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October 2020
Donald Miller & David Colley: Vicksburg
Winner of the Civil War Round Table of New York’s Fletcher Pratt Literary Award Winner of the Austin Civil War Round Table’s Daniel M. & Marilyn W. Laney Book Prize Winner of an Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award “A superb account” (The Wall Street Journal) of the longest and most decisive military campaign of the Civil War in Vicksburg, Mississippi, which opened the Mississippi River, split the Confederacy, freed tens of thousands of slaves, and made Ulysses S. Grant…
Find out more »GLVWG Self-Publishing Panel
Learn everything you want to know about self-publishing from GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY WRITER'S GROUP members. (Carol L. Wright host) with Christine Talley, Judy England-McCarthy, Christopher D. Ochs, Bernadette Sukley, and Laurel Wenson.
Find out more »Pamela Newkirk
Pamela Newkirk Oct 25 at 6 PM Author of "Diversity, Inc." Pamela Newkirk is a Journalist. Editor, Professor, Author, and Multidisciplinary Scholar whose work examines the impact dominant portrayals in popular culture have on African American lives.
Find out more »Kiss The Ground
Kiss The Ground 2020 has delivered the most destructive wildfires on record. And we have run out of letters in the alphabet to name the tropical storms. Yes, the climate crisis is here and now, not a future event. Time is not on our side to reverse the damage but don’t despair just yet. Kiss The Ground, by Josh Tickell gives us hope by presenting the science behind regenerative agriculture and its ability to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and…
Find out more »Examining Haunted Crime Scenes: Panel
Forensics expert Katherine Ramsland and paranormal investigators Mark Nesbitt and Patty A. Wilson have examined murder implements, victims, and crime scenes reported to have had supernatural components. Come see what their investigations have discovered in the Easton Book Festival discussion. When: Oct 27, 2020, 07:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Topic: Haunted Crime Scenes Please click the link below to join the webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83969285293 Or iPhone one-tap : US: +16465588656,,83969285293# or +13017158592,,83969285293# Or Telephone: Dial(for higher quality, dial a…
Find out more »Ask Me Anything, with authors of the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group
A panel of local authors tell all, answering such questions as: What literary pilgrimages have you gone on? What is the first book that made you cry? What is the most unethical practice in the publishing industry? Does writing energize or exhaust you? What are common traps for aspiring writers?...And many more! They'll make you laugh, they'll make you cry, they'll arc your character! Sign in at: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86106795313
Find out more »November 2020
Tall Poppy Writers: Raising Up Strong Women’s Voices in Fiction
Kathryn Craft Kathryn Craft is the award-winning author of two novels from Sourcebooks, The Art of Falling and The Far End of Happy, and the author of chapters in Author in Progress and The Complete Handbook of Novel Writing from Writers Digest Books. Her fourteen years as a freelance developmental editor at Writing-Partner.com follows a nineteen-year career as a dance critic for The Morning Call newspaper. Long a leader in the southeastern Pennsylvania writing scene, she is an active member of Pennwriters and the Women’s Fiction Writers Association, serving as its 2020 Guiding Scribe. Kathryn leads…
Find out more »BOOKS CONNECT
Leah Komaiko, Andy Laties, and Melba Tolliver discuss the many ways books connect us. Books connect people in countless ways. For instance, when journalist Melba Tolliver met bookseller and author, Andy Laties, she learned that he had sold the books of her friend, writer and brand guru Leah Komaiko. Join them and hear how these book lovers ended up on the same page.
Find out more »World War Three Illustrated Election News Desk
World War 3 Illustrated comics-journalists check-in from their communities around the country to discuss how we can all respond in a positive and effective way, whatever the aftermath of the election. With Easton's own Rebecca Migdal and Jackie Lima, WW3 founder Seth Tobocman, moderated by editor Sandy Jimenez. and with additional WW3 contributors from around the country.
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World War 3 Illustrated: The World We Are Fighting For
World War 3 Illustrated is an American comics anthology magazine with a left-wing political focus, founded in 1979 by New York City comic book artists Peter Kuper and Seth Tobocman, and painter Christof Kohlhofer, and subsequently produced by a collective with a rotating editorship. For their 51st edition, World War 3 Illustrated asked their artists and writers to bring heart and vision to two questions: What do we really care about? and what are we fighting for? Their comic strips and…
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