Author to sign books at hospital gift shop

January 29, 2017 at 12:00a.m.

SALEM

Nancy Christie will sign copies of her books “Traveling Left of Center and Other Stories” and “The Gifts of Change” from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Feb. 10 in the Look Nook Gift Shop at Salem Regional Medical Center, 1995 E. State St.

A portion of the proceeds will go to the SRMC Auxiliary.

“Traveling Left of Center,” a collection of short stories, has received numerous positive reviews since its release in September 2014, including those from The Chaffin Journal and New York Journal of Books.

“Gifts of Change” is an inspirational book that encourages readers to take a closer look at how they deal with change. Since its release in 2004, it has been published in Turkish, Korean and English Indian.

Christie has recently finished her second short-story collection, “Peripheral Vision and Other Stories,” and is working on several other projects.

Christie is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors and Short Fiction Writers Guild. She teaches writing workshops at conferences, libraries and schools. She hosts the monthly Monday Night Writers group in Canfield and is the founder of the annual “Celebrate Short Fiction” day.

Christie can be contacted at nancy@nancychristie.com or at 330-793-3675. For information about Christie and her books, visit her website at www.nancychristie.com/books.

‘1984’ publisher orders new printing as sales soar

NEW YORK

With “alternative facts” the latest catchphrase, George Orwell’s “1984” is No. 1 on Amazon.com and the publisher has ordered an additional 75,000 copies.

Signet Classics told The Associated Press in a statement last week that sales have been “remarkably robust” for a book that already is a classroom standard. The publisher noted that books such as Orwell’s tap into “the fears, anxieties, and even hopes” of readers. The heightened interest in Orwell’s Dystopian classic, in which language itself is held captive, follows assertions by President Donald Trump and some White House aides about the size of his inaugural crowd and whether voter fraud led him to lose the popular vote to Hillary Clinton last fall.

Staff/wire reports