Authors’ Cafe
WVLA’s 2013 Conference offers a wonderful opportunity to meet and become better acquainted with the work of area authors. You’ll have an opportunity to converse with the authors during the breakfast buffet scheduled for Friday October 11 from 8:30 – 10:30 and hear brief presentations. Afterwards, you’ll have a chance to browse their books, which will be available for sale – or ordering -- at individual author tables. Picture books, middle-grade novels, adult fiction, memoir and history – what a variety, with several titles fresh off the press!
WVLA attendees will be among the first to hear about Charleston resident Sarah Sullivan’s brand-new novel for young readers, with a release date of Oct. 8 from Candlewick: All That’s Missing. Sarah’s available picture book titles are Passing the Music Down, Once Upon a Baby Brother and Dear Baby: Letters from Your Big Brother.
Belinda Anderson, perhaps better known to the state’s librarians for her short-story collections, will be traveling from Greenbrier County to introduce her latest book, also a middle-grade novel: Jackson Vs. Witchy Wanda: Making Kid Soup.
William Trent Pancoast will be rolling into town on his old BMW airhead motorcycle, with his novels Crashing and Wildcat.
Clifford Garstang will be traveling from the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia to share his short-story collection, In an Uncharted Country, and his novel-in-stories, What the Zhang Boys Know.
The title of Roger Engle’s book says it all -- Stories from a Small Town: Remembering My Childhood in Hedgesville, West Virginia.
Thanks to the conference’s proximity to Shepherd University, two professors will be sharing their work. John E. Stealey III, Distinguished Professor, Emeritus, will introduce West Virginia’s Civil War-Era Constitution: Loyal Revolution, Confederate Counter-Revolution, and the Convention of 1872.
Dr. Dorothy E. Hively, director of Disability Support Services and associate professor of special education at Shepherd, has written Shepherd University, just released this summer. The book tells the school’s story from its beginning in 1871 through photographs.
(Read more about them. Follow the link to Author’s Bios).