WordFest features writers from the Long Beach Peninsula on Tuesday, June 9, 6:00-8:00 pm, at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 1428 22nd Avenue in Longview.
Jan Bono will be reading from her 19th book, Two Cozies for Christmas. These “cozy mysteries” were originally written as Hallmark-type Christmas movie scripts. In “Presence Under the Christmas Tree,” a rather inept but comical sleuth tries to figure out who left the photo of a bare-chested man among her gifts from the staff party. The man’s face is obscured, but could he be “the handsome hunk” she’d asked the mall Santa to bring her?
In “Up on the Housetop,” a wife brings home a 15′ tree to go inside their 12′ living room. Her husband decides to cut off the top of the tree and nail it to their roof so it looks like the tree is going right up through the house.
Jan is the author of the Sylvia Avery mystery series and writes a bi-weekly newspaper column for the Chinook Observer in Long Beach.
Peter Adams Young will be reading from Another Death at Gettysburg, the second in his Contemporary Battlefield Mystery series, modern-day whodunits located in and around historic Civil War battlefields. During a reenactment of Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg, a participant is shot and killed with live ammunition, most certainly not an accident. Mike Davis, a reenactor and professor of US history, investigates the murder.
A native of Washington, DC, Peter resides on the Long Beach Peninsula. He is the author of One Hundred Stingers, a novel about the Vietnam air war. He is currently writing a new mystery set at the Manassas battlefield, while editing the memoirs of a cousin who served in the 6th US Cavalry fighting the Confederacy. His books are available at: www.shoalwaterpress.com
Dawn Shipman is a Longview author who spent many years writing for inspirational and equestrian magazines before turning to novel writing. The first book in her Young Adult Fantasy trilogy, The Lost Stones of Argonia, came out in 2021. She’s currently working on the prequel.
Dawn will read her story. “A World that Was,” about the disaster in an ancient world that led to the founding of Argonia. It appears in Hidden World: A Lower Columbia County Writer’s Anthology. When not writing, Dawn enjoys traveling, visiting with friends and family, and riding her horse along trails in the Pacific Northwest.
An open mic will follow the presentations where people can read for 10 minutes. The Open Mic sign-up sheet is on the center table.
The monthly gathering of readers and writers meets the second Tuesday of each month, 6:00-8:00 PM, in the fellowship hall of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church. The events are free and open to the public.