Category Archives: What’s Happening

Dale Slongwhite to speak about Fed Up: The High Costs of Cheap Food

Dale Slongwhite’s book, Fed Up: The High Costs of Cheap Food was released in May by the University Press of Florida. She interviewed eleven African American former farmworkers who planted and harvested produce on the farms surrounding Lake Apopka. She wrote the book from their point of view. Barry Estabrook, author of TomatoLand gave this endorsement: “Poignant, gut-wrenching and real, this book should be required reading for everyone who eats.” Dale will be speaking and signing books on the following dates:

  • August      16, 4:00 – Orlando Public Library, 101 E. Central Boulevard, Orlando,      Florida. One hour program.
  • August      17, 1:00 – 3:00 – Barrel of Books, 128 W. 4th Street, Mt. Dora, Florida.      Book signing only.
  • August      28, 7:00 – Barnes and Noble, 2414 E. Colonial Drive, Orlando, Florida. One      hour program.

 

Dale Slongwhite

Editor/Publisher Joan Leggitt to Speak at Winter Park Library on July 26th

Joan Leggitt

 

Joan Leggitt, Editor and Publisher at Twisted Road Publications, will speak and take questions from 10 a.m. – noon on Saturday, July 26th at the Winter Park Public Library, 460 E. New England Avenue, Winter Park, FL 32789. Leggitt will provide tips from an editor/publisher’s perspective for writers to polish their manuscripts into publication-ready submissions. The event is free and open to the public as part of the library’s New Work (How-To) series.

A Conversation With Sandi Hutcheson – Sunday 2-4 p.m. – Winter Park Library

LooksGreatNaked cover

Brad and I hope we see you at the Winter Park Library tomorrow, Sunday, July 6th from 2-4 p.m. for a conversation with Sandi Hutcheson, author of the novel Looks Great Naked.

A specialist in turning hurtful realities into selling, compelling fiction, Sandi will discuss how to use humor to approach difficult material.

Sandi has an MFA from Spalding University, a PhD from Warnborough College in Dublin, is currently working on a history of her father’s Atlanta mega-church, and will lead a group of writers to the places that inspired Grimm’s Fairy Tales this fall. In her spare time, she speaks at venues like last weekend’s Florida Writers Mini-conference in Altamonte Springs.  I plan to ask her if she ever sleeps!