We’ll have 100+ local authors along with Matt Fraser from Meet The Frasers, Jon Land, ex-Red Sox pitcher Bill Lee along with raffles, writing panels and Santa.
Free parking and admission.
Remember, personalized books make great stocking stuffers!
The Expo committee has been working hard to learn what needs to be done to put on a free virtual event.
The Rhode Island Author Expo website has been updated with a registration button, panel schedule and participating authors.
The event will be running from 10 AM – 5 PM and will be held on Zoom.
There’re author panels just like in years past along with keynote speakers and this year we’re trying something different with an author kaffeeklatsch, a nice intimate setting to sit down and talk to one of our many local authors.
I hope to see you at the Expo in December where I’ll be on two panels and a kaffeeklatsch.
The 6th Annual Rhode Island Author Exporeturns to Rhodes on the Pawtuxet in Cranston, RI. Remember to like the Expo’s Facebook page and RSVP on the Expo’s Facebook event page. Interested in discovering a Rhode Island Author? Then here’s your chance to meet 130 of them. Free parking, free admission, free writing panels & speakers and even pictures with Santa for the kids! Headliners include New York Times Best Selling Author Lisa Gardner, Mike Stanton, Jon Land, Rebecca Harrington, Kim Arcand and many more! Once you’re done shopping for that book reader on your list feel free to sit and listen to any of the free writing panels. The kids will love our Children’s Areawith author readings and painting classes. And don’t forgot to stay until the end for the raffle drawings! The 6th Annual Rhode Island Author Expo is a fun time to be had either rain or shine!
4th Annual Rhode Island Author Expo is almost here!
Interested in meeting 125 local authors like Ann Hood, Sean Fay Wolfe, Jon Land and more? Then you’re in luck! The Association of Rhode Island Authors is holding their 4th Annual Rhode Island Author Expo on December 3rd from 11am – 5pm at Rhodes on the Pawtuxet in Cranston, Rhode Island. There will be: Free parking! Free Admission! Raffle drawings and even Santa! Every genre will be there from non-fiction to science fiction to horror to fantasy to children books to thrillers and more! There will be panels going on all day along with Ann Hood signing of her new book! Books make great stocking stuffers so avoid the lines at the mall and c’mon down and support local authors!
This Saturday from 11 AM to 5 PM is the 3rd Annual Rhode Island Author Expo presented by the Association of Rhode Island Authors. This local author event will be located inside Lincoln Mall (go in the double doors between Marshalls and 5 Below). The Expo Committee consisting of Steve and Dawn Porter, Adam Wassman, Vikki Corliss, Leigh Brown, Nora Hall, Pat Mitchel, Julien Ayotte, myself and J. Michael Squatrito Jr who I shameless “borrowed” this list from have been planning this grand event since mid-spring and I have to say we’ve done a great job. For those who haven’t been following along with with my reposts from Martha Reynolds’ blog posts for the last month on Twitter/FB/er, well, everywhere (ignoring my website’s recent bandwidth issues, obviously), the Association of Rhode Island Authors who I’m proud to be a member of has been working hard to get local authors at events like the Scituate Art Festival for nearly four years and this Author Expo promises to be our biggest event yet! Just a take a look at the authors over on the Expo page, we have authors from all walks of genre from non-fiction, fiction, autobiography, children, memoirs and more all under one roof with free parking and admission! There will be raffles and even hourly panels on different writing subjects! And just in time for holidays, these books would make great stocking stuffers! Check out the Expo’s Facebook Event page to RSVP! This type of event only comes once a year! But fear not if you can’t make it! We’ll be keeping all of the author photos up on the Expo site and those photos link back to their websites. Remember to support your local authors this holiday season!
This post was originally posted on Martha Reynold’s blog and has been reposted here with author permission, minor revisions have been made. Last week, an eight-year-old girl from San Diego put a spell on herself in the shower, to turn herself into a mermaid. Why hasn’t it worked yet, and how much longer will it take, she asks? Where does such a child turn when they are contemplating their life’s most compelling questions? Well, that would be good old St. Nick, or course, because the allure of Santa Claus to a child makes them think and feel that he is all-knowing. When I became ‘Post’ Mark, the North Pole Postman, the elf who works in Santa’s mail room, I guess I hadn’t thought I’d be confronted with such far-fetched questions. I more or less expected kids to share some interesting stories, because we all know kids say the funniest things. For example, Oliver from Australia has a dog named Shelby who he believes is friends with Santa’s reindeer because she doesn’t bark at them. Timmy, in the state of Washington, isn’t sure if Santa will come to his house this year because he tripped and fell down. When he fell, he knocked over the Christmas tree, and broke a few of the ornaments, and thinks Santa is mad at him now. Working for a boss who is a metaphor means I am the one who has to address these issues all while keeping a straight face when a child or parent visits me at one of my live book-signing events, or logs on to my website to share them. A message in Santa’s inbox the other day is from a nine-year-old girl in the U.K. who has a crush on a boy, and wants Santa to let the boy know, so he will notice her, but if he can’t do that, she understands. She would just be fine with an iPad underneath the Christmas tree, instead. While I truly enjoy having the world come to my door with these messages, and feel they are a gift to me, you can imagine this is challenging at times since a child doesn’t know or understand that I might be going into the fourteenth hour of my work day, and there were dozens, if not hundreds of kids that came before them. Working for Santa is a very rewarding experience, but as kids are taught, and one might expect with being an elf, it requires long hours. I often ask myself, “How much longer can I go on doing this job,” and then, Santa receives a message from Angela in Virginia stating that she will be leaving cookies for him when he comes to her house on Christmas eve, along with carrots for the reindeer, and something for ‘Post’ Mark too because she loved reading his book. Wow! What an honor. I wonder what she’s going to leave me! It’s almost December! Visit Post Mark and find out how to send a letter to Santa!