Craft: Exploring Creativity

Author Joe Hill has blazed a trail in horror fiction with 4 novels, and his latest, The Fireman, is burning up bookstores near you. Special guest author interviewer Lucy A Snyder(Craft fans–both of you–will remember Lucy’s great 2015 Halloween story)fans … Continue reading →

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Author John Scalzi appeared at the 2016 Ohioana Book festival to discuss his latest novels and assure the world that Ohio is a hub of literary content. In return, I assured him that Ohio is less frequently incarcerating our literary … Continue reading →

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Jessica Knoll’s Luckiest Girl Alive was the best-selling debut of 2015 and was optioned for a movie by Reese Witherspoon. Knoll recently wrote an article “What I Know”about some of the experience-based events of Luckiest Girl Alive. Join us for … Continue reading →

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From science fiction to hard-boiled detectives to westerns, Ohio author JohnHegenberger has written them all. We met at the 2016 Ohioana Book Festival and talked about his novels, why he never gets writers’ block, and the best way to get … Continue reading →

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What are you doing May 19? You could go to this show. It is at the Wexner Center. It features performers describing their lives. They all wrote six word memoirs. Larry Smith hosts; we talked recently Six word memoirs are … Continue reading →

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Playing over 100 dates every year, singer-songwriter Peter Mulvey travels almost constantly. Before his May 13 appearance withSix String Concertseries he will play inGermany, the Netherlands, Ireland, and Sheboygan, WI. What keeps him on the road and wanting to perform … Continue reading →

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I smell of cologne Can he smell my mistake? My heart screams for more But my head’s to blame -Stranger In Your Arms by Honey and Blue Honey and Blue, made up of Stephanie Amber and Adam Darling, is a … Continue reading →

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Laura Lippman is the author of six New York Times bestselling novels and an award-winning short story anthology, and the creator of the Private Investigator Tess Monaghan series. Laura Lippman was a reporter for twenty years, before turning to novel … Continue reading →

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-Andy Ross Home-runs and stadium chants do not typically fill the pages of a poetry collection, but then again, Jill Bialosky is not your typical poet. The Ohio native’s latest collection, The Players, uses the baseball diamond as a landscape … Continue reading →

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-Andy Ross Writer John Scalzi is an Ohio resident and the author of several award-winning science fiction novels. He also runs a popular blog, Whatever. Scalzi was the recipient of the 2016 Governor’s Award for the Arts in Ohio. Scalzi … Continue reading →

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