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Authors, Panels,

& Workshops

For the Fifth Annual Muskingum County Reading Festival, we will be featuring many local authors. Below you will
find our adult authors and the work they are featuring for this event. Want more from our authors? A Writing
Workshop will be held 10:30 - 11:30 AM in the Author Panel & Writers Workshop Room, across from Five Below.

This event will be a casual discussion among the authors and attendees about the writing process, how publishing
works, how to market yourself and your books, etc. This is for people interested in writing and becoming pub-
lished authors themselves, as well as, people who are interested in hearing from local authors’ experience in the
industry. The writers on this panel will be Elizabeth Garvey, Anne Chlovechok, and Greg Blair.

Then from 11:30 AM - 12:15 PM a discussion, moderated by MCLS Director Stacey Russell, will take place in the
same room. Authors on this panel will be Angola Hone, Olivia Matthews, and John Furek. We hope you are able to
join us Saturday September 26, it’s going to be a day to remember!

Anne Blackburne Alex Erickson

Miriam’s Little Death By Irish Coffee
Gentleman Hometown: Zanesville, OH

Hometown: Cambridge, OH Genre: Cozy Mystery
Genre: Amish Romance In Pine Hills, Ohio, the bars are hop-
Her heart is set on one man. Full ping—and bodies are dropping—as
of faith, hope, and romance, this bookstore-café owner Krissy Han-
series takes you into the Heart of cock gets drawn into a deadly St.
Amish County. Patrick’s Day mystery . Krissy is ready
to provide one of the essential in-
At twenty-five, Miriam Zook is gredients for Irish coffee this St. Pat-
practically considered a spinster rick’s Day—though without a liquor
in her close-knit Amish communi- license, she’ll have to team up with a
ty in Willow Creek, Ohio. It’s not local bar owner to complete the rec-
that she doesn’t long for marriage ipe. It’s a perfect chance to distract
and a house full of little ones. It’s herself from her upcoming wedding .
simply that her heart has only . . and her worries about how her be-
ever yearned for one man—David loved cat will get along with his new
Miller. canine step siblings.

James Bruce John Furek

Murder on Broadway Solomon Cain and

Hometown: Zanesville, OH Other Profiles
Genre: Crime Fiction Hometown: Zanesville, OH
Under the neon blaze of Nashville’s Genre: Non-Fiction
most famous street, dreams are March, 2020, is a date that will for-
made, careers are launched—and ever be embedded in our minds
sometimes, lives are taken. When as the beginning of the lockdown,
a rising country star is murdered of the quarantine, of the horrors
in broad daylight on Broadway, the of COVID-19. While at the time,
shockwaves tear through Music we didn’t know the extent of this
City. What looks like a senseless kill- deadly disease, most people were
ing quickly reveals a darker truth: frightened and horrified, and took
someone is pulling strings behind every precaution to avoid contact,
the scenes, and the music industry’s not trusting their neighbors, their
brightest lights are casting deadly friends, or even their families. This
shadows. silent killer could be anywhere and
could be spread by anyone. These
www.jamesbruceauthor.com
are stories of people whose lives
were changed because of the ef-
fects of this horrible pandemic.

Jessy Beckett Elizabeth Garvey

Hidden Alpha Life Doesn’t Balance
Hometown: Cambridge, OH Hometown: Dresden, OH
Genre: Paranormal Romance Genre: Non-Fiction

On the edge of Stonebrook Oregon, How to Navigate the Waves, Release
hidden among the towering pines, What’s Keeping You Stuck, and Live
resides a pack of shifters that hide in From Your Heart. Featuring the
plain sight. Their survival would be Heart Reconnection Framework.
threatened if the locals knew what
they really were, but the humans
are not the problem. The only ones
the wolves can trust are a couple of
witches, the group of shifters to the
north, and themselves. Life is diffi-
cult and throws every trial imagin-
able at them, other packs, witches,
warlocks, their enemies scatter far
and wide. But fate has brought to-
gether more than a pack and mates.
Fate has brought together a revolu-
tion.

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