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Engaging the Reader

by Roger Zotti

Author Douglas Clegg believes writing “begins with an impulse to make something from the raw material of imagination.”

This was an exciting and rewarding summer for the Preston Public Library. It hosted three local writers – Amanda Marrone, Douglas Clegg, and Allan G. Johnson – as part [...]

The Horrors of Domestic Violence

In "The First Thing and the Last" Allan G. Johnson deals "with the aftermath of domestic violence…"

by Roger Zotti

Allan G. Johnson said his first work of fiction, The First Thing and the Last (Plain View Press), “is about a woman, Katherine, struggling to find healing and redemption in the aftermath [...]

On the Connecticut Authors Trail

by Roger Zotti

On one level, Amanda Marrone said her books are “escapist fun.” But she also tries “to have a deeper thread running through them.”

This just in: On July 8, summer officially started for book lovers when, at the Janet Carlson Calvert Library, [...]

Traveling the CT Authors Trail

“I find revising fun. I like playing with words,” says Mystery writer Roberta Isleib.

by Roger Zotti

As part of the Connecticut Authors Trail, twenty-one Connecticut writers are visiting twelve local libraries this summer. The series brings together a diverse group – and mystery writer Roberta [...]

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