The August Author Talk Series of The Whitefield Library will host Geoffrey Bates for a reading and discussion of his debut crime novel “Bitter Passage: An Allegheny Beckham Novel” at 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 16. Books will be available for purchase and signing after the presentation. The Kennebec Journal’s Bill Bushnell calls the book a […]
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From Stephen King to New Jersey diners, History Press books cover local lore around the US
A writer from Maine, Sharon Kitchens has turned her passion for Stephen King’s books into a published work
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Midcoast authors to discuss their books set in Maine at Wiscasset bookstore
Fiction: A Novel Bookshop in Wiscasset will host Midcoast authors Geoffrey Bates and Barbara Burt for its second Bookends event from 6-7:30 p.m. Thursday, July 24. The event includes a wine reception, reading and conversation about the authors’ works. “The Midcoast has a wealth of authors exploring crime fiction,” Toni Chappell, owner of Fiction, said […]
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Fans say new romance bookstores and online groups are giving the genre some overdue respect
Of the 157 romance-dedicated bookstores in the American Booksellers Association, more than half opened within the last two years.
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Gulf of Maine Books presents two new novels from Maine authors
Gulf of Maine Books will host a conversation with novelists Agnes Bushell and Art Dingley at Curtis Memorial Library at 6 p.m. Tuesday, July 1. Bushell and Dingley will read from and discuss their new, very different books, “Verity & Perpetua,” set in Elizabethan England, and “Immigrants,” set on the Maine/Quebec border. “Verity & Perpetua,” […]
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Portland author has collected his dream library of books – and most of them don’t exist
Hemingway’s missing novel. Alice’s backwards-printed book in “Through the Looking Glass.” Sylvia Plath’s never-finished autobiography. Reid Byers owns copies of all those “invisible” books that bibliophiles wish were real.
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Maine author’s debut novel about the ’80s rock scene is set to become a film
‘The Whyte Python World Tour’ by Scarborough resident Travis Kennedy goes on sale June 24, and Paramount has already begun developing a movie based on it.
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Novelist Ron Currie’s new book brings to life a female Franco crime boss in Waterville
Currie set ‘The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne’ in his hometown and its Franco-American community.
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Sagadahoc Preservation to host literary event with 20-plus Maine authors
Sagadahoc Preservation, Inc. will host “A Cool Little Book Fair” featuring more than 20 Maine authors at the historic Winter Street Center in Bath from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, April 26. This event is geared toward those who appreciate art, poetry, mysteries, romance, historical fiction, nonfiction, children’s literature and American Gothic revival-style architecture. […]
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Kennebunkport author to release new crime fiction novel
Set in a town much like Kennebunkport, “Springbrookville” explores the mysterious death of a local entrepreneur.