In an effort to recognize and promote talents of local older adult writers, Rufty-Holmes Senior Center will host a Senior Authors Symposium on Wednesday from 2-4 p.m.
A panel discussion will begin at 2 p.m. with three local authors, followed by a time where other local authors who have registered for the event will staff a table to talk individually with attendees, sell and sign copies of their books.
Refreshments will be provided by Oak Park Retirement Community, with special music by Bob Trice.
Robin Perry, director of Career Services at Catawba College and a member of the Rufty-Holmes Senior Center Board of Directors, will serve as moderator for the symposium.
The panel will include:
Dr. Kurt Corriher, theater arts professor at Catawba College. Corriher has self-published a book and also published through a traditional publishing company.
Jan McCanless has published nine books and has one book in production. Most are murder mysteries.
Gene Hayden has been a business writer and now teaches a memoir writing class at Rufty-Holmes Senior Center.
Other local authors who will be present to sell and sign their books include:
Bart Bartholomew — Author of a series of books called the “Billy Marshall Series”
Bette Bartholomew — “Classy Clancy Girls”
LuAnn Grambow — “Hope Found in Paradise Lost”
David Freeze — “Lord, Ride with Me Today”
Sonny Allen — “The Paper Boy”
Ruth Kinzey — “Promoting Nonprofit Organizations: A Reputation Management Approach”
Marvin Query — “Reap the Wild Seeds”
Loyd E. Hill — “17 Things That You Should Not Do in the Bridge Game”
Susan Beard — “You Can’t Be That”
Jerry Shelby — “Victims Have No Rights”
Donald Kesler — Book series is “Meadowake Trilogy.”
This event is free and open to the public.
Robert Bartlett will sign his book “Beneath the Ashen Veil of Darkness — A Post-Apocalyptic Tale of the Midwest” at Literary Bookpost on Saturday. Aug. 23, from 3-5 p.m.
All around the area of Yellowstone National Forest and up into Canada, the day begins as normal. Businesses open and morning shifts begin. Girls on their way to school whisper about their first kiss while boys brag to their friends. All of this is suddenly extinguished in a flash of earth, lava and violence as the caldera that is Yellowstone erupts, killing millions.
As survivors battle the elements and dangers of the sunless version of the world for food and water, they must also fight the monstrosities that have been created by the catastrophic event. All while the volcano holds the world in an embrace of malicious intent.
Bartlett was born in northern Virginia and settled down just outside Charlotte. He is a happily married father of four who enjoys motorcycles, sports and nature. A career dental technician, he has also been a personal trainer and a fugitive recovery agent.