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David Benjamin 9:00 pm on Friday David Benjamin started his first novel at the age of nine, reading chapters aloud to his fourth-grade-classmates at St. Mary’s School in Tomah, Wisconsin. Part of that grade-school experience was recounted and embellished in his “memoir,” The Life and Times of the Last Kid Picked, published by Random House in 2002. Benjamin is also the author of SUMO: A Thinking Fan’s Guide to Japan’s National Sport. Published by Charles E. Tuttle in 2010, SUMO is a revision of The Joy of Sumo: A Fan’s Notes. In print for 22 years, Benjamin’s irreverent analysis of Japanese wrestling, in its two editions, is the bestselling book ever published on sumo — and one of the funnier books written about any sport. A Sunday Kind of Love is the rare novel that captures the unique madness of the sports fan. November 7 & 8, 2014 But Trish’s coming of age makes it a story equally Mystery to Me, an independent bookstore compelling to the non-fan. David Benjamin has created a wry, multi-layered education in sports- 1863 Monroe Street, Madison, WI 53711 bred lunacy — with an ending to satisfy the www.mysterytomebooks.Com romantic in all of us. http://www.davidbenjaminwriter.com/ Authors listed in alphabetical order Alex Bledsoe Lee Atterbury 6:30 pm on Saturday 2:30 pm Saturday Alex grew up in west Tennessee an hour north of Graceland (home of Lee and his wife live on a horse farm in the Town of Middleton. His Elvis) and twenty minutes from Nutbush (birthplace of Tina Turner). He novels are inspired by the love of his horses and the Wyoming has been a reporter, editor, wilderness. Solitude Showdown photographer and door-to-door features Jim Taylor, a sixty-something vacuum cleaner salesman. He now lawyer who has abandoned his life of lives in a Wisconsin town famous for grinding responsibilities and disasters trolls, writes before six in the morning for the peaceful, simple life of the and tries to teach his three kids to act Wyoming wilderness. Life in the wild like they’ve been to town before. Alex proves to be neither simple nor is the author of the Eddie LaCrosse peaceful when Jim witnesses a novels (The Sword-Edged Blonde, Burn murder and kidnapping. Alone in the Me Deadly, Dark Jenny, Wake of the mountains with his horse, Buck, as his only companion, Jim must Bloody Angel and He Drank, and Saw overcome the worst that nature can throw at him while trying to thwart the Spider), the novels of the Memphis vampires (Blood Groove and The the kidnappers. Pushed to their limits, man and horse must repeatedly Girls with Games of Blood) and the Tufa novels (The Hum and the Shiver, risk their lives and meet violence with violence to survive. Wisp of a Thing and the forthcoming Long Black Curl). He also writes the www.leeatterbury.com Firefly Witch short story chapbooks. http://alexbledsoe.com/ Lori DiPrete Brown Lenore McComas Coberly 7:45 on Friday 4:30 pm on Saturday Lori DiPrete Brown served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Honduras, Lenore was born in Lincoln County, West Virginia and lived there until her where she worked in a home for orphaned and abandoned teenage girls. marriage to Camden A. Coberly of Wood County, West Virginia. When he Her experiences accompanying the girls in her care on the journey to returned from service in the US Navy in World War II they were married and find their birth mothers provided the both pursued graduate degrees at Carnegie Institute of Technology, inspiration for this novel. She is a graduate of University of Pittsburgh, and the Yale, and holds graduate degrees in public University of Wisconsin-Madison. Lenore health and theology from Harvard. She studied taught at the UW-Madison, Madison writing at Yale, and at the Iowa Summer College, Dane County Creative Arts Over Writer’s Festival. Currently, she teaches global Sixty, Green Lake Conference Center health at the University of Wisconsin, leads workshops, and as a volunteer in churches international field experiences for students, and and public schools. Professor Camden consults with international global health Coberly’s work took him to Asia, Africa, organizations. She lives in Madison with her Europe, and many parts of the United husband and three children, and is a States. Lenore sometimes accompanied Benedictine Oblate of the Holy Wisdom Monastery. Her writing focuses him, writing, teaching and getting to know on themes of spirituality, social justice and personal transformation. the people. Her poetry was published in The People’s Republic of China and she wrote criticism of newly translated Rob Brunet Chinese works in English. She is the 7:30 pm on Saturday (via Skype) author of The Handywoman Stories and Rob Brunet’s 2014 debut novel Stinking Rich asks: “What could possibly go Sarah’s Girls: A Chronicle of Big Ugly Creek (both from Ohio University wrong when bikers hire a high school dropout to Press). tend a barn full of high-grade marijuana?” His short crime fiction appears and is forthcoming in Ellery Christine DeSmet Queen Mystery Magazine, Thuglit, Shotgun Honey, 5:00 pm on Saturday Out of the Gutter, Noir Nation, and numerous Madison author Christine DeSmet writes the new national bestselling anthologies. Before writing noir, Brunet produced Fudge Shop Mystery series from Penguin Random House including First- award-winning Web presence for film and TV, Degree Fudge and the recently published Hot Fudge Frame-Up. Mystery including LOST, Frank Miller’s Sin City, and the to Me Bookstore and the author cult series Alias. He loves the bush, beaches, and will offer a special promotion bonfires and lives in Toronto with his wife, during the Slam with a $25 Gift daughter, and son. Certificate giveaway. Her series is set in Door County, Wisconsin. It features Ava Oosterling, the first Belgian sleuth since Hercule Poirot. Ava operates a bait-and-fudge shop with her Grandpa Gil who has never-ending battles with his boats while Ava has never-ending trouble with fudge and felonies. Christine is also the author of another suspense novel, mystery short stories, and optioned screenplays. She teaches writing at University of Wisconsin- Madison where she directs the upcoming Nov. 14-16 “Weekend with Alex HanCoCk Your Novel” event open to all aspiring 8:45 on Friday writers. www.ChristineDeSmet.com Alex Hancock's first novel, Into the Light, won a continuingstudies.wisc.edu/writing/ Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award. That was in 1987. He's still writing--including, starting this month, the Mystery To Me newsletter Get A Andy Grooms (see also, David Rozelle) Clue. Alex is married to Madison poet Mary 3:00 pm on Saturday Mercier and has a son, Nick, who's a writer and actor. His new novel, Tell Me We Both Matter, Christian Andrew Grooms, born in 1971, will come out next spring. currently lives and works in Madison. After studying for his BFA at the University of Minnesota, Grooms earned a MFA from Parsons School of Design, New York University. His artwork – which includes illustration, painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture and audio production – has been exhibited in the Midwest, New York City, Connecticut and Kelly Harms in Germany. In addition, he has created 7:45 on Saturday artwork for Madison Opera, Roche, Inc., Kelly is a former editor and literary agent where and continues to illustrate for Full she worked with a wide array of bestselling and Compass Systems. He is also a musician, award-winning authors of commercial fiction. former sound engineer for Minnesota She traded New York City for the writing life in Public Radio, and has both created and Madison, Wisconsin, where she lives with her produced record albums, including cover art. Grooms asserts that as he adorable and sometimes imperious toddler sketched illustrations for The Kid Who Climbed the Tarzan Tree (Rozelle), Griffin. She currently works as a freelancer and modeling help from nine-year-old Hanshan Dorje Wright Miller and his amateur baking enthusiast—Harms can make a brother Japhy, age 12, enabled him to visualize the timeless qualities that lot of things, but not clafoutis. The Goodluck Girls children of all eras possess. of Shipwreck Lane is an enchanting, heartfelt debut about the many ways love finds us, the power of a home- cooked meal, and what it really means to be lucky. http://kellyharms.com/ Christopher Laing 5:45 pm on Saturday K.J. Klemme Christopher Laing is a graduate of 4:45 pm on Saturday the Creative Writing Program at the Karlie Klemme spends her days supporting software systems with University of Wisconsin. He has nervous coworkers—all fearing Karlie will kill them off in one of her worked as a bouncer, bodyguard, stories. Decapitate a developer? Asphyxiate an analyst? Maybe maim a blacksmith, morgue attendant and manager? When Karlie gazes off in the distance, cab driver. He lives in Wisconsin everyone starts to sweat. Desperate to use her with his wife Sue, and is working on powers for good, Karlie put pen to paper and his third novel. The Young Oaks is an wrote Tourist Trapped, a suspense novel that American epic that spans the debuted in 2014. She set the story in Cancun, Twentieth Century. Kirkus Review notes: “An excellent story of the tapping into her experiences from numerous American dream that manages a remarkable combination of breadth and jaunts to the Yucatan. When not torturing depth. A stirring success!” characters or frolicking in the tropics, Karlie enjoys kayaking, gardening, skiing, and joyrides in her Kurt LuChs roadster.