Woman, GI Joe, Star Wars, The Hulk, and many more. He's best known for co-creating and illustrating The New Mutants, which will soon be made into a major motion picture.
Bob will talk about using superheroes to get kids in-terested in reading, and the pros and cons of them
(some people consider them violent and sexist), and why he created his heroes to be the way they are. He will do some drawings to demonstrate some ways he designed his superheroes to be fun and non-violent.
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