Charles Seabrook Added

We are pleased to add another name to our Featured Author list for 2014: Charles Seabrook. Seabrook was a part of the 2011 festival, and we’re happy to have him back this year!

Announcing Authors for 2014

With the 2014 Dahlonega Literary Festival only 10 months away, we’re starting to get our visiting authors lined up. We are happy to announce the first set of authors confirmed to be part of 10th annual festival!

• Deanna Raybourn, author of Spear of Summer Grass
• James R. Tuck, author of Blood and Silver
• Erika Marks, author of The Guest House
• George Weinstein, author of Hardscrabble Road
• Raymond Atkins, author of Camp Redemption

 

 

Lunch with the Authors

Have lunch with your favorite author on Saturday, November 10th! Below is the list of authors and where they’re having lunch. Please note that it is best if you call the restaurant ahead of time to make reservations. Some of these places fill up FAST! Click on the Restaurant names to visit their website and preview the menu.

LUNCH WITH THE AUTHOR

Nov. 10, 2012  11:30 to 12:30

Call restaurant for a reservation

 

Bourbon Street Grill   706-864-0086
Gregg Loomis
Kimberly Brock

Corkscrew                   706-867-8551
Carole Townsend
Cindy Woodsmall

Crimson Moon            706-864-3982
A. J. Hartley
J. T. Ellison

Dante’s                        706-864-4091
Britt Menzies
Carol Marsh

Piazza                          706-867-9881
Karen White
Nick Wynne

Porter House               706-867-0448
Jackie Cooper

Pueblo’s                      706-867-7155
Delilah Dawson
Mark Braught
Mark Warren

Shenanigan’s              706-482-0114
Ann Hite
Joe Morgan

Yahoola Creek            706-482-2200
Faith Hunter
Barbara Brown Taylor

 

Regional Authors’ Booths Closed

Applications for Regional Author booths are now closed. The last few notifications will be going out this week. Thanks to everyone who applied!

Keep checking the Local/Regional Authors page for the latest attendees.

Saturday Extravaganza!

Author and Georgia native Nick Wynne will be the speaker at this year’s Saturday Night Extravaganza! He will be speaking on “Humor in the Heartland: Writing about Everyday People.”

Nick Wynne
Photographer Unknown

Nick Wynne is a Georgia native, who now resides in Florida. A three-time University of Georgia graduate, he was a college professor for twenty years and served as the Executive Director of the Florida Historical Society for twenty-one years. He retired in 2008. Nick is the author, co-author, or editor of a dozen or more historical books, a cookbook, a collection of fiction stories for young adults, and three novels. He has just completed a fourth novel, which will be published in October, and is finalizing another history book on the Great Depression in Florida.

This year’s Extravaganza will be held on November 10th. Location and time are to be determined.

Come see festival author, Walton Young, on July 26. He will have a reading/discussion/signing at the Bartow History Museum in Cartersville, GA. The Cartersville-Bartow County Chamber of Commerce has more information. The primary setting of his novel, A Gathering of Eagles, is Kingston in Bartow County.
http://cartersvillechamber.chambermaster.com/Events/details/bhm-evening-lecture-a-gathering-of-eagles-119584

Author Page Update

Hi All,

Our Authors page has now been updated to include images and biographies of our attending authors! Also, we’ve added even more authors. To see our full line up, click on the AUTHORS tab.

Even more Authors!

Kimberly Brock, Braxton Cosby, Gregg Loomis, & Delilah S. Dawson have all been added to this year’s fun and festivities. Come see them and many other authors and presenters at the 2012 Dahlonega Literary Festival!

StinkyKids!

Did you know that The StinkyKids, creation of festival author Britt Menzies,  is also an Off Broadway Musical? Starring Kari Grunberg, Ryan Mikita, Lora Nicolas, AJ Patton, Bryce Payne and Madison Turner, StinkyKids the Musical runs from March 10 to May 26, 2012.

Read the Official StinkyKids the Musical Press Release Here

For more information on the Musical, visit the Vital Theatre Company’s website: http://vitaltheatre.org.

Want to know more about the StinkyKids books and products, please visit: http://stinkykids.com/

StinkyKids the Musical
From the Vitaltheatre.org website

Carole Marsh to Present

Carole Marsh Mysteries Logo

We are happy to announce that Carole Marsh will be attending the Dahlonega Literary Festival and participating in our children’s events. Carole is the author of the Carole Marsh Mysteries.

From her Blog:

“Carole Marsh is a highly-entrepreneurial writer, CEO of Gallopade International, creator of Carole Marsh Mysteries and hundreds of other series, and author of thousands of books, winner of numerous awards, and a Georgia Author of the Year. “These days, I’m most interested in writing for what I call “Twixt, Tween, and YA,” which to me, like “gifted kids” are ALL kids! I love to write for them and hear from them. I am also writing adult fiction and non-fiction, short stories, and poetry. For more than 30 years, Marsh has written almost 100 educational and fun adventure mysteries for boys and girls 7-14. “My readers are growing up and I am growing up with them—though we all intend to be fun-loving, energetic, creative, out-of-the box ‘fourth-graders’ forever!”

For more information on Carole Marsh and her books, visit: http://www.gallopade.com/client/client_pages/carolemarshmysteries2.html