In advance of Valentine’s Day, eight local romance writers will host a book signing on Friday, Feb. 12 from 6 p.m-8 p.m. at Beehive Books, 25 N. Sandusky Street in Delaware. The event is free and open to the public.
“We hope people will treat themselves or a loved one to tales that touch the heart,” said Mel Corroto, owner of the store. “We have an incredibly talented group of local authors who will be on hand to sign copies of their new books.”
The authors are: Saralee Etter, Georgia Evans, Susan Gee Heino, Elysa Hendricks, Rosemary Laurey, Donna MacMeans, Sandy Wickersham-McWhorter and Karin Shah. Browse the shelves, look for gifts and celebrate the thrill of romance at Beehive! Questions? Call 740-363-2337.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Two Free Tickets to Thurber House Event Jan. 19
The Thurber House and Beehive Books are teaming up to provide you with a great deal. Buy a copy of Jayne Anne Phillips' award-winning book, "Lark & Termite" and receive a voucher for two free tickets to the "Evening with Authors" series run by the Thurber House.
Ms. Phillips will speak on Tuesday, Jan. 19, at 7:30 p.m. at the Columbus Performing Arts Center, 549 Franklin Ave. in Columbus. She'll read from her book, chat about writing and answer questions from the audience.
"Lark & Termite" is a moving story about loss, love and family secrets. Lark, a teenage girl, spends her days caring for her disabled brother, Termite, in West Virginia in the 1950s. The book, a National Book Award finalist, is available at Beehive Books for $14.95.
Ms. Phillips will speak on Tuesday, Jan. 19, at 7:30 p.m. at the Columbus Performing Arts Center, 549 Franklin Ave. in Columbus. She'll read from her book, chat about writing and answer questions from the audience.
"Lark & Termite" is a moving story about loss, love and family secrets. Lark, a teenage girl, spends her days caring for her disabled brother, Termite, in West Virginia in the 1950s. The book, a National Book Award finalist, is available at Beehive Books for $14.95.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Good Reads Book Recommendations
Delaware's own Beehive Books provides online book recommendations to help you choose your next read. Beehive owner Mel Corroto, Beehive staff, and special guests can help you find great books for yourself or to give as gifts.
In the most recent webcast, local attorney (and book lover) Casey Clark and Mel discussed the following books (all available at Beehive):
Holiday Titles:
Matchless by Gregory Maguire ($19.99)
Three Wise Cats by Harold M. Konstantelos & Terri Jenkins-Brady
Holiday Remarks & Replies ($7.95)
Recommended by Casey:
In the most recent webcast, local attorney (and book lover) Casey Clark and Mel discussed the following books (all available at Beehive):
Holiday Titles:
Knit the Season by Kate Jacobs ($24.95)
Matchless by Gregory Maguire ($19.99)
Three Wise Cats by Harold M. Konstantelos & Terri Jenkins-Brady
Holiday Remarks & Replies ($7.95)
Recommended by Casey:
Use this link to find the Good Reads webcasts:
http://www.thisweeknews.com/live/content/video/Good_Reads.html
Beehive Books places special orders every day, so if you can't find the item you're looking for, just ask.
http://www.thisweeknews.com/live/content/video/Good_Reads.html
Beehive Books places special orders every day, so if you can't find the item you're looking for, just ask.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Author Erin McGraw Sunday 11-15-09 3:00 pm Reading and Book Signing
Erin McGraw will read from her novel
The Seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard.
The San Francisco Chronicle wrote: "The Seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard is rich and vibrant with historical accuracy and female fortitude."
In vividly bringing to life the story of Nell Plat, Erin McGraw gives voice to the stories of the countless young women who, unsatisfied with their lives, headed to Hollywood in its heyday. The Seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard magically recreates that glamorous time and place, and allows us to witness it beautifully dressed, well lit, and close up. The Seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard was recently published in paperback by Mariner Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
The Seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard.
The San Francisco Chronicle wrote: "The Seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard is rich and vibrant with historical accuracy and female fortitude."
"I couldn't cook but I could sew. It would have been better the other way around." So begins this witty and transporting new novel by the acclaimed Erin McGraw, introducing us to Nell Plat, who, at age seventeen, finds herself unhappily married and the mother of two baby girls. For a young woman with a hunger for excitement and glamour, Kansas circa 1900 offers nothing but a flat horizon. Still, Nell find some joy sewing and making dresses for women in town. Dreaming over her sewing machine, she begins to entertain ambitions she knows she cannot share.
Based on Erin McGraw's grandmother's life, here is the story--told in Nell's own irreverent and wise voice--of what happens when Nell runs away to Los Angeles in the year 1901 as the new motion-picture industry is just taking root. Nell marries again, has a daughter, and goes into business as a costumer in the Hollywood of the Roaring Twenties, renaming herself Madame Annelle. But a knock on the door by her grown daughters, precisely the thing she has most feared, threatens to take apart the new life Nell has so carefully built. Forced to confront the legacy of the life she believed she had shed, Nell struggles to make the right choices the second time around and finds herself truly transformed.
Based on Erin McGraw's grandmother's life, here is the story--told in Nell's own irreverent and wise voice--of what happens when Nell runs away to Los Angeles in the year 1901 as the new motion-picture industry is just taking root. Nell marries again, has a daughter, and goes into business as a costumer in the Hollywood of the Roaring Twenties, renaming herself Madame Annelle. But a knock on the door by her grown daughters, precisely the thing she has most feared, threatens to take apart the new life Nell has so carefully built. Forced to confront the legacy of the life she believed she had shed, Nell struggles to make the right choices the second time around and finds herself truly transformed.
In vividly bringing to life the story of Nell Plat, Erin McGraw gives voice to the stories of the countless young women who, unsatisfied with their lives, headed to Hollywood in its heyday. The Seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard magically recreates that glamorous time and place, and allows us to witness it beautifully dressed, well lit, and close up. The Seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard was recently published in paperback by Mariner Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
McGraw is the author of four previous books, includingLies of the Saints (a New York Times Notable Book). She has published in the Atlantic, Story, and many other publications, and her work has been featured on Selected Shorts. She is a professor of creative writing at Ohio State University and lives in Ohio.
Friday, October 16, 2009
Thursday Oct 22 meet Larry Smith
It is indeed a privilege to invite our friends to a special night with author Larry Smith reading & signing his recently published novel The Long River Home
This Thursday at 7:15PM
“The Long River Home” is published as part of the Working Lives Series for Bottom Dog Press. His novel is about his own people of the Appalachian foothills in and around Ohio’s Green, Vinton, and Jefferson Counties. This novel has been nominated for a 2009 Pushcart Prize.
Annabel Thomas, Ohio author of “Stone Man Mountain” says of Mr. Smith “in this fine Appalachian novel, Larry Smith chronicles four generations of McCalls, their joys and sorrows, their sins and their nobility….Such regional fiction has always been about people: their connections with one another, their home place, their struggles to survive and to prosper. It’s all here, set, in the grand tradition of Wendell Berry and Conrad Richter, against the Ohio landscape: its hills and its rivers, its frontier beginnings and its later industrial development. We care about the place and its people. Finishing the novel, we understand ourselves and our nation with a deeper knowledge.”
Smith has worked as a steel mill laborer, a high school teacher, a college professor, and a writer and editor. A graduate of Mingo Central High School, Muskingum College, and Kent State University, he is the author of seven books of poetry, a book of memoirs, two books of fiction, two biographies of authors Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Kenneth Patchen, and two books of translations from the Chinese.
Annabel Thomas, Ohio author of “Stone Man Mountain” says of Mr. Smith “in this fine Appalachian novel, Larry Smith chronicles four generations of McCalls, their joys and sorrows, their sins and their nobility….Such regional fiction has always been about people: their connections with one another, their home place, their struggles to survive and to prosper. It’s all here, set, in the grand tradition of Wendell Berry and Conrad Richter, against the Ohio landscape: its hills and its rivers, its frontier beginnings and its later industrial development. We care about the place and its people. Finishing the novel, we understand ourselves and our nation with a deeper knowledge.”
Smith has worked as a steel mill laborer, a high school teacher, a college professor, and a writer and editor. A graduate of Mingo Central High School, Muskingum College, and Kent State University, he is the author of seven books of poetry, a book of memoirs, two books of fiction, two biographies of authors Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Kenneth Patchen, and two books of translations from the Chinese.
Now a professor emeritus of Bowling Green State University’s Firelands College, he is the director of the Firelands Writing Center there and of Bottom Dog Press. Smith has received an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Ohio Arts Council, and a Fulbright Lectureship in American Literature to Italy.
The Author will be introduced by Robert Flanagan
Monday, October 12, 2009
This Friday October 16
Come meet
Maggie Maggio
Nationally known polymer clay artist &co-author of Polymer Clay Color Inspirations
This Friday October 16 at 7pm
Ms. Maggio will have a brief demonstration with polymer clay and be available to answer questions and sign copies of her book.
Polymer Clay Color Inspirations” was recently published by Watson-Guptill/Random House.
Ms. Maggio co-authored the book with another artist, Lindly Haunani. Maggie has studied and played with color for over thirty years. For the last twelve years she has traveled the country teaching polymer clay and fiber artists the difference between color theory and color reality in her unique “Smashing Color” workshops.
Her early work in polymer clay was inspired by folk art and fables, her recent work by watercolor and landscapes, and her current work by the natural materials she uses as an architectural designer.
Ms. Maggio co-authored the book with another artist, Lindly Haunani. Maggie has studied and played with color for over thirty years. For the last twelve years she has traveled the country teaching polymer clay and fiber artists the difference between color theory and color reality in her unique “Smashing Color” workshops.
Her early work in polymer clay was inspired by folk art and fables, her recent work by watercolor and landscapes, and her current work by the natural materials she uses as an architectural designer.
Sunday, September 6, 2009
September Events
Saturday 12 September 1:00p
Meet the Author Reading & Book Signing
Sherry Hartzler Author of Three Moons Over Sedona
Georgia Mae Brown has always lived an ordinary life. That is, until her husband dies in the arms of a younger woman. Six weeks after his death, Georgia slides behind the wheel of her husband’s beloved 1976 Fleetwood convertible, starts the engine and just keeps driving. Empowered by a volatile mix of freedom and retribution, Georgia begins a journey of a lifetime.
Sherry Hartzler grew up on a farm in Berlin Township and graduated from Olentangy High School. She and her husband (who also graduated from Olengtangy High School) live in Hocking Hills and operate a log cabin retreat “Inn a Cabin.” Her life-long passion for writing has led her to write many freelance articles and three unpublished novels. Three Moons Over Sedona is published by Rockhouse of Logan, Ohio.
Sunday 13 September
America’s One & Only All-Horse Parade! (biggest this side of the Mississippi, anyway)
Stop in and see us while you’re downtown—
We’ll be open Noon-5ish (parade starts at 3pm)
Sunday 20 September 2:00p
Poetry Reading
OSU Marion/Cornfield Review Reading
Come hear the bright, fresh writers from this area reading their work at the annual OSU Marion’s Literary Magazine, Cornfield Review reading. You’ll hear poetry, short fiction, and other pieces from these talented writers. The new edition of the Cornfield Review should be hot of the press and ready for distribution! Readers will include the winners of the 2009 OSU Marion Creative Writing Awards and other writers published in the magazine including Tabitha Albright, Jacci Baumann, Mike Beatty, Carlee Mabrey, and Stephanie Howard.
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