Meet the Authors

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Authors please send your  events, readings, and gigs information to Jackie Steelman at  XclusivlyU@aol.com

 
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Larry Joe Campbell‘s debut novel Remember That One Time? is available for preorder starting December 2. To celebrate and promote Larry’s second published book and first ever published novel, we are going on tour! The “I Wrote a Book! Tour” shows will include improv, musical numbers, and live performances of scenes from the novel, featuring the great Jaime Moyer, Nancy Hayden, and Rico Bruce Wade. California shows will feature Larry’s own wife Peggy Johns-Campbell and son Nathan Atticus Campbell.  Tour dates and ticket links can be found below! Book preorders will be available online at Finishinglinepress.com, and in person after each show.  See link below for ticket info:
  • December 12th San Pedro CA at Port Town Brewery 
  • December 27th Muskegon MI at Frauenthal Performing Arts Center
  • December 29th Bloomfield Hills MI at The Berman Center
  • January 28th Chicago IL at Begyle Brewery
  • January 29th Frankfort MI at The Garden Theater
  • January 30th Mt Pleasant MI at Sleepy Dog Books/                                       
A mostly comprehensive look at Larry Joe Campbell‘s past acting, directing, and production roles in film and television can be found on IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0132660/
Larry is also known for his comedic, dramatic, theatrical, and improvisational acting as a Second City Detroit and 313 Improv alumnus and member of Jim Belushi’s Board of Comedy.
 
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Susan Jaret McKinstry will read from her chapbook Tumblehome on January 23d at The Book Store in Appleton, Wisconsin from 5-6:30 p.m. with Northfield poet Leslie Schultz and her new book, Geranium Lake: Poems on Art and Art-Making.
 
Susan Jaret McKinstry (with her new book Tumblehome) will join poet Leslie Schultz (with her new book Geranium Lake: Poems on Art and Art-Making) and singer-songwriter Katie Dahl to share songs and poems that celebrate place, memory, and the heartening power of the arts in all of our lives on January 25th at 3 p.m. at Write On, Door County in Fish Creek, Wisconsin.
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Elaine Reardon

Discover ‘Stories Told In a Lost Tongue’ – Book Event

By elainereardon on November 20, 2024

Put this on your calendar!

Reading from new Chapbook: Stories Told In a Lost Tongue

Finishing Line Press, publisher

Greenfield Public Library

Main St. Greenfield MA

December 11 at 2 pm

Available on amazon.com  and can be ordered from any bookstore. Available both as a hardcover and a softcover . isbn 9798 33589 87296 isbn   979-8360921806 

 
 
Rita Coleman readings from In the Near Distance:
 
Sunday, November 24, 2024
6-8 p.m.
MOTR Pub-Word of Mouth Poetry Series 
345 Main Street 
Cincinnati, OH 45202 
 
Friday, December 6, 2024
7-9 p.m.
13th Annual Solstice Poetry Reading
Vernet Ecological Center Auditorium
Glen Helen Nature Preserve
405 Corry St.
Yellow Springs, OH 45387
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Off the Wall by  Kari Wergeland (Finishing Line Press) been selected to be featured in the Reimagined Indie Author Experience at the 2025 Tucson Festival of Books. Kari Wergeland will be signing copies in the Indie Authors Pavilion (adult fiction and non-fiction) 
on Saturday, March 15, 10 am – 1 pm.

https://tucsonfestivalofbooks.org/ 

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Karen Petersen reading:
 
On Sunday, December 8th, at 5pm at Teatro Paraguas in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and on Zoom,  Karen Petersen will be reading from her new Finishing Line Press chapbook, ‘Wamponomon: The Place of Shells.’
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Susan Jaret McKinstry is reading from her chapbook Tumblehome:
  • November 14 at 5 p.m. at the Weitz Center for Creativity, Carleton College, Northfield MN 55057.
  • December 4th at 7 p.m. at Magers & Quinn Booksellers, 3038 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis MN 55408
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Karen Morris and Ralph Culver reading, The Norwich Bookstore:
 
Hello Friends,
 
I hope you can join us for readings from our new books at the Norwich Bookstore in Norwich, VT, on Wednesday, 11/13 at 7:00 pm.  
More information on the link:
 

Karen Morris’s exquisite Nothing Happened Last Night sings with uncommon knowledge of literary history, psychological acumen, spiritual insight, and wide-ranging cultural influence. She unassumingly welcomes us to a mesmerizing whirl of oft-overlooked myth, to romantic heights, to the contemporary environ of rage, and on into baroque evocations of the psyche — be it the inner whirlwind of a “dream’s entangled vines” or the orderly escape of “fresh mint tea.” Morris creates tapestries, weaving the arcane with the familiar in a voice so conversational that when she alludes to “Madonna tripping lightly in kinky boots,” “Mayakovskian clouds,” or “Kalashnikov in camouflage fatigues” we nod and say, “Of course.” Nothing happened last night? Not if you enter the vertigo evoked by this collection’s dazzle. 

 -Jack Ridl, author of Practicing to Walk Like a Hero

Hope to see you there!
🔔🔔🔔
Karen
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Livija Rieksts Bolster:
 
Ilze’s Daughter on November 20 at 7 pm at the Poetry and Wine Club sponsored by the Little Shop of Stories in Decatur, Georgia.
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William McCann:   Book signing at the Montgomery County Public Library on Thursday November 21 from 5 to 7 pm.
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Drawing Lessons: Poems by Paul Jaskunas and Artwork by Warren Linn Exhibition Reception 

 
 
 
 

Drawing Lessons: Poems by Paul Jaskunas and Artwork by Warren Linn Exhibition Reception

Please join us for a reception on Thursday, November 14th 5-7pm in the Pinkard Gallery (Bunting Center, Floor 1). The exhibition is on view from October 18 – December 6, 2024. In the shadow of ongoing ecological and political crises, artist Warren

  

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Helene McGlauflin, Solstice events in Maine:

Book Signing:

Sherman’s Book Store

65 Topsham Fair Mall, Topsham 04086

Sat. November 9, 2024,  1-3 PM

Sherman’s Maine Authors’ Festival

Sherman”s Bookstore, Topsham

65 Topsham Fair Rd, Topsham 04086

Sat. November 16, 1-4 PM

Reading: Author Spotlight

Monday December 16, 2024

Curtis Memorial Library

23 Pleasant St

Brunswick, 04011

Guest Reader: Literary Salon and Open Mic

Hosted by Maine Writers Studio

OneSixtyFive Inn at 165 Park Row, Brunswick

Brunswick, Maine 04011

Wed. Dec 18 , 6:30 PM

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Marianne Mersereau (In the Grip of Grace) 

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My chapbook, Inventing the Americas, will be published in September.  On November 2nd I will be at the Buckeye Book Fair in Wooster, Ohio, selling all my books.  
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CELEBRATION OF AUTHORS FROM FINISHING LINE PRESS
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Join an intimate group of exceptional writers on a life-changing residency in Greece. At Rosemary’s House, you” refine your work, hone your craft, and develop your voice in the company of 9 select writers and a distinguished mentor. Engaging with new genres and perspectives, you will be challenged to push the boundaries of your storytelling. Whether you are working on a novel, memoir, play, musical, collection of poems, screenplay, pilot, or other genre-bending pursuit, this is an opportunity to propel your progress alongside a group of exceptional peers. To check out this year’s lineup of retreats and mentors, head
 
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Finishing Line Press is an award-winning small press publisher based in Georgetown, Kentucky, USA. If you are having trouble ordering from our site or need to contact us, please email us at FLPBookstore@aol.com.For author orders, bookstore orders, or for bulk orders of 10 or more copies, please call us directly at 502-603-0670 or email us at AuthorBookOrders@finishinglinepress.com.We also accept checks and money orders made out to “Finishing Line Press” at: Finishing Line PressPO Box 1626Georgetown, KY 40324

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FLP AUTHORS: If you are seeking permission to reprint individual poems from you collection please contact:
 
Frederick T. Courtright, President
The Permissions Company, Inc.
3735 Turtle Run Blvd., #1917
Phone: 570-839-7477