33rd Annual Conference
Greater Columbus Convention Center
October 25-26, 2007
ALAO Author Vendor Social
Sponsor: Gale
Thursday, October 25, 2007
5 - 7 p.m.
Greater Columbus Convention Center, Ballroom 3
Join your ALAO colleagues at the Author/Vendor social Thursday evening. Authors from Ohio University Presses, and authors from Ohio or who write about Ohio will be on hand to discuss their writings. Some of the authors will perform poetry readings, short book readings, and story telling during the event. Titles will be available for purchase and signing. Cash, check, or credit card should be accepted by most of the authors.
Library vendors will be on hand to discuss and demonstrate recent products and services. Light hors d'oeuvres will be available with a cash bar. Thanks to Gale for sponsoring this event.
Authors in attendance will include:
- Bottom Dog Press:
- Robert Flanagan - Loving Power
http://www.robertflanagan.com - Larry Smith - A River Remains: Poems (WordTech Editions 2006), Faces and Voices: Tales (Bird Dog Publishing 2007)
http://hometown.aol.com/lsmithdog/bottomdog/LarrySmithHomepage.htm - Drinian Press:
- Robert Smith - McGowan's Call
- Goldmines Publishing
- Jim R. Woolard - Ozark Red (A novel about a father, his son, and their champion coonhound set in 1956 Newark, Ohio) and Blood at Dawn (A fictional recounting of the massacre of General St. Clair’s army by the Ohio Indians.)
http://www.jimrwoolard.com/ - Kent State University Press Authors:
- Diana Britt Franklin - The Good-Bye Door: The Incredible True Story of America's first Female Serial Killer to Die in the Chair
http://upress.kent.edu/books/Franklin_D.htm - Cliff Treyens - Whatever's Fair: The Political Autobiography of Ohio House Speaker Vern Riffe
http://upress.kent.edu/books/Riffe_V.htm - Herbert Woodward Martin - Inscribing my Name, Selected Poems: New, Used, and Repossessed
http://upress.kent.edu/books/Martin_H.htm - Brian Usher, Joe Hallet, and Lee Leonard - Ohio Politics
http://upress.kent.edu/books/Lamis.htm - McDonald & Woodward Publishing
- Jerry N. McDonald - Indian Mounds of the Middle Ohio Valley, by Jerry N. McDonald & Susan L. Woodward
http://www.mwpubco.com/33.htm - Ralph Ramey - 50 Hikes in Ohio and 50 More Hikes in Ohio
http://www.mwpubco.com/Ramey.htm - Oberlin College Press
- Angie Estes - Voice Over and Chez Nous
http://www.oberlin.edu/ocpress/Books/Estes_VoiceOver.htm - David Young - Seasoning: a Poet's Year with Seasonal Recipes and Out on the Autumn River: Selected Poems of Du Mu
http://davidyoungpoet.com/ - Sleeping Bear Press Authors (Thomson-Gale)
- Dandi Daley Mackall - The Legend of Ohio
http://dandibooks.com/about_the_author/about_the_author.html - Marcia Schonberg - B is for Buckeye: An Ohio Alphabet, Cardinal Numbers: An Ohio Counting Book, and I is for Idea: An Inventions Alphabet
http://sleepingbearpress.com/authors_illustrators/marcia_schonberg.htm - Self-Published with Wooster Book Company
- Glenna Meckstroth - Tales from Great-Grandpa's Trunk: A Lighthearted Look at Rural Life (1998), Surviving World War II: Tales of Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times (2003)
For more information on this event, or to register an author, please contact Sue Polanka, Wright State University, 937-775-3142 or sue.polanka@wright.edu.