Children’s author sets book signing

Children’s author sets book signing

COLUMBIANA

West Salem author BreAnn Fennell will have a book-signing event at 4 p.m. Friday at Generations Coffee house, 31 S. Main St.

She will be available to sign her book, “Play? Yay!” for children.

Volant author writes book of poetry

VOLANT, PA.

“Poems of Love, Honor and Humor,” a new book by Frank Cimperman of Volant, has been released by Dorrance Publishing Co. Inc.

It explores two of the most powerful aspects of humanity — love and war. Cimperman’s love poems give voice to the many joys and discontents of love, while his collection of military poems gathered from war veterans sheds light on the complicated sentiments of fighting for one’s country.

The book offers readers a contrast of raw human emotion from the heart and from the battlefield that is not to be forgotten.

Cimperman is a former Marine and disabled veteran of the Vietnam War and a member of the VFW and Disabled American Veterans.

The 44-page paperback has a retail price of $8.

Local author signs with 3 publishers

BOARDMAN

Boardman author Julie Arduini signed with three publishers within the past six weeks. The last contract, with Write Integrity Press, is a three-book deal featuring her Adirondack Mountain contemporary romances.

Her tentative titles, “Spectacular Falls,” “Untangled” and “To Be Determined,” are first-person romances centered around the fictional village of Speculator Falls in upstate New York.

The second contract is with Chalfont House for an infertility devotional tentatively titled “A Walk in the Valley.” The other authors participating in this book are Heidi Glick, Elizabeth Maddrey, Kym McNabney, Paula Mowery and Donna Winters.

The last is with Breath of Fresh Air Press for flash-fiction titles through FaithWriters.com Arduini had placed in during the weekly challenges she entered. Those will be included in FaithWriter anthologies.

Arduini is a member of American Christian Fiction Writers.

To stay updated on book release dates, bookmark her site at juliearduini.com or on Facebook at http://facebook.com/JulieArduini1970.

REGIONAL

‘Lucky’ Luciano topic of crime work

Pittsburgh

One of the most researched, discussed and dissected American mobsters of all time, Charles “Lucky” Luciano is the subject of a new book by Pittsburgh author Christian Cipollini.

There are many fascinating and lurid tales and theories regarding Luciano’s rise and fall from the mob’s top spot. In his book, “Lucky Luciano: Mysterious Tales of a Gangland Legend,” journalist Cipollini focuses exclusively on some of the mysteries surrounding Luciano, one of the biggest organized-crime figures in history.

With information culled from rare news articles, government documents and numerous books written on the subject, this book will give readers a chance to discover Luciano in a way that engages the mystery of his pop-culture status, while encouraging further debate over the facts and fallacies that exist about his true role in the history of the American Mafia structure.