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PROMOTING LITERARY EXCELLENCE SINCE 1997
PROGRAM GUIDE
MAY 16-18, 2014
Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center
1101 Lincoln Street, Columbia SC
ETHICS • HISTORY • LITERATURE • PHILOSOPHY • ART HISTORY • FILM STUDIES
LINGUISTICS • JURISPRUDENCE • ART CRITICISM • LANGUAGES • COMPARATIVE RELIGION • HISTORY OF SCIENCE
The South Carolina Book Festival is a program of
The Humanities Council
the council’s work in the state toward fulfilling of our
SC
PROGRAMS OF
Visit the council’s website for more information about the
council’s programs and work across the state.
mission to “enrich the cultural and intellectual lives
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Governor’s Awards in the Humanities
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The Grants Program
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South Carolina Book Festival
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Literature and Medicine: Humanities
at the Heart of Health Care®
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South Carolina Humanities Festival
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Speakers Bureau: Humanities Out Loud
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Let’s Talk About It: Reading and Discussion Series
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The South Carolina Encyclopedia www.scencyclopedia.org
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Museum on Main Street Program coming soon:
Hometown Teams will tour South Carolina in 2015!
The Humanities CouncilSC and an important part of
of all South Carolinians.” The Humanities CouncilSC is a
statewide, nonprofit and the state program of the National
Endowment for the Humanities. In 2013, the council
celebrated 40 years of serving South Carolinians.
The Humanities CouncilSC funds, promotes, counsels,
and coordinates all manner of thoughtful (and thoughtprovoking) endeavors—exhibits, documentaries, discussion
forums, research, planning, workshops, dramatizations,
lectures, and on and on—that pertain to the humanities.
The humanities are how we understand ourselves, our world
and how we communicate that understanding to others.
THCSC BOARD OF DIRECTORS
L. Andrew Westbrook III (Chair)
Greenville
D. Delores Logan Columbia
Randolph R. (Randy) Lowell, Esq.
Blythewood
The Humanities CouncilSC
J. Herman Blake Charleston
The Hon. Walton J. McLeod Little
Mountain
Marie C. Boyd Columbia
S.C. (Cal) McMeekin, Jr. Columbia
Randy L. Akers
Executive Director, The Humanities CouncilSC
[email protected]
Portia Cobb Edisto Island
Maggi M. Morehouse Conway
Virginia Tormey Friedman
Charleston
H. Graham Osteen, II Georgetown
Ghussan R. Greene (Vice Chair)
Orangeburg
Thomas R. Gottshall Columbia
The Hon. Elizabeth D. Rhea Rock Hill
David E. Rison Summerville
Courtney Tollison Hartness Greenville Sara L. Sanders (Past Chair) Conway
Samuel M. Hines, Jr. Charleston
G. Garrett Scott Spartanburg
Paul A. Horne, Jr. (Secretary) Rock
Hill
Kim Shealy Jeffcoat Lexington
Billy Keyserling Beaufort
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www.schumanities.org
Revonda L. Spratt Inman
Judy Burke Bynum (Ex-Officio
Member) Spartanburg
STAFF
Theresa “T.J.” Wallace
Grants & Programs Officer
[email protected]
Gail Lyles
Administrative Assistant
[email protected]
Kyle Greenway
Erin Lewis
Julianne Lewis
Lauren Lyles
Interns
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Own a piece of South Carolina history
NEW Collectible Archibald Rutledge Book Now Available!
CLAWS
Archibald Rutledge | ILLUSTRATIONS BY Stephen Chesley | INTRODUCTION BY Jim Casada | AFTERWORD BY Ben McC. Moise
AVAILABLE FOR SALE NOW!
Hardcover — $24.95
Limited Leather Numbered Edition — $225
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Limited to 200 numbered copies
Signed by Jim Casada, Ben McC. Moise, and
Stephen Chesley
Limited Leather Lettered Edition — $500
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Limited to 20 lettered copies
Signed by Jim Casada, Ben McC. Moise, and
Stephen Chesley
Includes a special print from the artist
Purchase your copy at Booth 318
in the Exhibit Hall
For more information or to reserve/purchase a copy
of Claws, please contact The Humanities CouncilSC
offices at 803-771-2477.
Unseen by readers for a century, Archibald Rutledge’s story “Claws”
is a fast-paced adventure tale of a young boy, Paul, lost in the
foreboding terrain of Spencer’s Swamp, the domain of the mighty
bobcat Claws, which is deftly evading hounds and hunters alike. When Paul and Claws encounter one another at a perilous creek
crossing, Rutledge’s mastery of outdoors storytelling shines through
in every evocative word.
The short story “Claws” was written for publication in an early
twentieth-century boy’s magazine and was first collected in the
privately printed Eddy Press edition of Old Plantation Days (c.
1913). Limited to about 200 copies, the Eddy Press edition is rare
and highly prized by Rutledge collectors and includes five stories—
“Claws,” “The Doom of Ravenswood,” “The Egret’s Plumes,” “The
Heart of Regal,” and “The Ocean’s Menace”—not found in the more
widely available 1921 Stokes edition of Old Plantation Days.
ITEMS PRODUCED AND BEING SOLD NOW
A project of The Humanities CouncilSC benefiting the South Carolina
Book Festival, this new edition of Claws is illustrated in handsome
artwork in charcoal by Southern artist Stephen Chesley. Awardwinning outdoors writer and noted Rutledge scholar Jim Casada
provides the volume’s introduction, and retired South Carolina
conservation officer and author Ben McC. Moise offers an afterword.
Archibald Rutledge (1883–1973) was South Carolina’s most prolific
writer and the state’s first poet laureate. His nature writings garnered
him the prestigious John Burroughs medal.
JULIA PETERKIN CHAPBOOK PROJECT
Limited copies of the chapbook featuring Ashes by Julia Peterkin,
originally produced in 2012, are still available for sale.
Julia Peterkin is one of South Carolina’s most respected authors and
the only South Carolinian to win a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Ashes is
illustrated by the distinguished South Carolina artist Stephen Chesley.
Copies are available for view and for purchase at Booth 318 in the
Exhibit Hall or by contacting 803-771-2477.
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Book Appraisals
at the SCBook Festival
Want to find out how much
one of your books is worth?
For $10 (cash or check), you may have up to three
books appraised by an on-site antiquarian book
dealer. ABDASC is an organization that fosters the
appreciation and sales of antiquarian books, prints,
and manuscripts and promotes professional and
ethical standards for its members. You can visit
members of ABDASC on the Antiquarian Book Fair
Aisle in the Exhibit Hall during the festival.
APPRAISAL DESK HOURS:
9:00AM – 5:00PM Saturday, May 17
Exhibit Hall, Antiquarian Book Fair aisle
Booth #403
12:00 PM – 4:30PM Sunday, May 18
Exhibit Hall, Antiquarian Book Fair aisle
Booth #403
Special Author Events
THURSDAY, MAY 15, 2014
Book Festival Preview Event Featuring
SC
Lee Smith and Therese Anne Fowler
6:00–8:00PM
Location: Lexington Main Library, FREE The Lexington County Public Library, University of South
Carolina Thomas Cooper Society, USC Press, and the
SC
Book Festival will present a special evening at the
Lexington Main Library featuring award-winning authors
Therese Anne Fowler
(Z: A Novel of Zelda
Fitzgerald) and Lee
Smith (Guests on Earth)
in discussion at the Lexington Main Library, 5440 Augusta
Road, Lexington SC, 803-785-2600. Therese Anne Fowler
and Lee Smith are both 2014 SCBook Festival featured
presenters. This event is FREE and open to the public and
does not require pre-registration. FRIDAY, MAY 16, 2014
Will you become
a SCBook Festival
sponsor?
As a written-word enthusiast, you already
know how exciting it is to share a good
book with friends and family. Imagine how
wonderful it would be to become a sponsor
of a literary program to bring authors and
books to our state free of charge for an entire
weekend. We ask you to consider becoming
one of our supporters as a Friend of the South
Carolina Book Festival.
Please stop by the SCBook Festival Friends
Booth in the Concourse and visit us online
at www.scbookfestival.org to support the
SC
Book Festival.
PLEASE SEE BACK PAGE FOR OUR GENEROUS
SPONSORS AND FRIENDS THIS YEAR!
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Book Festival Opening Keynote Address
SC
5:30–6:30PM
Location: USC Law School Auditorium, FREE
The SCBook Festival and the University of South Carolina
Press will present a special opening keynote address
featuring award-winning author Christopher Buckley at
the University of South
Carolina Law School
Auditorium (701 Main
Seventy Years of Publishing Excellence
Street) in Columbia, SC.
Christopher Buckley
is a political satirist and author of the novels Thank You
for Smoking, Boomsday, and Supreme Courtship, among
many others. His most recent book is But Enough About
You, a collection of wide-ranging and witty essays. This
event is FREE and open to the public and does not require
pre-registration.
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Reception on Saturday, May 17 with
CreateSpace
5:10 – 6:00PM
Lexington Meeting Room B
Authors are transforming publishing and
reaching readers in many new ways. Join fellow
authors as we, together with CreateSpace, pay
tribute to their accomplishments and talk about
the future of writing, reading, and publishing.
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Children’s Pavilion
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS SUBJECT TO CHANGE
Play Freely at the Children’s Pavilion with Richland Library!
The Children’s Pavilion will feature authors, storytellers, and performances at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center in
Congaree Meeting Room A & B. Each day offers one drawing for a free basket of books!
The baskets are courtesy of the SC Center for Children’s Books and Literacy.
Saturday May 17
Sunday May 18
Located in the Congaree Meeting Room A & B (Lower Level)
Located in the Congaree Meeting Room A & B (Lower Level)
CHILDREN’S PAVILION STAGE PERFORMANCES
10:00–10:50
10:50–11:20
11:20–12:10
12:10–12:40
12:40–1:30
2:00–2:50
3:10
Movers & Shakers Storytime: African Drumming
Storytelling with Mr. Darion
Columbia Children’s Theatre presents The Stinky
Cheese Man and Other Fair(l)y (Stoopid) Tales
Storytelling with Mr. Darion
“¿Cómo estás, mi amigo”
Bilingual Music and More with Jay Barron
Story Squad
Musical Parade to Florence and Wendell Minor,
“25 Years of Children’s Books,”
Lexington Meeting Room B
The Nick: Teen Takeover
CHILDREN’S PAVILION STAGE PERFORMANCES
12:20–1:10
1:10–1:30
1:30–2:20
2:40–4:30
Super Fun Balloon Show with Balloonopolis
Storytime with Richland Library
Lunch Money Band Performance
Richland Library: Teen Takeover
Other special opportunities for children and families
2:00–4:00PM
Come watch Balloonopolis Artists create balloon art for kids at
the entrance to the Children’s Pavilion Stages, Congaree Meeting
Room A&B.
3:20–5:10
Other special opportunities for children and families
Richland Library will present a Hands-On Art Table outside Congaree
Meeting Room A & B 10:00AM–3:00PM
Books-A-Million will conduct a read-a-thon every 30 minutes at their
Booth C4 in the Concourse Area outside of the Exhibit Hall; children
will receive a free read-a-thon booklet and a story will be read at the
booth every 30 minutes!
Reading PAALS gives children the opportunity to practice reading to
service dogs who love to listen to a good story! 10:00AM 12:00PM near
the Children’s Pavilion.
Other Children’s Authors and Presentations:
• Kwame Alexander, Tommy Hays, and Terry Kay present “YA Literature—It’s Not Just
for Teens Anymore” at 10:00AM Saturday, May 17 in Lexington Meeting Room B.
• Jessica Khoury, Megan Miranda, and Megan Shepherd present “Science and
Supernatural in YA Fiction” at 11:20AM Saturday, May 17 in Lexington Meeting Room A.
• Dave McDonald, Alex Simmons, and Jeremy Whitley present “KidLit101: Grabbing
Readers with Graphic Novels” at 12:40PM Saturday, May 17 in Carolina Meeting
Room A.
• Kendra Albright, Karen Gavigan, Rachel Haynie, and Patricia Moore-Pastides present
“A New Adventure: Young Palmetto Books” at 2:00PM Saturday, May 17 in Carolina
Meeting Room A.
• Wendell and Florence Minor present “25 Years of Children’s Books” at 3:20PM
Saturday, May 17 in Lexington Meeting Room B.
• Rachel Haynie, Mary Alice Monroe, Kate Salley Palmer, and Dee Phelps present
“Reading and Learning: Educational Children’s Books” at 4:20PM Saturday, May 17
in Lexington Meeting Room A.
• Kwame Alexander, Deron Hicks, and Kami Kinard present “The Summer Boredom
Antidote: Fabulous Middle Grade Reads” at 12:20PM Sunday, May 18 in Carolina
Meeting Room B.
• Kendra Albright and Karen Gavigan present “AIDS in the End Zone” at 2:40PM
Sunday, May 18 in Carolina Meeting Room A.
• “An Afternoon with Christopher Paul Curtis” will take place at 2:40PM Sunday, May
18 in Richland Meeting Room.
Children’s Books Exhibitors
Saturday, May 17, 9AM–5PM & Sunday,
May 18, 12 Noon – 4:30PM
Auntie M Children’s Books Publishing (550),
Books-A-Million (C4), BQB Publishing (207),
Children’s Author Modesta Liles (552),
Confusion Press (311), Elemental Series (522),
Glenda Colleen Gambill (423), Growing
Home Southeast (210), Happy Apple Books
(209), Henry Porada (525), Karen Petit (556),
LadyRen’s Nook - Tastee Treats & Children’s
Books (715), Michele Kingery (704), MJF
Publishing (252), Odyssey Books (212),
Richland Library (301), SCETV & ETV Radio
(303), School of Library and Information
Science - South Carolina Center for Children’s
Books and Literacy (201), Shelly’s Adventures
(250), Sylvan Learning Center (110), The
Adventures of Sammy the Wonder Dachshund
(248), The Art Party Press (213), Usborne
Books & More (111), Warbranch Press (102)
Also, the Antiquarian Book Aisle offers many
collectable, limited edition, and rare children’s
books.
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Festival Exhibitors
To find more information about festival exhibitors, please visit www.scbookfestival.org.
A Visitor’s Guide to the Literary South by Trish
Foxwell BOOTH #554
Trish Foxwell’s book, A Visitors Guide to the Literary South, will be on
display for sale and signings.
Adjuster Stories, LLC BOOTH #422
Adjuster Stories shares memories and unique experiences in
captivating stories explaining how each claim becomes its own little
adventure.
Aiken Pen & Pencil BOOTH #408
www.aikenpen.com
Custom hand crafted writing instruments and accessories.
Antiquarian Book Dealers Association of South
Carolina BOOTH #403
Professional book sellers will offer verbal appraisals of 3 books for a
$10 fee (cash or check).
Auntie M Children’s Books Publishing BOOTH #550
www.AMCBpublishing.com
AMCB Publishing is proud to display the Auntie M Children’s Books
Collection, as well as other titles from their online bookstore.
Authors Amy Miles & AnnaLisa Grant BOOTH #551
www.amymilesbooks.com annalisagrant.com
Bestselling authors Amy Miles and AnnaLisa Grant will be signing
books and swag for readers.
Barnes & Noble, Inc. BOOTH #501
www.BN.com
Barnes & Noble, Inc. will have a variety of books and merchandise
available to purchase.
BQB Publishing BOOTH #207
www.bqbpublishing.com
A small independent publisher of award-winning books in the adult
fiction, children’s fiction, and nonfiction categories. Stop by to meet
Millie West.
Bridwell Books BOOTH #314
Bridwell Books specializes in South Caroliniana, genealogy, and
American history and literature.
Bublish Inc. BOOTH #603
www.bublish.com
Bublish has the only integrated, cloud-based platform providing
independent authors with complete online marketing, branding,
and publishing tools.
Bygone Era Books BOOTH #105
www.bygoneerabooks.com
Bygone Era Books is a publisher dedicated to Historical Fiction, as
well as Nonfiction History, Biography, and Genealogy.
Children’s Author Modesta Liles BOOTH #552
www.modestaliles.tateauthor.com/about-the-author/
Modesta Liles will be signing and selling her children’s book, Fun
Careers from A to Z. There will also be a raffle for a free 3-day
vacation getaway!
Color Him Father Foundation BOOTH #553
www.colorhimfatherfoundation.org
Color Him Father Foundation (CHFF) seeks ways to inspire and
motivate working fathers to create a nurturing home environment
for their children.
Battery Street Book Company BOOTH #319
Columbia Writers Alliance BOOTH #420
www.colawriters.com
The Columbia Writers Alliance is a non-profit organization providing
a professional setting for writers to express their literary gifts and
workshops to become published authors.
Billy S. Arant Jr., Bookseller BOOTH #320
Billy S. Arant Jr. is an antiquarian book dealer and will be selling
books relating to South Caroliniana and the Charleston Renaissance.
Confusion Press BOOTH #311
www.confusionpress.com
Confusion Press publishes historian Dr. Annette Laing’s exciting
time-travel novels for middle-grades and young adults.
Battery Street Book Company will have South Caroliniana including
rare and hard-to-find titles. They also provide genealogy.
Books Tell You Why, Inc. - ABAA/ILAB BOOTH #405
www.bookstellyouwhy.com
Books Tell You Why, Inc. will have rare books, signed books, and first
editions for the discerning collector.
Books-A-Million BOOTH #4
www.booksamillion.com
Books-A-Million will sell books and other items. On Saturday, May
17, 2014, there will be a read-a-thon; children will receive a free
read-a-thon booklet and a story will be read at the booth every 30
minutes.
Contract Yourself and $ave - A DIY Book BOOTH #310
www.bldit.com
Gary Wiggins’ construction experience totals 54 years. He shares his
experience and knowledge in his DIY book, Contract Yourself and
$ave.
Cosby Media Productions BOOTH #421
www.cosbymediaproductions.com
Cosby Media Productions will be selling copies of Protostar, a new
novel.
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D’Jaris L. Jenkins, Author BOOTH #520
www.djarisljenkins.com
Jenkins’ novel Cry Out explores what happens to a 15-year old girl
lacking a nurturing mother and a protective father.
Demetria Alexander Grissett BOOTH #519
www.deegrissett.com
New book In Sickness and In Health: A Journalized Account of
Coping with Multiple Myeloma
Dr. Books / Roy Thomas - Alter Ego BOOTH #404
Dr. Books is an antiquarian book dealer and will be selling genres
such as fiction, graphic novels, history, cookbooks, biography, and
travel. There will also be signed books available for purchase.
Ed’s Editions, LLC, ABAA BOOTH #401
www.edseditions.com
Ed’s Editions has a fine collection of antiquarian, out-of-print books
and related items offered at reasonable prices.
Elemental Series BOOTH #522
www.createspace.com/3776470
Check out the new young teen science fiction, Elemental and the
Bete Noire.
Farley’s Fiction & Other Works BOOTH #323
Dr. Farley’s fiction, although primarily southern, is set in places
worldwide - Paris, Quebec, Germany, and elsewhere and includes
philosophical and theological books.
Freedom’s Hammer BOOTH #309
freedomshammer.com
Author of “The Blood of the Titans,” “Hour of The Beast,” and “The
Identity Thief,” with fellow authors.
Friends of the Dunwoody Library BOOTH #322
Non-Profit Organization featuring Southern History, County and City
History, Genealogy, Children’s Books, Railroadiana, Biography, Sets,
and Art & Photography.
Glenda Colleen Gambill BOOTH #423
Alex’s Birthday Surprises was written by Glenda Colleen Gambill and
illustrated by Glenda Colleen Gambill and Sandy Seawright. Glenda
is a former elementary school teacher.
Growing Home Southeast BOOTH #210
www.growinghomese.com
GHSE is a family service agency providing quality services to
children and families in South Carolina and will have agency
brochures and books pertaining to foster care.
Gumshoe Books BOOTH #316
www.abebooks.com/home/GUMSHOEBOOKS
Antiquarian Book Dealer
Happy Apple Books BOOTH #209
www.happyapplebooks.com
Happy Apple Books is the publisher of Children’s books Charlie’s Monster
and Charlie’s Easter: stories about Charlie the fish and his adventures.
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Henry Porada BOOTH #525
www.henryporada.com
Henry Porada is the author of children’s picture books such as
Buddy’s Fun Day and The Inner Light. Also the promoter of the
t-shirt “Reading is Fun.”
Holladay House Publishing BOOTH #106
www.holladayhousepublishing.com
Holladay House Publishing is an independent book publisher
focused on bringing readers the best literature southern writers
have to offer.
Hub City Press & Bookshop BOOTH #202
www.hubcity.org
Based in Spartanburg, Hub City publishes regional literature and
history, and also operates an independent bookstore.
Islamic Center of Columbia BOOTH #524
www.almasjid.com
Islamic information books.
J. K. Barber BOOTH #521
www.jkbarber.com
J. K. Barber is pen name for fantasy co-authors, Jay and Katie
Barber. They will be selling and signing their own books.
Joggling Board Press BOOTH #415
www.jogglingboardpress.com
Joggling Board Press is an award-winning publisher of fiction and
non-fiction books in the spirit of the South.
John Gillgren BOOTH #523
John Gillgren will have posters and books on display.
Julia Allcut & Edith Hawkins BOOTH #223
Julia Allcut and Edith Hawkins will be promoting and selling their
books including Allcut’s newly released book entitled The Good Spy
Wife. June Mackie Images BOOTH #324
June Mackie Images will be selling an amazing coffee table book,
“Seasons of Lake Murray,” a 48-page photography collection.
K.I.M. Publishing, LLC BOOTH #211
Publisher of novels that take place in the mountains of Western
North Carolina, featuring award-winning author Rose Senehi as well
as Leanna Sain.
Karen Petit BOOTH #556
www.authorkarenpetit.com
Kennedy Free Press BOOTH #306
www.infodepot.org
The Spartanburg County Public Libraries and Kennedy Free
Press bring books and materials specializing in local history and
genealogy.
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LadyRen’s Nook - Tastee Treats & Children’s Books
BOOTH #715
www.ladyrensnook.com
LadyRen’s Nook is a book store specializing in Children’s Books and
Gourmet Desserts.
Lowcountry Romance Writers of America BOOTH #221
www.lowcountryrwa.com
The Lowcountry Romance Writers of America will have Chapter
Brochures outlining membership benefits, the 2014 Online Class
Schedule, and bookmarks highlighting published authors/chapter
members.
Lowcountry Writers Retreat /
Mary Ann Henry BOOTH #555
www.lowcountrywritersretreat.com
Register to win a weekend retreat in Folly Beach, South Carolina.
Lowcountry Writers Retreat offers workshops and year-round
retreats.
www.maryannhenry.com
Mary Ann Henry will be selling copies of her short story collection,
Ladies in Low Places, and will also be giving away promotional
items.
Lyon’s Den Mystery Books & More BOOTH #406
Lyon’s Den Mystery Books & More features modern first edition
mystery books and many signed by the author. Also features
carefully selected Non-Fiction.
Main Street Rag Publishing Company BOOTH #205
www.mainstreetrag.com
Main Street Rag is a publisher of poetry and literary books as well as
a print/bindery for other publishers.
Margot Sloan BOOTH #224
www.margotsloan.com
Margot Sloan will be selling copies of her book, “In That Moment,”
and will also be giving away promotional items.
MCG Productions BOOTH #225
www.michaelgilmore1.com
MCG Productions will be displaying the three current “Levels of
Power” novels: The Senator, The Legislator, and The Diplomat, plus
an interesting little gem called The Toilet Salesman.
Mercer University Press BOOTH #418
www.mupress.org
Mercer University Press publishes books in a variety of genres
including Literary Fiction, Poetry, Biography, History, Southern
Studies, Religion, and Philosophy.
Meryton Press BOOTH #206
www.merytonpress.com
Meryton Press is a small press publisher of Austenesque, Romance,
and Historical Fiction.
Michele Kingery BOOTH #704
www.starfishnovel.tumblr.com
Michele Kingery’s novel Starfish is a finalist for the 2014 Green Earth
Book Award in Young Adult literature.
MJF Publishing BOOTH #252
www.mjfpublishing.com
MJF Publishing seeks to fight biblical illiteracy one publication at a
time. Current genres include nonfiction and children’s fiction.
Muddy Ford Press BOOTH #416
www.muddyfordpress.com
Muddy Ford Press, LLC is a boutique publishing company dedicated
to providing hands-on juried publishing opportunities to writers
and poets from South Carolina and beyond.
Odyssey Books BOOTH #212
www.thesidheseries.com
Odyssey Books is a small press publisher with books such as The
Circle, Book one of the Sidhe Series by author Cindy Cipriano.
One Columbia for Arts & History BOOTH #305
www.onecolumbiasc.com
One Columbia for Arts & History is an Arts Promotional Group. The
collective resource for events and programs rooted in the arts and
history in Columbia, SC.
Palmetto Christian Writers Network BOOTH #308
The Palmetto Christian Writers Network will have information about
their writer’s group. They will also have books for sale by members
of the group.
Peter Warren Books BOOTH #413
www.readpete.com
Author Peter Warren will be signing copies of The Horry County
Murders, Confederate Gold and Silver, and The Journey North.
Poetry Society of South Carolina and Lowcountry
Initiative for the Literary Arts BOOTH #307
The Poetry Society of South Carolina and the Lowcountry Initiative
for the Literary Arts promote the reading, writing, study, and
enjoyment of poetry and the literary arts across South Carolina.
Regina Jeffers, Author BOOTH #326
www.rjeffers.com
Regina Jeffers is the award-winning author of Jane Austen-inspired
novels, as well as Regency Era historical romance and mysteries.
Rev. Antonio N. Sherman BOOTH #327
The gift of salvation in its most simplistic understanding, regardless
of religious belief, the biblical truth as it is.
Richland Library BOOTH #301
www.richlandlibrary.com
Experts will be available to help you access thousands of Richland
Library eBooks, audio books, eMagazines, music and more on your
portable device.
Rick H. Veal BOOTH #226
www.themasterofwhitehall.com
The epic saga of The Master of Whitehall (books 1 and 2) is a
contemporary paranormal romance set in Charleston, S.C.
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Robert A. Fiacco BOOTH #208
www.bobfiacco.com
“Just like a bad shot on the golf course shows us what we are doing
wrong with our swing, our life’s mistakes can truly be gifts of growth
and development.” —Robert A. Fiacco, Showing Up to Play
Rutledge Books BOOTH #321
Rutledge Books will have rare books available including genres
such as Americana, Literature, and Sports.
Sandi Morgan Denkers - Author BOOTH #251
www.flockadelic.com
Waiting in Deep - Regional Southern Fiction set in the 1970s.
Sandy Vassallo BOOTH #249
Sandy Vassallo, author of The Rosewood Book Club, will be selling
copies of her contemporary women’s fiction book.
SC State Museum BOOTH #302
www.museum.state.sc.us
The SC State Museum will be selling products from their Museum
Retail Store.
SCETV & ETV Radio BOOTH #303
www.scetv.org
SCETV & ETV Radio will be giving away a limited number of
children’s books as well as program information and station
information.
School of Library and Information Science - South
Carolina Center for Children’s Books and Literacy
BOOTH #201
www.libsci.sc.edu/ccbl
The School of Library and Information Science - South Carolina
Center for Children’s Books and Literacy is an examination
collection including award winning books and newly published
children’s titles for use by all interested in children’s literature and
reading. Also, the home of USC’s Cocky’s Reading Express which is
an outreach for family literacy throughout the state.
Shelly’s Adventures BOOTH #250
www.shellysadventuresllc.com
Shelly’s Adventures LLC provides educational reading materials that
teach American Sign Language.
Sheri Wren Haymore BOOTH #604
www.sheriwrenhaymore.com
Sheri Wren Haymore will exhibit two novels, postcards, and
bookmarks.
Short Story America BOOTH #103
www.shortstoryamerica.com
Short Story America publishes quality short stories by authors
around the world in the acclaimed anthology series Short Story
America.
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South Carolina Academy of Authors BOOTH #219
www.scacademyofauthors.org
Founded in 1986, the South Carolina Academy of Authors serves as
the state’s literary hall of fame. At an induction ceremony held in a
different part of the state each year, the board recognizes the state’s
distinguished writers, living and deceased.
South Carolina Arts Commission BOOTH #216
www.SouthCarolinaArts.com
The South Carolina Arts Commission promotes the arts statewide
by providing services, grants and leadership in arts education,
community arts development and artist development.
South Carolina Governor’s School for
Arts & Humanities BOOTH #217
www.scgsah.org
The South Carolina Governor’s School for Arts & Humanities is a
residential public high school that offers summer programs for
emerging artists in creative writing, dance, music, and visual arts.
South Carolina State Library BOOTH #214
www.statelibrary.sc.gov
The South Carolina State Library supports and inspires a thriving
statewide community of learners committed to making South
Carolina’s future brighter.
South Carolina Writers’ Workshop BOOTH #222
www.myscww.org
The South Carolina Writers’ Workshop is a literary arts organization
serving both new and established writers. SCWW offers a
supportive environment for people to become better writers.
South Carolina Written Voices BOOTH #410
www.writtenvoicesblog.com
Written Voices Blog highlights African-American Literature that
edifies the soul. They would like you to meet some of their authors
and bloggers.
Stephen Chesley BOOTH #318
Stephen Chesley is a semi-abstract artist working primarily in oils,
charcoal, and metal. His work has been featured in a number of solo
and group exhibitions and has been honored with a fellowship from
the National Endowment for the Arts.
Susan M. Boyer & Kendel Lynn, Authors BOOTH #549
www.susanmboyerbooks.com kendellynn.com
Susan M. Boyer and Kendel Lynn, bestselling and award winning
Henery Press authors, will be selling their respective books.
Sylvan Learning Center BOOTH #110
Sylvan Learning Center has been a provider for over 30 years of
Pre-K through 12th Grade supplemental education.
The Adventures of Sammy the Wonder Dachshund
BOOTH #248
Author and Illustrator Jonathan Miller will be selling and signing
his books: Sammy’s Last Week in Charleston, Sammy on Safari, and
Sammy in Space.
scbookfestival.org
The Art Party Press BOOTH #213
theartpartypress.weebly.com
The Art Party Press has two non-fiction science books for elementary
children, a new release for tweens, and a murder mystery for adults.
The Athenaeum Press at Coastal Carolina University
BOOTH #417
www.theathenaeumpress.com
The Athenaeum Press collaborates with students and project
initiators to create innovative projects that combine traditional and
new media.
The History Press BOOTH #414
www.historypress.net
The History Press is a trade book publisher with nearly two thousand
local and regional history titles across the United States.
The New York Times BOOTH #C3
www.nytimes.com
We will be offering attendees discounted subscriptions to The New
York Times with a complimentary gift at the time of purchase.
The Quaker Cafe and A Southern Sampler BOOTH #325
www.brendaremmes.com
Kudzu driven, heartrending Carolina page-turners, The Quaker
Cafe and A Southern Sampler are best savored with sweet tea and
barbeque.
The State Media Company BOOTH #C2
www.thestate.com
The Women’s Shelter BOOTH #602
www.womenshelter.org
Protect your books! Application of clear covers for books, with or
without jackets, by the ladies from The Women’s Shelter.
Tryon Fine Books BOOTH #407
www.thefountainbooks.com
Vernell Chapman is the author of ‘The Fountain Duet’, a set of
romantic fantasy novels.
Warbranch Press BOOTH #102
www.warbranchpress.com
Warbranch Press publishes children’s picture books written and/or
illustrated by Kate Salley Palmer and her son, James Palmer.
Where Writers Win BOOTH #104
www.writerswin.com
Marketing, websites, training and tools for emerging authors, and
WWW’s Winner Circle: access to live book clubs, vetted reviewers,
and industry discounts.
Windmill Books BOOTH #112
Windmill Books is currently promoting two authors, Norwood
Holland and Brian Boger.
WWI Centennial: Greater Columbia Literacy
(Turning Pages) BOOTH #220
www.turning-pages.org
Honoring the centennial year of the beginning of World War I, the
Greater Columbia Literacy Council (Turning Pages) will display
biographies, histories and novels of the Great War. Share the Joy of
Reading! Become a Reading Tutor Volunteer! Ye Olde Bookbinder BOOTH #411
www.yeoldebookbinder.org
Ye Olde Bookbinder provides antique book restoration and repair
including rebinding and book imprinting services.
You Are Purposefully Designed BOOTH #113
Author Jay Schabacker will be signing and selling his award-winning
evangelical coffee table book, “Purposeful Design – Understanding
the Creation”.
Tryon Fine Books (Harry Goodheart, Bookseller) offers exceptional
antiquarian and modern first editions.
University of South Carolina Libraries BOOTH #409
www.sc.edu/libraries
Holdings of the Irvin Department of Rare Books, South Carolina
Digital Collections, and the S.C. Newpaper Project.
University of South Carolina Press BOOTH #101
www.uscpress.com
Celebrating its 70th anniversary in 2014, the University of South
Carolina Press is a leading publisher of smartly written and
beautifully designed regional and scholarly books.
Unlikey Success - Marvin Chernoff BOOTH #518
www.unlikelysuccess.com
Marvin Chernoff’s Unlikely Success is a memoir detailing the
unlikely success of a guy who, with no experience or training, built a
successful advertising agency.
Usborne Books & More BOOTH #111
www.usbornebookswithkimberly.com
Fun and educational Usborne and Kane Miller books for children of
all ages and interests.
Vernell Chapman, Author BOOTH #412
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Special Events
Special Reception Featuring Claws by Archibald Rutledge NEW!
WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 2014, 6:00–8:00PM
LOCATION Gervais & Vine, 620 Gervais St, Columbia SC 29201
$50 per person (includes a first trade edition of Claws signed by artist Stephen Chesley)
Chilled wine punch and heavy hors d’oeuvres served
Kick-off the 2014 SCBook Festival with a fun social event promoting one of our featured books for the 2014 event, Claws by
Archibald Rutledge. See Page 3 for more information.
Children’s Field Trip Day
FRIDAY, MAY 16, 2014, 10AM
The SCBook Festival will host its seventh annual Children’s Field Trip Day in the
Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center. 500 pre-selected second grade students
from five elementary schools in the Midlands will participate. Students will enjoy
a morning of reading and discussion with 2014 SCBook Festival children’s book
authors. At the conclusion of the presentation, each school child will receive a free
book and a bracelet. This event is sponsored by the South Carolina Center for
Children’s Books and Literacy of the University of South Carolina School of Library and Information Science, in partnership
with the SCBook Festival. Patricia Moore-Pastides and the University of South Carolina’s mascot, Cocky, will greet the second
graders.
Writing Workshops
FRIDAY, SATURDAY & SUNDAY, MAY 16–18, 2014
Previously called the “Master Classes in Writing,” the Writing Workshops offered by the SCBook Festival bring writers
together with authors, publicists, publishers, and other industry professionals to learn about best practices in writing and
publishing. Three Writing Workshop classes are being offered Friday, May 16, 2014, one workshop is being offered
Saturday, May 17, and three are being offered Sunday, May 18, 2014. The Writing Workshops on Friday are ticketed
and require registration, which can be done online. Registration is $30/person. The workshops on Saturday and Sunday
are free and open to the public, and seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.
See Schedule for more details, page 15.
Friday Night Opening Reception
FRIDAY, MAY 16, 2014, 7:00–10:00PM
LOCATION F. Hollings Special Collections Library at Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina, 1322
Greene Street, Columbia SC 29208
The Opening Night Reception is one of the favorite events of the SCBook Festival
weekend. Come mingle with SCBook Festival authors and book festival enthusiasts to kick
off the festival! The event features heavy hors d’oeuvres and bar and, of course, wonderful
conversation with book lovers from near and far!
The Literary Vine
SATURDAY, MAY 17, 2014, 7:30–9:30PM
LOCATION Richland Library, 1431 Assembly Street, Columbia SC 29201
The Literary Vine is an evening of wine, beer, music and food. Spread throughout the architecturally
stunning Main Library on the corner of Assembly and Hampton Streets, the fifth annual wine and beer
tasting event will utilize the entire layout of the library, offering guests a variety of different activities as
they sample and learn about wine and beer. SCBook Festival authors Marvin Chernoff, Martha Ezzard,
Lake High, Adrian Miller, and Megan Miranda will sell their books on site for the first hour of the event,
and many other SCBook Festival authors are special guests of the library to enjoy the party and mingle
with guests.
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Signing Schedule
Presenters sign immediately after their presentations in the Exhibit Hall Author
Signing Area. Exceptions are noted below.
Saturday, May 17
11:00
3:00PM
SIGNING WILL TAKE PLACE IMMEDIATELY
OUTSIDE OF RICHLAND MEETING ROOM
Tommy Hays
Mary Ann Henry
Tim Johnston
Terry Kay
Philip Racine
Ron Rash
Lee Smith
James Underwood
Tom Worley
Dee Phelps
SIGNING PRIOR TO SPEAKING SESSION
Tom Poland
Ron Rash
James Scott
Marjory Wentworth
Jim Casada
Stephen Chesley
Phillip Gardner
Andrew Geyer
Joshilyn Jackson
Jessica Khoury
Cassandra King
Tom Mack
Megan Miranda
Ben McC. Moise
Dee Phelps
Megan Shepherd
George Singleton
Jane Spillane
Karen White
4:20PM
1:40PM
Cindi Boiter
Susan Boyer
Congressman James Clyburn
Walter Edgar
Therese Anne Fowler
Roy Hoffman
Kendel Lynn
Dave McDonald
Ed Madden
Cathy Pickens
Jon Pineda
Tom Poland
Alex Simmons
Randy Spencer
Jeremy Whitley
Kendra Albright
Robert Clark
Karen Gavigan
Gail Godwin
Rachel Haynie
jon holloway
John Lane
Cate Lineberry
Tom Mack
Mary Alice Monroe
Patricia Moore-Pastides
Kate Salley Palmer
12:20PM
12:20PM
Wiley Cash
1:20PM
AM
Kwame Alexander
Carolyn Curry
Gregg Cusick
Nikki Giovanni
Sunday, May 18
Wiley Cash
Nina de Gramont
Lake High
Suzanne Kamata
Adrian Miller
Florence Minor
Wendell Minor
Fred Sauceman
Jon Sealy
George Singleton
Jeremy Whitley
NOTES/EXCEPTIONS
Roy Thomas
Signing on Saturday, May 17
and Sunday, May 18 at Booth
404 during Exhibit Hall Hours
Trish Foxwell
Signing on Saturday, May 17
and Sunday, May 18 at Booth
554 during Exhibit Hall Hours
PLEASE NOTE: To best serve everyone, we ask you only
present three books per turn in line. You may re-enter
the line as many times as you would like, time permitting.
Make sure to purchase your books at one of the SCBook
Festival exhibitors before entering line!
Kwame Alexander
Sonja Condit
Pat Conroy
SIGNING IMMEDIATELY OUTSIDE OF RICHLAND MEETING ROOM
Nina de Gramont
Jenks Farmer
Therese Anne Fowler
Trish Foxwell
Deron Hicks
Kami Kinard
Leila Meacham
Jason Mott
Fred Sauceman
John Warley
2:30PM
Gilbert Allen
Teresa Bruce
Marvin Chernoff
Martha Ezzard
Barbara Hagerty
Bruce Holsinger
Susan Laughter Meyers
Mary Alice Monroe
Amy Carol Reeves
Megan Shepherd
Marjory Wentworth
3:40PM
Kendra Albright
Carolyn Curry
Christopher Paul Curtis
Nathalie Dupree
Karen Gavigan
Cynthia Graubart
Monique Jacobs
Cassandra King
John Warley
5:00PM
Pat Conroy
AND WILL ONLY LAST FOR ONE HOUR
Walter Edgar
Eric Emerson
Leo Twiggs
Schedules are subject to change.
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Schedule Saturday May 17 \\ 9:00
AM
PROGRAM
SCHEDULE,
PRESENTERS,
& ROOM
ASSIGNMENT
SUBJECT TO
CHANGE
CAROLINA
MEETING ROOM
A
Let’s Get Personal:
Regional History
Stories
More than Meets the
Eye: The Art of the
Short Story
Carolyn Curry
Gregg Cusick
Phillip Gardner
Tim Johnston
Tom Worley
10:00–10:50 Philip Racine
James Underwood
M:Aïda Rogers
Archibald Rutledge’s
Claws
11:20–12:10
CAROLINA
MEETING ROOM
B
Jim Casada
Stephen Chesley
Ben McC. Moise
Skip Webb
My Life With Mickey
Jane Spillane
I: Kendall Bell
A Sense of the
Midlands
Alex Simmons
Jeremy Whitley
Cindi Boiter
Ed Madden
Tom Poland
Randy Spencer
M: Qiana Whitted
I: Nancy Brock
A New Adventure:
Young Palmetto
Books
12:40–1:30 Dave McDonald
Kendra Albright
Karen Gavigan
2:00–2:50 Rachel Haynie
Patricia MoorePastides
Exhibit Hall
Closes at
5:00PM
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Chasing Utopia
Kwame Alexander
Tommy Hays
Terry Kay
I:Beryl Dakers
Science and
Supernatural in YA
Fiction
A Shared Voice: A
Tapestry of Tales
Phillip Gardner
Andrew Geyer
Tom Mack
George Singleton
M: Qiana Whitted
M: Teresa Weaver
M: Dee Phelps
12:10 - 12:40
Storytelling with Mr.
Darion
Irresistible Fiction
Sassy Southern
Suspense
Blessed Experiences
Como Estas Mi Amigo
Congressman James
Clyburn with Walter
Edgar
Bilingual Music and
More with Jay Barron
Therese Anne
Fowler
Roy Hoffman
Jon Pineda
Susan Boyer
Kendel Lynn
Cathy Pickens
Joshilyn Jackson
Cassandra King
Karen White
Cate Lineberry
James Scott
Tom Mack
Ron Rash
George Singleton
Marjory Wentworth
Robert Clark
jon holloway
John Lane
Mary Alice Monroe
Tom Poland
Gail Godwin with
Rob Neufeld
I: Andy Westbrook
M: Claudia Smith
Brinson
All Quiet on the
Western Front –
WWI Centennial
Marvel Comics:
Heroes of the Past,
Present, and Future
with Roy Thomas
Roy Thomas
M: Preach Jacobs
11:20 - 12:10
Columbia Children’s
Theatre presents The
Stinky Cheese Man
and Other Fair(l)y
(Stoopid) Tales
Jessica Khoury
Megan Miranda
Megan Shepherd
The Old Writer:
Working on the
Ending
M: Sarah Davis
10:50 - 11:20
Storytelling with Mr.
Darion
Compulsively
Readable: Titans of
Fiction
Discover South
Carolina:
Photography Books
Nina de Gramont
Suzanne Kamata
Jeremy Whitley
10:00 - 10:50
Movers and Shakers
Storytime: African
Drumming
M: Dinah Johnson
South Carolina
Encyclopedia Guide
to Authors
M: Marcia Rowen
CHILDREN’S
PAVILION
Nikki Giovanni
Heroism and
Struggle: Untold
Stories of WWII
Deena Bouknight
M: John Myers
YA Literature – It’s
Not Just for Teens
Anymore
I: Claudia Smith
Brinson
Women of Action:
Strong Female
Characters
4:20– 5:10 Dr. Fritz Hamer
I: Janna McMahan
CONGAREE
MEETING ROOM
A&B
RICHLAND
MEETING
ROOM
M: Paula Benson
Authors Discuss
Publishing and Using
CreateSpace
Marvin Chernoff
Ron Rash
Lee Smith
LEXINGTON
MEETING ROOM
B
M: Jane Zenger
M: Kim Shealy
Jeffcoat
3:20–4:10 Warren Brussee
Southern Accents
M: Mary Ann Henry
M: Jacob Rivers III
KidLit101: Grabbing
Readers with Graphic
Novels
LEXINGTON
MEETING ROOM
A
– 5:10PM
I: Jill Hendrix
M: Curtis Rogers
A Feast of Books:
Regional Food
25 Years of Children’s
Books
Southern Fiction
Revival
Lake High
Adrian Miller
Fred Sauceman
Florence Minor
Wendell Minor
Wiley Cash
Jon Sealy
George Singleton
M: Aïda Rogers
Story Squad
I: Helen Fellers and
Will Balk
3:10 - Musical Parade
to Florence and
Wendell Minor, “25
Years of Children’s
Books”, Lexington
Meeting Room B
M: Betsy Teter
3:20 - 5:10
The Nick: Teen
Takeover
Reading and
WORKSHOP:
Learning: Educational Power Your
Children’s Books
Publishing With
CreateSpace: An
Rachel Haynie
Overview
Mary Alice Monroe
Kate Salley Palmer
Sarah Davis
Dee Phelps
A Conroy Family
Roundtable
3:20 - 5:10
The Nick: Teen
Takeover
M: Ida Thompson
These authors will
sign prior to this
session, starting at
3:00 p.m.
M: Aïda Rogers
Jim Conroy
Mike Conroy
Pat Conroy
Tim Conroy
Kathy Harvey
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Sunday May 18 \\ 12:00PM – 4:30PM
PROGRAM
SCHEDULE,
PRESENTERS,
& ROOM
ASSIGNMENT
SUBJECT TO
CHANGE
CAROLINA
MEETING ROOM
A
A Southern Sampler:
Gardens, Literature,
and Food
12:20 – 1:10
Jenks Farmer
Trish Foxwell
Fred Sauceman
M: Curtis Rogers
The Resonance of
Memoir
1:30 –2:20
Teresa Bruce
Marvin Chernoff
Martha Ezzard
M: Kendall Bell
AIDS in the End Zone
2:40 – 3: 30
Kendra Albright
Karen Gavigan
I: Sam Hastings
Regular
Sessions
3:40–4:30
Writing
Workshops
3:40–5:00
Exhibit Hall
Closes at
4:30PM
CAROLINA
MEETING ROOM
B
The Summer
Boredom Antidote:
Fabulous Middle
Grade Reads
Kwame Alexander
Deron Hicks
Kami Kinard
LEXINGTON
MEETING ROOM
A
Somerset
Leila Meacham
I: Dr. Freeman Henry
LEXINGTON
MEETING ROOM
B
Make Paranormal
Your New Normal
Story River Books
Presents
Sonja Condit
Nina de Gramont
Jason Mott
John Warley
with
Pat Conroy
Therese Anne
Fowler
M: Cathy Pickens
M: Jane Zenger
Diverse Verse
Gilbert Allen
Barbara G.S. Hagerty
Susan Laughter
Meyers
Marjory Wentworth
M: Ed Madden
Riverbanks Zoo:
40 Wild Years
Monique Jacobs
Andy Cabe
Ed Diebold
RICHLAND
MEETING
ROOM
I:Janna McMahan
This Dark Road to
Mercy
Threads of History,
Thrills of Mystery
Wiley Cash
Bruce Holsinger
Amy Carol Reeves
Megan Shepherd
I: Betsy Teter
Wiley Cash will sign
prior to this session
at 12:20 p.m.
Southern Belles
Carolyn Curry
Cassandra King
John Warley
M: Cathy Pickens
Flavor and Fun:
Fantastic Cookbooks
Cynthia Graubart
Nathalie Dupree
I: Susan O’Cain
I: Bill Curry
M: Wanda Jewell
M: Sandra Johnson
WORKSHOP:
Using Kickstarter to
Publish a Children’s
Book
A Conversation about
Indie Bookstores, and
Why Columbia Needs
Her Own
WORKSHOP:
How to Brand
Yourself in the Age of
Social Media
Jim Palmer
Kate Salley Palmer
Salley Palmer
Ouellette
Wanda Jewell,
SIBA Executive
Director
Michael Leleux
Kathie Bennett
WORKSHOP:
Storyboard
Workshop, Write
Your Story One
“Pearl” at a Time
Susan KammeraadCampbell
Steve Taylor
The Summer Wind:
Lowcountry Summer
Trilogy
CONGAREE
MEETING ROOM
A&B
CHILDREN’S
PAVILION
12:20 - 1:10
Super Fun Balloon
Show
Balloonopolis
1:10 - 1:30
Storytime
with Richland Library
1:30 - 2:20
Lunch Money Band
Performance
Mary Alice Monroe
I: Sara Fisher
An Afternoon with
Christopher Paul
Curtis
2:40 - 4:30
Richland Library
Teen Takeover
Christopher Paul
Curtis
I: Curtis Rogers
Palmetto Profiles:
The Guide to the SC
Hall of Fame
2:40 - 4:30
Richland Library
Teen Takeover
Pat Conroy
Walter Edgar
Eric Emerson
Leo Twiggs
SIGNINGS Authors will sign books immediately after presentations unless otherwise noted. SEE PAGE 13
For up to date schedule changes and more information about presenters,
please visit www.scbookfestival.org
or our information booth at the festival,
or scan this QR Code with your mobile phone.
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Presenting Authors & Special Sessions
Kendra Albright
www.libsci.sc.edu/fsd/albright/ka.html
Kendra Albright is an
associate professor in the
School of Library and
Information Science at the
University of South Carolina.
Her research has focused on
the role of information and communication
in the prevention of HIV/AIDS and domestic
violence and the ways in which people feel
about different kinds of messages across
different cultures.
Kwame Alexander
He Said/She Said / The Crossover
www.kwamealexander.com
Kwame Alexander is the
author of 17 books,
including The Crossover, a
middle grade novel, and He
Said/She Said, a young adult
novel, both Junior Library
Guild Selections. He believes that poetry
and literature can change the world, and
through his Book-in-a-Day literacy program,
he’s created more than 3,000 student
authors. Recently, he led a delegation of 20
writers and activists to Ghana, where they
delivered books to a rural village, built a
library, and provided professional
development to 300 teachers.
All Quiet on the Western Front Greater Columbia Literacy
www.turning-pages.org
All Quiet on the Western Front: It was the
war to end all wars. It became a watershed
event for world literature. Honoring the
centennial year of the beginning of World
War I, the Greater Columbia Literacy
Council (Turning Pages) will display
biographies, histories and novels of the
Great War. Events will include a reading
hosted by Dr. Fritz Hamer, weekend-long
surprise guests, a WWI literary quiz and a
slide show on the War.
Gilbert Allen
Catma
www.pw.org/content/gilbert_allen_2
Gilbert Allen is the author of
six collections of poems: In
Everything, Second
Chances, Commandments
at Eleven, Driving to
Distraction, Body Parts, and
Catma. His work has received The Robert
Penn Warren Prize from The Southern
Review and has been featured on The
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Writer’s Almanac and Verse Daily. He is the
Bennette E. Geer Professor of Literature at
Furman University, and he was inducted
into the South Carolina Academy of Authors
in April 2014.
Kathie Bennett
Kathie Bennett is first and
foremost a passionate
reader. So it came as no
surprise when Kathie, a
successful community
fundraiser who has
spearheaded many philanthropic efforts
throughout the South, founded Magic Time
Literary Agency in 2008. It was her way of
responding to the need she perceived
within the publishing arena, and ensuring
that her favorite authors could afford to
continue to write. With the encouragement
of bestselling authors, Kathie discovered
her mission: to be an Author Advocate. As a
champion of books, Magic Time will
provide services as a publicist and booking
agent--securing speaking engagements for
academic, corporate and non-profit arenas.
Cynthia Boiter
A Sense of the Midlands
Founder and Editor of
Jasper Magazine, Cynthia
Boiter is the author of
Buttered Biscuits - Short
Stories from the South
(2012), Red Social with artist
Alejandro Garcia-Lemos (2013), editor of A
Sense of the Midlands (2014) and The
Limelight - A Compendium of
Contemporary Columbia Artists (2013),
contributor to Hub for the Holidays (2013),
State of the Heart (2013), and Inheritance
(2001). She is a 2014 recipient of the Verner
Award for the Arts.
Susan M. Boyer
Lowcountry Bombshell (Liz Talbot Mystery #2)
www.susanboyerbooks.com
Susan M. Boyer is the author
of the Liz Talbot mystery
series. Her debut novel,
Lowcountry Boil is a USA
Today Bestseller, an Agatha
Award winner for Best First
Novel, a Macavity nominee, a 2012 Daphne du
Maurier Award recipient, and a 2012 RWA
Golden Heart® finalist. Lowcountry Bombshell
was released September 3, 2013. Lowcountry
Boneyard is due out in September 2014. Susan
lives with her husband and an inordinate
number of houseplants in Greenville, SC.
Teresa Bruce
The Other Mother: A Rememoir
www.teresabrucebooks.com
Teresa Bruce’s first memoir
“The Other Mother: a
rememoir” earned the blurb
of all blurbs from Pat Conroy
who not only said “Mark my
words, Teresa Bruce will be
one of the next great American authors,”
but proceeded to give her book to all the
important women in his life. It’s her second
book with Joggling Board Press – she
collaborated with her husband,
photographer Gary Geboy, on “Transfer of
Grace,” an award-winning collection of
South Carolina Lowcountry images and
prose. She is also a screenwriter and
producer/director of corporate and
government films.
Christopher Buckley
But Enough About You: Essays
Christopher Buckley is the
pen name of Christopher
Buckley. He divides his time
between the bedroom,
kitchen, bathroom, and the
koi pond, which serves as a
sushi bar for the benefit of herons. When
not cursing herons, he plants expensive
bulbs for the winter nourishment of the
abundant local squirrel population. His next
book is Game of Drones, a candid and
sure-to-be-controversial account of his
experiences deploying miniature
unmanned aerial vehicles in his yard “for
purposes of deterrence and, to be honest,
revenge.”
Jim Casada
Claws
www.jimcasadaoutdoors.com
Jim Casada, a retired history
professor, is one of the
country’s most widely
published outdoor writers.
He has written or edited
more than forty books,
contributed to many others, and authored
some five thousand magazine articles.
Casada has edited four previous Rutledge
anthologies---Hunting and Home in the
Southern Heartland; Tales of Whitetails;
America’s Greatest Game Bird; and Bird
Dog Days, Wingshooting Ways. He has
been honored with more than 150 regional
and national awards for his writing,
including the Federation of Fly Fishermen’s
Arnold Gingrich Memorial Award, the
National Wild Turkey Federation’s
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Communicator of the Year Award, and the
South Carolina Wildlife Federation’s Harry
R.E. Hampton Memorial Award.
Wiley Cash
This Dark Road to Mercy
www.wileycash.com
A Gastonia native, Cash
returned to his North
Carolina roots when he and
his wife moved to
Wilmington. He holds a
Ph.D. in English from the
University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where
he studied fiction writing under Ernest J.
Gaines. He has held residency positions at
Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony and
teaches in the low-residency MFA program
at Southern New Hampshire University.
Marvin Chernoff
Unlikely Success: How a Guy Without a Clue
Built One Hell-Of-A Business
www.unlikelysuccess.com
Marvin Chernoff founded
Chernoff/Silver in 1974. Chernoff made the
transition from a successful
political consultant to the
creative force behind one of
the most respected and aggressive public
relations, public affairs and advertising
agencies in the southeast. And he did it
without training or experience.
Among his many awards are the Order of
the Palmetto for his work in education and
the Verner Award for his support of the arts.
Stephen Chesley
Claws
Stephen Chesley is a semi-abstract artist
working primarily in oils, charcoal, and
metal. His work has been featured in a
number of solo and group exhibitions and
has been honored with a fellowship from
the National Endowment for the Arts.
Robert C. Clark
Reflections of South Carolina, Vol.II
www.robertclarkphotography.com
Robert C. Clark’s work has
appeared in National
Geographic books,
Newsweek, Smithsonian,
photographic awards
annuals such as Print and
Communication Arts, and magazines too
numerous to list. He has collaborated on
three previous USC Press books with Tom
Poland-South Carolina: A Timeless Journey,
South Carolina: The Natural Heritage, and
Reflections of South Carolina-and one,
University of South Carolina: A Portrait, with
Chris Horn.
Congressman James Clyburn
James E. Clyburn has
represented South
Carolina’s sixth district in the
U.S. House of
Representatives since 1993,
and he currently serves as
assistant Democratic leader of the House.
He has been married to the former Emily
England since June 1961, and they have
three daughters, two sons-in-law, and three
grandchildren. The Congressman and his
wife live in Columbia, South Carolina.
Sonja Condit
Starter House
www.sonjacondit.com
Sonja Condit received her
MFA from Converse
College, where she studied
with Robert Olmstead, Leslie
Pietrzyk, R.T. Smith, and
Marlin Barton. Her short
fiction has appeared in Shenandoah
Magazine, among other publications. She
plays principal bassoon in the
Hendersonville Symphony Orchestra and
Greater Anderson Musical Arts Consortium,
and she teaches at the South Carolina
Governor’s School for the Arts and
Humanities and at North Greenville
University.
Pat Conroy
The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father
and a Son
patconroy.com
Pat Conroy, born in Atlanta
in 1945, was the first of
seven children of a young
career military officer from
Chicago and a Southern
beauty from Alabama, to
whom Pat often credits for his love of
language. The Conroys moved frequently
to military bases throughout the South, with
Conroy eventually attending The Citadel
Military Academy in Charleston, South
Carolina, where, as a student, he published
his first book, The Boo, a tribute to a
beloved teacher. Following graduation,
Conroy taught English in Beaufort, where
he met and married a young mother of two
children who had been widowed during the
Vietnam War.
He soon took a job teaching
underprivileged children in a one-room
schoolhouse on Daufuskie Island off the
South Carolina shore but, after a year,
was fired for his unconventional teaching
practices – such as his refusal to allow
corporal punishment of his students –
and for his personal differences with the
school’s administration. Conroy was never
to teach again but he evened the score
by exposing the racism and appalling
conditions his students endured with the
publication of a memoir, The Water is Wide
published in 1972. The book won Conroy
a humanitarian award from the National
Education Association and was made into
the feature film Conrack.
Following the birth of a daughter, the
Conroys moved to Atlanta, where Pat wrote
his novel, The Great Santini, published in
1976, and later made into a film starring
Robert Duvall, that explored the conflicts
of the author’s childhood, particularly his
ambivalent love for his violent and abusive
father. The publication of a book that
so painfully exposed his family’s secret
brought Conroy a period of tremendous
personal desolation. This crisis resulted not
only in his divorce, but the divorce of his
parents; his mother presented a copy of
The Great Santini to the judge as “evidence”
in divorce proceedings against his father.
The Citadel became the subject of his next
novel, The Lords of Discipline, published in
1980. The novel exposed the school’s harsh
military discipline and racism.
Conroy remarried and moved from
Atlanta to Rome, where he began The
Prince of Tides, which, when published in
1986, became his most successful book.
Reviewers immediately acknowledged
Conroy as a master storyteller and a poetic
and gifted prose stylist. This novel has
become one of the most beloved novels
of modern time. With over five million
copies in print, it has earned Conroy an
international reputation. The Prince of Tides
was later made into a highly successful
feature film directed by and starring Barbra
Streisand, as well as actor Nick Nolte,
whose performance won him an Oscar
nomination.
Beach Music (1995), Conroy’s sixth book,
was the story of Jack McCall, an American
who moves to Rome to escape the trauma
and painful memory of his young wife’s
suicidal leap off a bridge in South Carolina.
While he was on tour for Beach Music,
members of his Citadel basketball team
began appearing, one by one, at his book
signings around the country, Conroy
realized that his team members had come
back into his life just when he needed them
most. He began reconstructing his senior
year, his last year as an athlete, and the 21
basketball games that changed his life. The
result of these recollections, along with his
insights into his early aspirations as a writer,
became My Losing Season.
Conroy’s fifth novel and ninth book, South
of Broad offers readers a love letter to the
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city of Charleston. It also presents a Conroy
first: a totally lovable father in the character
of Leo Bloom King, the story’s central figure.
He followed the novel with The Pat Conroy
Cookbook. His next book, My Reading
Life, published in 2010, is a celebration of
reading and the books that most influenced
him. In his next book, The Death of Santini, a
memoir published in October 2013, Conroy
revisits one last time his tortured family,
where he describes his father’s surprising
evolution into a father he could finally love.
Conroy currently lives in Beaufort, South
Carolina with his wife, novelist Cassandra
King.
Tim Conroy
Tim Conroy was born in
1957 as the second to the
youngest and sweetest child
of a Marine family at the
Bethesda Naval Hospital in
Maryland. He worked as a
special educator in South Carolina until
retirement. He loves to break bread and
share wine with his radical librarian wife,
Terrye, and their cheapskate friends.
Carolyn Curry
Suffer and Grow Strong: The Life of Ella
Gertrude Clanton Thomas 1834-1907
www.carolyncurry.net
Carolyn Newton Curry holds
a BA in English from Agnes
Scott College and MA and
Ph.D. degrees in History
from Georgia State
University. She has taught at
the Westminster Schools in Atlanta and The
University of Kentucky. Curry is the founder
and chair of Women Alone Together®, a
non-profit foundation created to meet the
needs of women who are alone in our
culture. The well-being of women past and
present has been her lifelong passion.
Curry resides in Atlanta, Georgia.
Christopher Paul Curtis
The Mighty Miss Malone
www.nobodybutcurtis.com
The second oldest of five
siblings, Christopher was
born and raised in Flint,
Michigan which has been
used as a prominent setting
in several stories including
The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 and
Bucking the Sarge. Graduating from Flint
Southwestern High School, Christopher
immediately did two things: 1) enrolled at
Flint’s University of Michigan and 2) applied
for a job at Fisher Body Plant No. 1, a
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General Motors assembly facility. This was
extremely typical for many young adults.
Most blue-collar jobs, particularly in the
“Jungle” where Christopher worked, were
often heavy-duty, hard-working tasks,
requiring minimal educational skills at best.
The pay and benefits couldn’t be beat, so
for high school graduates that wanted a
significant income right out of school,
General Motors was the ticket.
Of all the various departments one
could work, the “Jungle” was easily one
of the worst. The Jungle was where the
manufacturing process began, various sizes
and shapes of metal being welded together
at sequential work stations that eventually
became the body frame of the automobile.
With all the large welding equipment
hanging from the ceiling like Amazon liana
branches, as well as pneumatic, electrical
and other connections running to and from
all the robotic welding arms gave the area
the appearance of a mechanical jungle.
In addition, the scent of oil, grease and
lingering smoke from the welding guns
only added to the metallic ambience.
Once the car’s basic skeletal frame was
established, one of the first things to
get added were the doors. This was
Christopher’s work station. During the 70s,
Fisher Body produced three models – the
Electra 225 (also known as a “deuce and a
quarter”), LaSabre and Riveria. All very big
and extremely heavy vehicles. Very little
plastic was used; the cars were made of
mostly metal. Because the doors were so
big and quite heavy, the company set the
job up for two men to alternate installing
the doors on every other car coming down
the assembly line. This went on each night
for eight or more hours, about 60 cars per
hour.
Christopher and his coworker decided
that instead of working every other car,
they would work every 30 minutes. This
allowed Christopher time to do other things
— besides reading novels (one of his great
passions), he began writing to overcome
the boredom. Some of the writings were
letters; others were sketches of stories
that, like his character Bud Caldwell (Bud,
Not Buddy), began the colorful sojourn
which led him to become one of America’s
leading authors of children’s literature.
Christopher still enjoys reading, playing
basketball and collecting music.
Gregg Cusick
Short Story America Anthology
greggcusick.com
Gregg Cusick’s fiction has
appeared in more than two
dozen journals and has won
numerous awards, including
the Lorian Hemingway Short
Story Competition and The
Florida Review Editor’s Prize, and has been
nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He holds a
Master’s in English/Creative Writing from
North Carolina State University and lives in
Durham, North Carolina, where he bartends
and tutors literacy. He has a short story
collection, My Father Moves Through Time
Like a Dirigible, to be published in 2014 by
Livingston Press.
Nina de Gramont
Meet Me at the River
www.ninadegramont.com
Nina de Gramont is the
author of the acclaimed
Meet Me at the River and
Every Little Thing in the
World as well as the story
collection Of Cats and Men
and the adult novel The Gossip of Starlings.
Her work has appeared in Redbook,
Harvard Review, Nerve, and Seventeen.
Nina lives with her husband and daughter
in coastal North Carolina.
Nathalie Dupree
Nathalie Dupree’s Shrimp and Grits
www.nathaliedupree.com
Ms. Dupree is the author of
twelve cookbooks, including
the James Beard Awardwinning Mastering the Art of
Southern Cooking
(coauthored with Cynthia
Graubart), Southern Biscuits (with Graubart),
and two other James Beard Award winners:
Nathalie Dupree’s Southern Memories and
Nathalie Dupree’s Comfortable Entertaining.
She was awarded the Grand Dame of Les
Dames d’Escoffier in 2012. She lives in
Charleston, South Carolina.
Walter Edgar
Palmetto Profiles: The South Carolina
Encyclopedia Guide to the South Carolina
Hall of Fame
Walter Edgar is Neuffer
Professor of Southern
Studies Emeritus and
Distinguished Professor of
History Emeritus and host of
the popular SC-ETV Radio
program, “Walter Edgar’s Journal.” scbookfestival.org
Eric Emerson
Hall of Fame
W. Eric Emerson is a trustee
of the South Carolina Hall of
Fame and the director of the
South Carolina Department
of Archives and History. He
is the author of Sons of
Privilege: The Charleston Light Dragoons in
the Civil War and the coeditor of Faith,
Valor, and Devotion: The Civil War Letters of
William Porcher DuBose and A Confederate
Englishman: The Civil War Letters of Henry
Wemyss Feilden.
Martha Ezzard
The Second Bud: Deserting the City for a
Farm Winery
www.tigerwine.com
Award-winning writer for
The Atlanta JournalConstitution and former
columnist, Martha M. Ezzard
is a lawyer, writer, and farm
winery owner. Passionate
lovers of the outdoors, the Ezzards raised
their family in Colorado where she was a
press aide to the governor and served in
the state Senate while practicing law. A
native of Atlanta, Ezzard returned to her
Georgia roots and her husband’s family
farm in the North Georgia Mountains.
Jenks Farmer
Deep Rooted Wisdom: Skills and Stories
from Generations of Gardeners
www.jenksfarmer.com
Augustus Jenkins Farmer’s
vision for reflective, soulful
gardening has guided the
creation of public botanical
gardens, city parks, and
private enclaves. His organic
farm and nursery promotes the renaissance
of the crinum lily, a nearly forgotten,
beloved plant of early American gardens.
While he is first and foremost a southern
gardener, he writes for national magazines
and lectures across the United States.
Therese Anne Fowler
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
ThereseAnneFowler.com
Therese Anne Fowler is the
New York Times bestselling
author of Z: A Novel of
Zelda Fitzgerald. Fowler has
a BA in sociology/cultural
anthropology and an MFA in
creative writing. Her work has won honors
from the Faulkner Society and Thomas
Wolfe Fiction prize competitions. An Illinois
native, she currently lives in Raleigh, North
Carolina, where she’s a Writer in Residence
at North Carolina State University.
Trish Foxwell
A Visitor’s Guide to the Literary South
Ms. Foxwell is a career
journalist and author. Her
former staff associations
include the Washington Star
and the New York Times,
Washington Bureau. Her
byline has appeared in the L.A. Times, the
Boston Globe, the Tennessean, the
Washington Times and many other national
publications. She is also the author of
Historic Hotels & Hideaways and is presently
working on a book relating to western
writers and a children’s book.
Phillip Gardner
Available Light
www.phillipjgardner.com
Phillip Gardner is the author
of three short story
collections, Available Light,
Somebody Wants
Somebody Dead and
Someone To Crawl Back To.
A three-time South Carolina Fiction Project
winner and Pushcart nominee, he has
published widely in literary journals and
anthologies. Gardner lives in Darlington,
South Carolina and teaches at Francis
Marion University.
Karen W. Gavigan
www.libsci.sc.edu/fsd/gavigan/kg.html
Karen Gavigan is an
assistant professor in the
Information Science at the
With Mindy Tomasevich,
Gavigan is co-author of Connecting Comics
to Curriculum: Strategies for Grades 6-12
and the “Connecting Comics to Curriculum”
column in Library Media Connection.
Andrew Geyer
A Shared Voice
www.andrewgeyer.org
Andrew Geyer’s newest
book project is the story
anthology A Shared Voice,
published by Lamar
University Press in 2013 and
recently named a 2013
Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award
Finalist. He is the author of Dixie Fish (2011),
a novel; Siren Songs from the Heart of
Austin (2010), a story cycle; Meeting the
Dead (2007), a novel; and Whispers in Dust
and Bone (2003), a story cycle that won the
silver medal for short fiction in the Foreword
Magazine Book of the Year Awards and the
Spur Award from the Western Writers of
America.
Nikki Giovanni
Chasing Utopia
nikki-giovanni.com
Poet, activist, mother, and
Professor Nikki Giovanni
was born June 7, 1943, in
Knoxville, Tennessee. While
a student at Fisk University,
she re-established the
campus’s Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee (SNCC) Chapter in 1965. Over
the span of thirty years, Nikki has received
nineteen honorary degrees from colleges
and universities, and numerous
achievement, humanitarian, and recognition
awards including Woman of the Year for
Ebony, Mademoiselle, Essence, and Ladies
Home Journal magazines; YWCA Woman of
the Year; Outstanding Woman of Tennessee
Award; Ohio Women’s Hall of Fame
induction; Outstanding Humanitarian
Award, The House of Representatives of the
Commonwealth of Kentucky; two
Tennessee Governor’s Awards in the Arts
and in the Humanities; the Virginia
Governor’s Award; Caldecott Honors for
Rosa; and seven NAACP Image Awards.
She was also the first recipient of the Rosa
Parks Woman of Courage Award. Nikki
Giovanni is a University Distinguished
Professor of English at Virginia Tech in
Blacksburg, VA. She continues to read her
work all across the country. Gail Godwin
Flora
www.gailgodwin.com
Gail Godwin, three-time
National Book Award
finalist, is the bestseller
author of twelve critically
acclaimed novels, including
Violet Clay, Father
Melancholy’s Daughter, Evensong, The
Good Husband, and Evenings at Five. She is
also the author of The Making of a Writer,
her journal in two volumes (with editor Rob
Neufeld). She has received a Guggenheim
Fellowship, National Endowment for the
Arts grants, and the Award in Literature
from the American Academy of Arts and
Letters. She lives in Woodstock, New York.
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Cynthia Graubart
Slow Cooker Double Dinners for Two
www.cynthiagraubart.com
Cynthia Graubart, James
Beard Award winner, is the
author of Slow Cooking for
Two: Basics, Techniques, and
Recipes (Gibbs Smith, 2013).
Her prior books include
Mastering the Art of Southern Cooking
(2013 James Beard Award) and Southern
Biscuits, both coauthored with Nathalie
Dupree. Her first book was The One-Armed
Cook: Quick and Easy Recipes, Smart Meal
Plans, and Savvy Advice for New (and
not-so-new) Moms. Based in Atlanta, she is
also a columnist for Southern Living
magazine, frequent speaker, and cooking
teacher.
Barbara G.S. Hagerty
Twinzilla
www.barbarahagerty.com
Barbara G.S. Hagerty is a
poet, writer, photographer
and visual essayist who was
born in Charleston, SC, and
received BA and MA
degrees from The Johns
Hopkins University. Her columns, essays,
articles and poems have appeared
nationwide in a variety of magazines,
newspapers and literary journals. Her visual
essays, combining photographic image
with text, have been widely exhibited.
Kathy Harvey
Kathy Harvey was born in
1953 as the middle child of
the Conroy family at Cherry
Point, North Carolina. She
has worked as a R.N. with
the New Parent Support
Program for the past 21 years, teaching
active duty Marines and their dependents
to be nurturing parents just like Santini. Kathy won the biggest door prize 35 years
ago when she married the redneck Bobby
Joe. He does not talk, he loves his Busch,
hotrods, and NASCAR, in that order. She
has a son named Willie. She slept through
the majority of her childhood and still to
this day does not laugh out loud.
Rachel Haynie
First, You Explore: The Story of the Young
Charles Townes
South Carolina native Rachel Haynie is a
freelance writer and editor for regional
publications and corporate communications.
She holds a bachelor’s degree in English
and a master’s degree in education from the
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Tommy Hays
What I Came to Tell You
www.tommyhays.com
Tommy Hays is the Executive
Director of the Great
Smokies Writing Program
and Lecturer in the Master
of Liberal Arts program at
UNC Asheville. He teaches
in the MFA Creative Writing Program at
Murray State University. A member of the
National Book Critics Circle, he received his
BA in English from Furman University and
graduated from the MFA Program for
Writers at Warren Wilson College.
Deron Hicks
Tower of the Five Orders
www.shakespearemysteries.com
As an attorney, Deron Hicks
investigates mysteries for a
living, so it’s only natural that
he would write about
William Shakespeare, one of
literature’s most puzzling
people. With his own children’s natural
curiosity as inspiration, Deron set out to
reveal a bit of mystery of the real world and
show that many of its secrets still wait to be
told.
Lake High
A History of South Carolina Barbeque
www.historypress.net
Lake E. High Jr. was born in
Columbia, South Carolina,
and except for a few years
spent working in
Washington, D.C., he has
lived there all of his life. One of his earliest childhood memories is
holding his father’s hand and being taken
to Lever’s Barbeque restaurant, which was
then located in West Columbia. He loved it.
High worked as a stockbroker most of his
life, but after he first graduated from the
University of South Carolina with a degree
in political science, he worked for several
years in the public-relations section of the
South Carolina Electric Cooperatives
Association. While traveling around the
state, he never missed a barbeque house. By the time he was in his late twenties,
friends were urging him to write a book on
South Carolina barbeque, since he had
probably eaten in more barbeque
restaurants than anyone in the state.
Roy Hoffman
Come Landfall
www.facebook.com/RoyHoffmanWriter
Roy Hoffman is author of the
novels Almost Family,
winner of the Lillian Smith
Award for fiction, Chicken
Dreaming Corn, a
BookSense pick endorsed
by Harper Lee, and Come Landfall, a
contemporary Southern novel about three
women, the men they love and the wars
that shape them. He is author of two essay
collections, “Back Home: Journeys Through
Mobile,” and “Alabama Afternoons: Profiles
and Conversations,” and his articles and
reviews have appeared in the New York
Times, Fortune, Southern Living, and the
Mobile Press-Register, where he was a
long-time staff writer. A graduate of Tulane
University who worked as a journalist and
speechwriter in New York City before
moving back south to Fairhope, Ala., he
received the Clarence Cason Award in
nonfiction from the University of Alabama,
and is on the faculty of the Spalding
University Brief Residency MFA in Writing
Program.
jon holloway
Web of Water: Reflections of Life Among
the Saluda & Reedy Rivers
www.jonholloway.com
jon holloway’s professional
career has allowed him to
travel the globe, creating
photographic exhibits on
South Carolina, India, South
Africa, and Cuba as a
testament to his artistic vision. He lives and
has a studio in Greenwood.
Bruce Holsinger
A Burnable Book
www.bruceholsinger.com
Bruce Holsinger is an
award-winning scholar of
the Middle Ages and
professor of English and
Medieval Studies at the
University of Virginia in
Charlottesville. He is the author or editor
of six books, beginning with Music, Body,
and Desire in Medieval Culture, which
garnered major awards from the Modern
Language Association, the American
Musicological Society, and the Medieval
Academy of America. His work was
recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship
in 2004, and he is the recipient of research
fellowships from the National Endowment
for the Arts and the American Council of
Learned Societies. His books have been
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published by the university presses of
Chicago, Columbia, and Stanford.
Joshilyn Jackson
Someone Else’s Love Story
www.joshilynjackson.com
Joshilyn Jackson is the New
York Times and USA Today
bestselling author of six
critically acclaimed novels,
including gods in Alabama,
A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty,
and most recently Someone Else’s Love
Story. Her work has been translated into a
dozen languages. Jackson is also an award
winning audio book narrator. She lives in
Decatur, GA with her husband and their two
children.
Monique Jacobs
Riverbanks Zoo and Garden: Forty Wild
Years
www.riverbanks.org
Monique Blanchette Jacobs joined the
Riverbanks team in 2001 and currently
serves as manager of Riverbanks Society,
communications manager for Riverbanks
Zoo and Garden, and editor of Riverbanks
magazine. Previously Jacobs served in
membership marketing at a national
nonprofit association and co-owned a
coffee-house in Boone, North Carolina.
Tim Johnston
Short Story America Anthology
www.shortstoryamerica.com
Tim Johnston’s stories have
appeared or are
forthcoming in Hobart,
PineStraw Magazine, O.
Henry, Mulberry Fork Review,
Civil War Camp Chest, and
Short Story America, among others. His first
collection of stories, titled Between the
Dead and the Sleeping, is due out later this
year, as is his debut novel, Reciprocity. His
short story “Friday Afternoon” is being
adapted for the screen and is available at
Amazon Kindle. He is the founder and
senior editor of the Short Story America
anthology series.
Suzanne Kamata
Gadget Girl
www.suzannekamata.com
Five-time Pushcart Prize
nominee Suzanne Kamata is
the critically acclaimed
author and/or editor of
seven books including, most
recently, Gadget Girl: The
Art of Being Invisible (GemmaMedia, May
2013). Her next novel, Screaming Divas
(Merit Press, May 2014) is about an all-girl
punk rock band in underground 1980s
Columbia, South Carolina. Kamata is a
graduate of Lexington High School and the
University of South Carolina. She teaches
Creative Writing and ESL at Tokushima
University in Japan.
Terry Kay
The Seventh Mirror
www.terrykay.com
Terry Kay, author of the
Southern classic To Dance
with the White Dog, is a
member of the Georgia
Writers Hall of Fame. Three
of his novels have been
produced as Hallmark Hall of Fame movies.
He is a four-time winner of the Author of the
Year Award from the Georgia Writers
Association. His latest book, The Seventh
Mirror, was written at the urging of his
grandchildren.
Jessica Khoury
Vitro
www.jessicakhoury.com
Jessica Khoury is of Syrian
and Scottish descent
and was born in Toccoa,
Georgia. She wrote her first
book at age 4, a fan fic
sequel to Syd Hoff’s Danny
and the Dinosaur, which she scribbled on
notebook paper, stapled together, and
placed on the bookshelf of her preschool
classroom. Since that day, she’s dreamed of
being an author. Besides writing, Jess
enjoys playing, coaching, and watching
soccer and is an avid FC Barcelona fan. She
also spends time directing theater for
college and student groups and traveling
the world in search of inspiration and
stories. She is the author of Origin and Vitro.
Kami Kinard
The Boy Problem: Notes and Predictions of
Tabitha Reddy
www.kamikinard.com
Kami Kinard enjoys writing
humor for teens and tweens.
She is the author of The Boy
Problem: Notes and
Predictions of Tabitha Reddy
(Scholastic 2014). Kinard’s
poetry, fiction, and nonfiction pieces have
appeared in anthologies and periodicals for
children and adults. Her debut novel, The
Boy Project: Notes and Observations of Kara
McAllister (Scholastic 2012) was a 2013
Children’s Choices Reading List selection. A
teaching artist on the South Carolina Arts
Commission’s Roster of Approved Artists,
she holds a MAT degree with an emphasis
in English.
Cassandra King
Moonrise / The Same Sweet Girls Guide to
Life
www.cassandrakingconroy.com
Cassandra King is the author
of five novels, most recently
the critically acclaimed
Moonrise (2013), her literary
homage to Rebecca by
Daphne du Maurier.
Moonrise is a Fall 2013 Okra Pick and a
Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance
(SIBA) bestseller. It has been described as
“her finest book to date.”
Fellow Southern writers Sandra Brown,
Fannie Flagg, and Dorothea Benton Frank
hailed her previous novel, Queen of Broken
Hearts (2008), as “wonderful,” “uplifting,”
“absolutely fabulous,” and “filled with
irresistible characters.” Prior to that, King’s
third book, The Same Sweet Girls (2005),
was a #1 Booksense Selection and
Booksense bestseller, a Southeastern
Bookseller Association bestseller, a New
York Post Required Reading selection, and a
Literary Guild Book-of-the-Month Club
selection.
Her first novel, Making Waves in Zion, was
published in 1995 by River City Press and
reissued in 2004 by Hyperion. Her second
novel, The Sunday Wife (2002), was a
Booksense Pick, a People Magazine
Page-Turner of the Week, a Literary Guild
Book-of-the-Month selection, a Books-aMillion President’s Pick, a South Carolina
State Readers’ Circle selection, and a Salt
Lake Library Readers’ Choice Award
nominee. In paperback, the novel was
chosen by the Nestle Corporation for its
campaign to promote reading groups.
King’s short fiction and essays have
appeared in numerous journals and
anthologies, including Callaloo, Alabama
Bound: The Stories of a State (1995), Belles’
Letters: Contemporary Fiction by Alabama
Women (1999), Stories From Where We Live
(2002), and Stories From The Blue Moon
Café (2004). Aside from writing fiction, she
has taught writing on the college level,
conducted corporate writing seminars,
worked as a human-interest reporter for a
Pelham, Alabama, weekly paper, and
published an article on her second-favorite
pastime, cooking, in Cooking Light
magazine.
A native of L.A. (Lower Alabama), King
currents lives in the Low Country of South
Carolina with her husband, novelist Pat
Conroy, whom she met when he wrote a
blurb for Making Waves.
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John Lane
Web of Water: Reflections of Life Along the
Saluda & Reedy River
www.kudzutelegraph.com
John Lane is an avid
paddler and place-based
educator, whose outdoor
adventure prose has
appeared in Outside,
American White Water,
Canoe, South Carolina Wildlife, and many
other periodicals. His long essays, “River
Wild” (on paddling fifty-nine miles of the
Youghiogheny River) and “Confluence:
Pacolet River,” appeared in the anthologies
Heart of a Nation and Adventure America,
both from National Geographic Books.
Michael Leleux
Michael Leleux is the
founder of All Things
Author™, a boutique
agency specializing in
strategic branding,
marketing, web design, and
social media marketing for the literary
community. Leleux’s considerable
experience in brand development, design
for print and web, and consumer marketing
and social media includes: Zunda Group,
The Dannon Company, Inwork, Inc.,
Colgate-Palmolive, Goodhome.com and
EverydayDecorating.com, of which he is
co-founder. Leleux is a staunch believer in the
transformative power of a great book. He
asserts that many books fall off the shelf, all
too soon, without even the slightest chance
of being noticed by an eager audience-an audience that, for financial reasons,
hasn’t been told that they exist. “It’s all
about time and clear, consistent, targeted
communication,” he says. “And in an age
when it’s so easy to communicate, we’d be
crazy not use tools like twitter, facebook,
Pinterest and Youtube to help us reach that
audience.”
Leleux originally hails from Louisiana,
though he spent his formative years in
Houston, Texas. He now lives, happily, in
New York city with his beautiful husband,
author Robert Leleux.
Cate Lineberry
The Secret Rescue: An Untold Story of
American Nurses and Medics Behind Nazi
Lines
www.catelineberry.com
Cate Lineberry was a staff
writer and Europe editor for
National Geographic
Magazine and the web
editor for Smithsonian
Magazine. Her work has also
appeared in the New York Times. Originally
from Raleigh, North Carolina, she lives in
the greater Washington, DC, area.
Kendel Lynn
Board Stiff
www.kendellynn.com
Kendel Lynn is a Southern
California native who now
parks her flip-flops in Dallas,
Texas. Her debut novel,
Board Stiff, is an Agatha
Award nominee for Best
First Novel. It features Elliott Lisbon, a
mostly amateur sleuth who has a slight
aversion to all things germy and is only five
thousand hours away from getting her
South Carolina PI license. Along with
writing, Kendel spends her days editing,
designing, and reading subs from the slush
pile.
Tom Mack
A Shared Voice: A Tapestry of Tales / The
South Carolina Encyclopedia Guide to
South Carolina Writers
The G. L. Toole Professor of
English at the University of
South Carolina Aiken, Tom
Mack has written over 100
articles and chapters about
American cultural history.
His book titles include Circling the
Savannah (The History Press), Hidden
History of Aiken County (The History Press),
A Shared Voice (Lamar University Press),
and The South Carolina Encyclopedia Guide
to South Carolina Writers (University of
South Carolina Press). A Shared Voice has
been named a 2013 Foreword Magazine
Book of the Year Award Finalist. Dr. Mack is
currently Chair of the Board of Governors
of the South Carolina Academy of Authors.
Ed Madden
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Ed Madden is the author of
three books of poetry-Signals, Prodigal: Variations,
and Nest. His work appears
in Best New Poets 2007, The
Book of Irish American Poetry, as well as
Crazyhorse, Los Angeles Review, Poetry
Ireland, and other journals. He is the literary
arts editor of Jasper magazine.
Dave McDonald
Hamster S.A.M. Odd-Ventures in Space!
www.davemcdonald.com
Dave McDonald is the
author/illustrator of Hamster
S.A.M. Odd-ventures in
Space!, a humorous early
middle grade graphic novel
for readers 7-10. For 30
years, McDonald has written, produced and
presented award-winning children’s
educational and entertainment
programming for television, theme parks,
museums, libraries and schools. An
accredited teaching artist, he shows kids
how to write and draw their own comics
through his popular “Kids Make Comics!”
assembly programs and residencies.
Leila Meacham
Somerset
www.facebook.com/LeilaMeacham
Leila Meacham is a former
teacher who found a second
career in writing. She lives
in San Antonio, Texas and is
the author of the bestselling
novels Roses and
Tumbleweeds.
Susan Laughter Meyers
My Dear, Dear Stagger Grass
www.susanmeyers.blogspot.com
Susan Laughter Meyers is
the author of two full poetry
collections: My Dear, Dear
Stagger Grass, inaugural
winner of the 2012 Cider
Press Review Editors Prize;
and Keep and Give Away (University of
South Carolina Press), winner of the SC
Poetry Book Prize and a SIBA Book Award.
She has been a recipient of Prairie
Schooner’s Edward Stanley Award, as well
as The SC Academy of Authors’ Carrie
McCray Nickens Fellowship.
Adrian Miller
Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an
American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time
adrianemiller.com
Adrian Miller is a writer,
attorney, and certified
barbecue judge who lives in
Denver, CO. He served as a
special assistant to President
Bill Clinton, a senior policy
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analyst for Colorado Governor Bill Ritter Jr.,
and as a Southern Foodways Alliance board
member. Soul Food: The Surprising Story of
an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time
has been nominated for the 2014 James
Beard Foundation Book Award for
Reference and Scholarship.
Florence Minor
If You Were a Panda Bear
www.minorart.com
A former film editor for ABC
News, Florence works with
her husband Wendell Minor
creating books that
entertain, teach and inspire
children. She manages the
business aspects of their studio as well as
writing books that Wendell illustrates. If You
Were a Penguin was chosen by
Pennsylvania for their “One Book” Literacy
Program, and If You Were a Panda Bear
celebrating the eight species of bears was a
Summer 2013 Kids’ Indies Next List
selection.
Wendell Minor
Galapagos George
www.minorart.com
Wendell Minor is nationally
known for the cover artwork
he has created for books by
Pat Conroy, Fannie Flagg
and David McCullough,
among others. He has
illustrated fifty four children’s books,
collaborating with Jean Craighead George,
Charlotte Zolotow, Robert Burleigh, Mary
Higgins Clark and astronaut Buzz Aldrin. He
has authored six books of his own.“Wendell
Minor’s America,” a retrospective featuring
25 years of his children’s book art, is on
exhibit at the Norman Rockwell Museum.
Megan Miranda
Vengeance
www.meganmiranda.com
Megan Miranda is the
author of Fracture, Hysteria,
and Vengeance. She spends
a great deal of time thinking
about the “why” and “how”
of things, which leads her to
get carried away daydreaming about the
“what-ifs.” Megan has a degree in Biology
from MIT and currently lives near Charlotte,
North Carolina with her husband and two
young children. Ben McC. Moïse
Claws
Ben McC. Moïse was a
conservation officer with the
South Carolina Department
of Natural Resources from
1978 to 2002. In recognition of his
achievements in law enforcement, he was
presented the Guy Bradley Award by the
North American Fish and Wildlife
Foundation in 1990 and the Order of the
Palmetto by South Carolina governor
Carroll Campbell in 1994. Moïse is the
author of Ramblings of a Lowcountry Game
Warden, editor of A Southern Sportsman,
and a contributor to the Charleston Post
and Courier, Charleston Mercury, and other
regional publications.
Mary Alice Monroe
The Summer Girls
www.maryalicemonroe.com
Mary Alice Monroe is the
author of sixteen novels and
two children’s books. Mary
Alice writes richly textured
books that delve into the
complexities of interpersonal relationships
and the parallels between the land and life.
Monroe’s novels are published
worldwide. She has achieved many lists,
including the New York Times, USA Today
and SIBA. She has received numerous
awards, including Readers’ Choice, the
2008 South Carolina Center for the Book
Award for Writing and was featured at the
National Festival of the Book. The Butterfly’s
Daughter won the International Book Award
for Green Fiction. Monroe is a nominee for
RT Bookclub Lifetime Achievement Award.
Mary Alice is an active conservationist and
serves on the Board of the South Carolina
Aquarium, The Leatherback Trust, and
Charleston Volunteers for Literacy. She
is a frequent speaker at book festivals,
conferences, and private events. Monroe
is also a frequent contributor to magazines
and online blogs.
Monroe lives with her family on a barrier
island off Charleston, South Carolina.
Patricia Moore-Pastides
Greek Revival from the Garden: Growing
and Cooking for Life
Patricia Moore-Pastides is
the First Lady of the
University of South Carolina
and an accomplished cook,
writer and public health
professional. Patricia earned
her Master’s Degree in Public Health from
Yale University School of Medicine. Her first
book Greek Revival: Cooking for Life (USC
Press 2010) is currently in its fifth printing
and recipient of three book awards. Her
second book Greek Revival from the
Garden: Growing and Cooking for Life (USC
Press 2013) is the winner of the 2013 gold
medal in Adult Books: Cooking, Food &
Wine, Mom’s Choice Awards and the 2013
silver medal in Living Now Books category
for cookbooks.
Jason Mott
The Returned
www.jasonmottauthor.com
Jason Mott holds a B.A. in
fiction and an M.F.A. in
poetry, both from the
University of North Carolina
at Wilmington, and is the
author of two poetry
collections. His writing has appeared in
numerous literary journals, and he was
nominated for the 2014 NAACP Image
Award and the 2009 Pushcart Prize. The
Returned, his first novel, is the inspiration
behind the television series Resurrection.
Jason lives in North Carolina.
Kate Salley Palmer
The First South Carolinians
www.warbranchpress.com
Kate Salley Palmer is a native
of Orangeburg and former
nationally syndicated
political cartoonist at The
Greenville News, where she
won the Freedom
Foundation’s George Washington medal for
editorial cartooning in 1981. In the 90’s she
wrote and/or illustrated over 15 picture
books for national publishers. In 1998, she
and husband, Jim, started Warbranch
Press. Warbranch has published eight titles,
including Kate’s latest two – First South
Carolinians (illustrated by Kate’s son, James)
and I Know Santa Very Well, published with
crowd-funding through Kickstarter.
Karen Petit
Ivy: The True “Tail” of America’s No. 1 Canine
Sleuth
www.authorkarenpetit.com
Karen Petit of Columbia is
the creator of the
“Shandon’s Ivy League”
Mystery Series for young
readers. The series, which
follows the adventures of a
group of pets that solve crimes, will add
Book 5, “The Mystery of the Perils of Paris,”
this fall. She also is the author of “A Paw on
My Heart,” her memoir on the healing
power of pets. Karen is “Mom” to two
spoiled fur children: Dixie, a bichon-poodle,
and Lady Louise, a rescued Standard
Poodle who has a daily blog,
www.ladylouisespeaks.com.
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Dee Phelps
The Flower in the Thickets / The
Disappointment Room
deephelps.com
Dee Phelps is an alumnus of
The University of Pittsburgh
and Wharton School of
Nursing. Her family passed
down, through generations,
tales of life on a Lowcountry
cotton and indigo plantation, once owning
a Plantation near Beaufort, South Carolina.
From those fascinating and sometimes
harrowing stories, Dee wrote The
Disappointment Room. She is the author of
the children’s book, The Flower in the
Thickets written under the pen name
Marcella Miller, has written numerous
international travel articles for national
magazines, and was a surgical nurse for
more than 25 years.
Cathy Pickens
Charleston Mysteries: Ghostly Haunts in the
Holy City
www.cathypickens.com
Publishers Weekly called
Southern Fried (St. Martin’s
Malice Domestic Award
winner) an “assured debut, a
cozy with some sharp
edges.” Can’t Never Tell is
5th in the series. She is also the author of
Charleston Mysteries, a walking tour of
mysterious Charleston.
Cathy has served as president of Sisters
in Crime, secretary of Mystery Writers
of America board of directors, and is
president of the Mecklenburg Forensic
Medicine Program (collaborative for
evidence collection and preservation
training). She teaches graduate courses in
both law and creativity at Queens University
in Charlotte.
Jon Pineda
Apology
www.jonpineda.com
Jon Pineda is the author of
the novel Apology, winner
of the 2013 Milkweed
National Fiction Prize. His
memoir Sleep in Me was a
2010 Barnes & Noble
Discover Great New Writers selection and
was recently translated into Chinese. His
poetry collections include The Translator’s
Diary, winner of the 2007 Green Rose Prize,
and Birthmark, winner of the 2003 Crab
Orchard Award Series Open Competition.
He lives in Virginia and teaches creative
writing at the University of Mary
Washington.
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Tom Poland
Reflections of South Carolina, Vol. II
Tom Poland writes columns
for newspapers and journals
in Georgia and South
Carolina about the South
and its people, traditions,
lifestyle, and culture. In
addition Poland has coauthored Save the
Last Dance for Me: A Love Story of the Shag
and the Society of Southern Stranders.
Poland lives in Columbia.
Philip Racine
Living a Big War in a Small Place:
Spartanburg, South Carolina During the
Confederacy
Philip N. Racine is the
William R. Kenan, Jr.,
Professor of History
Emeritus at Wofford College
in Spartanburg, South
Carolina. He is the editor of
The Fiery Trail: A Union Officer’s Account of
Sherman’s Last Campaign, Piedmont
Farmer: The Journals of David Golightly
Harris, 1855 – 1870, and Gentlemen
Merchants: A Charleston Family’s Odyssey,
1828 – 1870, and author of Seeing
Spartanburg: A History in Images.
Ron Rash
Nothing Gold Can Stay: Stories
Ron Rash is the author of
The Cove and of the 2009
PEN/Faulkner Finalist and
novel, Serena, in addition to
three other prizewinning
novels, One Foot in Eden, Saints at the River,
and The World Made Straight; three
collections of poems; and four collections
of stories, among them Burning Bright,
which won the 2010 Frank O’Connor
International Short Story Award, and
Chemistry and Other Stories, which was a
finalist for the 2007 PEN/Faulkner Award.
Twice the recipient of the O. Henry Prize, he
teaches at Western Carolina University.
Amy Carol Reeves
Ressurection
www.amycarolreeves.com
Amy Carol Reeves has a PhD
in nineteenth-century British
literature. She lives in
Columbia, South Carolina
where she works as an
Assistant Professor of
English at Columbia College and writes
young adult books. When not teaching,
writing, or spending time with her family,
she likes jogging with her Labrador
retriever, Annie, and daydreaming about
Brontё novel hunks. Resurrection is her third
novel.
Fred Sauceman
Buttermilk and Bible Burgers: More Stories
from the Kitchens of Appalachia
Fred W. Sauceman
celebrates the foodways
and culture of his native
Appalachia through books,
magazine articles,
newspaper columns, radio,
television, and documentary films. His
home base is the campus of East Tennessee
State University in Johnson City. Buttermilk
and Bible Burgers is his fourth book
published by Mercer University Press.
James Scott
The War Below: The Story of Three
Submarines That Battled Japan
www.jamesmscott.com
James Scott is an awardwinning writer and former
reporter and investigative
journalist with the Post and
Courier. Scott’s first book,
The Attack on the Liberty,
was awarded the 2010 Samuel Eliot
Morison Award for Excellence in Naval
Literature by the Naval Order of the United
States and was selected by the Navy’s
preeminent policy magazine, Proceedings,
as one of the best books of 2009. As a
journalist, Scott reported from Afghanistan,
Iraq, Buenos Aires, and tsunami-devastated
Indonesia. He is a recipient of the
McClatchy Company President’s Award, was
named the 2003 Journalist of the Year by
the South Carolina Press Association, and is
a former Nieman Fellow for Journalism at
Harvard University.
Jon Sealy
The Whiskey Baron
www.jonsealy.com
Jon Sealy is the author of
The Whiskey Baron (Hub
City Press, 2014). A native of
upstate South Carolina, he is
currently a freelance writer
in Richmond, Virginia.
Megan Shepherd
Her Dark Curiosity (The Madman’s Daughter #2)
www.meganshepherd.com
Megan Shepherd grew up
in her family’s independent
bookstore in the Blue Ridge
Mountains. The travel bug
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took her from London to Timbuktu and
many places in between, though she ended
up back in North Carolina with her
husband, two cats, and a scruffy dog. The
Madman’s Daughter and Her Dark Curiosity
are her first novels.
Alex Simmons
Archie’s World Tour
www.simmonshereandnow.com
Alex Simmons is an awardwinning freelance writer,
comics creator, playwright,
teaching artist, and
educational consultant. He’s
written for Disney Books,
Penguin Press, and Archie Comics, to name
a few. Simmons has served on panels, and
delivered lectures on empowering kids
through the arts. He founded the annual
family event, Kids Comic Con, and three
comic art exhibits. Simmons has lead
creative arts workshops for students and
educators in the US, West Indies, and Africa.
George Singleton
Between Wrecks
www.georgesingleton.net
George Singleton has
published six collections of
stories--These People Are
Us, The Half-Mammals of
Dixie, Why Dogs Chase
Cars, Drowning in Gruel,
Stray Decorum, and Between Wrecks. His
two novels are Novel and Workshirts for
Madmen, and his one book of writing
advice is Pep Talks, Warnings, and Screeds. Singleton’s nearly 200 published short
stories have appeared in the Atlantic
Monthly, Harper’s, Book, Playboy, Zoetrope,
Georgia Review, and elsewhere. His work
has been anthologized in ten issues of New
Stories of the South--the Year’s Best, plus in
a number of other anthologies. A 2009-10
Guggenheim fellowship recipient,
Singleton received the 2011 Hillsdale
Award from the Fellowship of Southern
Writers, and was inducted in the South
Carolina Academy of Authors in 2010. He
holds the John C. Cobb Endowed Chair in
the Humanities at Wofford College, in
Spartanburg, SC.
Lee Smith
Guests On Earth
www.leesmith.com
Lee Smith—a native of
Grundy, VA—is the author of
16 works of fiction including
Fair and Tender Ladies, Oral
History, and a collection of
stories, Mrs. Darcy and the
Blue-Eyed Stranger. Her latest novel
Guests on Earth was published October
2013. She has received many awards
including the North Carolina Award for
Literature and an Academy Award in Fiction
from the American Academy of Arts and
Letters; her novel The Last Girls was a New
York Times bestseller as well as winner of
the Southern Book Critics Circle Award. Randy Spencer
Randy Spencer is a
physician and poet living
outside Chapin. He has
published two poetry
chapbooks, “The Failure of
Magic” and “What the Body
Knows,” and has been included in national
literary journals and anthologies. His poem
in A Sense of the Midlands portrays the
experience of kayaking on Lake Murray.
Jane Spillane
My Life with Mickey
Jane Spillane is a native of
Marion, South Carolina and
spent weekends and
summers in Murrells Inlet.
She is a Carolina girl
through and through, going
so far as to become the runner-up in the
Miss South Carolina pageant. Spillane went
to the University of South Carolina before
moving to New York to attend the American
Academy of Performing Arts where she
majored in theatre, specifically musical
comedy, and toured with a number of
regional productions including the show
“Star-Spangled Girl.”
Eventually she married a Connecticut man
and lived in Fairfield, CT, heading a fitness
program there and raising two beautiful
daughters. In 1982, Spillane divorced and
moved south to Murrells Inlet. That is when
she became reacquainted with a neighbor
who she married a year later. That man was
Mickey Spillane. They were married for 23
years before his death in 2006. Currently,
Spillane owns Mickey Spillane Productions
and Publishing, and has published seven of
Mickey’s novels posthumously. She still lives
in the house on the Inlet with three cats of
her own and tends to her endeavors related
to her late husband.
Roy Thomas
Conan: Throne of Aquilonia
After co-founding the
fanzine Alter Ego in 1961,
Roy Thomas became writer/
assistant editor for Stan Lee
at Marvel Comics in 1965. From 1965-1980 and after
1990 he wrote The Avengers, The X-Men,
Fantastic Four, Avengers West Coast, et
al.—and in the ’70s was the original writer of
Conan the Barbarian, The Savage Sword of
Conan, and Red Sonja. At DC Comics in
the 1980s, he wrote All-Star Squadron, et al. Also in the ’80s, he co-scripted the films Fire
and Ice and Conan the Destroyer. Since
1999 he has edited a professional Alter Ego
magazine and has worked with Stan Lee on
the Spider-Man newspaper comic strip. He
currently also writes online strips of Tarzan
and John Carter of Mars for Edgar Rice
Burroughs, Inc., and the Ember/Redhair
sword-and-sorcery strip for a Dutch
magazine, and is authoring two humongous
forthcoming books about Marvel and Stan
Lee for the German publisher Taschen.
Besides other fan and pro awards, in 2011
he was elected to the Eisner Hall of Fame.
Leo Twiggs
Hall of Fame
leotwiggs.com
Leo Twiggs is a professor
emeritus at S.C. State
University where he was
chair of the Art Department
and director of the museum.
Presently, he is a
Distinguished Artist-in-Residence at Claflin
University in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
James Underwood
Deadly Censorship: Murder, Honor, and
Freedom of the Press
James Lowell Underwood is
Distinguished Professor
Emeritus of Constitutional
Law at the University of
South Carolina School of
Law. He is the author of a
four-volume history of South Carolina’s
constitutions and of several works on
federal legal practice. He is coeditor of The
Dawn of Religious Freedom in South
Carolina and At Freedom’s Door: African
American Founding Fathers and Lawyers in
Reconstruction South Carolina.
John Warley
A Southern Girl
www.johnwarley.com
John Warley, a native South
Carolinian, is a graduate of
the Citadel and the University
of Virginia School of Law. He
practiced law in Virginia until
1993 when he moved to
Mexico to write and teach. Now a full-time
writer, Warley divides his time between
Beaufort, South Carolina, and San Miguel de
Allende, Mexico. A Southern Girl is his third
novel and fourth book, and the first book in
Pat Conroy’s Story River Books imprint.
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Presenting Authors &
Special Sessions CONTINUED
Marjory Wentworth
New and Selected Poems
www.marjorywentworth.net
Marjory Wentworth, South
Carolina poet laureate and
five-time Pushcart Prize
nominee, is the author of four
collections of verse, the
children’s book Shackles
(2009 Silver Medal winner in the Moonbeam
Children’s Book Awards), and Taking a Stand:
The Evolution of Human Rights (with Juan E.
Mendez). She is co-editor with Kwame Dawes
of Seeking: Poetry and Prose Inspired by the
Art of Jonathan Green. Wentworth teaches at
the Art Institute of Charleston, and she is the
president and cofounder of the Lowcountry
Initiative for the Literary Arts.
Karen White
Return to Tradd Street
www.karen-white.com
Karen White is the awardwinning author of sixteen
previous books,
including After the Rain, The
Time Between, Folly
Beach, Falling Home, and such
Tradd Street novels as The Strangers on
Montagu Street and The Girl on Legare
Street. She grew up in London but now lives
with her husband and two children near
Atlanta, Georgia.
Jeremy Whitley
Princeless
www.princelesscomic.tumblr.com
Jeremy Whitley is the writer/
creator of Princeless from
Action Lab Comics. He is also
a frequent comic book writer
and contributor for a number
of different projects including
My Little Pony and NFL RushZone. He lives in
Durham, North Carolina with his lovely wife
Alicia and their adventure-seeking daughter,
Zuri.
Tom Worley
F Troop and Other Citadel Stories
Tom Worley, a 1968 graduate
of the Citadel and former
member of the F Company,
practices law in Charleston,
South Carolina. Worley is
currently working on a new
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Jim Johnson
Sandra Johnson
Jacqueline Bouvier Lee
Denise Lyons
Curtis Rogers
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Nelson Mullins Riley &
Scarborough LLP
Marc and Ann Posner
Joey and T.J. Wallace
Roddy W. Whitaker
Willoughby & Hoefer, P.A.
Paula G. Benson
L. Wayne Bryan and Mary Emily
Parrott
Evanced Solutions, LLC
Sean P. Hartness and Dr. Courtney
Tollison Hartness, Greenville
Caroline L. Hipp
Patricia A. Horoschak
Mr. and Mrs. Sigmon Huitt
Brenda J. McAbee
Walton J. and Julie H. McLeod
Harriet McMaster
Stephen J. Nagle and
Sara L. Sanders
Lenora (Nonie) Price
Helen Ann Rawlinson
Don C. Rosick
Andy and Cathy Westbrook
Jane Floyd Zenger
Book Lover
$100 - $249
Bobbi Adams
Deborah Adams
J. Herman Blake
Nancy J. Brock
William J. (Jeff) Bryson
Barbara Carnal
Lucinda Clark, P.R.A. Publishing
Ellen H. Cooper
Colonel and Mrs. Philip Wayne
Corbett, USAF Retired
Joan Hardy Eison
Toni and Sam Elkins
Helen B. Fellers
Julia and Bud Ferillo
Dr. Karen W. Gavigan
Thomas and Bonnie Grier
Susan Z. Hitt
Clyde and Betty Jean Ireland
Mr. and Mrs. Wilmot B. Irvin
Mary Janet Janicki
Dinah Johnson
Doni and David Jordan
Dorothy H. Jordan, City Market
Gerda M. Kahn
Natalie Hevener Kaufman
Paula Kauffmann
Shirley Kuiper
Michael Grant LeFever
Jamie and Gail Lyles
Magic Time Literary Agency,
Katherine C. Bennett
Susan Mazur
Jackie S. McGee
Laura S. McMahan
S.C. (Cal) & Francis McMeekin
Renate and Keith Moore,
LadyRen’s Nook, LLC
Dr. Maggi M. Morehouse
Rowena C. Nylund
Barbara Rackes, The Rackes
Group, LLC
David E. and Susan Rison
Curtis Rogers
Senator Vincent A. and Mrs. Amy
R. Sheheen
David Snyder and Saskia Coenen
Paul and Gerry Solomon
Revonda L. Spratt
Bonnie R. Stanard
Prudence Ann Taylor
Ida Williams Thompson
Rachel M. Vail
Christopher and Mary Vlahoplus
Dr. Jeremy G. Wilson
Dr. Nancy P. Zimmerman
Book Reader
$25 - $99
Ruth K. Bullard
Marcia A. Coster-Schulz
Tom Cox
Gladys Cureton
Sarah A. Estes
Friends of South Carolina Libraries
Jill Golod
Jeremiah Hackett
Dr. Beverly Heisner
Jill Hnat
Vicki Hoyle
Donna A. Jackson
Linda L. Jacobs
Jim and Debby Johnson
Sandra E. Johnson
Thomas L. Johnson
Sarah Keeling
Mary T. Kennerly
Libby P. Law
Faith A. Line
M. Angelica Lopes
Senator Joel Lourie
David A. Lyon, IV
Kathy E. McCabe
Ginger V. McClure
Shanna McGarry
Janice M. Nelson
Ruth B. Nicholson
Jane K. Olsgaard
Roberta and James Osborne
Anne M. Schneider
Kerry Stubbs
Toni Sylvester
Trenholm Road United Methodist
Church Book Club
Thomas E. and Judy W. Truitt
Margaret Utsey
Julie A. Zachowski
In Memory of
Emily Busbee
Margaret Stone Harvin Doty
Starkey Flythe
William S. Frost
Linda Ham
B. Bruce Lyda
Edwin Willis “Ed” Morris, Jr.
Steve Morrison
Ruth Phillips
William Pope Sherrod
In Honor of
Randy and Mary Alice Akers
Judy Bynum
Pat Conroy
Helen Fellers (three times)
Helen Fellers’ special birthday
Sarah Crawford Fox
Sally Hare
Gail Lyles
T.J. Wallace

program guide - SC Book Festival

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