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SUMMARY:An Evening with Colleen Coble\, author of Fragile Designs\, and Rhonda McKnight\, author of The Thing About Home
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, January 3\, 2024 – 5:00-6:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free\nRegistration: Seating is limited; please call to reserve your spot: 843-379-7025.\nVenue: Pat Conroy Literary Center | 601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nThe nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an evening of conversation with visiting novelists Colleen Coble\, author of Fragile Designs\, and Rhonda McKnight\, author of The Thing About Home\, on Wednesday\, January 3\, at 5:00 p.m.\, at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort). Books will be available for sale and signing in collaboration with the Beaufort Bookstore. Please call to reserve your seat in advance: 843-379-7025. \nAbout Colleen Coble and Fragile Designs\nColleen Coble is the author of more than seventy-five books and is best known for her coastal romantic suspense novels. Her books have been honored with awards ranging from the Best Books of Indiana\, the ACFW Carol Award\, the Romance Writers of America RITA\, the Holt Medallion\, the Daphne du Maurier\, National Readers’ Choice\, and the Booksellers Best. She has over 5 million books in print and has been on the bestseller lists of USA Today\, ECPA\, CBA\, Publishers Weekly\, and Amazon. She lives and writes in Indiana. \nColleen’s newest novel\, Fragile Designs\, is set in Beaufort. Since her police-officer husband Eric’s mysterious murder\, Carly Harris has been struggling to support herself and their infant son. Her career as an antique dealer isn’t sustainable\, nor is her dream of becoming a novelist. So when her grandmother proposes she and her two sisters restore the family’s large Beaufort home and turn it into a bed-and-breakfast\, she immediately gets to work clearing out the house. In the process\, she uncovers a family secret that Eric kept hidden. And an heirloom that the wrong person wouldn’t hesitate to kill for. \nCarly turns to homicide detective Lucas Bennett for help. Soon\, they’re entangled in a mystery with threads that lead all the way to the Russian mafia. Lucas has gotten in deep\, and while he trusts his ability to keep Carly and her family safe\, he begins to realize he’s vulnerable to an unexpected kind of danger. As they continue working closely together\, Carly and Lucas realize they may have found something more precious than gold. \nAbout Rhonda McKnight and The Thing About Home\nWinner of the 2015 Emma Award for Inspirational Romance of the Year\, Rhonda McKnight is the author of An Inconvenient Friend and What Kind of Fool. Themes of faith\, forgiveness\, and hope are central to her stories. Originally from a small coastal town in New Jersey\, Rhonda now lives and writes in the South Carolina lowcountry. \nIn The Thing About Home\, Casey Black needs an escape. When her picture-perfect vow renewal ceremony ends in her being left at the altar\, the former model turned social media influencer has new fame—the kind she never wanted. With her personal and business lives in shambles\, Casey runs from New York City to South Carolina’s Lowcountry hoping to find long-lost family. \nWhat Casey doesn’t expect is a postcard-worthy property on a three-hundred-acre farm\, history\, culture\, and a love of sweet tea. She also meets Nigel\, the farm manager whose friendship has become everything she’s never had. Through the pages of her great-grandmother’s journals\, Casey discovers her roots run deeper than the Lowcountry soil. She learns that she has people\, a home\, a legacy to uphold\, and a great new love story—if only she is brave enough to leave her old life behind. \n  \n\nThis program and others like this would not be possible without your financial help for which\, as always\, Pat Conroy Literary Center gratefully thanks you.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/an-evening-with-colleen-coble-and-rhonda-mcknight/
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SUMMARY:January 2024 Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:The Pat Conroy Literary Center’s monthly Open Mic Night will be held at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.) on Thursday\, January 11\, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Our featured writer is award-winning poet Miho Kinnas\, author of Waiting for Sunset to Bury Red Camellias. Open Mic will also feature short readings of 3 to 5 minutes each by other writers in many genres. \nWhen: Thursday\, January 11\, 2024 at 6 PM – 7:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free · Duration: 1 hr 30 min\nWhere: Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort) \nInterested in reading as part of Open Mic? Let us know at contact@patconroyliterarycenter.org \nWe want to build our community of writers and an appreciation for the art and talent of new\, emerging\, and long-time writers. Thank you for supporting this partnership! \nEvent Facebook Page \nAbout our featured writer:\nTwice nominated for the Pushcart Prize (2019 and 2023)\, Miho Kinnas is a poet and translator. Waiting for Sunset to Bury Red Camellias is her third collection of poetry\, following Today\, Fish Only (2014) and Move Over\, Bird (2019). A poetry of collaboration with E. Ethelbert Miller\, We Eclipse into The Other Side\, was published in 2023. \nElaine Equi selected her poem “Three Shrimp Boats Over the Horizon” for Best American Poetry 2023. Miho operates a community bookshop\, An Island Bookshelf\, on Hilton Head Island\, South Carolina. She holds an MFA in poetry from the City University of Hong Kong. \n\nThis program and others like this would not be possible without your financial help for which\, as always\, Pat Conroy Literary Center gratefully thanks you.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/january-2024-open-mic-night/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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SUMMARY:An Evening with novelist Johnathon Scott Barrett\, author of Ship Watch
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, January 12\, 2024 – 5:00-6:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free\nRegistration: Seating is limited; please call to reserve your spot: 843-379-7025.\nVenue: Pat Conroy Literary Center | 601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nThe nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an evening with raconteur and writer Johnathon Scott Barrett\, author of the debut novel Ship Watch\, on Friday\, January 12\, at 5:00 p.m.\, at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort). Weather permitting\, the event will be outside. Free and open to the public\, this event is presented in collaboration with the Beaufort chapter of the Pulpwood Queens Book Club. Books will be available for sale and signing. Please call to reserve your seat in advance: 843-379-7025. \nAbout Ship Watch\nSet around the renowned and historical homestead at the center of the drama\, Ship Watch weaves together six intertwined relationships that extend from the gentrified city of Savannah and into the wealthy enclaves of Sea Island\, Highlands\, and Atlanta’s Buckhead. The novel’s characters are drawn in the loom by the family’s elegantly formidable matriarch\, Grand Martha\, and form a multi-generational tapestry that includes the misfortunes of divorce and betrayal – but in more and even better measure opportunities for redemption\, rediscovery\, and the rarified gift of ‘second love.’ By combining an encompassing setting having a solid sense of place along with characters that are captivating and rather extraordinary\, Ship Watch is a sometimes bittersweet\, yet often comedic\, Southern tour-de-force debut novel. \n“Watch\, the family’s long-owned grand plantation on the banks of the Savannah River\, is contested\, proverbial long knives are brandished. Much of this engrossing tale depicts place—Savannah\, Highlands\, and Sea Island—where the wealthy make merry and hold court.”—Jameson Gregg\, Georgia Author of the Year\, Luck Be A Chicken \n“Storyteller extraordinaire\, raconteur\, and old-school bon vivant Johnathon Barrett celebrates the most glorious aspects of Southern life in all four of his wonderfully written books”—Janis Owens\, award-winning and bestselling author of American Ghost and My Brother Michael \nAbout Johnathon Scott Barrett\nJohnathon Scott Barrett is a seventh-generation Georgian with a deep appreciation of the literary and culinary traditions of the South. He is the author of three widely acclaimed cookbooks\, which critics hail for their entertaining stories and extensive recipes. \nBesides writing\, Johnathon is a CPA and has worked as a nonprofit executive for the last three decades. Currently\, he serves as director of development for the State Botanical Garden of Georgia at UGA. He divides his time between homes in Winterville and Savannah\, Georgia. Ship Watch is his debut novel. \n  \n\nThis program and others like this would not be possible without your financial help for which\, as always\, Pat Conroy Literary Center gratefully thanks you.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/an-evening-with-novelist-johnathon-scott-barrett-author-of-ship-watch/
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Scott Gould in conversation with Mindy Friddle
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, January 20\, 2024 – 5:00-6:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free\nRegistration: Seating is limited; please call to reserve your spot: 843-379-7025.\nVenue: Pat Conroy Literary Center | 601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nThe nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an evening with visiting award-winning fiction writer Scott Gould\, author of Idiot Men: Short Stories\, in conversation with fellow award-winning writer Mindy Friddle\, on Saturday\, January 20\, at 5:00 p.m.\, at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort). Books will be available for sale and signing. Please call to reserve your seat in advance: 843-379-7025. \n(Gould will also be teaching a fiction workshop\, Write What You Know Well Enough to Lie About\, from 2:00-4:00 p.m. at the Conroy Center that same day. \nAbout Idiot Men\n“Scott Gould is a literary shapeshifter. A rough Southern man who writes about trucks\, beer\, dogs and doublewides with the finesse of a poet. Idiot Men is like the best country song you have ever heard. His writing breaks your heart but makes you rejoice that you are still alive to recover.”–Jane Stern\, author of Ambulance Girl \nWith Strangers to Temptation\, Things that Crash\, Things that Fly\, and The Hammerhead Chronicles\, Scott Gould cemented his reputation as one of the most inventive\, distinctive voices of Southern literature. In his latest collection\, Idiot Men\, he once again gathers a cast of unforgettable characters in eleven stories chock full of exceptional storylines and hilarious writing. \nYou’ll meet a trucker driver whose wife flees to Jamaica with her lover\, leaving him to babysit her hairless tomcat\, Princess Di; a male nurse who discovers a trailer full of counterfeit NASCAR paraphernalia during a home health visit; an amateur arsonist sentenced to a year in a Smokey the Bear suit; a disgruntled roofer with a bad back and a meth-dealing twin brother… these are just a few of the idiot men you’ll encounter in a collection of stories that will appeal to readers who relish literature with a Southern flavor. \nGould’s Idiot Men provides the stage for wayward characters who make poor choices in life and love against a backdrop of elegant prose. These tales recalibrate morality and convention as readers will grow to love the characters despite-and perhaps because of-their flaws. These diverse\, rich stories are ultimately connected by the spellbinding voice of a true Southern storyteller. \nAbout Author Scott Gould\nScott Gould is the author of five books\, including The Hammerhead Chronicles\, winner of the Eric Hoffer Award for Fiction\, and Things That Crash\, Things That Fly\, which won a 2022 Memoir Prize for Books. Other honors include a Next Generation Indie Book Award\, an IPPY Award for Fiction\, the Larry Brown Short Story Award and the S.C. Arts Commission Artist Fellowship in Prose. Gould’s latest book is the story collection\, Idiot Men. \nHis work has appeared in Kenyon Review\, Black Warrior Review\, Pangyrus\, New Ohio Review\, Crazyhorse\, Pithead Chapel\, Vessel\, Garden & Gun\, and New Stories from the South\, among others. He teaches at the S.C. Governor’s School for the Arts & Humanities in Greenville\, S.C. \n  \nAbout Interviewer Mindy Friddle\nMindy Friddle is author of the novel\, Secret Keepers\, (winner of the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction). The Garden Angel\, her first novel and SIBA bestseller\, was selected for Barnes & Noble’s Discover Great New Writers. \nThe South Carolina Arts Commission awarded Mindy a prose fellowship\, and she has twice won the state’s Fiction Prize. Mindy’s third novel\, Her Best Self\, will be published in May. \n  \n\nThis program and others like this would not be possible without your financial help for which\, as always\, Pat Conroy Literary Center gratefully thanks you.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/an-evening-with-scott-gould-in-conversation-with-mindy-friddle/
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SUMMARY:An Evening with novelist Pam Webber\, author of Life Dust
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, January 26\, 2024 – 5:00-6:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free\nRegistration: Seating is limited; please call to reserve your spot: 843-379-7025.\nVenue: Pat Conroy Literary Center | 601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nThe nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an evening with award-winning novelist Pam Webber author of the historical novel Life Dust\, on Friday\, January 26\, at 5:00 p.m.\, at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort). Free and open to the public. Books will be available for sale and signing. Please call to reserve your seat in advance: 843-379-7025. \nAbout Life Dust\n“Life Dust doesn’t limit itself to being a drama with romantic undertones\, but a character-driven book where love\, war and humanity attempt to co-exist. A brilliant piece of writing to be enjoyed by many.”—Southern Literary Review \n“This novel is a testament to the heroes of the Vietnam War and an eye-opening experience for readers. . . . Highly recommended.”—Historical Novel Society \nLife Dust tells a story of courage: the kind that goes to war; and the kind that stays home. Along the way\, it reveals what love\, respect\, and caring are about and what duty\, honor\, and country really mean. \nNettie’s world turns upside down when Andy\, her soulmate since the sandbox days\, is deployed to Vietnam. Struggling to cope with the constant worry\, she dives into her work as a nursing intern in a busy Northern Virginia emergency department. In the process\, she becomes entangled in the lives of a tortured man with everything money can buy except a chance to live the life he wanted and a vengeful nursing supervisor whose discontent leads to a string of late-night trysts in the shadowy recesses of the hospital. \nHalf a world away\, Andy leads a military reconnaissance squad in a dangerous and unforgiving jungle. He receives orders to escort a high-ranking female freedom fighter\, Bien\, to a clandestine meeting with a North Vietnamese officer who wants to defect. Having previously been raped and brutally beaten by North Vietnamese soldiers\, Bien is suspicious of the officer’s motives. However\, something tells her he may be the younger brother who was kidnapped as a child and conscripted into the army of her attackers. Andy believes his unit is walking into a trap that could cost them everything. \nStruggling to survive in different worlds\, Nettie and Andy navigate the best and worst of human nature as they try to find their way back to one another. \n\n2023 Readers’ Favorite Book Awards Bronze Medalist in Christian (Historical Fiction)\n2023 IPPY Awards Silver Medalist – Best Southern Regional Fiction\n2023 Military Writers Society of America Awards Silver Medal in Historical Fiction\n\nAbout Pam Webber\nPam Webber is a second career\, best-selling author of historical fiction. Her novels\, The Wiregrass\, Moon Water\, and Life Dust\, have garnered multiple regional and national awards from organizations such as the Historical Novel Society\, the Southern Literary Review\, InD’Tale Magazine\, Ingram Global Publishing\, and the Military Writers Society of America. \nAs a former nursing educator\, Pam approached the development of her skill as a creative writer by taking classes and studying independently with experts in character evolution\, story arc\, and literary infrastructure. She continued to hone her skill as a member of a small\, professional writers group led by a talented and demanding New York Times bestselling author. \nIn her other life\, Pam is a PhD prepared internal medicine nurse practitioner\, an avid traveler\, and nature lover. She and the love of her life\, Jeff\, live and work in the Northern Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. They are the parents of three wonderful children\, Michael\, Sarah\, and Cindy\, and the lucky grandparents of Jace\, Albin\, James\, and Alexandra. \n  \n\nThis program and others like this would not be possible without your financial help for which\, as always\, Pat Conroy Literary Center gratefully thanks you.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/an-evening-with-novelist-pam-webber-author-of-life-dust/
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