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SUMMARY:Meet the Authors: From the Fantastic to the Galactic
LOCATION:South Euclid-Lyndhurst Branch\nSouth Euclid-Lyndhurst Branch
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DESCRIPTION:Come ask your questions\, hear about their new work\, and enjo
 y fine fiction by your new favorite local writers: J.D. Blackrose\, Joelle
  Presby\, Mary A. Turzillo\, and Marie Vibbert. .\nhttps://cuyahoga.libnet
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p><em>About the authors:</em></p>\n<p></p>\n
 <p style="text-align: left\;"><strong><img src="https://attend.cuyahogalib
 rary.org/frontend-images/editor/cuyahoga/Blackrose_DemonKissed.jpg" width=
 "170" height="255" alt="" style="float: left\;" />J.D. Blackrose</strong> 
 is the author of the Summoner&rsquo\;s Mark series of four books\, beginni
 ng with&nbsp\; <em>Demon Kissed</em>\, and is currently writing three more
  novels for this series. She&rsquo\;s published <em>The Soul Wars</em>\,&n
 bsp\;<em>The Devil&rsquo\;s Been Busy</em>\, and the <em>Zombie Cosmetolog
 ist</em> novellas through Falstaff Books and is contracted for a new horro
 r novel through Falstaff&rsquo\;s horror imprint\, Falstaff Dread\, for 20
 24. She&rsquo\;s published short stories in numerous speculative fiction a
 nd horror journals and anthologies. Under her legal name\, she co-authored
  &ldquo\;Courageous Candles\,&rdquo\; a Hannukah children&rsquo\;s story.<
 /p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /
 ></p>\n<p></p>\n<p></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><strong><img src="https://attend.cuya
 hogalibrary.org/frontend-images/editor/cuyahoga/Presby_DebareSnake.jpg" wi
 dth="170" height="257" alt="" style="float: left\;" /></strong></p>\n<p><s
 trong> Joelle Presby</strong> is a former U.S. Navy nuclear&nbsp\;engineer
  and a recovering corporate consultant who&nbsp\; grew up in West Africa. 
 Her&nbsp\;first reader husband works for NASA\, but he&nbsp\;has yet to bu
 ild her a space&nbsp\;elevator. She began her writing career publishing in
 &nbsp\;David Weber's Honorverse and joined him as a cowriter for the Multi
 verse novels.&nbsp\;After over a dozen short fiction pieces in&nbsp\;other
  people's story universes\, she&nbsp\;has started a series of her very own
  with the novel: <em>The Dabare Snake Launcher</em>. She lives in Ohio wit
 h her husband and two&nbsp\;children.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><br /><br 
 /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><img src="https://attend
 .cuyahogalibrary.org/frontend-images/editor/cuyahoga/Turzillo_CosmicCats.j
 pg" width="170" height="262" alt="" style="float: left\;" />After a career
  as a professor of English at Kent State University\, Dr. <strong>Mary A. 
 Turzillo</strong> is now a full-time writer. In 2000\, her story &ldquo\;M
 ars Is No Place for Children&rdquo\; won SFWA&rsquo\;s Nebula award for be
 st novelette. Her novel\, <em>An Old-Fashioned Martian Girl\,</em> was ser
 ialized in <em>Analog</em> in July-November 2004. These two works have bee
 n selected as recreational reading on the International Space Station. <em
 >Cosmic Cats &amp\; Fantastic Furballs</em> is her most recent collection 
 of short stories.</p>\n<p><strong></strong></p>\n<p><strong></strong></p>\
 n<p><strong></strong></p>\n<p><strong></strong></p>\n<p><strong><br /><br 
 /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></strong></p>\n<p><stron
 g><span class="custom1"><img src="https://attend.cuyahogalibrary.org/front
 end-images/editor/cuyahoga/Vibbert_GodsAwoke.jpg" width="170" height="262"
  alt="" style="float: left\;" /><span class="custom2 custom10">Marie Vibbe
 rt</span></span></strong><span class="custom1 custom2 custom10">'s short f
 iction has appeared in top magazines such as <em>Nature</em>\, <em>Vice</e
 m>\, and <em>Amazing Stories</em>. Her debut novel\, <em>Galactic Hellcats
 </em>\, was long listed for the British Science Fiction Award in 2021. Her
  latest novel\, <em>The Gods Awoke</em>\, is about a powerful telepathic b
 eing who thinks she's a goddess on a journey of self-discovery. A Nebula A
 ward Finalist\, Marie used to play women's professional football. By day s
 he is a computer programmer at CWRU.</span></p>\n<p></p>\n<p></p>\n<p></p>
 \n<p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></p>\n<p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
 </p>\n<p></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><strong>Books will be available for purchase an
 d signing courtesy of Mac's Backs - Books on Coventry.</strong></p>\nhttps
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