Meet Local Authors at the West Orange Library

In celebration of local writing talent, the West Orange Public Library will hold a local author panel on Thursday, January 9, 2014 at 6:30pm.  Seven authors from our area will do short readings from their work and participate in a Q&A.  Audience members can meet the authors, find out how they got published, and learn how the local community has inspired their work. 

The authors represent all types of genres and writing styles, so there is something for every area of interest.  In the biography and local history genres, author Kofi Ayim will discuss Jack Cudjo:  Newark’s Revolutionary Soldier and First Black Businessman, which tells the story of a freed slave who fought during the Revolutionary War and started his own business in Newark.  Montclair’s Turn the Page publishing will showcase Paul Meinhardt, author of The Afghan Queen,  a novel based on the true story of his wife, Lela, who traveled and traded tribal art in Afghanistan in the late 1970s, and Heather Spergel, author of Free to Be…Gluten Free! and other helpful titles on the performing arts, alternative parenting and gluten free eating.  C.C. Minton, of West Orange, will read from her children’s book, Daddy’s Greek Potato Pie, a picture book that advocates healthy eating through the story of two children who discover that Daddy’s special recipe for vegetable pie is very delicious.  Linda Rawlins will share her newest mystery, Fatal Breach, in which a murder at a soup kitchen in Vermont turns out to have ties to a cybercrime organization and the local medical examiner and a priest must aid the FBI to solve the case.  Natasha Scott reveals, from her own recent experience, the secrets of getting into the college of your choice in The College Admissions Bible.  In the young adult romantic thriller, Second Verse, Jennifer Walkup scares us with the revelation that bad things really do come in threes, and that includes murder! 

Books will be available for signing and purchase from the authors.  We hope you’ll come out to meet these talented, inspired and creative writers and support the local arts.