Writers group to meet at Peaberry’s Cafe

Writers group to meet at Peaberry’s Cafe

CANFIELD

Published and unpublished local writers are invited to the next meeting of Monday Night Writers, from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday at Peaberry’s Caf , 4350 Boardman-Canfield Road.

Author and professional writer Nancy Christie will lead the session, which will address writing exercises, the creative and business aspects of writing and group feedback on works in progress.

Registration is preferred, and the fee is $10 per class. For information contact Christie at 330-793-3675, email nancy@nancychristie.com, or visit www.communityofchange.com or www.nancychristie.com/.

New book on JFK assassination due

NEW YORK

The ever-disputed investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is getting a fresh look.

Former New York Times correspondent and best-selling author Philip Shenon has a book coming out this fall that alleges “powerful” people interfered with the Warren Commission’s efforts to determine whether Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in shooting JFK in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.

Publisher Henry Holt and Co. announced Thursday it will release the currently untitled book Oct. 22, a month before the 50th anniversary of JFK’s assassination.

Thriller writers team up for anthology

new york

Dennis Lehane and Michael Connelly. Lee Child and Joseph Finder.

Some of the country’s top thriller writers will combine their talents in “Face Off,” an anthology announced recently by Simon & Schuster and scheduled to come out next year.

The book’s 11 stories will feature such fictional dream teams as Connelly’s Hieronymous “Harry” Bosch and Lehane’s Patrick Kenzie. Child’s Jack Reacher will pair up with Finder’s Nick Heller, and John Sandford’s Lucas Davenport will join forces with Jeffery Deaver’s Lincoln Rhyme.

Edited by David Baldacci, “Face Off” also will include contributions from Steve Martini, Douglas Preston and Ian Rankin.

Ex-Fla. Gov. Crist to write critical book

new york

Charlie Crist, the former Florida governor who switched from the Republican Party to Democrat, is working on a book that strongly criticizes the GOP’s conservative policies.

Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House, announced recently it had acquired Crist’s “The Party’s Over: How the Extreme Right Hijacked the GOP and I became a Democrat.” The book is scheduled to be published in early 2014.

According to Dutton, Crist will offer “very frank” opinions on Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush and other big-name Republicans.

Vindicator staff/wire reports