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SUMMARY:Workshop: Two-Sentence Elevator Pitch with Ann Garvin
DESCRIPTION:UPDATE: This workshop has been rescheduled to Thursday June 1\, 2023 6:00-8:00 p.m. EDT \nRegister: patconroyliterarycenter.eventbrite.com \nCost: $45\nLimited to 15 participants (A minimum of ten participants is needed for this workshop.)\nOnline: Zoom \nWhen an agent or editor asks\, “What’s your book about?” will your brief description (your logline) capture their interest? Will they ask for more? Will they see you as a skilled professional or an eager newbie who isn’t quite sure what they are doing? \nEven the most skilled authors find distilling their book down to a compelling pitch difficult to do\, not because they don’t know what their book is about\, but because they do. In fact\, they know it so well that they don’t want to leave anything out. This results in more of a summary than juicy marketing copy designed to hook and interest an agent or a publisher. \nIn this virtual workshop led by USA Today bestselling novelist and Tall Poppy Writers founder Ann Garvin\, you will learn how to get to the very heart of your project and make certain that the story you’re working on is compelling and clear. Even the most complicated or quiet of tales can be pitched in such a way that people will sit up and take notice. \nTuesday\, May 9\, 6:00-8:00 p.m. on Zoom. Limited to 15 participants. $45/person. \nLearn more and register at https://patconroyliterarycenter.eventbrite.com \nThis workshop will be held as an online video conference call through Zoom. Details for joining the video call will be provided to all participating writers after registering. \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nAbout our instructor: \nAnn Garvin\, PhD\, is the USA Today bestselling author of five funny and sad novels about people who do too much\, in a world that asks too much from them. Her forthcoming novel\, There’s No Coming Back From This\, will be published this August. Ann teaches in the low-residency master of fine arts program at Drexel University and lives in Wisconsin with her anxious and overly protective dog\, Peanut. She is the founder of the Tall Poppy Writers and is dedicated to helping authors find readers and vice versa. For more information visit www.anngarvin.net. \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.
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Novelist Kristen Ness
DESCRIPTION:Friday May 26\, 2023 – 5:30-6:30 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 Kristen Ness\, author of the debut novel At Loggerheads\, on Friday\, May 26\, at 5:30 p.m. Free and open to the public\, this special author event will be held at the Conroy Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort. Books will be available for sale and signing. Seating is limited; please call 843-379-7025 to reserve in advance. \n“Kristen Ness’s At Loggerheads is a thrilling debut novel intertwined with mystery\, nature\, romance\, and betrayal. Set on a lush barrier island\, Ness offers the reader a rich sense of place in a whodunit that reflects on the meaning of home.”—New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe \nAbout At Loggerheads\nBrooke Edens\, a scientist who studies loggerhead sea turtles\, has longed for a sense of home and belonging ever since her return to Anders Isle. But something is amiss on the Lowcountry island where she grew up. For years\, loggerheads have been disappearing from the beach and development has been encroaching on the island’s natural beauty and maritime forest. \nWhen a dead body is found on the same day as a mutilated loggerhead\, Brooke uses clues from her knowledge of sea turtles to help Detective Drew Young\, her closest friend and potential love interest\, investigate the many big crimes beginning to surface on their small island. Brooke’s life is further complicated by her ex-fiancé\, Charlotte-based attorney Caldwell Madden\, who appears on the island for a work trip and to support the presidential campaign of his father\, a US Senator. \nMore than just a whodunit\, this murder mystery includes romance\, nature\, politics\, real estate\, and science. With a captivating sense of place\, the story unfolds as a love letter to the barrier islands and coastal towns of the South Carolina Lowcountry\, where the often-opposing forces of mother nature and human nature influence what people will do for money\, for power\, and for love. Amid the many revelations\, betrayals\, and twists that threaten to pull Brooke and Drew apart\, will they be able to untangle the web of crimes\, catch the murderer and\, ultimately\, find a way back to each other? \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nKristen Ness grew up mostly in South Carolina\, spending countless days with nature and falling in love with the ocean and its creatures on Isle of Palms\, where she walks the beach at sunrise each summer in search of sea turtle nests as a volunteer for the Island Turtle Team. \nWhile practicing immigration law for the past twenty years\, Kristen has been moonlighting in pursuit of her lifelong passion for writing and her obsession with marine biology. Writing\, real estate\, politics\, and even publishing run in her blood as the daughter of an English teacher and a land developer\, and the great-granddaughter of the 14th Governor of North Dakota whose family owned and published The Bismarck Tribune. She has a BA in English from Duke University\, a JD from the University of South Carolina School of Law\, and serves as an appointed member of the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council’s Coral Advisory Panel. \nKristen lives in Charleston\, SC\, with her husband\, their two children\, two guinea pigs\, and a cat. At Loggerheads is her first novel. https://kristenness.com \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-kristen-ness/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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SUMMARY:Pat Conroy Book Club: The Water is Wide
DESCRIPTION:Thursday May 25\, 2023 – 6:30 PM EDT\nPrice: $10\nRegistration: Register at Eventbrite | Limited to 20 participants\nVenue: The Rhett House Inn | 1009 Craven St.\, Beaufort \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nThe nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center and the award-winning Rhett House Inn will host a monthly book club discussion of Pat Conroy’s dozen books in order of publication\, moderated by Charlene Spearen and Jonathan Haupt. Book discussions will be held on fourth Thursdays beginning at 6:30 p.m. Limited to 20 participants each month. $10/person. Advance registration required. Participants are expected to read the books and to come prepared to discuss them. Discussions will be held at The Rhett House Inn (1009 Craven St.\, Beaufort) \nSCHEDULE \n\nApril 27: The Boo (1970)\nMay 25 The Water Is Wide (1972)\nJune 22: The Great Santini (1976)\nJuly 27: The Lords of Discipline (1980)\n\nFuture discussion dates will be announced this summer\, once the book club is underway. \nRegister at Eventbrite \nABOUT OUR DISCUSSION LEADERS \nDr. Charlene Monahan Spearen received her MFA degree in Creative Writing and a Ph.D. in Composition and Rhetoric from the University of South Carolina. She is currently serving as the Public Relations and Special Projects Coordinator for Penn Center after a successful career in academia at Allen University. She served as the Program Coordinator for the University of South Carolina’s Arts Institute and was the Assistant Director for the South Carolina Poetry Initiative. In addition to her work throughout the Carolinas\, Spearen has been a featured reader and Creative Writing instructor and scholar in County Monaghan and County Mayo\, Ireland. She has published a full-length collection of poems titled A Book of Exquisite Disasters. Her poems have appeared in journals and publications throughout the United States. \nJonathan Haupt is the executive director of the nonprofit Conroy Center and the former director of the University of South Carolina Press\, where he created the Story River Books fiction imprint with Pat Conroy\, named by Garden & Gun magazine as one of “the top ten things to love about the South.” Haupt’s book reviews and author interviews have appeared in the Charleston Post and Courier\, Lowcountry Weekly\, Beaufort Lifestyle\, Savannah Morning News’ Beacon magazine\, Southern Review of Books\, and Southern Writers Magazine’s Suite T blog. He is co-editor of the anthology Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy\, the recipient of seventeen book awards. He serves on the boards of the Friends of South Carolina Libraries and the South Carolina Academy of Authors. In 2020\, Haupt was recognized with the Doug Marlette Literacy Leadership Award presented by the Pulpwood Queens\, the largest book club in the U.S. \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/pat-conroy-book-club-the-water-is-wide/
LOCATION:The Rhett House Inn\, 1009 Craven St.\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club Discussion
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Rainbow Warrior with Jacquelyn Markham
DESCRIPTION:Thursday May 18\, 2023 – 5:30-7:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free public drop-in event\nRegistration: No advance registration needed\nVenue: Pat Conroy Literary Center | 601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nThe nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center is honored to host a public launch event for Jacquelyn Markham’s new collection of poetry\, Rainbow Warrior\, on Thursday\, May 18\, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at 601 Bladen St.\, in downtown Beaufort. No advance registration required. Books will be available for sale and signing. Refreshments will be provided. The author will give a reading from her new book at 6:30 p.m. \nAbout Rainbow Warrior\nThe powerful poems in Rainbow Warrior make connections between the lives of the islanders of the South Pacific impacted by nuclear testing on Bikini and nearby islands and the Deep Water Horizon oil spill that devastated land and sea off the coast of Louisiana. The poems in this collection—some narrative\, some epic\, some lyrical—delve into ecopoetics to reveal the human toll of environmental disasters. \nImages of the lone Ivory Billed Woodpecker\, now extinct\, juxtaposed with a child listening to the “Mother of the Sea” chant from a spiral shell\, or fledglings the “size of pennies/…copper in the sun” make everyday moments of healing and beauty in nature even more poignant. These poems that follow the moon and the tides strike awe in our hearts and move us toward a deeper social consciousness. \n“Jacquelyn Markham’s dedication of Rainbow Warrior to Rachel Carson prepares us for the power of this collection. Each of the ten poems gives us not only an insightful appreciation of nature but an awareness of its fragility in the lives of humans who too often view themselves as ‘gods’ in relation to it\, enjoying what they will without understanding they are destroying it. Drawing from indigenous lore\, and imagining the voices of the people directly affected\, Markham—as though herself listening to the spirit of the sea in a spiral shell\, as though heartfully calling on sky power—expresses outrage and terror in the dark necessary reminder that warfare’s bombs and greed’s oil drilling have poisoned our Earth. ‘I plunge into the water trying/yet I wonder will we survive?’ epitomizes the spirit of this strong sequence compelling in silent reading and superbly ready to be performed aloud by many voices.”–Katharyn Howd Machan\, author of Dark Side of the Spoon and other collections \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nDr. Jacquelyn Markham has loved poetry since wandering through the meadow along a mint-lined brook as a child in rural Michigan. She has written poetry for nearly as long\, so as a freshman in college\, she decided to make a career of it. After earning her bachelor’s degree in English\, she earned a master’s and a doctorate in English and Creative Writing from Florida State University. \nAuthor of two chapbooks and a personal mythology\, Peering Into the Iris: An Ancestral Journey\, she has published nationally and internationally in literary journals\, magazines\, and anthologies\, including Archive: South Carolina Poetry Since 2005\, Adrienne Rich: A Tribute Anthology\, Anthology of Appalachian Writers\, Lullwater Review\, Hawaii Pacific Review\, The High Window\, and Woman and Earth\, among others. \nDr. Markham enjoyed a rich academic career from which she retired as a full professor. During her academic career\, her love of poetry extended to scholarship as she “rescued” 19th century women poets who had fallen into obscurity\, focusing on collecting the far-flung poems published by Charlotte Perkins Gilman during her lifetime. The result is the award-winning reference The Complete Poetry of Charlotte Perkins Gilman\, 1884-1935\, Together with Commentary and Notes (Mellen Press\, 2014)\, recipient of the Adele Mellen Prize “for its distinguished contribution to scholarship.” She currently mentors poets and writers\, making her home near the coast of South Carolina. \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/book-launch-rainbow-warrior-with-jacquelyn-markham/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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SUMMARY:May 2023 Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:Our monthly virtual Open Mic Night is presented in partnership between the Pat Conroy Literary Center and the South Carolina Writers Association. Our featured writer for May is Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle\, author of the debut novel Even As We Breathe\, winner of the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award. Join us live on the Conroy Center’s Facebook page for readings by a pantheon of participating writers from in and beyond our South Carolina lowcountry. \nWhen: Thursday\, May 11\, 2023 at 6 PM – 7:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free · Duration: 1 hr 30 min\nWhere: Facebook Live \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:\nAnnette Saunooke Clapsaddle\, a citizen of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians\, resides in Qualla\, NC. She holds degrees from Yale University and the College of William and Mary. \nHer debut novel\, Even As We Breathe (UPK 2020)\, was a finalist for the Weatherford Award\, named one of NPR’s Best Books of 2020\, and received the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award (2021). It also is the first novel published by a citizen of the Eastern Band of Cherokee. Clapsaddle’s work appears in Yes! Magazine\, Lit Hub\, Our State Magazine\, and The Atlantic. She is a former secondary English and Cherokee Studies educator. Currently\, Clapsaddle is an editor for the Appalachian Futures Series (UPK)\, serves on the Board of Directors for the Museum of the Cherokee Indian\, and is the President of the Board of Trustees for the North Carolina Writers Network. www.asaunookeclapsaddle.com \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/may-2023-open-mic-night/
LOCATION:Online – Facebook Live
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Therapeutic Journaling with Sandra E. Johnson
DESCRIPTION:Register: patconroyliterarycenter.eventbrite.com \nWhen: Saturday May 6\, 2023; 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.\nCost: $45\nLimited to 15 participants\nLocation: Pat Conroy Literary Center (601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort\, SC) \nThis interactive writing workshop will highlight how to use therapeutic journaling to become more resilient by transforming traumatic events into opportunities for growth\, reframing failures into successes\, and changing unhelpful habits into ones that strengthen wellbeing. \nInstructor Sandra E. Johnson\, LMSW\, is the author of The Resilience Journal: 365 Days to Balance and Peace of Mind\, and a copy of the journal is included in the registration fee (a $19 value). \nThis is an in-person writers workshop\, held at the Pat Conroy Literary Center (601 Bladen St\, Beaufort). Limited to 15 participants; $45/person. \nLearn more and register at https://patconroyliterarycenter.eventbrite.com \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nAbout our instructor: \nTherapeutic journaling expert Sandra E. Johnson\, LMSW\, is the author of The Resilience Journal: 365 Days to Balance and Peace of Mind (Clarkson Potter)\, a 365-day journal designed to strengthen skills to not just survive adversity but thrive from it. \nPraised by bestselling authors Sharon Salzberg and Karen Casey\, PhD\, as well as mindfulness leaders Richard Miller\, PhD\, Shivani Hawkins\, and Stacey Milner-Collins\, The Resilience Journal offers inspirational quotes by great thinkers followed by interactive writing prompts to serve as guides towards greater wellness and resiliency. It is preceded by The Mind-Body Peace Journal: 366 Mindful Prompts for Serenity & Peace (Sterling Publishing)\, which has sold widely around the world and been highlighted in Psychology Today. \nJohnson is also a novelist. Her novel Flowers for the Living (Texas Review Press) garnered nominations for a PEN/Faulkner Award and Paterson Prize for Fiction. Her narrative nonfiction book\, Standing on Holy Ground: A Triumph over Hate in the Deep South (St. Martin’s Press) received glowing reviews from O: The Oprah Magazine\, USA Today\, Southern Living\, and other publications. Since earning a Master of Social Work from the University of South Carolina in 1988\, Johnson has been a clinical social worker with a number of health care organizations\, including those specializing in psychiatric services. \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/workshop-therapeutic-journaling-with-sandra-e-johnson/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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SUMMARY:Pat Conroy Book Club: The Boo
DESCRIPTION:Thursday April 27\, 2023 – 6:30 PM EDT\nPrice: $10\nRegistration: Register at Eventbrite | Limited to 20 participants\nVenue: The Rhett House Inn | 1009 Craven St.\, Beaufort \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nThe nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center and the award-winning Rhett House Inn will host a monthly book club discussion of Pat Conroy’s dozen books in order of publication\, moderated by Charlene Spearen and Jonathan Haupt. Book discussions will be held on fourth Thursdays beginning at 6:30 p.m. Limited to 20 participants each month. $10/person. Advance registration required. Participants are expected to read the books and to come prepared to discuss them. Discussions will be held at The Rhett House Inn (1009 Craven St.\, Beaufort) \nSCHEDULE \n\nApril 27: The Boo (1970)\nMay 25 The Water Is Wide (1972)\nJune 22: The Great Santini (1976)\nJuly 27: The Lords of Discipline (1980)\n\nFuture discussion dates will be announced this summer\, once the book club is underway. \nRegister at Eventbrite \nABOUT OUR DISCUSSION LEADERS \nDr. Charlene Monahan Spearen received her MFA degree in Creative Writing and a Ph.D. in Composition and Rhetoric from the University of South Carolina. She is currently serving as the Public Relations and Special Projects Coordinator for Penn Center after a successful career in academia at Allen University. She served as the Program Coordinator for the University of South Carolina’s Arts Institute and was the Assistant Director for the South Carolina Poetry Initiative. In addition to her work throughout the Carolinas\, Spearen has been a featured reader and Creative Writing instructor and scholar in County Monaghan and County Mayo\, Ireland. She has published a full-length collection of poems titled A Book of Exquisite Disasters. Her poems have appeared in journals and publications throughout the United States. \nJonathan Haupt is the executive director of the nonprofit Conroy Center and the former director of the University of South Carolina Press\, where he created the Story River Books fiction imprint with Pat Conroy\, named by Garden & Gun magazine as one of “the top ten things to love about the South.” Haupt’s book reviews and author interviews have appeared in the Charleston Post and Courier\, Lowcountry Weekly\, Beaufort Lifestyle\, Savannah Morning News’ Beacon magazine\, Southern Review of Books\, and Southern Writers Magazine’s Suite T blog. He is co-editor of the anthology Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy\, the recipient of seventeen book awards. He serves on the boards of the Friends of South Carolina Libraries and the South Carolina Academy of Authors. In 2020\, Haupt was recognized with the Doug Marlette Literacy Leadership Award presented by the Pulpwood Queens\, the largest book club in the U.S. \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/pat-conroy-book-club-the-boo/
LOCATION:The Rhett House Inn\, 1009 Craven St.\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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SUMMARY:Beaufort Human Library\, Third Edition
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, April 23\, 2023 – 1:00-4:00 PM EDT\nPrice: Free · Duration: 3 hrs\nLocation: Technical College of the Lowcountry’s MacLean Hall (104 Reynolds St\, bldg 12\, Beaufort\, SC) \nCheck Out the Third Edition of the Beaufort Human Library\, April 23 \n“Where oral history meets speed dating.” The Beaufort Human Library project seeks to foster empathy and understanding across communities by offering the public opportunities to “check out” more than a dozen Human Books who will be sharing their personal stories of facing challenges and striving for acceptance. These engaging conversations will cover topics including occupations\, education\, healthcare\, gender\, race\, faith\, immigration\, addiction\, abuse\, and law enforcement\, among others. Ultimately the dialogues will focus on building bridges of understanding\, person to person\, through storytelling. \nThe third edition of the Beaufort Human Library will be held on opening day of National Library Week: Sunday\, April 23\, from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. in MacLean Hall\, building 12 of the Technical College of the Lowcountry (TCL)\, at 104 Reynolds Street in Beaufort. Free and open to the public\, the event is hosted by TCL; the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center; the DAYLO (Diversity Awareness Youth Literacy Organization) chapters of Beaufort Academy\, Beaufort High School\, and Battery Creek High School; and volunteer community organizers. The program is funded in part with a grant from South Carolina Humanities\, a nonprofit organization inspiring\, engaging\, and enriching South Carolinians with programs on literature\, history\, culture\, and heritage. \nParticipating Human Books include Major General Harold L. “Mitch” Mitchell (ret.)\, Rev. Lori Hlaban\, Rev. Rebecca Albright\, Lola Campbell\, Aki Kato\, Gwenn McClune\, Rodney Adams\, Dana Ridenour\, Ryan Copeland\, Isabella Troy Brazoban\, Kevin Holman\, Eric Hayes\, two Joseph Taylors\, and others. \nBeginning the event in the TCL auditorium from 1:00 to 1:30\, historical re-enactor and educator Donald Sweeper will appear as celebrated Beaufortonian Robert Smalls with a brief performance followed by in-character audience Q&A. Born into slavery and later becoming the first Black hero of the Civil War and later a U.S. Congressman\, Smalls is synonymous with Beaufort and Reconstruction. Sweeper has been performing the role for nearly a decade; his appearance at the Beaufort Human Library is made possible by the South Carolina Humanities Speakers Bureau. Please plan to arrive early as this presentation will begin promptly at 1:00. \nFollowing the Robert Smalls presentation in the auditorium\, all of the volunteer Human Books will be available throughout MacLean Hall to be checked out for 30-minute small group conversations from 1:30 to 4:00. No advance registration is needed. Volunteer Librarians and student Bookmarks from Beaufort Academy\, Beaufort High School\, and Battery Creek High School will be on hand to help guests navigate their experience. \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \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/beaufort-human-library-third-edition/
LOCATION:Technical College of the Lowcountry – Building 12 Auditorium\, 104 Reynolds Street\, Bldg 12\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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SUMMARY:Evening with USA Today Bestselling Novelist Colleen Oakley
DESCRIPTION:Saturday April 15\, 2023 – 5-7:00 PM EDT\nPrice: $36 (includes a signed copy of her latest novel)\nRegistration: Register at Eventbrite\nVenue: The Rhett House Inn | 1009 Craven St.\, Beaufort \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nThe Pat Conroy Literary Center\, NeverMore Books\, and The Rhett House Inn will host an evening with USA Today bestselling novelist Colleen Oakley\, author of the newly released The Mostly True Story of Tanner & Louise–named a Most Anticipated New Release of 2023 by Southern Living and Today. The $36 registration fee includes a signed copy of the novel\, the author’s book talk\, and refreshments\, and music by the Alibis. Additional copies of the author’s books will be available for sale and signing through NeverMore Books. This special event will be held at The Rhett House Inn (1009 Craven St.\, Beaufort) on Saturday\, April 15\, at 5:00-7:00 p.m. \nRegister at Eventbrite \nAbout The Mostly True Story of Tanner & Louise\n“Ambitionless 21-year-old Tanner needs a place to live\, but gets a lot more than she bargained for when she agrees to work as live-in caregiver for Louise\, a vodka-swilling\, sharp-as-a-tack elderly woman. The little old lady might not be as innocent as she seems\, though\, especially when she tells Tanner they need to make a quick getaway. Is Louise the culprit behind a legendary jewel heist? With a wild road trip\, a classic car and a love interest reminiscent of a young Brad Pitt\, The Mostly True Story of Tanner & Louise is tailor-made for fans of Thelma and Louise.”—Reader’s Digest \n“You’ll never be able to see what’s coming in this wildly surprising\, entertaining ride of a novel—which is a coming-of-age story\, a contending-with-age story\, and a surprising exploration of how womanhood is a matter of surprising others…and oneself.”—Jodi Picoult\, New York Times bestselling author of Wish You Were Here \n“Oakley draws on Thelma and Louise for this delightful story of an elderly woman and her caregiver who go on the run…The antics of this unlikely duo makes for an entertaining buddy drama.”—Publishers Weekly \nTwenty-one-year-old Tanner Quimby needs a place to live. Preferably one where she can continue sitting around in sweatpants and playing video games nineteen hours a day. Since she has no credit or money to speak of\, her options are limited\, so when an opportunity to work as a live-in caregiver for an elderly woman falls into her lap\, she takes it. \nOne slip on the rug. That’s all it took for Louise Wilt’s daughter to demand that Louise have a full-time nanny living with her. Never mind that she can still walk fine\, finish her daily crossword puzzle\, and pour the two fingers of vodka she drinks every afternoon.Bottom line: Louise wants a caretaker even less than Tanner wants to be one. \nThe two start off their living arrangement happily ignoring each other until Tanner starts to notice things—weird things. Like\, why does Louise keep her garden shed locked up tighter than a prison? And why is the local news fixated on the suspect of one of the biggest jewelry heists in American history who looks eerily like Louise? And why does Louise suddenly appear in her room\, with a packed bag at 1 a.m. insisting that they leave town immediately? Thus begins the story of a not-to-be-underestimated elderly woman and an aimless young woman who—if they can outrun the mistakes of their past—might just have the greatest adventure of their lives. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nColleen Oakley is the USA Today bestselling author of The Invisible Husband of Frick Island\, You Were There Too\, Close Enough to Touch\, and Before I Go. Her books have been named best books by People\, Us Weekly\, Library Journal\, and Real Simple\, and have been long-listed for the Southern Book Prize. She lives in Atlanta\, Georgia\, with her husband\, four kids\, and the world’s biggest lapdog. \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/evening-with-usa-today-bestselling-novelist-colleen-oakley/
LOCATION:The Rhett House Inn\, 1009 Craven St.\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Interview
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