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PRESS RELEASE

Meet Area Authors Open House

The Brucedale Press

invites everyone to join us for our annual

Meet Area Authors Open House

Saturday, December 5, 2009

11:00 am - 3:00 pm

Special Guest Authors

Kathy Bell Dianne Ferris

John R. Hardy Shelley Norman

        ~autographing         ~mingling         ~door prizes         ~festive goodies

~launch of our Word Wreath supporting South Grey Bruce Youth Literacy Council

at

The Brucedale Press

686 Goderich Street, Port Elgin

to reserve signed copies, call 1-866-832-6025

Books from here. . .good reading anywhere


 Meet Area Authors Supports Youth Literacy



Again this year, the December 5 Open House at The Brucedale Press allows readers to meet authors from the area and support South Grey Bruce Youth Literacy programs. Confirmed featured guests include writers for both children and adults, with a regional focus shared by the host publisher.


John R. Hardy of Hanover has recently released his third book, Harvest Dust: Tales of Farm Life 1913-1976. Set on the Hardy family farm in Colborne Township near Goderich, the twenty-five tales recount memories of working and playing in fields, woodlot, and swamp. Readers follow John to school and church, to collecting pop bottles for spending money, and into the cooling creek after a day in the mow. All stories are illustrated with photographs from the family albums, many taken by John himself. Readers will remember the quality camera work in his previous Rusty Rails and Canadian Rail Travel. And, yes, there are some train stories in this new hardcover book. 


Shelley Norman operates a home daycare on the farm where she grew up in Kincardine Township. She knew that kids like to colour and to count, and searched for activities that had meaning to local kids. Finding none, she created Bruce County Counts, a colouring book that starts at Tobermory [one ferry] and ends in Kincardine [ten bagpipers]. Pictures by Clavering artist Bobbi Switzer bring the idea to life, from the six hikers on the Bruce Trail to the nine cows near Chesley. Shelley has also written many stories for children, the first published in the fall 2009 MAGIC issue of The Leaf.


Dianne J. Ferris of Southampton has written The Purple Doll,  a love story involving two families who meet because of a surprising discovery in a forest along the Welland Canal. Dianne formerly lived in St. Catharines, but had connections to Bruce County through operating a resort on Arran Lake. A writer since childhood, she has had many career changes, but says writing remains her first love. The Purple Doll appeals to both young adults and older readers who are young at heart.  


Kathy Bell, by day a secondary school teacher, by nights and weekends a writer, lives in the Owen Sound area. Her first novel, Regression, is “not a technothriller” she insists, though it is speculative fiction. Its main character, fourteen-year-old Adya Jordan, swears before her head injury she was a forty-year-old mother of six. Trying to be a typical teenager with atypical genetics can be challenging, especially when the world just doesn't quite seem right. 


You never know who else may drop in!


The Word Wreath, at first a bare grapevine circle, will sprout seasonal words chosen by authors and guests in return for donations to the SGBYLP, which matches young learners and tutors throughout our area. The actual tags bearing the words also go to SGBYLP to encourage young clients in their reading and writing skills.  













  
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