writing

Wearing Civil War gray, James Speicher was promoting his book, The Sumter Flying Artillery, published by Pelican Publishing at Town Crier’s book signing on April 3. Speicher has quite an impressive resume. Being a Green Beret is just part of his personal history. He spent 20 years in the military, 10 years as a cop …

Marie Wakefield of Independence, Mo., was one of the nine authors at Town Crier’s book signing on April 3. She’s self-published a memoir about her childhood. “Dodging Her Chariot” begins with her birth and concludes when she is 16, just having given birth to her first child. I talked with Marie just as I did …

Another of the nine authors who signed books at the Town Crier Bookstore in Emporia on Saturday was Lisa Newkirk. Lisa Newkirk, of Olathe, wrote a small children’s book called “Super Sticks,” about a girl who used her forearm crutches to assist her classmates. Newkirk wrote the book to give her daughter, who has spina …

Another of the writers at the Town Crier Bookstore’s book signing on Saturday was Melissa Rich. Melissa Rich lives near Americus and when she’s not helping her daughter bathe turkeys at 4:30 a.m. for a 4-H poultry show, she’s running her home-based businesses which include business-to-business telemarketing and website appraisals. She has operated businesses from …

Phillip Finch was at Saturday’s book signing at Emporia’s Town Crier Bookstore promoting his just-released novel, “Devil’s Keep,” an international thriller set in the Philippines and California/Lake Tahoe. “It’s my 14th published book,” he said. “I have three non-fiction and the rest are novels.” His plans are that “Devil’s Keep,” a Pocket Book with Simon …

For some reason, I didn’t get a straight-on shot of Jennifer Slattery. But here she is listening to Town Crier’s Becky Smith (off camera) who is talking about the big book-signing event coming up in June. This is the first author in a series of blog entries about the writers who attended a group book-signing …