Local author Amy Hayes Castleberry offers a road trip through the beach community’s past and present.
Join her at Prince Books for a signing on March 13th\, from 1 - 3 pm.
Virginia Beach offers a variety of attractions but few who visit know that there is an area with a history that dates back to the 17th century. Many early structures remain intact and appreciated\, while others fell into ruin and exist only in photographs and memories. New from Arcadia Publishing is Virginia Beach\, by local author and interior designer Amy Hayes Castleberry.
Virginia Beach is part of Arcadia’s popular Then &\; Now series which offers a special view of American life\, placing historical images side by side with contemporary photographs to chronicle the area’s past. It is the author’s “fervent hope that anyone who reads my book will have a different perspective of the historic structures of Virginia Beach and their fragility and perhaps resolve to play a part in protecting them.”
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Join us at Prince Books as we welcome three tremendous voices to our store! Saturday\, March 13 at 4\:00 p.m.
Cesca Janece Waterfield is a journalist based in Richmond\,
Virginia. Her professional portfolio reflects a commitment to addiction and
treatment issues. As a songwriter\, Cesca has been selected three times to
receive songwriter grants from The American Society of Composers\, Authors and
Publishers (ASCAP). Her poems and fiction have appeared in numerous literary
journals. She is founder of www.EveInHand.net\, an adult arts and culture publication. She
can be reached via www.cesca.net. She is the author of Bartab\: An Afterhours
Ballad (ISBN\: 978-0-9820020-0-1) published by Two-Handed Engine Press.
Lisa A. Flowers is a freelance writer\, vocalist and film critic. Raised
in Los Angeles and Portland\, OR\, she is the founder and editor of Vulgar Marsala
Press. Her poetry has appeared in The Cortland Review\, elimae\, and
others. Her collection diatomhero\: forty religious poems is forthcoming
from Vulgar Marsala Press in April of 2010. Visit her on the web at http\://lisaaflowers.blogspot.com.
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Chad Faries was raised mostly in the Upper Peninsula of
Michigan\, but lived in over 30 different houses around the country by the time
he was eighteen. These experiences are chronicled in his currently unpublished
memoir\, Some Houses\: A Faries’ Tale. His poetry collection\, The Border
Will Be Soon\, was the winner of the Emergency Press open book competition in
2005. The Book of Knowledge\, a poetry collection whose design and
contents were inspired by a 1911 children’s encyclopedia\, was just published by
Vulgar Marsala Press. He has published poems\, essays\, photographs\, interviews\,
and creative non-fiction in Exquisite Corpse\, Mudfish\, New American
Writing\, Barrow Street\, The Hawaii Review\, Afterimage\, Post Road\, and
others. He has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee and was a Fulbright Fellow in Budapest. He has lived
extensively and taught in Central Europe. Currently he is an Asst. Professor at
Savannah State University where he also hosts Dr. Chad’s Storytelling Time at
WHCJ\, The Voice of SSU. He now owns a house in Thunderbolt\, GA but lives abroad
and gets lost on his motorcycle whenever he can. More info can be found at www.afariestale.com.
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Patrick Rothfuss had the good fortune to be born in Wisconsin where long winters and lack of cable television brought about a love of reading and writing. His mother read to him as a child\, and his father taught him to build things.
Having enjoyed the hard sciences in high school\, Pat began college as a chemical engineer. He soon abandoned that\, and decided to become a clinical psychologist. He eventually abandoned that as well\, admitted he had no idea what he wanted to do with his life\, and changed his major to Undeclared despite the fact that he had been in college for over three years.
Over the next six years Pat lived the life of an itinerant student\, working three jobs and studying everything that interested him\: philosophy\, medieval history\, eastern theater\, anthropology\, sociology.... After nine years as an undergraduate Pat was forced by university policy to finally complete his undergraduate degree.... in English.
While wandering through college\, Pat learned he had a knack for writing. He wrote poetry for a local literary series\, a satirical advice column for the local paper\, and scripts for a radio comedy show. Two months before he graduated\, Pat finally finished the project he had been working on for over seven years\, a mammoth story centering around the life of a man named Kvothe.
And that's how the Name of the Wind came into existence.
The Name of the Wind\, aside from being a bestseller\, has garnered praise from some of the brightest stars of the literary and speculative fiction world\:
"\;Folks\, this is the real thing. Though it's considerably darker than the HARRY POTTER series\, this is also a bildungsroman -- the story of the childhood\, education\, and training of a boy who grew up to be a legendary hero. Not a word of the nearly-700-page book is wasted. He's the great new fantasy writer we've been waiting for\, and this is an astonishing book."\; -Orson Scott Card
"\;I was reminded of Ursula LeGuin\, George R. R. Martin\, and J. R. R. Tolkien\, but never felt that Rothfuss was imitating anyone. Like the writers he clearly admires\, he’s an old-fashioned storyteller working with traditional elements\, but his voice is his own. I haven’t been so gripped by a new fantasy series in years. It’s certain to become a classic."\;
-The London Times
Call or email today to reserve your copy of The Name of the Wind!
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