Shirley Twiss
Mon., March 29th, 2010 from 12-2pm
@ The Lazy Goat, $25 per person
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Greenville resident Shirley Twiss always longed to be a writer, but for many years this dream took a back seat to her happy life as a wife, mother and teacher. Shirley’s debut novel, Cotton in Augusta, was nominated for the 2009 SIBA Award for Fiction and has proved well worth the wait.
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Ron Rash
Fri., April 30th, 2010 from 12-2pm
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Beloved Southern author Ron Rash returns to Greenville after selling out his previous event with us. He will be reading from his new short-story collection, Burning Bright.
Fri., May 7th, 2010 from 12-2pm
@ Soby’s, $25 per person
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Meet Ann B. Ross, beloved author of the Miss Julia series. In Miss Julia Renews Her Vows (Viking, hardcover, $24.95), the 11th book in the series, Ann Ross’s feisty Southern heroine must do a little detective work while at the same time show her husband, Sam, that there’s life left in their marital batteries.
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Karen White
Wed., May 12th, 2010 from 12-2pm
@ The Lazy Goat, $25 per person
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Karen White returns for her second Book Your Lunch event with us. She’s a funny and fabulous speaker as well as an award-winning Southern author. Her 12th book, On Folly Beach (NAL, paperback, $15.00) releases on May 4th.
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Mindy Friddle
Wed., May 26th, 2010 from 12-2pm
@ The Lazy Goat, $25 per person
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Greenville novelist Mindy Friddle is also a gardener and her horitcultural passion seeps into her writing. Her second novel, Secret Keepers (Picador, paperback, $14.00) is set in a small Southern town — a land of neglected Confederate monuments, faith-based shopping centers, and overgrown, seedy estates — where a once-grand heirloom garden is covertly rescued, revealing a divided family’s secret lives of turmoil and yearning.
Mary Alice Monroe
Thurs., June 10th, 2010 from 12-2pm
@ Soby’s, $25 per person
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Join us for a rare chance to meet bestselling Southern novelist Mary Alice Monroe. Her latest novel, Last Light Over Carolina (Pocket, paperback, $15.00), has been nominated for the 2009 SIBA Award and was both a New York Times and SIBA bestseller in hardcover.
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George Singleton
Wed., June 23rd, 2010 from 12-2pm
@ The Lazy Goat, $25 per person
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution calls SC author George Singleton, “[the] unchallenged king of the comic Southern short story.” In addition to being a critically acclaimed author of 2 novels and 4 short-story collections, George is also a creative writing teacher. His most recent book is a nonfiction advice guide to writers: Pep Talks, Warnings, and Screeds: Indispensable Wisdom and Cautionary Advice for Writers (Writer’s Digest Books, hardcover, $17.99).
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Fiction Addiction
Fiction Addiction dreamed up this event series, books the authors, and provides books for the events.
Table 301
Table 301 provides the event space and the delicious lunches.
An Author World
An Author World is a sponsor of our Spring 2010 session. They are committed to promoting and producing your best work through classes, conferences, and special events for writers and illustrators in the Upstate.
Book Your Lunch with Patricia Sprinkle
Patricia Sprinkle
Fri., March 19th, 2010 from 12-2pm
@ The Lazy Goat, $25 per person
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Mystery author Patricia Sprinkle gives her readers a change of pace with her newest book, Hold Up the Sky, the story of four women who come together to live on a drought-stricken Georgia farm.
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