February 2014 Slam Schedule
Thursday, February 20
Time Slot
Author
1
6:30 – 6:45
Geraldine Gurman
2
6:45 – 7:00
Shannon Henry Kleiber
Mystery to Me
Final Schedule
7:00 – 7:15
3
7:15 – 7:30
BREAK
Miki Knezevic
4
7:30 – 7:45
Katherine and Ben Perreth
5
7:45 – 8:00
Kandace Holcomb Tochterman
8:00 – 8:15
6
8:15 – 8:30
BREAK
Jackie Bradley
7
8:30 – 8:45
Lori Heffernon
8
8:45 – 9:00
David Barton
Title
Notes
“Tai Chi Animal
Frolics” – a mindful
movement program
“On My Honor: Real
Life Lessons from
America’s First Girl
Scout”
Wellness, mindfulness
and movement (DVD)
“Behind God’s Back”
- a Serbian female
physician’s journey
through two world
wars and the
communist era in the
Balkans
“Making Lemonade
with Ben: The
Audacity to Cope”
“Long Road Home”
Historical fiction
It’s never too late…
“Postcards in the
Attic”
“A Child Without a
Choice – a small girl
in a big religion”
The Making of
“Bringing Jane
Home”
Romance, fiction
Non-fiction, history,
biography
Non-fiction,
inspirational/memoir
Narrative, nonfiction/memoir
Memoir
Crime/Thriller
Friday, February 21
Time Slot
Author
9
6:30 – 6:45
SKYPE
Becky Meyer Pourchot
John Pascucci
10
6:45 – 7:00
Katie Kacvinsky
7:00 – 7:15
11
7:15 – 7:30
BREAK
Alice D’Allesio
12
Susan Riseling
7:30 – 7:45
7:45 – 8:00
13
8:00 – 8:15
BREAK
Susan Apps Bodilly
14
Annelise Ryan
(aka Allyson K. Abbott and Beth Amos)
8:15 – 8:30
8:30 – 8:45
15
8:45 – 9:00
BREAK
Rosemary Zurlo-Cuva
16
Doug Reed
9:00 – 9:15
Title
Notes
“The Hungry Ghost”
and “To Kiss a Ghost”
“Jethro, A Guardian
Angel”
“AWAKEN”
Young adult fiction
“Conversations with
Thoreau”
“A View from the
Interior – Policing the
Protests at the
Wisconsin State
Capitol”
Poetry
“One Room Schools –
Stories from the Days
of 1 Room, 1 Teacher,
8 Grades”
A preview of
upcoming “Board
Stiff” (March 4)
History for young
readers
“Travel for
Agoraphobics”
“Half”
Fiction
Young adult/science
fiction
Non-fiction, law and
ethics, police
procedural
Mystery
satire
Saturday, February 22
Time Slot
Author
17
18
19
3:00 – 3:15
3:15 – 3:30
3:30 – 3:45
Carol Hornung
Jill Muehrckhe
David Rozelle and artist Andy Grooms
3:45 – 4:00
20
4:00 – 4:15
BREAK
Alex Bledsoe
21
4:15 – 4:30
Spike Pederson
22
4:30 – 4:45
Melissa Olson
4:45 – 5:00
23
5:00 – 5:15
BREAK
Julie Short
24
5:15 – 5:30
Ronnie Hess
25
5:30 – 5:45
Dan Woll
5:45 – 6:00
26
6:00 – 6:15
BREAK
Melinda Gustafson-Gervasi
27
Ellen Kuhfield
6:15 – 6:30
Title
Notes
“Asperger Sunset”
“Waking Up Happy”
“Shaking the Tarzan
Tree: An Illustrated
Plunge Into Memory”
Mystery
Self-help
Memoir
“He Drank, and Saw
the Spider”
My Life as an
Adventure Writer
“Dead Spots” and
“Trail of Dead” with
discussion about the
writing and
publishing process
Fantasy/Mystery
“Murder on the
Prairie”
How I Became a
Writer…it’s a Mystery
to Me…
“Death on Cache
Lake” – mystery with
roots in the 1970
bombing of Sterling
Hall
Mystery/Thriller
Take the Mystery Out
of Giving – “Middle
Class Philanthropist:
How Anyone Can
Leave a Legacy”
“Secret Murder”
Non-fiction
Adventure/Thriller
Fantasy/Mystery
Poetry, creative nonfiction, food and travel
writing
Mystery
Historical Mystery
28
Time Slot
Author
Title
Notes
6:30 – 6:45
Katrin Talbot
“The Devil Orders a
Latte….” Backstage
poems from an
orchestral musician
“Meaningful Fingers”
Poetry
29
6:45 – 7:00
7:00 – 7:15
30
7:15 – 7:30
Lauren Gordon
BREAK
Erin Celello
31
Monica Ferris
7:30 – 7:45
Poetry
“Learning to Stay” –
Commercial fiction
discussing the sides of
war we don’t often (if
ever) see.
“The Drowning Spool” Mystery