Authors @ the LibraryEvent Series
To inspire readers and writers and to encourage the love of reading!
Originally initiated in 2008, the Authors @ the Library program continues with one of our favorite Florida authors, Mary Anna Evans!
Upcoming Events
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Mary Anna Evans has degrees in physics and engineering, but her heart is in the past. Her series character, Faye Longchamp, lives the exciting life of an archaeologist, and Mary Anna envies her a little.
Mary Anna is a recent recipient of the Mississippi Library Association's Mississippi Author Award and Phi Mu Fraternity's Book of the Biennium Award, and her novels have received recognitions including a spot on Voice of Young America's (VOYA) list of "Adult Mysteries with Young Adult Appeal." They have been on the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association's (IMBA) bestseller list and have been designated Notable Books by Booksense and IndieBound. Mary Anna has won the Florida Historical Society's Patrick D. Smith Florida Literature Award, the Benjamin Franklin Award, and a Florida Book Awards Bronze Medal. Her books have been nominated for ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year and for the SIBA Book Award.
For more information about Mary Ann Evans, visit www.maryannaevans.com/.
Tuesday, June 25, 2013 | 10:30a.m.
Leesburg Public Library
100 E. Main St. Leesburg, FL 34748
Writing Workshop ~ Your Novel: Day by Day
Your Novel: Day by Day is designed to be an all-in-one guide to planning, writing, editing, and publishing a first novel, guiding a new novelist through the day-to-day details of the process. She says, “This is the book that tells other writers the things I wish I’d known ten years ago.” Work through this book of practical advice with Mary Anna, day by day and page by page, as she advises you on— crafting a plot, fleshing out believable characters, organizing a novel’s timeline, crafting believable motivations for your characters, editing objectively, evaluating traditional and independent publishing options, and marketing to agents, publishers, and readers. Books will be available for purchase from Raintree Books.
Tuesday, June 25, 2013 | 2:00 p.m.
Leesburg Public Library
100 E. Main St. Leesburg, FL 34748
Plunder
Plunder is the eighth in the award-winning Faye Longchamp archaeological mysteries. While researching archaeological sites that may soon succumb to the effects of the Deepwater Horizon spill, Faye Longchamp helps a young teenager who has lost everything but a dilapidated old houseboat left to her by her murdered grandmother and uncle. Faye's growing list of adventures include: Artifacts, Relics, Effigies, Findings, Floodgates, Strangers, and Plunder. Published by Poisoned Pen Press, they are available from all major outlets in hardcover, trade paper, ebook, large-print, and audio editions. Evans's excellent series continues to combine solid mysteries and satisfying historical detail. Kirkus Reviews
Books will be available for purchase from Raintree Books.
Wednesday, June 26, 2013 | 1:00 p.m.
W. T. Bland Public Library
1995 Donnelly St.Mount Dora, FL 32757
Strangers
Ms. Evans will speak on her sixth novel in the Faye Longchamp mystery series. on the strength of Faye's newly minted Ph.D., Faye and Joe have founded an archaeological consulting firm...just in time for the economy to tank. But neither of them is known for throwing up their hands and giving up, so they've landed their first big project at a historic home in St. Augustine, Florida. America's oldest city is the perfect place for archaeologists to dig up the past, but four centuries is long enough for the city to have accumulated some skeletons that should probably stay buried and some ghosts that can't be exorcised. Within a day of their arrival, a lovely young woman has disappeared, leaving behind a smear of blood, a collection of priceless artifacts, and a note asking for Faye's help. Within two days, the missing woman's boyfriend is found floating in the Matanzas River, his throat slashed. The detective in charge of the case, who believes that the artifacts are a key to solving the crime, hires Faye as a consultant to track down their origin.
The artifacts Faye and Joe excavate at their work site make no historical sense. They date from every era of St. Augustine history, from the Native Americans to the conquistadors to the Gilded Age robber barons to the Roaring Twenties elite.
Sponsored by the Mount Dora Library Association. Books will be available for purchase from Raintree Books.
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