HOMETOWN NOVEL NIGHT Guest Author Panel - December 20th
G Ray Sullivan & Bo
Shanon Grey
T. M. Brown
Ray Sullivan was born in Savannah, Georgia. His father was an officer in the Air Force and Ray moved several times throughout his childhood/teenage years with his parents to bases in Oklahoma, Texas, Washington, and California. He attended college at Eastern Washington State and graduated from Washington State University in the cinema sequence of the Communications Department. Ray left the Pacific Northwest and eventually moved to Atlanta to begin a career in the film and video business. Working on sound stages as well as a grip and lighting technician in movies and commercials, he began to do camera work and developed a diverse clientele. Ray was awarded a national Emmy for his work on the ESPN Production “Catfish Hunters”. Throughout his career, he continued working on photography as a hobby. Ray, his wife, Elizabeth, and their son, Charlie, moved to LaGrange, Georgia and built a home on West Point Lake. A few years later a puppy who had been abandoned under an overpass came into their lives and Charlie named him Bocephus. Bo quickly became an integral part of the family. The book “Zen and the Art of Dog Walking” grew from Ray and Bo’s relationship. Ray continues his career in video and photography and when not working, he can be found walking with his three dogs in the woods and around the lake.
Shanon Grey weaves romance and suspense with threads of the paranormal. THE SHOPPE OF SPELLS was the first in her series, THE GATEKEEPERS, about the quaint town of Ruthorford, Georgia and its very special inhabitants. MEADOW’S KEEP, Book II of THE GATEKEEPERS, explores more about Ruthorford’s descendants. PENNYROYAL CHRISTMAS ~A Ruthorford Holiday Story~ offers suspense and romance. Her latest, GLYNDA’S DARE, brings an outsider into the fold. She is currently finishing the fourth novel, TWISTED FATE. Her books are available in e-format and print at most booksellers. Shanon spent her life on coasts, both the beautiful Atlantic and the balmy Gulf. Hurricane Katrina taught her the fragility of life and the strength of friendship, family, and starting over. She just found out that her son salvaged notes and pages of her original novel, Capricorn’s Child, which she thought had been destroyed with everything else. (Ironically, a neighbor found her marriage certificate in a tree.) She plans to resurrect her original novel one day. She currently lives in Coweta County, Georgia, trading the familiarity of the coast for the lush beauty and wonder of the mountains, where her husband fulfilled her lifelong dream—to live in a cottage in the woods, where
T. M. Brown, Mike to friends and family, embraces his Georgia heritage, thanks to the paternal branches from his family tree. As a child, Mike remembers many warm Sunday afternoons driving past Stone Mountain to visit his Great-Uncle’s farm. Though the dust-filled red clay backroads from his youth are now paved and much more crowded, Mike recalls getting bitten by barb-wire pasture fences, sipping cool well-water from a ladle, and getting scrubbed in a washtub near the front stoop of Uncle Kerry’s and Aunt Monk’s old farmhouse. Retired since 2014 from the 9-to-5 life, Mike and his wife Connie reside below Atlanta near Newnan, Georgia. When not writing or traveling for book events and such, Mike and Connie enjoy sharing time with their two sons and their families. Writing about Shiloh has conjured up many near-forgotten memories, and thanks to his Pop and Poppa, he cherishes this truth — “The testament of a man lies not in the magnitude of possessions and property left to his heirs, but the reach of his legacy long after his death.”
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Author Panel begins at 7:00 PM. Come early, enjoy dinner, and then sit back and listen in as the authors talk a bit about themselves and their stories. You might walk away with a signed Christmas gift or two, and likely an autographed edition for yourself to read.
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