Library celebrates National Author Day with 3 Local Writers

The Peters Township Public Library will celebrate National Author’s Day with a special program featuring three local authors who will share insights about their craft.

On Saturday, November 2 from 1:00-3:00 p.m. at “Reading, Writing, and the Creative Process,” the library will welcome authors Patricia Easton, Stephanie Keyes and Jeanne Marie Laskas to participate in an informal panel discussion. They will share how reading influences their writing, and what rituals, superstitions, settings, and habits shape their creative process. They will reveal who and what inspired them to write and, in turn, hope audience members will explain how a story changes a reader and how a reader can change a story.

Register to attend online or call 724.941.9430. A book signing will follow the program. Light refreshments will be served

Patricia Harrison Easton is the author of seven books, five of them for young people. Her latest book Davey's Blue-Eyed Frog won the Beverly Cleary Children's Choice Award. Stephanie Keyes is the author of the young adult fantasy series, The Star Child, which currently includes The Star Child, The Fallen Stars and After Faerie. Jeanne Marie Laskas is the author of six books, including her latest, Hidden America as well as the award-winning trilogy of memoirs: Fifty Acres and a Poodle, The Exact Same Moon, and Growing Girls. She is also the voice behind Reader’s Digest’s “Ask Laskas,” where she dispenses wisdom with zero authority but plenty of common sense.

National Author’s Day, marked on November 1st each year, was recognized by the Department of Commerce in 1949 in resolution that states “By celebrating an Authors’ Day as a nation, we would not only show patriotism, loyalty, and appreciation of the men and women who have made American literature possible, but would also encourage and inspire others to give of themselves in making a better America.”