Town Crier Bookstore hosted the Author Extravaganza today. Here’s Roy Bird, Mr. Book himself. Roy is the director of the Kansas Center for the Book. In a week, the Center will be announcing the recipients of the 2008 Kansas Notable Book Awards.

I read his book on the left, “Civil War in Kansas” several years ago and learned a lot from it.

Roy’s latest book is “Civil War and the Indian Wars.”

“This was something I wanted to do since I was a kid,” Roy said of his book. “The Indian wars were often overlooked or forgotten.”

He told me that Indian wars had not been not documented together with the Civil War, that information on the wars were scattered. “I wanted to bring them all together into one place.”

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Roy updated me on some activities going on with the Center for the Book and will be sending me more information on that.

Stay tuned over the next few days for more photos on these Kansas authors.

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