After spending the morning dealing with our mail, we finally left the house to go to an event, sponsored by a Village group called Bookworm, to hear a panel of local authors talk about their books and the writing process.
The event was held at the Bacall Recreation Center and we had not been there before. Greeting us as we entered was Bogie:
We were in a room called the Key Largo Room. A tribute to Elvis lined the walls.
The authors were:
Christie Seiler Boeke- she writes historical novels based on her southern family.
Darlene Funkhouser- writes mostly non-fiction books, many about the Civil War. Her fiction book Widow's Windfall is a mystery that takes place in a senior retirement community (kind of like The Villages). She's written a screen play that she is hoping will be optioned.
Kenn Kincaid - a former policeman, now minister, writes mysteries
Mark H. Newhouse - writes children's books and has one about bullies called I've never seen a skinny vampire. He also writes adult books.
Barbara Phillips- writes science fiction
They mentioned two self-publishing websites.
Create Space publisher
LuLu.com
After the program, we recycled our newspapers at Temple Shalom and then went for a delicious dinner at Olive Garden. We had the two for $25 dinner and used the gift certificate that Stacy gave me for Christmas - thanks, Stacy.
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