[OPLINLIST] Ohioana Book Festival - Saturday, May 12 - Featured authors & more!

Wed Feb 29 10:18:55 EST 2012

Posted on behalf of Ohioana Library...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, February 28, 2012
CONTACTS:  

Linda Hengst, Executive Director - Ohioana Library, lhengst at ohioana.org
<mailto:lhengst at ohioana.org>  614-466-3831
Patty Donahey Geiger, PDG Communications, patty at pdgcommunications.com
<mailto:patty at pdgcommunications.com>  614-325-6178

The Ohioana Library Presents: 

THE 6th ANNUAL OHIOANA BOOK FESTIVAL: 

CELEBRATING OHIO'S AUTHORS -SATURDAY, MAY 12TH

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Live music, food carts, exhibits, fun-loving crowds
and....books-lots and lots of books!  The Ohioana Library's goal, as it
prepares to present the 6th annual Ohioana Book Festival, is creating a
festival that brings readers, writers and books together for an
inspiring, fun, learning experience.

Nearly 100 authors, including 10 who are designated as "featured," will
be at the festival with new books they have published within the past 16
months.  The main event will be held on Saturday, May 12, from 10 a.m.
to 4:30 p.m. at Fort Hayes Metropolitan Education Center, 546 Jack Gibbs
Blvd., near downtown Columbus and the Short North. This event is free
and open to the public with no tickets or advance registration required.

"We are proud to announce the 10 outstanding and diverse writers who
have been selected as the featured authors for the 2012 Ohioana Book
Festival. These authors are all stars in their chosen literary fields,"
said Executive Director Linda Hengst. 

During the week prior to the main festival event the 10 featured
authors, along with many other  selected festival authors, will take
part in more than 15 outreach programs in the Columbus area and around
the state. A number of programs will be held in public venues while
others will be provided for specific populations such as schools and
classrooms. 

Featured Authors

Tom Batiuk <http://www.funkywinkerbean.com/>  (Medina County), The
Complete Funky Winkerbean, Vol. I

A native of Akron, Ohio, Tom Batiuk (rhymes with "attic") spent several
years as a high school teacher before creating Funky Winkerbean, the
celebrated comic strip distributed by King Features Syndicate to more
than 400 newspapers nationwide. Batiuk has been recognized for his bold
yet sensitive approach to real-life issues and was a Pulitzer Finalist
in 2008. Batiuk's Funky Winkerbean began in 1972 as a laugh-a-day look
at high school life and has matured into a series of real-life stories,
highlighting such sensitive social issues as alcoholism, cancer,
teen-dating abuse, teen suicide, guns in the school and teen pregnancy.
These groundbreaking series have placed Tom Batiuk at the forefront of a
new genre in comic art history. Among the numerous honors recognizing
his work, Batiuk is a past winner of both the Ohioana Citation and the
1996 Governor's Award for the Arts. 

Jeni Britton Bauer <http://www.jenisicecreams.com/>  (Franklin County),
Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams at Home

Entrepreneur and now best-selling author, Jeni Britton Bauer started
making ice cream in 1996, and has spent 15 years perfecting her craft
and building a community of devotees -- who scan her website, blog,
Facebook page and Twitter feed daily for what is sure to be their next
addiction. Her creative, innovative, and nuanced recipes are inspired by
the ingredients available any given day at the market. At Jeni's,
everything is made by hand and in house (they even handwrite the name of
the ice cream on every pint!). There are currently 10 stores, eight in
central Ohio, one in Chagrin Falls, one in Nashville, Tenn., and retail
clients throughout the country, along with a thriving mail order
business.  Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams at Home is her first cookbook.

Cinda Williams Chima <http://cindachima.com/index.htm>  (Cuyahoga
County), The Gray Wolf Throne 

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Cinda Williams Chima
began writing poetry and stories in third grade, and novels in junior
high school. Her Heir Chronicles young adult contemporary fantasy series
includes The Warrior Heir (2006), The Wizard Heir (2007), and The Dragon
Heir (2008), all from Hyperion, with two more books forthcoming. Chima's
best-selling YA fantasy Seven Realms series launched with The Demon King
(2009), followed by The Exiled Queen (September, 2010) and The Gray Wolf
Throne (August, 2011.) The Crimson Crown is scheduled for fall, 2012.
Chima was a recipient of the 2008 Lit Award for Fiction from the
Cleveland Lit and was named a Cleveland Magazine Interesting Person
2009. Her novel, The Exiled Queen, won the 2011 Teen Buckeye Book Award.

Casey Daniels <http://www.caseydaniels.com/>  (Cuyahoga County), Wild,
Wild Death

Casey Daniels once applied for a job as a tour guide in a Cleveland
cemetery. She didn't get the job, but she did get the idea for the
heroine in her popular Pepper Martin mystery series. Pepper works at a
historic cemetery and solves mysteries for the ghosts there. In January
the eighth book in the series, Wild, Wild Death was published. In
addition, Daniels started a new series last year with Button Holed.  The
second book of the series, Hot Button, comes out in June. She's writing
the Button Box mysteries as Kylie Logan. Daniels has also written both
historical and contemporary romances as well as books for young adults
and one children's book. She lives in the Cleveland area and is a
frequent presenter at workshops nationwide.

Nancy Petro <http://www.falsejustice.com/>  (Franklin County), False
Justice:  Eight Myths That Convict the Innocent

Nancy Petro, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Denison University, has more
than 35 years of full-time experience in marketing, publishing, and
business management. She played an active role in the political career
of her husband, former Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro.  She shared
Jim's unsettling awakening to the issue of wrongful conviction and
worked with him for two and a half years on the book False Justice:
Eight Myths That Convict the Innocent. She continues advocacy of their
book, with a focus on increasing awareness of wrongful conviction and
the importance of criminal justice reform. Nancy is a Tiffin, Ohio
native and currently makes her home in Columbus. 

Donald Ray Pollock <http://donaldraypollock.com/>  (Ross County), The
Devil All the Time

Born in 1954 and raised in Knockemstiff, Ohio, Pollock has lived his
entire adult life in Chillicothe, where he worked at the Mead Paper Mill
as a laborer and truck driver until age 50, when he enrolled in the
creative writing program at The Ohio State University.  While there,
Doubleday published his acclaimed debut short story collection,
Knockemstiff, and the New York Times regularly posted his election
dispatches from southern Ohio throughout the 2008 campaign.   Pollock is
the recipient of the 2009 PEN/Robert Bingham Award and also won the 2009
Devil's Kitchen Award in Prose sponsored by the English Department of
Southern Illinois University Carbondale. His work has appeared in
various literary journals, including Epoch, Sou'wester, Granta, Third
Coast, River Styx, The Journal, Boulevard, and PEN America. His second
book, The Devil All the Time, published in July 2011, was listed by
Publisher's Weekly as one of the top ten books of the year.

Emilie Richards <http://www.emilierichards.com/index.htm>  (Cuyahoga
County), Sunset Bridge

Florida-raised Emilie Richards lived in Cleveland for 12 years where she
reared her children and continued a prolific writing career.  She is the
author of more than 60 novels, including series romances, romantic
suspense, futuristic fantasy, paranormal, mysteries, and single title
women's fiction.  Her novel series include Ministry is Murder and
Happiness Key.  Richards is also a quilter and has published five
Quilting Along With Emilie Richards books to compliment the books in her
Shenandoah Album series.  Her books have been published in more than 16
languages in more than 20 countries, and eight have recently been made
into movies for German TV with more coming.  Richards is a past winner
of the Romance Writers of America's RITA Award, the highest prize given
to romance authors.  Prior to her writing career Richards worked 

as a therapist <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therapist>  in a mental
health center, a parent services coordinator for families enrolled in 
Head Start <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_Start_Program> , and in
several pastoral counseling centers.  Married to her college sweetheart,
Richards now lives in Virginia.

Les Roberts <http://lesroberts.com/>  (Cuyahoga County), The Cleveland
Creep

Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, mystery writer Les Roberts is the
author of 26 novels, close to a dozen short stories, eight screenplays
and countless newspaper articles and reviews. He's best known for the
creation of his Slovenian detective, Milan Jacovich, in a series of
popular mysteries, the latest of which is Whiskey Island.  Following a
brief career as an actor in Hollywood, Roberts began writing for popular
television programs as Candid Camera, The Jackie Gleason Show, The Lucy
Show, The Andy Griffith Show, and The Man from U.N.C.L.E.  He was the
first producer of the long-running game show, Hollywood Squares.
Roberts moved to Cleveland in 1990 and says the years he's spent in the
city have been the best of his life.  He's won the Cleveland Arts Prize,
the Sherwood Anderson Literary Prize, twice been nominated for both the
Shamus and Anthony Awards, and received an honorary doctorate in
literature from Cleveland State University.  

Michael J. Rosen <http://www.michaeljrosen.com/>  (Perry County), The
Hound Dog's Haiku and Other Poems for Dog Lovers. 

Born in Columbus, Ohio, Michael J. Rosen is an award-winning writer,
poet, and illustrator, with more than 80 works published to date.  Rosen
is the former Literary Director for Thurber House, where he edited
several compilations of Thurber's work and helped create the Thurber
Prize for American Humor.  Among the awards Rosen has received are the
National Jewish Book Award, 

the Simon Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance Book Award, and several Ohioana
Awards.  He has been a fellow of both the Ohio Arts Council and the
National Endowment for the Arts.

Robin Yocum <http://robinyocum.com/>  (Franklin County), Favorite Sons

Robin Yocum was born in 1955 in Steubenville, Ohio, and grew up in the
in the Eastern Ohio village of Brilliant.  He received a bachelor's
degree in journalism from Bowling Green State University in 1978. After
two years at the Lancaster Eagle-Gazette and the Martins Ferry Times
Leader, Robin spent 11 years as a crime and investigative reporter with
the Columbus Dispatch. He received numerous writing awards, including
those from the Associated Press and the Press Club of Ohio.  Robin is
the author of two nonfiction books: Dead Before Deadline, and Insured
for Murder, which he co-authored with Dispatch reporter Cathy Candisky.
He is the principle of Yocum Communications in Westerville. Favorite
Sons, his first novel, was named the 2011 Book of the Year for
Mystery/Suspense by USA Book News.

Festival Programs 

Activities during the May 12th festival will include more than 20 panel
discussions on a variety of topics.  The 10 featured authors will appear
in a track of five panels, including conversations about their own
literary influences, the writing life and the creative process.
Additional panel dialogue will explore children's literature and poetry,
along with several "behind-the-scenes" opportunities for new writers to
find out more about how to get published. Author roundtables will be
devoted to popular genres such as mystery, romance and science fiction.

"Each year, we offer at least one panel on the 'how-to's' of the
publishing business and the room is filled to capacity," said Hengst.
"Many people who come to the festival are aspiring writers who are
trying to get their work published.  This year we'll have more
opportunities for those writers to meet people from inside the
publishing industry, as well as talk to authors who will share their own
experiences of breaking in to the business."  

In celebration of the 200th birthday of Columbus, there will be a
special track of panels about the city, including The Ohio State
University, the Lazarus Store and historically haunted places.  One
panel, "Lit, Lives, and Landmarks," will introduce a new Ohioana program
"Ohioana Library On the Road," highlighting tours that will begin in
June. The Columbus tours will visit sites connected to noted authors
such as O.Henry.

"We are excited to have so many nationally recognized authors
participating in our sixth festival.  They are all Ohioans by birth or
residents with books that have been published in the past year," Hengst
said. "They represent every major literary field and genre - fiction
(mystery, romance, fantasy, science fiction, and literary fiction),
nonfiction (memoirs, history, essays, and cook books), poetry and books
for children and young adults."  

Festival  Authors (in addition to 10 Featured Authors)

Lisa Abraham
<http://www.uakron.edu/uapress/browse-books/author-detail/index.dot?auth
or_id=1470163> , Arnold Adoff <http://www.arnoldadoff.com/> , Saundra
Crum Akers <http://saundracrumakers.com/> , J. Kelley Anderson
<http://www.jkelleyanderson.com/> , Yvonne Anderson
<http://www.risenfiction.com/gateway-to-gannah/> , Thomas E. Barden
<http://books.upress.virginia.edu/detail%2Fbooks%2Fgroup-4440.xml?q=auth
or%3A%22Steinbeck%2C%20John%22> , Rebecca Barnhouse
<http://www.rebeccabarnhouse.com/> , Paul Bauer
<http://www.archersbooks.com/> , Carrie Bebris
<http://www.carriebebris.com/> , Tim Bowers <http://www.timbowers.com/>
, Gary A. Braunbeck <http://www.garybraunbeck.com/> , Regina Brett
<http://www.reginabrett.com/> ; Dale Patrick Brown
<http://www.ohioswallow.com/author/Dale+Patrick+Brown> , Christopher
Busta-Peck,
<http://www.clevelandareahistory.com/2010/01/about-editors-christopher-b
usta-peck.html>  Mary Kay Carson
<http://www.marykaycarson.com/Home/Home.html> , Leah Clifford
<http://leahclifford.com/> , Kacy Cook <http://www.kacycook.net/> , 
Kambri Crews <http://kambricrews.com/> , Mark Dawidziak,
<http://connect.cleveland.com/user/mdawidz/index.html>  Robb Forman Dew
<http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/authors_Robb-Forman-Dew-%281003855%29.
htm> , Darryl S. Doane <http://www.hrdpress.com/Lifes-Journey-LJ> , 
David S. Doane <http://www.hrdpress.com/Lifes-Journey-LJ> , Julie Drew
<http://juliedrew.com/> , Jeffrey Ebbeler
<http://www.jeffillustration.com/Home.html> , Mary Ellis
<http://maryellis.net/> , Terry W. Ervin II <http://ervin-author.com/> ,
David S. FitzSimmon
<http://www.kentstateuniversitypress.com/author/fitzsimmonsd/> , Amanda
Flower <http://amandaflower.com/> , Carole Gerber
<http://www.carolegerber.com/> , Raimund E. Goerler
<https://ohiostatepress.org/> , Blair P. Grubb
<http://www.utoledopress.com/thecalling.html> , Richard Hague
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hague> , Karen Harper
<http://www.karenharperauthor.com/> , Steve Harpster
<http://www.harptoons.com/> , Sherri Hayes
<http://ph.thewriterscoffeeshop.com/authors/detail/12> , Susan Gee Heino
<http://www.susangh.com/> , Rick Hilles
<http://www.upress.pitt.edu/BookDetails.aspx?bookId=36269> ; John B.
Kachuba <http://jkachuba.com/> , Nellie Kampmann
<https://www.historypress.net/catalogue/productdetails.php?productid=978
.1.60949.087.4> , Daniel Kirk <http://danielkirk.com/> , Joy M. Kiser
<http://www.papress.com/html/book.details.page.tpl?isbn=9781616890599> ,
Leonard Kress <http://leonardkress.com/> , Julie Anne Lindsey
<http://julieannelindsey.com/> , Matt Livigni
<http://www.tatepublishing.com/bookstore/book.php?w=978-1-61777-742-4> ,
Tammie Lyon
<http://www.mbartists.com/cgi-bin/iowa/artists.html?portfolio=66> , 
Donna MacMeans <http://www.donnamacmeans.com/> , Jack Matthews
<http://www.etruscanpress.org/index.php/authors/m-p/jack-matthews/> , 
Karen Meyer <http://www.ohiofrontierhistorylady.com/> , Beverly Meyers
<http://www.davidmeyers.biz/> , David Meyers
<http://www.davidmeyers.biz/> , Elise Meyers Walker
<http://www.davidmeyers.biz/> , Brandon Marie Miller
<http://www.brandonmariemiller.com/> , Dara Naraghi
<http://www.daranaraghi.com/> , Mike Olszewski
<http://www.kentstateuniversitypress.com/author/olszewskim/> , Karen A.
Patterson <http://karenapatterson.com/> , Mae Pelster
<https://www.historypress.net/catalogue/productdetails.php?productid=978
.1.60949.253.3> , Nancy Roe Pimm <http://www.nancyroepimm.com/> , David
Powers <https://www.clerisypress.com/authors.php?authorid=409> , Doug
Ramspeck <http://lima.osu.edu/english/poetry/> , Robert A. Reynolds
<http://smithdocs.net/bird_dog_publishing_books> , Joyce Richardson
<http://www.museummystery.com/> , Josh Rolnick
<http://www.joshrolnick.com/> , Rafael Rosado
<http://chroniclesofclaudette.com/> , Gregg Sapp
<http://www.dollarapalooza.com/> , Rose D. Sloat
<http://www.hrdpress.com/Lifes-Journey-LJ> , Larry Smith
<http://smithdocs.net/LarrySmithHomepage.html> , Lucy A. Snyder
<http://www.sff.net/people/lucy-snyder/> , Jeffrey F. Spieles
<http://www.rfwp.com/book/in-shermans-path> , Tricia Springstubb
<http://www.triciaspringstubb.com/> , Catherine St. John
<http://www.uakron.edu/uapress/browse-books/author-detail/index.dot?auth
or_id=1470154> , Lynne Sturtevant <http://hiddenmarietta.com/> , Marilou
K. Suszko <http://mariloususzko.com/> , Jane Ann Turzillo
<http://www.janeturzillo.com/> , Denise C. Verrico
<http://deniseverricowriter.webs.com/> , Christina Wald
<http://www.christinawald.com/> , Laura Maylene Walter
<http://lauramaylenewalter.com/> , Andrew Welsh-Huggins
<http://www.ohioswallow.com/author/Andrew+Welsh-Huggins> , Jack Wilson
<http://www.kentuckypress.com/live/title_detail.php?titleid=2596> , 
Angene Wilson
<http://www.kentuckypress.com/live/title_detail.php?titleid=2596> , Mary
Ann Winkowski <http://www.maryannwinkowski.com/> , Eric J. Wittenberg
<http://www.ericwittenberg.com/> , James M. Wood
<http://www.kentstateuniversitypress.com/2011/out-and-about-with-winsor-
french/> , and Katherine Ziff
<http://www.ohioswallow.com/author/Katherine+Ziff> . The list of authors
is subject to change. 

Additional festival activities will include a children's room with
programs designed to entertain young readers. The line-up for youth was
created and is managed by the Kent State University Library and
Information Science students and faculty, along with local librarians. 

Food will be provided by popular Columbus food carts and local musicians
will entertain during the lunch break. The most recent books published
by the festival authors will be available at the on-site Barnes and
Noble Bookstore.

For photos and interviews, contact Linda Hengst at the Ohioana Library.
Detailed festival information can be found at 
www.OhioanaBookFestival.org <http://www.ohioanabookfestival.org/>  .

The festival is presented by the Ohioana Library Association with major
funding provided by the Greater Columbus Arts Council, State Library of
Ohio, the Reinberger Foundation, the Ohio Humanities Council, the Ohio
Arts Council, and Honda of America Mfg., Inc. The children's space and
activities are sponsored by Huntington Bank, Nationwide Children's
Hospital, and Margaret Wong & Associates.  Our media sponsors are WCBE,
Ohio Magazine, and PDG Communications. Along with the Kent State Library
Science program, twenty-one local and statewide partners and
contributors are helping to make the festival program possible including
the Toledo Public Library, Public Library of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Columbus Public Library, Ohio Center for the Book, and the
VoiceCorp numerous local organizations. The full list can be found on
the Ohioana Book Festival web site.  www.OhioanaBookFestival.org
<http://www.ohioanabookfestival.org/>  

Ohio's libraries are the best in the country.  With great collections
and high circulation rates, is it any wonder that Ohio is the home of
some of the country's best writers?

Ohioana's mission is to: recognize and encourage the creative
accomplishments of Ohioans, preserve and expand a permanent archive of
books, manuscripts, and other materials by Ohioans and about Ohio, and
disseminate information about the work of Ohio writers, musicians, and
other artists to researchers, schools, and the general public.  Ohioana
is a 501-C-(3) not for profit organization supported by memberships,
subscription, gifts, grants, and a subsidy from the State of Ohio. 

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Janet Ingraham Dwyer 
Library Consultant 
State Library of Ohio 
jdwyer at library.ohio.gov <mailto:jdwyer at library.ohio.gov>  

614.644.6910 
http://library.ohio.gov <http://library.ohio.gov/> 

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<http://library.ohio.gov/youthservices>  

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