Local Author Fair Held Next Week in Portsmouth

Want to meet local authors, find some great autumn reads, and enter to win fabulous prizes? The Portsmouth Public Library will host a Local Author Fair from 6 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 16, according to a press release.

Special guests will include Portsmouth author Katherine Towler and award-winning writer James Patrick Kelly!

Kelly is the science fiction author of Burn, Think Like a Dinosaur and 1016 to 1. Katherine Towler is a poet and author of the trilogy of novels Snow Island,Evening Ferry, and Island Light.

This event is FREE and open to the public. Visit with local authors and enter to win prizes from the Music Hall, the Gundalow Company, Louie’s Italian restaurant, Bennett’s Store, Pickwick’s Mercantile, Strawbery Banke, and more!

40 authors from the Seacoast area will participate:

• James Patrick Kelly Fiction/Science Fiction
• Katherine Towler Fiction/Literary
• David Barnette Fiction/Fantasy
• Jacquelyn Benson Fiction/Historical Thriller/Romance
• Jeff Deck Fiction/Horror/Science Fiction/Nonfiction
• Tim Horvath Fiction/literary
• Shelby June Fiction
• David Random Fiction/Humor/Short Stories
• Amy Ray Fiction/Mystery/Thriller
• J.E. Seymour Fiction/Crime
• Tammi Truax Fiction
• Earl Yorke Fiction/Science Fiction
• Michele Albion Nonfiction/History/Women/Technology
• Nancy Beveridge Nonfiction/Moving & Decluttering
• Marilynn Carter Nonfiction/Cookbook
• Bette Freedson Nonfiction
• Jessica Kliskey Nonfiction/Self-Health and Nutrition
• Rachel Leah Nonfiction/Death and Dying
• J. Dennis Robinson Nonfiction/History/True Crime/Travel
• Barbara Sedoric Nonfiction
• Stefany Shaheen Nonfiction/Memoir/Health
• LeCain Smith Nonfiction/ Holistic Health Care/Integrative Medicine
• Donald Trefethen Nonfiction/Local History
• Ellen Walker Nonfiction/Memoir/Autism
• Robert Wheeler Nonfiction/Travel/Photography
• Richard Winslow Nonfiction/ History
• Nancy Grossman Nonfiction/Poetry
• Crystal Kent Nonfiction/Youth
• Steve Carter Poetry
• Kate Leigh Poetry
• Peter Horton Young Adult/Local Historical Fiction
• Joyce Shor Johnson Young Adult/Middle Grade
• Valerie Lofaso Young Adult/Paranormal Fiction
• Robert Miller Young Adult
• Pat McDermott Young Adult/Historical Fantasy/Paranormal/Romance
• Susan Benedict Children’s
• Denise Brown Children’s
• Carol Lincoln Children’s
• Alvin Walker Children’s
• Stephanie Workman Children’s

Laura K. Horwood-Benton, Public Programming & Community Relations Librarian