Maine Authors Book Festival 2022!
Saturday, August 27th, 2021
11:00am – 4:00pm
Maine Authors Publishing
12 High Street, Thomaston, Maine
Presentation Schedule
11:30am–12:30pm
Join Ada Bea McC. on a Downeast Adventure!
Children’s book presentation and author Q&A with Laurence H. Leavitt
When Ada Bea McC. moved “from away” to Maine’s sleepiest fishing village, she innocently tried to befriend the town’s most ornery and cantankerous resident, ol’ Grumpy Johnson. Laugh and cry as you follow Ada Bea’s wild and rollicking battle of wills with Grumpy.
Author Laurence H. Leavitt will present a slideshow of Ada Bea’s Downeast Adventure paired with the audiobook narrated by Jennywren Walker and featuring the voice of renowned Maine humorist Tim Sample. Also featured is music by award-winning singer-songwriter Kathleen Regan with her song “Coast of Maine.”
After, the author will briefly discuss the process of writing and will be available for a Q&A.
1:30pm–2:30pm
Writing the Experience and Spirit of Place
with Laurie Apgar Chandler
Author and wilderness paddler Laurie Chandler will present “Writing the Experience and Spirit of Place.” Chandler will share photographs of her extensive northwoods canoe trips, chronicled in her inspirational memoirs. Learn how Chandler transformed a lifelong love of nature and books into a writing career. After solo thru-paddling the 740-mile Northern Forest Canoe Trail, she wrote Upwards, followed by Through Woods & Waters: A Solo Journey to Maine’s New National Monument. Hers are stories of shared discovery, highlighting the region’s rich history and natural wonders.
Live Music
Since 1986, Castlebay has been weaving together Maine’s nautical and British Isles legacies, transporting their audience through time and across the Atlantic. Julia Lane and Fred Gosbee have loved and researched traditional music for most of their lives and blend history, legend, and experience into their personable performances. Finely crafted ballads with evocative imagery and beautiful melodies depict Maine characters, history, and life close to the elemental beauty of the sea and shore
Food
The Jersey Plate
Stone Fox Farm Creamery
MEET OUR PARTICIPATING AUTHORS!
Fiction
Claire Ackroyd Murder in the Maple Woods
William Anthony Farnsy
J.G. Breerwood Sinking Dixie
Nancy Arey Cohen Faraway Love
Geoffrey M. Cooper Bad Medicine; Forever; Ill Intent; Perilous Obsession
Rowland Creitz A Debt Too Dear; To Touch the Earth Again; The Money Lake
Charlene D’Avanzo The Shark, the Girl & the Sea; Secrets Haunt the Lobsters’ Sea; Demon Spirit, Devil Sea; Glass Eels, Shattered Sea
Irene M. Drago The Maine Point; Daughters of Long Reach; Lavinia Wren and the Sailmakers
Kathy Eliscu Not Even Dark Chocolate Can Fix This Mess
Bruce A. Fleming Pressing Matters; Last Will & Punishment; Battle Lines Drawn
Amelia Garretson-Persans Where the Avonley Seed Falls
Deborah Gould The Eastern, Book One: The Early Years; The Eastern, Book Two: Later On; Household
Elizabeth Heminway Tales from a Tuscan Mountainside
Norman R. Kalloch, Jr. 45th Parallel; A Long Way to Walk; Life in the Backwoods
Christopher W. Morin Rogue Plunder; The Rebel’s Wrath; The Besieged; A Tale of Life & War
Addison Wentz Reason to Leave
Richard Wile Requiem in Stones
Poetry
Ellen Goldsmith Left Foot, Right Foot
Betsy Headley The Clarity of Birds
Gifts
Vickie Hughes Baron Maine Fun Facts Word Search Puzzle Books 1 & 2
Deborah Gould Rec’d Your Card…Thot You Was Dead
Susan A. Starr Memoirs of a Mad Innkeeper
Nonfiction
Mary S. Build Finding Myself in Aviation
Roger H. Greene In the Company of Trees: The Empirical Forest
Hans Krichels We Have Met the Enemy
Vernita Leins Fostering Marcel; Josie’s Story
Don Reimer Seen Anything Good?
June Vail The Passion of Perfection; Folly Cove Sketches
David C. Wilcock Foreign Aid and Agricultural Development in Africa
Sally Williams Faces of Founders: Hiram, Maine
Memoir/Biography
Patsy Baldus Love, Lutefisk, and Lemon Zest Sneakers
Wayne Myles Burton Wayne’s War
Judith Perry Carpenter The Uninvited Goddess
Laurie Apgar Chandler Through Woods & Waters; Upwards
Bethany Lynne Davis In Deeper
Mimi Gough From Fledgling to Flyer
Christopher W. Morin Three Labs a Lifetime; Three Fab Felines
Children’s/Middle Grade/ YA
Kathleen Murray-Allain The Girl with Berries
Betsey Anderson Maggie Goes to Maine
Mary Atkinson Owl Girl; Tillie Heart and Soul
Rae Chalmers Bear and the Oxbow Island Gang; Oxbow Island Gang: Lobster Graveyard; Oxbow Island Gang: Winter Crows
Gail Clark The Adventures of Eloise Violet and Madeline Rose: The Island
Didi Cooper Buddy the Bullfrog on Sweet Pickle Pond, Before You Were Ours
Sandra Dunham The Spiritual Warrior
Peter & Deborah Emery The Wildlife Tree
Kristy Lageroos Candice and Lucy at the Halloween House
Laurence H. Leavitt Ada Bea’s Downeast Adventure
J. Philip Miller Milo Meander
Pat Davidson Reef David C. Driskell: Artist, Educator, Author; Bernard Langlais Revisited; Dahlov Ipcar / Artist
Edith Schriever Talos and the Yellow Suitcase
Susan A. Starr The Birthright
Judi Valentine The Crystal Chain
Janet Williams Maxx and Mrs. Queen
Margaret Gousse From Nana’s Window