NEXT AAG&A BOARD MEETING

The next  board meeting for the Appalachain Authors Guild & Associates is scheduled for Tuesday,  September 28 at 1 p.m. The meeting will be at the Cumberland Plateau Planning Commission office in Lebanon, Virginia. Board meetings are open to all AAG&A  members and they are encouraged to attend.

Journey Through My Mind

There's almost nothing that I can think of, to compare with  the feel of seeing your first book in print. Such is the case for Author Rodney Smith.
Journey Through My Mind is a story of Frontier life in the 19th Century as recorded by young  Benjamin, the oldest child of a Kansas prairie family,  in his  personal journal.
The journal is found years later and read by his granddaughter, Sarah.
If I had to think of one word to describe this story, it would be wholesome. "Journey" details the struggles of a Christian family in dealing with the hardships of frontier life - the bitter winters, the scorching summer heat, and the killer dust storms.
"Journey" is a story not unlike the "Little House on the Prairie" books - but this is a story which merits retelling. In this first effort by Rodney Smith, the reader is transported to pioneer times where we get a pretty accurate picture of the early days and of the people who had the grit and fortitude to make a home in the hostile environment of the American Western Frontier.
I highly recommend Journey Through My Mind, and eagerly await Rodney Smith's next offering.

Journey Through My Mind is Available from LULU Press - http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/journey-through-my-mind/11774567?productTrackingContext=product_view/recently_viewed/left/1

or by contacting the author via this blog or the Appalachian Authors Guild (www.appalachianaga.com).

NEXT AAG&A BOARD MEETING

The next meeting of the Appalachian Authors Guild & Associaties is scheduled for Tuesday, August 24, 2010 at 1 p.m. at the office of the Cumberland Plateau Planning Commission in Lebanon, Virginia.  Linda Lane, Executive Director of the Virginia Writers Club, will be speaking  with regard to possible AAG&A's affiliation, as a chapter of the VWC.  All AAG&A members are encouraged to attend.

Neva Bryan

Dr. Lin Stepp

Our new friend and Appalachian author Dr. Lin Stepp will be greeting readers and signing her books at Books A Million in Kingsport, Saturday June 12, from 1 to 3 p.m. If you have the opportunity to meet Lin, I assure you it will be memorable. Please remember to support all our Appalachian authors and to recommend them to others.

www.linstepp.com

Blue Plum Festival

The weekend of June 4-6, 2010 several AAG&A authors will be signing and selling their books at the Blue Plum Festival in Johnson City, TN. Blue Plum is an annual event in Johnson City with activities for the whole family. Make plans for a fun weekend in Northeast TN and stop by to greet the authors. The Blue Plum website gives details of the festival.

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There's A New Addition At The Artrip Household

  The mind of the fiction writer is sometimes an unsettled thing. It conjures up snippets of whimsy, touches of chicanery, shadows in dark corners. Gears shift and wheels turn with midnight musings. Brain boogers at three a.m. whisper, "What if...?"

"Parsnips & Princes" A Short Story Collection  is my memorial to such an  exquisite madness. 

  Available at www.maryannartrip.com

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Next AAG&A Board Meeting

The Appalachian Authors Guild & Associates next board meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, June 29, 2010 at 1 p.m. The meeting will be held at the Cumberland Plateau Planning Commission office in Lebanon, VA. All members are encouraged to attend.

Next AAG&A Board Meeting