“Wine & Signs” to be held with local authors monthly
SANDUSKY – Two authors from the Northern Ohio Writers Guild will be holding monthly events at Firelands Winery from May to November.
The signings will be held on the following dates from 4PM to 7PM:
- May 5 – Jim Bollenbacher and Emilia Rosa
- June 2 – RJ Norgard and Emilia Rosa
- August 4 – PJ Grondin and Joel Rudinger
- September 1 – Tonya Sullivan and Pat Antonelli
- October 6 – RJ Norgard and Joel Rudinger
- November 3 – Breshea Anglen and Patrick Lawrence O’Keeffe.
Firelands Winery is located at 917 Bardshar Road in Sandusky.
Below are provided descriptions about the authors:
Jim Bollenbacher taught American government and American History for thirty-one years at Midview High School and Sandusky High School. For forty-one years he was also a school assistant and head football coach. He graduated from Hiram College in Ohio, majoring in political science with a minor in history. While at Hiram, he played two years of football and four of baseball. He is a member of the Hiram College Athletic Hall of Fame. Bollenbacher holds a master’s degree in education from Ashland University. He and his wife, Patty, live in Huron, on the shores of Lake Erie, and raised four adult children. When not writing historical fiction centering on the American Revolutionary period or attempting to work on his golf game, he and Patty like to play with their four grandchildren. The sequel “America at the Abyss” is going to be published soon and Bollenbacher is giving the last touches to “Liberty’s Cost: The Adventures of the Cushman Family” www.jimbollenbacher-thesigners.com
Emilia Rosa spent her childhood in Rio de Janeiro. She has always been fascinated with words and studied French, Spanish and Italian. Rosa worked in international trade shows in a multilingual capacity, and as a fashion model in Brazil, Italy, and the US. Before turning to fiction, she had poetry published, and won a library poetry contest. Her love of history and knowledge of Rio de Janeiro, decided the timeframe and setting of her first novel, which was taken to the sequel. She is doing research and starting the third sequel, which will now take readers to the south of Brazil. Her books are sold at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, BAM, etc.
PJ Grondin, a US Navy submarine veteran, is the author of eight suspense novels. His most recent release, Flash Drive, features Peden Savage, a former FBI agent and Private Investigator. Savage is recruited by his former FBI supervisor to assist in the investigation of the murder of a prominent US Senator. You will find this book hard to put down. More information about Grondin’s books can be found on his website.
RJ Norgard has worked as a newspaper reporter and photographer, US Army Intelligence Officer, and private investigator. His twenty-one years in Alaska formed the basis for the characters and settings in his Sidney Reed novels and infuse them with an authenticity rarely seen in the genre novel. His hobbies are sailing, tennis, and participating in volunteer project in his hometown in northern Ohio. An avid amateur historian, he is the author of Lights at the Portage: A History of the Port Clinton Light Station, 1833-1952. He is also working on his nonfiction opus, HEART OF TEAK: The Life and Times of the Sailing Ship Success. He is currently working on WINTER KILL, the third novel in the Sidney Reed Trilogy.
Tonya Sullivan grew up in Vickery, Ohio, and lived in south Bend Indiana for 22 years. Four years ago she decided to come back to the area. She is a proud mom of a 17-year-old son. She likes to utilize the areas she is from as background in her book. Sullivan loves a good story and reading and writing. The Reunion. Three best friends come back to their home town for their 10-year class reunion. In the prologue we go back ten years to what caused one of them to leave. Now Jamie has to find the courage to face her demons. While this is fiction, the author realizes that many women face violence and this must be addressed. Sullivan is writing Series 2, and planning Series 3. Ten percent of the sales proceeds will be donated to women shelters.
Pat Antonelli lives and works in Northern Ohio. As a research librarian, she has always been an avid reader and enjoys writing stories about life situations. Trippin’. It’s 1968 and Jonathan, a journalist for a travel magazine, meets a free-spirited young woman and asks her to go on assignment to California with him. She accepts and as they explore the country, they begin to explore their feelings for each other as well.
Breshea Anglen is a young adult fantasy author with a penchant for penning stories with magical realism, romance, and adventure, centering BIPOC characters. She attended Bowling Green State University and obtained both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Education. After graduating from BGSU in 2016, Breshea returned to Cleveland and began her career as a middle school English teacher. During this time, she self-published her first novel, A Shrouded Spark. Breshea lives in Cleveland with her daughter and family. https://www.bresheaanglen.com.
Patrick Lawrence O’Keeffe spent his childhood on a rocky dairy farm near Ulster, Pennsylvania, one of nine children. For five years he studied for the priesthood at Notre Dame, followed by a forty-year stretch in Manufacturing. He resides in Port Clinton, Ohio, with his wife Karen. He is a published historian, novelist, and poet, activities he now labors at most of the time, unless he’s fixin’ things out back in the workshop.
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