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AUTHORS on the ROAD
Tuesday, July 11, 2023, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., the Appalachian Authors Guild will meet at Shoney’s in Abingdon, VA. At this general meeting the speaker will be J.C. Schweingrouber talking about “Antihero.” All members or non-members are welcome to attend.
Linda Hudson Hoagland
Author of Snooping Can Be Regrettable; Snooping Can Be Scary; Snooping Can Be Uncomfortable; Snooping Can Be Helpful – Sometimes; Onward & Upward; Missing Sammy; Snooping Can Be Doggone Deadly; Snooping Can Be Devious; Snooping Can Be Contagious; Snooping Can Be Dangerous; The Best Darn Secret; and anthologies Easter Lilies; Broken Petals; Wild Daisies; Scattered Flowers; Daffodil Dreams; and These Haunted Hills Book 1, 2, 3, and 4
Friday, July 1, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Book Signing, Food City, Marion, VA
Tuesday, July 4, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Book Signing
Big Walker Lookout, Wytheville, VA
Saturday, July 7, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Book Signing Food City, Volunteer Parkway, TN
Sunday, July 8, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Book Signing, Food City, Pikeville, KY
Tuesday, July 11, 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Appalachian Authors Guild – General Meeting, Shoney’s, Abingdon, VA
Friday, July 14, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Book Signing, Food City, Wytheville, VA
Saturday, July 15, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Book Signing, Food City, Radford, VA
Friday, July 21, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Book Signing, Food City, Big Stone Gap, VA
Saturday, July 22, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Book Signing, Virginia Highlands Festival
Higher Ed Center – VHCC, Abingdon, VA
Sunday, July 23, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Book Signing
Big Walker Lookout, Wytheville, VA
Tuesday, July 25, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Book Signing
Virginia Highlands Festival
Higher Ed Center - VHCC, Abingdon, VA
Wednesday, July 26, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Book Signing
Virginia Highlands Festival
Higher Ed Center - VHCC, Abingdon, VA
Thursday, July 27, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Book Signing
Virginia Highlands Festival
Higher Ed Center - VHCC, Abingdon, VA
Friday, July 28, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Book Signing
Food City, Independence, VA
Saturday, July 29, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Book Signing, Food City, Coeburn, VA
Sunday, July 30, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Book Signing, Virginia Highlands Festival
Higher Ed Center - VHCC, Abingdon, VA
Joy Ruble Padgett Gerler
Readers of all ages will laugh (preferably out loud) while learning a thing or two about the 1980s and rural life in East Tennessee. Kathy is a smalltown girl in the 1980s who is desperately seeking to escape her dismal life. As she comes of age, she learns that escaping one set of problems only leads to new ones. Her journey to discovering herself takes her down an unlikely path that will keep you laughing and cheering for her along the way.
Life is right normal for fourteen-yearold Bit Sizemore and her precocious twelve-and-a-half year old best friend, Wisteria Calliope Jones, until Bug Jeter sees Jesus in a rock and changes little Lovington, North Carolina forever. Tourists discover the sleepy mountain town, big-city pretty-boy Palmer Lee Compton threatens the girls’ friendship, and the town’s pets begin disappearing. That’s when Wisteria decides that it’s up to her and Bit to solve the mystery of the missing pets, while side-stepping the minefields of hurt feelings and teen crushes.
