Wyoming authors will disperse to neighboring states this week for book festivals and other events. Here are some highlights:
Saratoga author Lori Van Pelt will be signing copies of her new book, Pecker's Revenge and Other Stories from the Frontier's Edge (University of New Mexico Press), on Thursday, Sept. 22, 6-8 p.m., at Copperfield Books in Scottsbluff, Nebraska.
Richard Maturi of Laramie County is a featured author at the South Dakota Festival of the Book in Deadwood, S.D., Sept. 23-25. Maturi will speak about his book, Triple Crown Winner: The Earl Sande Saga. Sande was born in Groton, S.D., and was the jockey who won the Triple Crown in 1930 on Gallant Fox.
Publisher and rancher Nancy Curtis of Glendo will feature books by High Plains Press at the Mountains and Plains Booksellers fall trade show at the Marriott Denver Tech Center, 4900 S. Syracuse in Denver Sept. 22-25. New books by HPP include Beasts in Snow by poet Jane Wohl of Sheridan and The Last Eleven Days of Earl Durand by Jerred Metz.
A Montana Book Festival panel entitled “Tough Guys,” featuring mystery writers James Crumley, James Lee Burke, Neil McMahon, Craig Johnson of Ucross, and Cheyenne’s C.J. Box, will be held 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 24, at the Holiday Inn Parkside in Missoula.
- posted by Michael Shay @ 9:08 AM