Schedule of Author Readings & Book Signings

Schedule of Author Readings and Book Signings

Saturday, September 29, 2018

Under the Tent - Saturday Host: Michelle Oram. & Sunday Host: Roland Edwards, Jr.
Good Shepherd Church Hall - 110 W Catharine St. - Host: Jeffrey Stocker.

9 – 9:30 AM
Under the Tent

MINI-PANEL PREVIEW of
Triumph over Trauma II: They Persisted with Terri Muuss and Matt Pasca

9 – 9:30 AM
Good Shepherd Church Hall

MINI-PANEL PREVIEW A sneak peek of Poetry as Storytelling with Gennarose Nethercroft (The Lumberjack’s Dove) and U-Meleni Mhlaba-Adebo (Soul Psalms)

10 – 10:15 AM
Good Shepherd Church Hall

Local author Penny James (0 Degrees of Separation) discusses her newest book

10 – 10:30 AM
Under the Tent

MINI-PANEL PREVIEW Get an early look into Peek into the Paranormal with Rose Porto, Nancy Orlen Weber, Anna Raimondi and, Nancy duTertre

10:30 – 10:45 AM
Good Shepherd Church Hall

Local romance novelist, Gloria E. Taylor (Surrender My Heart) shares her latest book

11 – 11:30 AM
Under the Tent

Elizabeth Geitz (I Am That Child:Changing Hearts and Changing the World) in conversation with Father Van Bankston of Good Shepherd Episcopal Church

11:45 – 12:15 Noon
Under the Tent

David Lender (On Home Soil) and John Thompson (Armageddon Conspiracy) speak on their thrillers

12 – 12:15 PM
Good Shepherd Church Hall

Local author Sherry Amatenstein (How Does That Make You Feel? True Confessions from Both Sides of the Therapy Couch) discusses how her new book can help improve your lifestyle

12:30 – 12:45 PM
Good Shepherd Church Hall

Local author AH Verge reads excerpts from (Nightmare in the Woods) the summer his family met Bigfoot and (The Little Englishman) the true story of his great, great grandfather’s perilous journey as a young boy in the 1850s. He believes that every family has a story worth telling.

2 – 3 PM
Under the Tent

A Science Fiction Continuum: An Extended Conversation with Karen Heuler, Matthew Kressel, Mercurio Rivera, and Chandler Klang Smith

3:30 – 4 PM
Under the Tent

Tina Alexis Allen (Hiding Out: A Memoir of Drugs, Deception, and Double Lives) and Linda Schreyer (Tears and Tequila) share selections from their memoirs

Sunday, September 30, 2018

9 – 10 AM
Under the Tent

KIDS READ TOO Local authors Deborah Guarino (Is Your Mama a Llama?) and John Thompson (The Girl From Felony Bay) read selections from their recent works

10:30 -11 AM
Under the Tent

MINI-PANEL PREVIEW for Women of Our Words with Suzi Banks Baum (An Anthology of Babes: 36 Women Give Motherhood a Voice), Alexia LaFortune (Sex, Love, and Spirit: A Memoir), and Julie Maloney (A Matter of Chance: A Novel)

11:15 – 11:45 AM
Under the Tent

Judy WhiteHow Not to Kill an Orchid – floral care demonstration. Judy’s book, Bloom-Again Orchids: 50 Easy-Care Orchids that Flower Again and Again and Again will be available for sale in the tent.

12  – 12:45 PM
Under the Tent

Local novelists Michael Hartnett (Tales of Allamucha) and Marina Cramer (Roads: A Novel), and Gail Pendleton (Two in a Canoe) in conversation

1 – 1:30 PM
Good Shepherd Church Hall

Joules Evans (Shaken, Not Stirred: A Comedy about my Tragedy) and Angela M. Giles discuss conquering life’s challenges

1:30 – 2 PM
Under the Tent

Author, editor, historian, and photographer Nathaniel Popkin (Everything is Borrowed) reads from his latest offering

2 – 2:15 PM
Good Shepherd Church Hall

Rusty Tagliareni (Antiquity Echoes: A Photographed Tour of Abandoned America) shows us the relics of architecture

2:30 – 3 PM
Under the Tent

Poets Elizabeth Dispenza and Kerri Nicole McCaffrey (Walpack and Such) share their work

3  – 4 PM
Under the Tent

Michelle Darne (Parent Deleted) in conversation with Kate Thomsen (Building Resilient Students) and Andrew Marotta (The Principal Surviving and Thriving)