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Wine & Sign: Eric Dusenbery

Join Bookmark It for another exciting month of Wine & Sign Fridays! Throughout the month of June, they’ve invited Florida authors for signings and sippings to help you get inspired to explore and discover the great state of Florida.

Eric Dusenbery, author and photographer behind Florida Soup: Putting History On the Table, features experiences alongside poignant portraits of food producers in Florida. The collection offers a rich harvest of storytellers, from a tobacco-spitting blue crab fisherman to a rancher who reminisces about Depression-era farming, woven into a compelling look at historic cooking habits, food production and recipes that defined the family and community in rural and small-town Florida. Eric writes, “Our state is unique in its food consumption and production practices both from a historical perspective and present-day realities. Florida has a rich harvest of storytellers from a tobacco-spitting blue crab fisherman who recounts commercial fishing practices of yesteryear to a rancher who reminisces about Depression-era farming and a few other surprising tales. This is a project on Florida’s love affair with food and storytelling.”

Celebrations

Your Scribbler’s Living Right!

Mary Anna Evans books

 

You know you’re living right when the postman brings not one, but a complete set of NINE,  Faye Longchamp Archaeological Mysteries by the inimitable Mary Anna Evans. (Yep – that’s Isolation, the uncorrected proof, so nanny nanny boo boo.) It’s gonna be a long, hot, wonderful summer in the hammock for your Scribbler, boys and girls.  Don’t be envious; you can get your own right here.

From her website:

Mary Anna Evans has degrees in physics and engineering, but her heart is in the past.  Her series character, Faye Longchamp, lives the exciting life of an archaeologist, and Mary Anna envies her a little.  Mary Anna is a recipient of the Mississippi Library Association’s Mississippi Author Award and her novels have received recognitions including a spot on Voice of Young America’s (VOYA) list of “Adult Mysteries with Young Adult Appeal.”  Mary Anna is a recipient of a writer’s residency from The Studios of Key West, and she has won the Benjamin Franklin Award, the Florida Historical Society’s Patrick D. Smith Florida Literature Award, and three Florida Book Awards bronze medals.  Faye Longchamp’s growing list of adventures include Artifacts, Relics, Effigies, Findings, Floodgates, Strangers, Plunder, Rituals, and, coming in the summer of 2015, Isolation. Published by Poisoned Pen Press, they are available from all  major outlets in hardcover, trade paper, ebook, large-print, and audio editions.

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LibCon is Coming!

libcon
A day-long celebration of books at the Orlando Public Library. Come and check it out for book signings, panel discussion, and writing workshops!

The Author’s Fair in Library Central will feature 26 authors of all genres from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. NYT Bestselling Author and Printz Honor recipient Rick Yancey will give the keynote address at 11 a.m. and sign immediately after his talk. Yancey’s book The 5th Wave is now a major motion picture, releasing 2016. From 12 p.m. to 4 p.m., there will be panel discussions for both readers and aspiring authors.

Attending authors are: R.L. Austin, Kait Ballenger, Vivi Barnes, Stacy Barton, Richard Lee Byers, E.M. Caines, Doug Dillon, Lucienne Diver, James Driggers, Christina Farley, Maria Geraci, Lori Goldstein, Shane Hinton, Nathan Holic, Trisha Leaver, Ethan Long, Tawdra Kandle, Marianne Kirby, David Lapham, Lynne Matson, Amy Christine Parker, H.D. Smith, J.A. Souders, Jeff Strand, Nancy Robards Thompson, Lynne Waddell. (Subject to change.)