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F LORENCE F ESTIVAL
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B OOKS • S EPT . 24, 2016
Local authors at this year’s book festival
Florence may be a small town, but it has
a fair share of writers of which many have
published books. And of these published
authors, 22 are participating in the
Florence Festival of Books, along with a
few Florence based book publishers.
Authors
• Connie Strome Bradley has written
two children’s books “Snowball: the
Nanny Goose of Sutton Lake” and “LuLu
. . . the dancing snail” and she has pub-
lished books for others. She is also co-
founder of the Florence Festival of Books.
• Burney Garelick is a retired writer for
the Siuslaw News and has authored four
books: two user-friendly reviews of
operas, one novel “Big Dunes, Gold
Doubloons, Coffee Spoons & Loony
Tunes” and a collection of short stories.
• Dennis Brennan
has written
“Journeyman: A Tradesman’s Tale” about
summer houses in New England from the
point of view of a veteran of 40-years of
building.
• David Burke has been drawing and
writing poetry as well as short stories for
50 years. His two books are an attempt to
bring these two disciplines together as
one.
• Tom Cherones, previously an award-
winning TV director and producer, is best
known for directing the first five years of
the popular “Seinfeld” comedy series. He
has written “The Hardly Boys,” a parody
of the Hardy Boys books.
• Judy Fleagle, formerly an editor/staff
writer at Oregon Coast and Northwest
Travel magazines, has written four books
since leaving the magazines in 2009. She
is also co-founder of the Florence Festival
of Books.
• Tarno Greene has encountered trau-
matic brain injury survivors since she was
a teenager and wanted to know what “I’m
Inside, Y’Know!” means. Many emails
and anecdotes led her to write a book with
the same title.
• Carol Gunderson portrays her life
through her poems in “The Morning
Porch: Poems and Reflections from a
Quiet Heart.” Her most recent book is
“Gramma’s Guided Tour of the World’s
Greatest Library.”
• John Herbst’s two novels mirror his
life. “Destination Unknown: The Rogue
Life of Jake Meissner” chronicles his
wanderings and multiple lifestyles, and
“Tales From the Mountain: Colorado
Climbing Adventures of Jake Meissner”
takes the reader along on these adrenaline
filled adventures.
• Ned Hickson is a nationally syndicat-
ed humor columnist and editor at Siuslaw
News and is the author of two books:
“Humor at the Speed of Life” and “Pearls
of Writing Wisdom: From 16 Shucking
Years as a Columnist.”
• Larry and Lana La Voie are brother
and sister novelists. Their books range
from frontier to contemporary fiction and
from drama to mystery, thrillers and
action adventure.
• Sally Rash’s “Sally’s Silly Small Step
System” enables the reader to accomplish
every-day life tasks through an easy-to-
read, common-sense system. Her system
was put in place when her sons were
preschoolers.
• Catherine J. Rourke is an award-win-
ning journalist, author, editor, literary
consultant, writing instructor and colum-
nist at Siuslaw News. Her latest book is
“Forgive Us Our Press Passes,
Confessions
of
a
Modern-Day
Muckraker.”
• Jacob Wenzel is the author of two sci-
fi books, “The Edge” and “The Queen
Tiffany’s Revulsion,” three children’s pic-
ture books featuring Yo Piggy, and a lim-
erick adaptation of Sir Thomas Malory’s
“Le Morte d’Arthur.”
• Boomer Wright is the manager of Sea
Lion Caves and writes children’s books.
His latest books are “Stella the Baby Sea
Lion” and “Stu and Sue Sasquatch.”
Groups
• CC Writers
—Barbara Giles is a retired educator
who teaches memoir and fiction writing.
Her most recent book is a murder mystery,
“The Crow’s Nest.”
—Sharon Stiles is a retired mediator
with the U.S. Department of Navy. Her
book is called “Ham and Cheese in Ten
Languages,” a memoir based on travels
with her roommate Renae in Europe in
1967.
—Pattie Brooks Anderson is an
accomplished artist who also has illustrat-
ed books. Recently, she has written and
illustrated her own children's books.
• Coastal Writers
— Karen D. Nichols, artist and author,
has her newest and fifth novel out just in
time for the Festival of Books, “The
Moral of the Story on the road of life.”
See
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