Headline Books will be host to award winning author Patsy Pittman and authors Melinda Chambers, Don Stansberry, Mary Jane Romig, Connie Cox and Helen Hedrick at this year’s Buckwheat Festival in Kingwood, WV.
Headline Books, located in Terra Alta, WV, has been publishing books for over 24 years. Since their first title, Killing Waters: The Great West Virginia Flood of 1985, the company has grown to win national acclaim over the last several years. With over 80 titles in print and 31 authors currently on book signing tours and speaking/conference circuits, president and CEO Cathy Teets says her company has authors from all over the nation. “We always give West Virginia authors a preferential look when the submissions come in,” she says. “West Virginia continues to produce excellent authors and also continues to prove we are a state who reads. We have a national School Show Program and my authors have visited over 700 schools nationwide in the last several years. They continue to report that rural states like West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, etc. have students who are eager for their books and stories.”
Headline Books has won over 17 national awards for 14 of their current titles, the most recent awards were announced in New York City at Book Expo America this past May. Upcoming titles include Escape from Dubai by Hervé Jaubert, former French Secret Service agent and spy about his harrowing escape from a ruthless corporation and government who took his passport and held him captive. He was hired as CEO by Dubai World who manufactured luxury miniature submarines for the wealthy. “This is a true life story that rivals any best selling novel on the market,” Teets says. “This book will be released in November.” Jaubert now lives in Florida.
Also forthcoming are the memoirs of South Carolina resident Dee Merian, former TWA stewardess who flew with Howard Hughes during the glory days of Hollywood. Her exposé of Hughes, his businesses and girl friends, and the multitude of movie stars she came to know make for excellent reading. Merian’s book is due for a spring release.
Saturday will feature:
Melinda Chambers, popular children’s book author of newly released Fraidy Cat, third in her ‘lessons from nature’ series. She is also the author of We Are Whoooo We Are and The Day the Snapdragons Snapped Back. Melinda lives in Romney, WV and her books are beautifully illustrated by Sue Ann Maxwell Spiker of Jane Lew, WV.
Mary Jane Romig, Grandfather’s Garden, Headline Books newest release. Mary Jane lives in Keyser and her book is illustrated by Maryland native Karen Riley. Grandfather’s Garden is a fun mystery for early readers. It includes a kid friendly food pyramid to encourage healthy eating habits.
Patsy Pittman, Blood Kin & Other Strangers. Patsy’s book was named Award Winning Finalist in the USA News Best Book Awards and Indie Book Awards Finalist for best short story fiction. Her stories of Appalachian families, their triumphs and traumas, will make you laugh, cry and wonder when her next book is coming out. Her humor and feeling speak directly to the reader.
Helen Hedrick of Petersburg has a new book, Tails, Trails & Pies: An Appalachian Cattle Drive. Based on her own childhood of participating in cattle drives from Petersburg to the Sinks of Gandy, Hedrick captures the history of Appalachia and of our culture that is quickly being forgotten in our schools. This is Hedrick’s sixth children’s book.
Tunnelton resident, Connie Cox, Our Place in History: Southwestern Preston County, and Don Stansberry, Inky & the Missing Gold, Inky, Oglebee & the Witches and Crusty. Stansberry is an elementary teacher from Wood County and is very popular with the middle school set. His newest book, Crusty, is for younger children and he also illustrated this fanciful tale about friendship and fitting in.
Mary Jane Romig, Patsy Pittman and Helen Hedrick will also be on hand Friday signing books in the Headline Books booth. All of these authors are from West Virginia. A signed book makes a great gift so come on down to the Buckwheat Festival and meet some of the best authors in the United States.
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