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Author’s Night
2017
Mark your calendars for a fabulous Author’s Night series 2017! The
Friends of the Library sponsor these classy events each winter to
enrich the community’s literary experience and to offer fun Friday
night get-togethers during the cold months. Held at Montage Cafe in
downtown Greenville where delicious food & drink can be purchased,
the evening is always extra-festive with live music by the cool J.R.
Price and Bill Westfall.
You may want to google these authors to see what a treat we’re in for -
interesting, accomplished, award-winning writers who have their own
stories to tell. Author’s Night offers an opportunity to meet and
get to know some of the best novelists, poets, and bloggers from all
over Ohio.
January 13th is J.R. Irvin; February 17th The Greenville Poets; March
3rd Vivian Blevins, and April 7th Lee Martin. As always these
authors represent a wide variety of subject matter and styles.
Known to her friends as Jan, J. R. Irving is the 2015 Jeremiah Healy
Mystery Winner for her debut novel The Dark End of the Rainbow. A
career educator Jan retired in 2008 after teaching Spanish and English
at Springboro High School, Centerville City Schools and Alter High
School. Until recently she taught Spanish as an adjunct professor
at Wright State. “Writing is my job now,” says Jan.
We are proud that the January Author's Night is the official launch of
Jan's just-published second novel The Rules of the Game. Jan plans to
hold drawings for several prizes and her books will be available for
purchase.
Jan has served as a long-time volunteer for the Antioch Writers
Workshop. She shared that she will be a First Book Talk
speaker at the 2017 Workshop in July. “It's such an honor to be
invited to present there.” Her stories have appeared in both
print and online journals and magazines including Alfred Hitchcock
Mystery Magazine and Spark a creative anthology.
Jan grew up near Youngstown Ohio where she says, “my father was very
encouraging of my writing. He’d be so proud.” Jan and her husband
live in Springboro at the edge of a nature park where they are avid
canoeists. Learn more about Jan’s novels and writing career at
www.janetirvin.wordpress.com.
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