Marple Library Hosts Book Signing Program- Meet our local authors!

Come meet and celebrate these local authors.

The Marple Public Library in Broomall is hosting an event on Saturday November 5 from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm featuring local authors who will speak about their books and explain their creative process. Included in the program will be:

Elizabeth Hayley—Hayley is a pseudonym for two female romance writers who have been nominated for a RITA award and are now co-writing novels with bestselling writer James Patterson.

Jim Waltzer—Mr. Waltzer has written for newspapers and magazines, including Main Line Today, as well as several books of local history and crime fiction.

Michael Maguire—Author of the horror and suspense novel Faces of Evil. Beth Brandt—Her poetry book Retro Love has been featured in the Philadelphia Jazz Project. R.C. Hancock—Author of the young adult fantasy and adventure novel An Uncommon Blue.

Jacki Bishop— This former employee of the Courts is now working on her third novel in a series of murder mysteries set in Media, PA.
We are delighted to introduce Marshall Warfield from Rosemont College as our guest moderator who will guide our conversations with our many authors and our audience members. Mr. Warfield has worked in words for over fifteen years. He serves as Director of the MA in Publishing Program at Rosemont College, and he has been an editor of journals and other professional writing (including standardized tests). He writes essays and poems thanks to the training he earned from his B.A. in Creative Writing from Carnegie Mellon University and his M.F.A. in English from the University of Pittsburgh. Warfield’s lectures about writing include “Intertextuality in Creative Writing” at the 2012 English Association of the Pennsylvania State Universities conference, and “Worries of the Poet, Tools of the Essayist”--a well-received part of Hippocampus Magazine’s 2016 conference on creative nonfiction. His poems have appeared in Paper Nautilus, Transient, Marathon, Clover, and Poems for the Writing: Prompts for Poets. Follow him on twitter @yesTHATwarfield and @RosemontPub .

Books will be available for purchase and to have signed by the author. This program is free and open to the public. To register for this event, please visit or call the library at (610) 356-1510. Light refreshments will be provided. The Marple Public Library is located at 2599 Sproul Road in Broomall.