Great Saturday at the Read Local Author Booth at the Broadway Community Market with author Lori D'Angelo

I won a copy of SCORCHED EARTH! Thanks to World War II History Basic Books

The Read Local Authors Booth will be back at the Broadway Community Market this Saturday. Our guest is Judith Dreyer, non-fiction author in the spirituality, self-help field/genre. Judith will be signing copies of her book from 9AM-1PM. Plus will have titles from other local

Thursday night at the Shenandoah County Writers Critique Circle we reviewed excerpts from: a personal essay, a political thriller, romantic suspense, and WW1 Fantasy. We'll be back at the county library for more critiques and comradery.

Saturday afternoon at Parentheses Books and the celebration of the release of HOOKING UP by Morgan Vega (L-r) Jamie Hiner of Community Counseling Center, Author Morgan Vega, and Parentheses Books owner Amanda Friss

Who are all these cats? The Siamese is Madame Marie Curie, the title character from THE CAT WHO LOVED DAVID DUCHOVNY. The black cat is Salem from my paranormal thriller SUPERSTITION The orange striper is the un-named cat on the cover of FAST TIMES AT SPIRO AGNEW HIGH. And the

Tuesday night after the 178th edition of the Charlottesville Writers Critique Circle, we headed to Rapture on the Downtown Mall for food, drinks, and conversation.

We hear a lot about the Pulitzers, the Bookers, and the Newberys, but the prize that writers truly desire, the one award that captures the heart of storytelling with its focus on raw creativity and peer recognition is the Charlottesville Writers Critique Circle Retreat Best Story

This Saturday the Read Local Authors Booth at the Broadway Community Market welcome author Stephanie Gardner. From 9am to 1pm, Stephanie will be signing and selling copies of RATTLESNAKE GRANNY and RATTLESNAKE GRANNY STRIKES AGAIN. Plus, we'll have plenty of books from other

We had a tremendous response to our call for submissions for SHEANDOAH VALLEY FANTASTIC. Catherine and I were blessed with some really imaginative, funny, scary, and thought-provoking stories. It was a challenge to make our final decisions. In the end we accepted 24 stories.

Author, Historian and Small Publisher Heather S Cole was the monthly speaker at the June meeting of the Rocktown Writers Guild. Her topic was MEDIA RELATIONS FOR AUTHORS and Heather did a fabulous job explaining the how's, the why's, and do's and the dont's. Next month we're

Thursday night the meeting rooms at the Library were booked so the Harrisonburg Writers Critique Circle relocated to Panera Bread. Congrats to Kent on the publication of his novel OUTLANDER Good Luck to Tim who's moving to Chicago to pursue his MFA

Juvenile Eastern Milk Snake

This Saturday the Read Local Authors Booth at the Broadway Community Market welcomes Beth Ford. Beth will be signing copies of her mysteries and historical fiction from 9am-1pm. Plus, we'll have plenty of other books from local authors.

Paid my respects and paid tribute to Robert E. Howard this morning. The seminal tragedy of American fantasy is we lost him to suicide at 30, denying us of decades of work from a man who did more for literature in a decade than many authors dream to in a lifetime.

It's here! Friends, I'd be so grateful if you read this 2,000-word story at a pub I greatly admire, Great Lakes Review. You can't tell by the title, but it's the story of a saint. See if you can identify him. greatlakesreview.org/asshole-of-the…

This Saturday drop by 2nd Act Books on Charlottesville's Downtown Mall and pick up a copy of CHARLOTTESVILLE FANTASTIC, signed by the editors, Catherine Simpson and myself. We'll be there from 1-3pm, and if you stop by you might get the scoop on our next project.

Near record turnout for the Harrisonburg Writers Critique Circle on Thursday night. We're taking a break for the 4th of July but will be back at the Central Library in about a month on July 17th.