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«Back to Authors and Guests Pamela Duncan BOOK:The Big Beautiful PRESENTING:Saturday 11:20 Richland Meeting Room A&B; Saturday 4:30 p.m. Lexington Meeting Room A&B www.pameladuncan.comPamela Duncan was born in CATEGORIES: Fiction Contemporary Southern Fiction |
 Miriam Herin BOOK:Absolution PRESENTING:Saturday 12:40 p.m. Richland Meeting Room C; Sunday 2:00 p.m. Congaree Meeting Room A&B www.miriamherin.comMiriam Herin was born in Miami, Florida. She holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of South Carolina and has taught English at South Carolina, Essex County College in New Jersey, South Carolina's Limestone College, Appalachain State University and Greensboro College. She has been on the editorial staffs of Good Housekeeping Magazine in New York City and the Winston-Salem Journal. Before turning full-time to fiction, she free-lanced as a writer, editor, producer and public relations consultant, focusing on film and video. She lives with her husband in Greensboro, NC. Her novel, Absolution, won the 2007 Novello Literary Award. READ MORE CATEGORIES: Fiction Contemporary First Novel Southern Fiction |
 Gwen Hunter BOOK:Sleep Softly PRESENTING:Saturday 11:20 Lexington Meeting Room B; Saturday 2:00 p.m. Richland Meeting Room A&B www.gwenhunter.comGwen Hunter has authored 16 books, sold in 22 countries, under three pennames, including the acclaimed Rhea Lynch, MD series, the Delande saga novels, Shadow Valley (finalist for the Mary Higgins Clark Award for best mystery), Blackwater Secrets (2007), and Sleep Softly (2008). Writing fantasy under the name Faith Hunter (www.faithhunter.net) she has penned the Enclave series: BloodRing, Seraphs, and Host about the Rogue Mage, Thorn St. Croix. Gwen works full-time in a rural hospital, studies ancient scripture, travels RV-style with her husband and two Pomeranians, makes jewelry, and is learning to swift-water-kayak. CATEGORIES: Fiction Mystery Paranormal Southern Fiction |
 Cassandra King BOOK:Queen of Broken Hearts PRESENTING:Sunday 12:45 p.m. Ballroom www.cassandrakingconroy.comCassandra King, author of four novels, numerous short stories, articles, and essays, was raised on a peanut farm in L.A. (Lower Alabama). Her best-selling novel, The Sunday Wife, was a People magazine Page-Turner, a South Carolina’s Readers Circle choice, named as one of Book Sense’s top reading group selections, and was chosen by the Nestle Corporation for a national campaign to promote reading. The Same Sweet Girls, also a national best-seller, was the number one Book Sense selection when released in February ‘05. Both novels were nominated for SIBA’s Book of the Year award. A fourth novel, Queen of Broken Hearts, a Literary Guild and Book-of-the-Month Club selection, was released in March ‘07. She and her husband, the novelist Pat Conroy, reside in the Low Country of South Carolina. READ MORE CATEGORIES: Fiction Contemporary Southern Fiction |
 Mary Alice Monroe BOOK:Swimming Lessons, Turtle Summer: A Journal for My Daughter PRESENTING:Children's Field Trip Day; Saturday 2:00 p.m.Lexington Meeting Room A&B; Saturday 4:30 p.m. Richland Meeting Room C www.maryalicemonroe.com Mary Alice Monroe is the New York Times bestselling author known for richly textured books that explore the compelling parallels between nature and human nature. Monroe is an active volunteer in local conservation groups and serves on the board of the SC Aquarium. Her dedication to conservation and wildlife inspired her lowcountry novels, Swimming Lessons, The Beach House, Skyward, Sweetgrass and her first children’s book, Turtle Summer: A Journal for My Daughter. In May 2008, her new novel, Time is a River, will be released in hardcover from Pocket Books. Her books are sold worldwide. Mary Alice lives with her husband on Isle of Palms, South Carolina.Mary Alice Monroe will be participating in a special field trip day for pre-selected area 3rd graders on Friday, February 22nd. READ MORE CATEGORIES: Fiction Children's Literature Contemporary Southern Fiction |
 Will Allison BOOK:What You Have Left PRESENTING:Saturday 12:40 p.m. Richland Meeting Room C; Saturday 3:20 p.m. Congaree Meeting Room A&B www.willallison.comWill Allison’s first novel, What You Have Left, was published last year by Free Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. Audio and paperback editions are due out this year. The book is set in CATEGORIES: Fiction Literary First Novel Southern Fiction |
 Tina McElroy Ansa BOOK:Taking After Mudear PRESENTING:Saturday 3:20 p.m. Richland Meeting Room A&B http://www.tinamcelroyansa.com/Tina McElroy Ansa is a novelist, publisher, filmmaker, teacher and journalist. But above all, she is a storyteller. She calls herself “part of a long and honored writing tradition, one of those little Southern girls who always knew she wanted to be a writer.” She grew up in Middle Georgia in the 1950s hearing her grandfather’s stories on the porch of her family home and strangers’ stories downtown in her father’s juke joint, which inspired Mulberry, Georgia, the mythical world of her four novels, Baby of the Family, Ugly Ways, The Hand I Fan With and You Know Better. Her newest novel is Taking After Mudear. READ MORE CATEGORIES: Fiction African American Southern Fiction |
 Virginia Boyd BOOK:One Fell Swoop PRESENTING:Saturday 11:20 Richland Meeting Room A&B; Saturday 4:30 p.m. Lexington Meeting Room A&B www.virginiaboyd.infoVirginia Boyd is a graduate of Duke University and has a Master's in English and Creative Writing from NC State. She teaches creative nonfiction for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Duke University and has taught workshops on fiction and creative nonfiction. A native North Carolinian, she lives in Durham with her husband Alan. READ MORE CATEGORIES: Fiction Contemporary First Novel Southern Fiction |
 Josephine Humphreys BOOK:Nowhere Else on Earth PRESENTING:Saturday 12:40 p.m. Lexington Meeting Room A&B http://us.penguingroup.com/static/rguides/us/nowhere_else_on_earth.htmlJosephine Humphreys is the recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. She is the author of Dreams of Sleep (winner of the 1985 Ernest Hemingway Award for first fiction), Rich in Love (made into a major motion picture), and The Fireman's Fair. Her most recent novel is Nowhere Else on Earth, which is set on the banks of the Lumbee River and drawn from the true history of North Carolina's Lumbee Indians. She lives in Charleston, South Carolina. READ MORE CATEGORIES: Fiction Literary Southern Fiction |
 Man Martin BOOK:Days of the Endless Corvette PRESENTING:Saturday 12:40 p.m. Richland Meeting Room C; Saturday 4:30 p.m. Richland Meeting Room A&B http://www.manmartin.netMan Martin spent his formative childhood years in Sandersville, Georgia, a town so small that the phonebook for the entire county – white and yellow pages included – was the size and thickness of a large comic book. His experiences there helped shape his debut novel, Days of the Endless Corvette. His work has appeared in The Alaska Quarterly Review, The Kenyon Review, and McSweeny's Online. For seven years he wrote and drew the comic strip “Sibling Revelry” for Universal Press Syndicate. His second novel, currently titled Paradise Dogs, is under representation by the Fairbank Literary Agency. He lives in Atlanta with his wife Nancy where he teaches high school English and coaches debate. READ MORE CATEGORIES: Fiction Contemporary Southern Fiction |
 Janna McMahan BOOK:Calling Home PRESENTING:Saturday 11:20 Richland Meeting Room A&B; Saturday 2:00 p.m. Richland Meeting Room C; Sunday 3:00 p.m. Congaree Meeting Room A&B www.jannamcmahan.comJanna McMahan sets many of her stories in the lush hills and farmland of her native Bluegrass state and in the Lowcountry swamps, beaches and marshlands of her adopted state of South Carolina. Her short fiction has won numerous awards including the Imaginative Writing Award from the Kentucky Women Writer’s Conference, the Harriette Arnow Award from the Appalachian Writers Association, the South Carolina Fiction Project and the Piccolo Spoleto Fiction Open. Her short stories have been selected for literary journals such as Wind, Limestone, Yamassee, StorySouth, Alimentum and The Nantahala Review. READ MORE CATEGORIES: Fiction Southern Fiction |
 Nicole Seitz BOOK:Trouble the Water PRESENTING:Saturday 10:00 a.m. Richland Meeting Room C www.nicoleseitz.comNicole Seitz grew up on Hilton Head Island, a small town off the coast of South Carolina, where she was surrounded by palmetto trees, marsh grass, sandy beaches and unique Southern characters. As an author and artist, Nicole's work is deeply influenced by the mystique and charm of the Lowcountry. A graduate of UNC at Chapel Hill’s School of Journalism, Nicole also holds a degree in illustration from Savannah College of Art & Design. She is the owner of a web design firm in the Charleston, SC area where she lives with her husband and their two children. Also a freelance writer/illustrator for newspapers and magazines, Nicole's work has been in The Island Packet, The Bluffton Packet, South Carolina Magazine, House Calls and Charleston Magazine, and her Lowcountry paintings have been exhibited in Charleston-area galleries. Both of her novels, The Spirit of Sweetgrass and Trouble the Water, feature her original paintings on the cover.Nicole began writing fiction when she was 30-years-old and expecting her first child. Her love for novel-writing has only intensified since then. Today, Nicole is working hard on her next book. CATEGORIES: Fiction Contemporary Faith Southern Fiction |
 George Singleton BOOK:Work Shirts for Madmen PRESENTING:Saturday 11:20 Lexington Meeting Room A www.georgesingleton.comGeorge Singleton has published the collections These People Are Us, The Half-Mammals of CATEGORIES: Fiction Southern Fiction |
 Lynn York BOOK:The Sweet Life PRESENTING:Saturday 11:20 Richland Meeting Room A&B; Saturday 4:30 p.m. Lexington Meeting Room A&B www.lynnyork.comLynn York is the author of two novels: The Piano Teacher (2004) and The Sweet Life (2007), a Booksense Notable Book. Educated at CATEGORIES: Fiction Contemporary Southern Fiction |
 Cathy Pickens BOOK:Hush My Mouth PRESENTING:Saturday 11:20 Lexington Meeting Room B www.cathypickens.comCathy Pickens’ family has called CATEGORIES: Fiction Mystery Southern Fiction |
 Beth Webb Hart BOOK:The Wedding Machine PRESENTING:Saturday 10:00 a.m. Richland Meeting Room C www.bethwebbhart.comBeth Webb Hart, a South Carolina native, holds a B.A. in English Literature from Hollins College and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. Her first novel, Grace at Low Tide, was one of three finalists for the 2006 Christy Awards in the general/contemporary fiction category. She lectures on a variety of topics and has taught creative writing on the college and high school level where she received two national awards from Scholastic, Inc. Beth Webb lives with her husband, composer Edward Hart, and their daughter in Charleston, South Carolina, where she serves as a writer-in-residence at Ashley Hall. READ MORECATEGORIES: Fiction Contemporary Faith Southern Fiction |