Ewen’s
book was also a 2009 Christy Award finalist and the author was chosen for the
2009 St. Tammany Parish President’s Arts Award as Literary Artist of the Year. Ewen
serves on the board of directors of the Tennessee Williams Festival, the advisory
board of the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society and is the founder and president
of the Northshore Literary Society.
Her
third novel, “Dancing on Glass,” is a 2012 Christy Award Finalist and a winner
of the 2012 Single Titles Reviewers Choice Award.
Her
next book, “Chasing the Wind,” a sequel to “Dancing on Glass,” will be released
Aug. 1. “Chasing the Wind” is the combination of a mysterious child with a
forgotten past, a young woman lawyer’s love and yearning and envy and a financial
wizard building a resort hotel in 1977 New Orleans.
Churchill Symposium
The
National World War II Museum in New Orleans presents the second annual Winston
Churchill Symposium on Saturday, July 14, co-hosted by the museum and The
Churchill Society of New Orleans.
This
year’s speaker’s include Douglas Russell, author of “Winston Churchill: Soldier”
who will speak on “The Military Life of a Gentleman at War.” Nigel Hamilton, author
of “Monty,” a three-volume biography of Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery and
the upcoming “FDR at War,” will speak on “Churchill and Roosevelt: The Great
Spat,” presented as the Gen. Raymond E. Mason Jr. Distinguished Lecture Series
on World War II. Barbara Leaming, author of “Churchill Defiant,” will speak on
“Churchill Defiant: Fighting On, 1945 – 1955,” and Barry Singer, author of “Churchill
Style,” will speak on “The Art of Being Winston Churchill.”
For
more information and to register, visit http://www.nationalww2museum.org.
Ghost writer
I
am happy to report that I have sold another book to The History Press. Titled
“Haunted Lafayette,” the book will highlight Acadiana’s ghost stories and
legends.
Over
the years I have written about ghosts, myths and legends for the various
publications I write for, but I am looking for much more for the book, to be
published in September 2013. If you know of a legend, ghost story or other
paranormal event in the Lafayette area, please let me know. Email
chere@louisianabooknews.com.
New releases
Portals
Press of New Orleans has published “Something in the Water,” a collection of 20
short stories set in Louisiana. Authors include: Joseph Barbara, Celeste
Berteau, John Bigeunet, Chris Chambers, Moira Crone, Dale Edmonds, Tim
Gautreaux, Cedelas Hall, Patty Friedmann, Mary Gleason, Juyanne James, James
Knudsen, Joe Landrum, James Nolan, Dean Paschal, Genevieve Rheams, Elizabeth
Sanders, Aneela Shuja, Tom Whalen. For information, visit http://www.portalspress.com.
Louisiana
publisher Margaret Media has published Mary H. Manhein’s first murder mystery, “Floating
Souls: The Canal Murders.” Manhein heads up FACES, the forensic anthropology
lab at LSU and is the author of “The Bone Lady: Life as a Forensic Anthropologist.”
In “Floating Souls,” bodies of young women are found floating in New Orleans
drainage canals. Maggie Andrepont, local forensic anthropologist, is called in
to help find a pattern to the homicides and to profile a perpetrator. The book will
be available for download at www.shelfwise.com,
Amazon.com and is distributed by Louisiana’s
Forest Sales. For more information, visit www.margaretmedia.com.
LSU
Press has published two award-winning poetry collections by Elana Bell and
Bruce Snider. Bell’s debut collection “Eyes, Stones,” was the winner of the
2011 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets. Snider’s “Paradise,
Indiana” is the winner of the Lena-Miles Wever Tood Poetry Prize. For more
information, visit http://lsupress.org/.
J.D.
Davis is the author of the new biography, “Unconquered: The Saga of Cousins
Jerry Lee Lewis, Jimmy Swaggart and Mickey Gilley.” For more information, visit
www.unconqueredthebook.com.
Beth
Bares of Baton Rouge has published book one in a paranormal romance series by
Create Space. The book is titled “Dreams of Reality” and can be purchased
through www.bethbares.com and Amazon.com, in paperback or kindle.
Former
Lafayette resident Sujata Rayer has published a debut novel titled “The Absurd
Adventures of Mira” through Black Rose Writing. The story concerns Mira, an
overweight Asian Indian who is caught between the antiquated values of her
culture and the more modern values of America. The book is available from www.blackrosewritingbooks.com
and other online bookstores.
Laura
Burks of Baton Rouge has also published her debut novel, “Altered,” through
Wings ePress, a young adult paranormal romance set in New Roads. The book is
available at online bookstores, fictionwise, Wings ePress and The Book Rack in
Baton Rouge. Burks works for the Boys & Girls Club of Baton Rouge teaching
an anti-bullying course to local elementary school children and occasionally a
Youth Legislature Program with middle school kids.
Book events
There
will be an open mic in French from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday at Casa Azul in
Grand Coteau. Also, Casa Azul will host a poetry reading by Jocelyn Young and
Zayne Turner from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. May 31, concluding with an open mic in which
writers and musicians are welcome to participate. Turner is the author of “Memory
of My Mouth,” a chapbook forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press and the founding director
of Forward Arts Inc., a youth arts non-profit based in Louisiana which houses
the WordPlay Teen Writing Project. Young holds a degree in psychology from
Southern University, is a member of the Baton Rouge Poetry Alliance and competed
nationally with the 2010 Baton Rouge Slam Team.
Cheré Coen is the author
of “Exploring Cajun Country: A Historic Guide to Acadiana” and co-author of
“Magic’s in the Bag: Creating Spellbinding Gris Gris Bags and Sachets.” She
teaches writing at UL-Lafayette’s Continuing Education. Write her at
chere@louisianabooknews.com.
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