http://www.celiamiles.comSarranda's Heart: A Love Story of Place is now available in regional independent bookstores and on Kindle, soon on Amazon.

As the Twig is Bent, the original book in the Matt Davis Mystery Series by Joe Perrone Jr, is now available as an audio book from Audible.com and iTunes.  Opening Day and…

The production work on  the audio book edition of my first Matt Davis Mystery, As the Twig is Bent, is complete.  The audio book should be available on Audible.com within the next two weeks.

My first creative nonfiction publication "Rules of Engagement" is now live at Superstition Review. It's a personal essay about my home invasion that occurred several years ago here in Asheville.

http://superstitionreview.asu.edu/issue11/nonfiction/caralyndavis

I like to think that the Mountains-to-Sea Across North Carolina is an

important book about our state trail.

Tomorrow, Friday April 26, I'll be at Accent on Books at 6 pm to talk

about the Mountains-to-Sea Trail. What is it like to walk

across our state, once you leave the mountains?

This will be my last appearance in Asheville. I've gone to Raleigh and Charlotte…

New book with WNC connection:

Choose by Casey Long (Tate trade paper, January 2013, 266 pages, $20.99).

Author event: 1 p.m., Sat., Apr. 27 at Sam's Club, 645 Patton Ave., Asheville

Debut Christian thriller novel by a Candler resident:

A young woman, the victim of a brutal assault, searches for a missing child and steps into the realm of the supernatural. Will she be able to escape her captor, or will she die for her beliefs?

Most-banned books & the state of libraries

The American Library Association’s 2013 State of America’s Libraries Report was released April 16, during National Library Week, April 14 – 20 and it included the Top Ten List of Frequently Challenged Books, compiled by …

Pulitzer Prizes awarded Mon., Apr. 15

The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson won for fiction;  Stag's Leap by Sharon Olds for poetry; Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall for non-fiction; and The Black Count: Glory,…

I have been extremely happy to help a couple of different customers in the last few weeks who have come in to the bookshop specifically looking for wordless picture books. Why so happy? Because over the last eight years I have generally found that wordless picture books, no matter how visually stunning, hilarious or touching or award-winning, can be a really tough sell.

And that's a shame.

Now, I should be quick to point out that there is no lack of interest in these books on…

We invite all readers and writers to BRCC on May 17 and 18 for this free event. Once again the Bookfest will feature forty authors. Presenters and exhibitors from many writing genres will be there. For details www.BlueRidgeBookfest.org

Our volunteers and the college hope you will come. We promise you a good time. 

Master storyteller Gary Carden of The Liars Bench presents “Madison,” a monologue honoring the life of Western Carolina University founder Dr. Robert Lee Madison, on Fri., April 26 at 7 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Franklin.



Carden, assisted by Pam Meister, curator of the Mountain Heritage Center at WCU, tells the life story of Dr. Madison, a man who promoted the idea of a school that would…

Members from NC’s Government & Heritage Library and the State Archives of North Carolina will discuss the top 10 questions regarding Civil War ancestors asked by researchers, including information on Confederate and Union records and U.S Colored Troops, on April 13 at 10 a.m. in the auditorium at the State Archives Building, 109 E. Jones St., Raleigh.

The Genealogy Research Room will be open from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. that day for any…

Asheville BookWorks, a community resource for print and book arts, presents their listing of May-July workshops:

Bookbinding Basics with Bridget Elmer

Sat.-Sun., May 4-5, 10-5 p.m.; $217 + material fee

This two-day weekend class covers the basics of bookbinding, providing students with a strong foundation from which to depart. We will explore the essentials of paper grain, successful paper prep, folding…

THE WRITERS' WORKSHOP--Meets and classes

387 Beaucatcher Road, Asheville, NC 28805

Another slash--public libraries threatened

            The Fontana Regional Library has put out the word about a 4.8% in state spending on public libraries.  This plan is part of a trend to minimize the role of the arts, literature, and the humanities in our lives.  The reasons given are both false, I believe.  

            One is the focus on jobs: and by jobs, technical jobs are indicated.  A look at job growth trends in the…

Hi folks:

       The 5th annual Blue Ridge Bookfest is coming up on May 17-18, 2013.  We have a great line-up of speakers and exhibitors, and I can do no better than to repeat the press release sent out today by the BR Community College's Lee Anna Haney.

Jim Loy

Program Chair

2013 Blue Ridge Bookfest

Blue Ridge Bookfest Features Author Wiley…

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Schultz, at April 3 event for memoir about dyslexia

From press release

Philip Schultz will read from his memoir My Dyslexia on April 3 at 7 p.m. at the Lenoir-Rhyne University Center for Graduate Studies in the Chamber board room at 36 Montford Avenue. The event is …

Thank you so much to all the people who came out last night (Friday March 22) to hear about the Mountains -to-Sea Across North Carolina.

According to Malaprop staff, over 50 people were there to support their local bookstore-- and me. Karen Chavez wrote a wonderful article about the trail and my book a couple of weeks…

Montford Newsletter articles

The Liars Bench will kick off its third year with guest appearances from Shelia Kay Adams and Marvin Cole.  Gary Carden will be there with a "Belled Buzzard" tale and William Ritter will play an old fiddle tune about the winged harbinger of doom.  Lots more.

This is scheduled for Thursday night, March 28th at the Mountain Heritage Center auditorium at 7:00.  Come early.