Tag: NC authors
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WINSTON-SALEM JOURNAL: “First-time novelist draws on experience as football player for coming-of-age story”
By Lisa O’Donnell Frank McNair’s debut novel, Life on the Line: Football, Rage, and Redemption, was 10 years in the making. After lots of stops and starts, McNair fought through writer’s block and crafted a young adult novel set against the backdrop of something he knows well — football. “I thought football was…
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Award-winning Novelist Mark Spano Joins 2017 “Meet The Author” Series June 25th
Chapel Hill novelist Mark Spano will read from his new book Midland Club. June 8, 2017 (Raleigh, NC) — As part of the Raleigh LGBT Center’s 2017 Sizzling Summer “Meet the Author” Series, novelist Mark Spano of Chapel Hill will read from his critically acclaimed and award-winning novel Midland Club on Sunday, June 25th, beginning at 1 p.m. After the…
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NC Landscape Architect Dick Bell Publishes First Book
The Bridge Builders explores the evolution of a master designer. January 3, 2011 (ATLANTIC BEACH, NC) – From growing up on North Carolina’s Outer Banks during the Great Depression and World War II, to watching as his immigrant father designed and built the first “Lost Colony” amphitheater, to a series of adventures that began when…
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Author Squad Bookshop To Host “Sleep, Little Child” Signing, Live Performance
Author/musician Marc Hoffman brings his new children’s book to Huntersville November 1, 2010 (HUNTERSVILLE, NC) — Musical composer-turned-author Marc Hoffman will bring his new children’s book and CD, Sleep, Little Child to the Author Squad Bookshop & Publishing Center in Huntersville, NC, on Friday, November 19, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. The child-oriented book signing…
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Local Author To Discuss The Art & Angst of Self-Publishing
March 29, 2010 (SALISBURY, NC) — Music Composer-turned-author Marc Hoffman will appear at the Rowan Public Library in Salisbury, NC, on Tuesday, April 13, at 7 p.m., to discuss the process of self-publishing his first upcoming children’s book “Sleep, Little Child.” His appearance is part of the library’s National Library Week celebration. “Sleep, Little Child”…
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“Orphans Of War” Author To Appear On BlogTalkRadio
August 17, 2009 (RALEIGH, NC) – Bearta Powell, the Lebanese-born Raleigh, NC, author whose new book Orphans of War chronicles her life as an orphan growing up in war-torn Lebanon, will be featured in a full-hour interview on Deidre Hughey’s “Author Buzz” talk show for BlogTalkRadio on August 19 beginning at 2 p.m. Orphans of…