Join me and 34 other authors at the 2nd Annual Lake County Authorfest! - August 5th at the Round Lake Beach Civic Center.
** KICK-OFF Author Panel! Tuesday, July 25 - 7 pm, Round Lake Area Library, 906 hart Rd. near the park district. See http://www.rlalibrary.org
* ALSO - Help Round Lake's flood-ravaged middle school library! Donate a children's book for grades K-5. Books collected at the event and at the Round Lake Area Library.
* New! Youth Writing Contest! See below.
Brought to you by This Old Book in Grayslake, Lake County Authorfest will feature more than 35 authors at this family-friendly and admission-free event:
- Richard Bell (LIFE SEEMED GOOD, BUT….)
- Robb Chase (BROKEN DAGGER)
- John Clark and Cheryl Clark (SORROW’S ASHES)
- Donna Codell (THERE ARE NO ALLIGATORS IN HEAVEN)
- Trisha Daab (THE NOT-SO-EVIL STEPMOTHER IN THE MOST MAGICAL PLACE ON EARTH)
- Mitch Davis (FINDING RICHARD)
- Dennis F. Depcik (WOULDN’T IT BE SOMETHING)
- Dwight E. DeRamus Jr. (DISAPPEARING DADS)
- Catherine Finger (SHATTERED BY DEATH)
- David John Ford (CONFESSIONS OF A SMALL TOWN MINISTER)
- Mitchell Granger (JACK STRYDER AND THE LOST LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA)
- Justin Hamelin (THE DARKEST CORNER)
- Elizabeth Harmon (PAIRING OFF)
- Ruth Hull Chatlien (BLOOD MOON: A CAPTIVE’S TALE)
- E.M. Kaplan (FULL SLAB DEAD)
- Kathryn Knapik-Kick (THE MANY TALES OF SAMMY THE CAT)
- Christian A. Larsen (THE BLACKENING OF FLESH)
- Audrey N. Lewis (EVERYBODY HAS A STORY…. THESE ARE OURS…..)
- Gail Lukasik (DEATH’S DOOR)
- Patricia McClure-Chessier (LOSING A HERO TO ALZHEIMER’S)
- Sue Myers (DECEPTION)
- M.E. May (UNSCRUPULOUS)
- Papa V (VANISHED)
- Jerry Peterson (ICED)
- Georgann Prochaska (THE CASE OF THE EX WHO PLOTTED REVENGE)
- Dawn Napier (WORLD OF DRAGONS, WORLDS OF MIST)
- William D. Napier (WHEN WATCHERS ASCEND)
- David A. Rench (THE NEW AQUARIAN SPIRITUAL FOOD FOR THOUGHT DIET)
- Randy Rossi (THE LAST MAN TO LIVE THE REAL AMERICAN DREAM)
- Kimberley Schumacher (MY LETTERS TO AMY)
- Jean-Michel Smith (AUTONOMY)
- tel (INK ON PAPER)
- Christine Todd (PINS)
- C.A. Verstraete (LIZZIE BORDEN, ZOMBIE HUNTER)
- C.J. Warrant (FORGETTING JANE)
- Charlene Wexler (LORI)
- Jeffrey Westhoff (THE BOY WHO KNEW TOO MUCH)
- Donn G. Ziebell (GORKY, RUSSIA: FIRST MAN IN)
New this year: Youth Creative Writing Contest for kids ages 4 to 8, 9 to 12, and 13 to 18. Winners in each category win a $50 This Old Book gift certificate and an Authorfest goodie bag. Pieces should be no longer than 2,000 words and the deadline to enter is July 24th. Click here for more information.
A portion of the proceeds go toward the Ray Bradbury Museum project in Waukegan, which seeks to restore the Carnegie library at 1 North Sheridan Road where Bradbury, author of DANDELION WINE, SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES, and FAREWELL SUMMER spent his formative years.
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