Paths to Publication with Libby Ware, Charlene Ball, Trudy Nan Boyce, Lynn Hesse, and MaryAnn Hopper.
Is 2018 the year you plan to start or complete your novel? Did you just sprint through National Novel Writing Month and want guidance about how to take your book from draft to publication? Join us for a very special panel on Paths to Publication especially for women authors. The panel includes bookseller and hybrid press author Libby Ware as moderator, and hybrid press author Charlene Ball, traditionally published Trudy Nan Boyce, small press author Lynn Hesse, and self-published author Mary Ann Hopper. Each author will speak to the highs and lows of her path to publication and the panel will answer questions from the audience about their respective paths and the state of the industry today! This is a Charis Circle From Margin to Center Literary event and the suggested donation is $5.
"A fresh, gritty debut. Boyce unveils one of the best new series characters in ages. . . A book that combines fast-paced suspense with moving insights."--#1 New York Times-bestselling author Lisa Gardner
From an author with more than thirty years' experience in the Atlanta Police Department comes a riveting procedural debut introducing an unforgettable heroine.
A timely and penetrating mystery about the intersection of policing, racism, and the community--set in a city at its boiling point--from an author who's been in the trenches and seen it all.
A senseless act of violence.
From author Trudy Nan Boyce, whose police procedural debut was hailed as "authentic" (NYTBR) and "exceptional" (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel), returns with a stunning prequel to the Detective Salt series, the story behind the case that earned Salt her promotion to homicide.
Lum has always been on the outside. At eight, she was diagnosed with what we now call an intersex condition and is told she can't expect to marry. Now, at thirty-three, she has no home of her own but is shuttled from one relative's house to another--valued for her skills, but never treated like a true member of the family.
Emilia Bassano has four strikes against her: she is poor, beautiful, female, and intelligent in Elizabethan England. To make matters worse, she comes from a family of secret Jews. When she is raped as a teenager, she knows she probably will not be able to make a good marriage, so she becomes the mistress of a much older nobleman.
Carly Redmund, a Mobile, Alabama, police recruit is about to mess up her first major crime scene. Her training officer, J.C. Grey, orders her to give up the evidence found in the bottom of a well, a high school class ring. She does. Grey tucks the ring in his pocket. What happened to the bag-it-and-tag-it evidence procedure?
"He flipped two small levers and heaved the door so hard on its rails that the clatter was piercing. We scurried past Jake into the light of the shop like frantic insects exposed under a rock. I was the first to the outside door, twisting the handle desperately to pop the lock in the knob. Ruby was pushing against my shoulders with her frigid fingers." These five stories give a glimpse into Edith's dealings with her husband, Kenny T, and the escapades that she embarks on with her friend Ruby. In these tales set in the rural South, you are welcomed into a coterie prone to humorous and intriguing mishaps. If Edith is not reacting to some upset provoked by her husband, Kenny T, she's recording what puzzles her in her spiral-bound diary. Just baking her "different but delicious" concoctions leads to much more than she intended. Edith and Kenny T's relationship is often a little rocky since they both have minds of their own. Kenny T has a wandering eye and a desire for schemes that only his bird dog Watchman gives an ear to. Everyday Edith talks on the phone to her friend Ruby, who is often quick to speak her mind and join in on surprising escapades. In each story the paths these colorful characters cross lead to unexpected outcomes. Edith's strong will is not thwarted, but expanded to take in feelings she is surprised to discover in herself.
