Successful Illinois Authors to Headline Annual Book Fair
by Marianne Wolf, Book Fair Chair
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Successful Illinois Authors to Headline Annual Book Fair
by Marianne Wolf, Book Fair Chair
You have nurtured your story the same way you've mixed the ingredients of your favorite recipe into a pot, baking it in the oven until the mouth-watering scent assures your lips the dish is as fine a meal as any one Julia Child ever baked. Now, your story is a book, a fine piece of literary work and it's ready for the public to taste.
This October 21, 30 Illinois authors will serve up their creativity and literary talents to the public at the Chicago Cultural Center. Held from 10 am to 3 pm in the spacious Randolph Café, this will be the second year the Book Fair will be free and open to the public. The Illinois Woman's Press Association is proud to turn the spotlight on local authors.
Fiction and nonfiction, healthcare and spirituality, from women in law enforcement to historical images of immigrants who made Illinois their new homeland this is an opportunity to discover the literary talents of authors throughout the state of Illinois.
Among the authors scheduled to exhibit are a mix of 15 IWPA members and 15 non-members.
The IWPA member authors include: Gen La Greca, who will showcase her award-winning first novel, Noble Vision, a finalist in ForeWord magazine's prestigious Book of the Year Awards, Writer's Digest's 13th International Book Awards, and the Midwest Book Awards.
Critics call Knock the Hustle by Hadji Williams "Jerry McGuire does Madison Ave," and the book "every business school in America should include in their syllabus!" Part insider-exposé, part revolutionary success manual, Williams combines a lifetime in "The Hood" with 13 successful years of building brands for Fortune 500 heavyweights.
Helen Gallagher shares her positive strategy with Computer Ease and shows the way to gain the upper hand when working with computers. She offers real world solutions and actual user profiles in dealing with computers and their technology.
IWPA newcomer Marlys Styne, now retired from a 40 year career as an English teacher and department chair for seven years at Wilbur Wright College, brings us her personal story Reinventing Myself: Memoirs of a Retired Professor.
Gifted story-teller Kelly A. Fryer is also new to IWPA and to Chicago. This executive director of A.R.E.: A Renewal Enterprise has written several best-selling books, including Dancing Down the Hallway and No Experience Necessary which invite readers into a purposeful and joy-filled life of faith.
Illinois Woman's Press Association past president Marion Gold offers readers Brittany Publications, Ltd. Top Cops: Profiles of Women in Command was cited by the Chicago Tribune as "Worth reading…" and was excerpted in the Chicago Sun-Times and featured on the front page of The Arizona Republic. Gold's Publicity Planner: A Guide to Marketing YOU won the Athena Award for Excellence in Mentoring. Brittany Publications, Ltd. is a traditional publisher specializing in literary fiction and nonfiction related to women's advocacy.
Author Rachel Madorsky has appeared on radio, TV, and international conferences and the United States as a speaker on natural healing. Her book Create Your Own Destiny! Spiritual Path to Success is an invaluable resource for the preservation of health and the maintenance of karma.
Judith M. Davis, M.D. is a psychiatrist ad psychoanalyst practicing in Chicago. Her book Emotional Comfort: The Gift of Your Inner Guide helps readers learn the technique that allows one to create a new mental pathway that functions as an Inner Guide.
Author and IWPA board member Marianne Wolf shows her readers the Eastern European immigrants who where drawn to Joliet, Illinois in the early part of the 1900s. Joliet focuses those who built the town she grew up in, where local business owners catered to their ethnic heritages and preserved the languages, foods and traditions of the people like those from Slovenia and Croatia who joined together to create a thriving Illinois community.
Susan Brauer provides a look into the tapestry of her life in Just keep Dancing. Brauer was among the 2.5 million American women per year that are abused. Susan gives an intense, truthful account of domestic violence while providing a message of hope to those caught in the cycle of abuse. Her learned tools of survival prove to be guideposts to those in need of strength and courage.
Jane E. Canepa is the fifth child in The Dancing Canepa Family lineup showcased in The Canepa School Of Dance. This popular Baraboo, Wisconsin dance school was formed in 1955. As the family historian, Jane has authored a pictorial history spanning the 25 years the troupe performed professionally.
BookWire Review reports Dr. Elana Ashley's adventure series for children, Splunkunio Splunkey Detective and Peacemaker Detective y pacificador Case One: The Missing Friendship Braclet Caso primero: El Brazalete de la desaparecido "guaranteed to keep young ones spellbound and encourage a love of reading." Bloomsbury Review credits Ashley for having created a "well illustrated…appealing and colorful" bilingual children's story.
A life-long activist involved in good government, handicapped, and school issues, IWPA author Margaret H. Goldstein brings two books to the fair: Making Decisions That Don't Harm Others and The Selfishness System: Why Society Is Overwhelmed With Problems. Goldstein states, "My two books address the fact that solutions to problems aren't adapted because people are primarily focused on serving themselves."
Helena Lehman's The Language of God Book Series is a four book reference series that explores the ways in which God reveals Himself through the language of allegory in Nature. Midwest Book Review calls Lehman's The Language of God in the Universe a passionate, spiritual culmination of a lifetime's study of both God and the stars.
Sel Erder Yackley is an award-winning journalist who has born and reared in Turkey. She has worked for United Press International and the Chicago Tribune, was active in local politics as well as civic and charitable organizations in central Illinois. Never Regret the Pain: Loving and Losing a Bipolar Spouse is Yackley's journey through the effects of Bipolar Disorder on her family. "My hope has been to write a book that would reach out to those who face the challenges of this illness and give them hope and courage," states Yackley.