Just heard on the radio that former CWW board member Paul Salsini will be on WUWM’s Lake Effect today to talk about the fourth book in his Tuscan trilogy. The program airs at 10 a.m., so this isn’t much notice. I’ll follow up this post with another one that will have a link to the archived program. Best wishes to Paul.
CWW Fiction Winner Writes for Children
Former CWW board member Paul Salsini reports that his book for children, “Stefano and the Christmas Miracles,” has been published. Set in Tuscany like his novels, it is the story of a grandfather telling his little grandson about the figures in their nativity set and of the miracles that happen to them when they go to Bethlehem.
Paul will have a reading for this book and for “The Temptation of Father Lorenzo: Ten Stories of 1970s Tuscany,” published earlier this year, at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 19 at Boswell Books, 2559 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, and he will give a talk, “From Journalist to Novelist,” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 5, at Villa Terrace, 2220 N. Terrace Ave., Milwaukee (admission is $8 for members and $12 for nonmembers).
The first novel in his A Tuscan Trilogy, “The Cielo: A Novel of Wartime Tuscany,” won first place for fiction from CWW in 2006.
CWW website: www.wiswriters.org
Fox Cities Book Festival Offers Book, Author Feast
The Fox Cities Book Festival could more aptly be called a Book Feastival. The lineup of authors and events for the April 11-18 bibliotheque-esque banquet runs deep and wide.
Some, such as UW-Madison Professor Emeritus and author of three-dozen books Jerry Apps, poet and Verse Wisconsin co-editor Sarah Busse and prolific mystery and children’s book author Kathleen Ernst, are current or former CWW award winners.
Some, such as Redbird Studio writing center founder and author/writing mentor Judy Bridges, poet and writer Karla Huston, short-story writer and book reviewer Ted Hertel, and journalist and award-winner novelist Paul Salsini, are current or former CWW board members.
Some, such as poet and retired educator/public library director Bruce Dethlefsen and poet and author Ellen Kort, are current or former Wisconsin poets laureate.
Some, such as The Zookeeper’s Wife author Diane Ackerman, The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York author Deborah Blum and creator of the adorable Fancy Nancy children’s books Jane O’Connor, are writers of national best sellers.
Read all about this feastival at the Fox Cities Book Festival website at http://www.foxcitiesbookfestival.org/, the complete list of authors and their bios at http://www.foxcitiesbookfestival.org/authors/2012 and the schedule of events at http://www.foxcitiesbookfestival.org/schedule/2012.
Learn more about the Council for Wisconsin Writers, its annual contest and contest winners at www.wiswriters.org.