The Real-Life Story Behind the Sam Blackman Mystery Series
Here's the story of how my Asheville detectives came to be.https://www.bookreporter.com/blog/2017/10/12/the-real-life-story-behind-the-sam-blackman-mystery-seriesSee More
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Rob Neufeld's discussion was featuredDave Minneman, heroic portrait
Dave Minneman and a sense of justiceby Rob NeufeldPHOTO CAPTION: Dave Minneman doing research at Pack Memorial Library. Photo by author. “One of the biggest things I did as a kid, in order to escape my father,” Asheville resident Dave Minneman says of his 1960s and 70s rural Indiana childhood, “was…See More
Julia Nunnally Duncan posted an eventJulia Nunnally Duncan at MACA Authors' Booth
October 14, 2017 from 9:30am to 1:30pm
Julia Nunnally Duncan will be signing her new books A Part of Me and A Place That Was Home at the Mountain Glory Festival in downtown Marion on Saturday, October 14, from 9:30-1:30. She will be located at the MACA Authors' booth on Main Street.See More
Rob Neufeld posted a blog postSample 8 Great Smokies Writers at Malaprop’s, Oct. 15
Writers in UNC Asheville’s Great Smokies Writing Program (GSWP)read atMalaprop's Bookstore/Café, 55 Haywood St., Asheville, 3 p.m., Sun.,Oct. 15 Elizabeth Lutyens, editor of the GSWP’s Great Smokies Review, leads the Prose Master Class and will host the reading. · Ellen Carr, who works in the financial industry, will read excerpts from her novel of uneasy relationships, Unmanned. · Sarah Carter, an artist and photographer who will publish an excerpt of her novel, Jolene, Joe-Pye,…See More
Rob Neufeld posted a discussionEllington in Asheville--a survey
The Douglas Ellington effect: An Appreciationby Rob NeufeldIMAGE: Douglas Ellington’s original drawing for a City Hall-County Courthouse Art Deco complex. “Dear Douglas,” Kenneth Ellington wrote his brother, the 38-year old Pittsburgh architect, on May 6, 1925, “I know things are…See More
Mark de Castrique posted a blog postHow To Kill Your Reader
Danger is a crucial element in a mystery novel. A killer is on the loose and no one is safe. But sometimes the killer can be the writer, and the victim, the reader.I'm talking about when the author turns into a preacher and the story becomes a sermon. Now I am not against using a mystery novel for social commentary. Writing doesn't happen in a moral vacuum, and, after all, isn't a mystery a morality play? As fellow North Carolina author Margaret Maron said there is no topic that can't be dealt…See More
Mark de Castrique posted a videoHidden Scars - A Sam Blackman Mystery
Sam Blackman and Nakayla Robertson investigate a 70-year-old death that unleashes a killer.
Mark de Castrique posted a discussionBlack Mountain College as Backdrop for Mystery
My new book, HIDDEN SCARS, is released Oct 3rd. D.G. Martin notes the star of the story is Black Mountain College. http://chapelboro.com/town-square/columns/one-on-one/one-one-lost-college-still-shinesSee More
Rob Neufeld posted a discussionUpcoming book--Sacred Sites for Secular Times
Sacred Sites for Secular Times: 50 Commemorative Experiences in Western North Carolina by Rob Neufeld Among the many sites dedicated to history, there are some—both overbooked and overlooked—that provide full and moving experiences. They involve a physical component, connecting to landscape; an imaginative one, entering other times and minds; and an interactive one, maintaining relevance. The entries in this book help create full experiences through descriptive…See More
Susan Weinberg posted eventsReading by Poet Vivian Shipley
November 2, 2017 from 7:30pm to 8:45pmReading by Poet Susan Ludvigson
October 5, 2017 from 6pm to 8:45pmReading by Fiction and Nonfiction Writer Randall Kenan
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Kathryn Hall posted a blog postAim for Beauty
In honor of my blog Plant Whatever Brings You Joy's 10th Blogiversary I've posted a chapter from my book Plant Whatever Brings You Joy: Blessed Wisdom from the Garden. This particular chapter was also excerpted in Fairview's GreenPrints magazine, which was greatly appreciated. Read more here: http://plantwhateverbringsyoujoy.com/aim-for-beauty/…See More
Rob Neufeld posted a discussionMcCrumb ghost-opened world in The Unquiet Grave
McCrumb sees stories behind haunting ghost by Rob NeufeldPHOTO: Sharyn McCrumb and her dog Arthur, 2017. Photo by Laura Palmer, courtesy, Sharyn McCrumb In “The Unquiet Grave,” Sharyn McCrumb once again demonstrates her mastery at turning a folktale into something larger, different, and greater.The legend of the…See More
Rob Neufeld posted a discussionJames Vestus Miller
HISTORIC PHOTO James Vester Miller James Vester Miller had been a boy when his mother, a Rutherfordton slave, had responded to Emancipation by taking her three children to Asheville and getting a job as a cook in a boardinghouse—some say Julia Wolfe’s boardinghouse, Old Kentucky Home. Growing up, Miller hung…See More
Rob Neufeld posted a discussionDave Minneman, heroic portrait
Dave Minneman and a sense of justiceby Rob NeufeldPHOTO CAPTION: Dave Minneman doing research at Pack Memorial Library. Photo by author. “One of the biggest things I did as a kid, in order to escape my father,” Asheville resident Dave Minneman says of his 1960s and 70s rural Indiana childhood, “was…See More
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