Authors Guild of Tennessee to Appear at Southern Festival of Books

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Oct. 4, 2014 - PRLog -- Eight members of the Authors Guild of Tennessee will make appearances at the upcoming Southern Festival of Books next weekend, October 10-12, in Nashville at the War Memorial Plaza.

The Festival celebrating books and authors has been held in the capital city the second full weekend in October since 1989 and features 200 of the nation's and region's most prominent authors who will interact with the attendees over the three-day event.

Three stages will be set up for different activities: Stage Chapter 16 will present featured authors who will either perform readings from their works or will participate in panel discussions of literary topics; the Cafe Stage will offer regional poets and songwriters performing their works; and literary costumed characters and storytellers will perform on the Youth Stage.

The Authors Guild members who will share space under the large tent will include: Marllyn Smith Neilans who will have copies of her engaging account of her siblings gathering together during their mother's last days; Bobbi Wolfverton, whose book recounts both humorous and frightening incidents from when she was a flight attendant during the Golden Age of air travel; Sam Bledsoe who will be introducing the second book in his trilogy on the aliens from the Planet Senoobia who visit earth; Bob Cranny who writes eloquently of hard times growing up in Ireland and of Irish mythology; Diana Cruze, who wrote an account of being a door-to-door saleswoman in Appalachia; Dick Cross, a former member of the CIA, who has written his theory of the Kennedy assassination; Don Pardue, who is the author of several heartwarming tales of growing up in Tennessee; Kathy Fearing, whose children's books delight the young and young-at-heart along with her books of poignant adult poetry; and Cheryl Peyton, whose work includes a thriller about the theft of a nuclear weapon from a Y-12 transport convoy, a memoir of a polio survivor, and the two books in her series of mysteries feautring a tour operator who encounters murder "on vacation."

The Festival is free and open to the public.  It will run on the following dates and times:  Friday, October 10 from noon to 5; Saturday, October 11, from 10 to 6; and Sunday, October 12, from noon to 5.