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Writer’s Fair

Northland Library Writer’s Fair

Saturday, October 4 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Calling all new and aspiring authors! Join us October 4 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. for a day of panels, workshops, and advice from local authors. Purchase books, chat with authors, and work on your own writing skills!

Planning to attend? Let us know by filling out this short registration form!

Schedule of events:
10:30 to 11:30 a.m. 
Talking Books: Discussing Audiobooks with Laney David and Amber Battaglia

Kickstarting Your Writing: Crowdfunding Your First Book with Jamie Lackey

12 to 1 p.m.
Part of Your World: Worldbuilding panel moderated by Frederic S. Durbin with Christina Bunner and Joshua David Bellin

1:30 to 2:30 p.m.
Choose Your Path: Deciding Your Route to Publishing panel Cathy Corn and Cori Wamsley

List of Authors attending:
Em S. A’cor, author of Twitter Crush, Greg and the Weddings, & Greg and the Jill of All Trades
Bethany Barker, author of A Book Club’s Guide to Murder and Mayhem
Joshua David Bellin, author of Myriad, Ecosystem, Survival Colony 9, and Freefall
Christina Bunner, author of Love Never Lost
Brian Collella, author of Out of the Fire and The Fire Inside
Cathy Corn, author of Write Your Book for a More Amazing Life, Murder Through the Looking-Glass, and The Lilith & the Faeries series
Annette Dashofy, author of the Zoe Chambers Mystery series, Keep Your Family Close, and Death by Equine
Lainey Davis, author of Sweet Distraction, book 1 of the Stag Brothers series
Carrie Ann DiRisio, author of Becoming a Main Character and Austen Tea Party: A Charity Anthology
Frederic S. Durbin, author of A Green and Ancient Light, Dragonfly, and The Star Shard
Beck Grey, author of Love in the Pacific Northwest series and The Great Maple Mistake
Katey Hawthorne, author of the Superpowered Love series and The Rade series
J.V. Hilliard, author of The Warminster series and The Element of Time
Eileen Enwright Hodgetts, author of The Girl on the Carpathia, The Girl in the Lifeboat, and The Girl on the Titanic
Jamie Lackey, author of The Forest God and Shadows on Glass and Other Stories
Mark Macedonia, author of Silhouettes of the Dark, Beneath a Crescent Moon, and The Soles of Cyrus Eblis
Sarah McKnight, author of The Reaper Chronicles and The Basement Gang series
Mary Ann Parfitt, author of Starting Over Single, Shelby & Shawn, and Her Eyes Were on India
Linda Rettstatt, author of Ladies in Waiting, Troublemaker, and A Well-Imagined Life
Leslie Savisky, author of Other People’s Words, Almost Too Late, and Mischief Takes the Case
Jennifer Silbaugh, author of A Dove in the Shadows
Doug Solter, author of Spies Like Me and My Girlfriend Bites
Paul E Tedesco, author of Princess of the Apostles, The Iscariot File, Papal Audience, among others
Cori Wamsley, author of The Treasures We Seek and Braving the Shore
Chris Whitlatch, author of Notorious Pittsburgh and A Teddy Bear’s Christmas Wish

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  • Sunday: 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
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  • Friday: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
  • Saturday: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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