Julia Park Tracey, Diane Schaffer, and Robin Somers to Appear at Great Valley Bookfest
Sibylline Authors Write the West: Join Julia Park Tracey (Whoa, Nelly!), Diane Schaffer (Mortal Zin) and Robin Somers (Eleven Stolen Horses) at the Great Valley Bookfest on October 11th from 10am-4pm. Their novels will be available for purchase at the event!
EVENT LOCATION:
The Promenade Shops at Orchard Valley (aka Bass Pro Center)
Highway 120 at Union Rd exit
280 Lifestyle Road
Manteca, CA 95337
For more information, please visit the Bookfest’s page here.
About Eleven Stolen Horses:
News reporter Eleanor Wooley is starting her life over in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada but when her new best friend suddenly disappears, she gives it all up in pursuit of the clues and soon finds herself in grave danger.
About Robin Somers:
Robin Somers is the author of Beet Fields, a murder mystery. A founding member of the Coastal Cruisers chapter of Sisters in Crime, she’s an Emerita Lecturer in Writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Robin lived in the rural foothill town of Sonora, California, in the nape of the Sierra Nevada, where she kept her horse and worked as a crime reporter for the local newspaper, an editor for the United States Forest Service, and an English teacher. In 2002, she returned to her home near the beach in Santa Cruz, California, where she lives with her husband and their Havanese, Buster. She is a passionate advocate for wild horses.
About Mortal Zin:
A crusading attorney’s death. Sabotage at a family winery…As threats mount and the winery teeters on the brink of ruin, Noli and Luz must navigate a treacherous landscape of greed, revenge, and long-buried secrets. Can two fearless women from different worlds unravel the truth before it’s too late?
About Diane Schaffer:
Diane Schaffer, a Stanford PhD, is a retired professor and longtime resident of Santa Cruz County. Mortal Zin, her first mystery novel, is rooted in her summer work in a Santa Cruz zinfandel winery, where she became fascinated with the unique history of zinfandel, California’s mystery grape. When she’s not writing, she’s hiking, river kayaking, or reading a good mystery novel. She now lives in Ashland, Oregon, with her husband.
About Whoa, Nelly! A Love Story (*With Footnotes):
One woman’s prairie pilgrimage becomes a reckoning with American myths and her own buried truths. Whoa, Nelly! by Julia Park Tracey is history, heart, and heat.
About Julia Park Tracey:
Julia Park Tracey is an award-winning journalist and author of nine books, with an emphasis on women’s history and her female ancestors’ stories. Inspired by a mysterious train receipt in her family’s scrapbook, she researched her Orphan Train roots and continues to write novels about her found relatives. A lifelong fan of the Little House books, Tracey put her train-traveling time when crossing the American prairie to good use when she toured for her previous novels.
