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Date: 11/11/2015
Time: 1:00 PM

First Religious Society, Lower Meeting House
26 Pleasant St
Newburyport,

Phone:
978-465-0602, X409

Event Description: The Nevertheless Writers, a cross-genre collaborative of five local writers, will have a reading and book-signing on Wednesday, November 11, 1pm, at the First Religious Society, Lower Meeting House, 26 Pleasant St, Newburyport. The writers will celebrate Thanksgiving with short readings from their works on a theme of food, family, and togetherness. The program is presented by The First Religious Society Alliance, which encourages learning and friendship. The meeting is free and open to the public. See https://www.frsuu.org/the-alliance-schedule for more information. The members of the Nevertheless Writers are: Edith Maxwell, a resident of Amesbury, writes the Local Foods Mysteries and the historical Quaker Midwife Mysteries, the Lauren Rousseau Mysteries (as Tace Baker), and the Country Store Mysteries (as Maddie Day). Bluffing Is Murder and Farmed and Dangerous are her latest releases; Flipped For Murder will be out in October 2015. Maxwell was recently nominated for an Agatha Award for her short fiction and is nominated for a Silver Falchion Award for Bluffing Is Murder. Holly Robinson, from Rowley, is an award-winning fiction writer and former contributing editor for Parents and Ladies' Home Journal magazines. Now a novelist, freelance journalist, NPR commentator, and celebrity ghost writer, her most recent novel is Haven Lake. Her newest novel, Chance Harbor, will be released October 2015. Elizabeth Atkinson, of Newburyport, is the award-winning Middle Grade author of From Alice to Zen, and I, Emma Freke. Her new tween novel, The Sugar Mountain Snow Ball, is coming October 2015, and her next book, The Island of Beyond, will be published in April 2016. She is a winner of the Sunshine State Young Reader Award 2015 and recently won the 2015 Ado-Lisant prize in Belgium. Nancy Crochiere, an Amesbury resident, was a popular columnist for 15 years for The Daily News of Newburyport, MA, and The Eagle-Tribune – and has collected her humor columns into a book titled The Mother Load, named a finalist in 2014 for Independent Publishers of New England’s Book Award and also Foreword Reviews’ Book-of-the-Year Award in humor. Her work has appeared in The Boston Globe and Writer’s Digest, and she was selected for the prestigious Breadloaf Conference in Italy this September. Susan Paradis, Merrimac resident and former Haverhill Public High School Art teacher, has illustrated over twenty picture books for children, four of which she authored. She was chosen as one of five American artists to participate in a three-year national tour of Fairy Tale Art for her book Snow Princess. Her latest book, Edna (for children who have been traumatized), has been praised by psychiatrists, therapists, and counselors. She has been reviewed in the New York Times and has appeared on the television show Chronicle.

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