Bill Branyon has established a singular reputation in the Asheville area with Asheville-set speculative fiction and, most recently, a philosophical broadside, Liberating Liberals: A political synthesis of Nietzsche and Jesus, Vonnegut and Marx (Groucho, not Karl) and Gandhi and Machiavelli.

One of the advantages of such a book, is that Bill becomes an excellent choice for a talk, and he continues to give them, including Wed.,…

Julia Nunnally Duncan of Marion  is the author of novels (When Day Is Done and Drops of the Night); stories (Blue Ridge Shadows), and poems (An Endless Tapestry and At Dusk).

She has just won third place in trhe Adult/Professional categort for…