Johnson City Writers Event
Saturday, February, 23, 2013
at the Johnson City Library
Time: 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. (no lunch, just good snacks) Price: $25
The three authors that will be speaking are listed below. Each will speak for one hour. While one of them is teaching, the other two will be in a separate room where they will meet with attendees one-on-one for ten minutes each answering publishing questions, offering critique, etc.
Suzy Spencer is the author of four true crime books – Wasted, which was a New York Times bestseller and Violet Crown Award finalist; Wages of Sin, which will be featured in the 2013 season of Investigation Discovery’s Deadly Sins; Breaking Point, the story of Houston mother Andrea Yates, which was a Book of the Month Club, Doubleday Book Club, Literary Guild, and Mystery Guild selection; and The Fortune Hunter, which was called “riveting” and “blockbuster” by Globe magazine.
Joe Nick Patoski is in his fourth decade writing about Texas and Texans. He has authored and co-authored biographies of Selena and Stevie Ray Vaughan. His 2008 book Willie Nelson: An Epic Life, published by Little, Brown, was recognized by The Friends of the TCU Library in 2009 with the Texas Book Award for the best book about Texas written in 2007-8. His most recent book for Little, Brown is The Dallas Cowboys: The Outrageous History of the Biggest, Loudest, Most Hated, Best Loved Football Team in America.
Greg Garrett is the author of three acclaimed novels, forty short stories, and a dozen nonfiction books on religion, culture, and narrative. His novel, Free Bird, was named best first novel by Publishers Weekly and the Rocky Mountain News. Greg has received many other accolades for his writing, including the William Faulkner Prize in Fiction. Greg teaches classes in fiction, screenwriting, and film at Baylor University. He is a regular on National Public Radio, CBS Radio, the Bob Edwards Show, BBC Radio, and BBC Scotland.
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