Write Naked at Weathers Creek with Tara Lynne Groth, Saturday and Sunday, June 15-16, noon-noon. This 24-hour workshop will be a crash course on building your online presence as a writer, including information on search engines and blogging.
Groth is a freelance writer and blogger from Raleigh who makes her living entirely by the pen. She started the blog Write Naked as a place for writers to understand more about revealing their voices and breaking down misconceptions about freelance writing. Her work has appeared in Blue Ridge Outdoors and AirTran Airways’ GO. She is the founder of Triangle Writers and Ashville Writers. For more information on Groth, go to www.taralynnegroth.com.
If you are interested in the workshop, email weatherscreek@aol.com with “Write Naked” in the subject line. Participants will be camping with Dana’s Outdoor “Edventures.” The Farm at Weathers Creek is in the Cleveland, area and is the site of other creative workshops. Visit www.weatherscreek.net.
Benjamin Schenk of China Grove has published his ninth novel, “The Ten: Cloud Kingdoms.” a 796-page science fiction work.
Schenk writes that the book is about a group of 10 men who are the guardian angels of mankind. Their duties are to guard against the demonic and the supernatural and to fight off the creatures from both.
Their children have always thought of them as normal until the first day their descendants are attacked by demons from the underworld. Now the children and wives have become what is called Protectors and fight alongside of The Ten against the demons and supernatural beings. The Ten take their families to their castles in the clouds called Tenasia, the Cloud Kingdoms.
Schenk grew up in Salisbury and is a 1980 graduate of West Rowan High School.
The book sells online at Barnes and Noble, Books-a-million, Amazon.com and wherever books are sold.
During First Friday on June 7, from 6-8 p.m., author Marty Hartman will sign “The Adventures of Wally the Wheelchair: A New Beginning.”
Wally doesn’t understand why his maker made him a wheelchair until the day he meets a little boy who helps him see his true purpose, and his life as a big adventure.
Heidi Durrow talks about “The Girl Who Fell From the Sky” on “North Carolina Bookwatch” on Thursday, June 6, at 5 p.m. Note that Sunday’s Bookwatch has been preempted this week by special programming.
In Durrow’s dark story, a mother and her three children fall together from the roof of an apartment building in Chicago. The mother, son and baby girl die. But 11-year-old Rachel survives and, as “the girl who fell from the sky,” becomes the book’s central character.
A newspaper story about an entire family that took a fall off a roof killing all of them except one little girl. inspired Durrow to write her novel.