3 female authors will discuss their writing, friendship in Seton Hill program
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Three bestselling female authors who hail from the West Coast will discuss their writing and today’s publishing industry during a presentation Tuesday at Seton Hill University in Greensburg.
“An Evening with Juliet Blackwell, Rachael Herron and Sophie Littlefield” is set for 7 p.m. in the Carol Reichgut Concert Hall at the Seton Hill University Performing Arts Center. Co-sponsored by the Westmoreland Library Network, the event includes a reception and book-signing.
Admission is free, but advance registration is required by selecting “2019-2020 Events” at setonhill.edu/tickets.
The three women will relate how their friendship has inspired their writing. All are serving as visiting instructors at Seton Hill and will be working with undergraduate English majors as well as graduate students in the university’s Master of Fine Arts program.
Littlefield has written dozens of novels for adults and teens under her own name and under the pen name Sofia Grant. She has won the Anthony Award for mystery fiction and the Romantic Times Book Reviews’ Reviewers’ Choice Award.
In addition to a zombie apocalypse series, her novels include “Lies in White Dresses,” inspired by quick Nevada divorces of the mid-20th century, and “A Bad Day for Sorry,” whose main character works outside the law to help other women deal with their abusive mates.
Blackwell holds degrees in Latin American Studies, anthropology and social work and was producer for a BBC documentary about Vietnamese children left behind by U.S. soldiers.
She’s written several novels set in France, including the forthcoming “The Vineyards of Champagne” and “The Lost Carousel of Provence.” Her other works include the “Witchcraft Mystery” series and the “Haunted Home Renovation” series.
Herron, who is a New Zealand citizen as well as an American, drew upon her work experience to write “Stolen Things” — a crime novel about a 911 dispatcher and police chief’s wife who helps her daughter search for her missing best friend.
She teaches writing workshops and has written more than two dozen other books — including mainstream fiction, feminist romance and nonfiction on writing.