Event celebrates several local authors

Paulina Springs Book Company will host a celebration of local authors on Sunday, October 29 from 3 to 5 p.m.

Residents from Sisters, Bend and Madras will share their works with the audience. These authors represent a diverse range of fiction and non-fiction.

Sisters author Melody Carlson will read from her book "Diary of a Teenage Girl."

Tom Chace has written a handbook called "Am I? Am I Not? - an Alcoholic" and Jeff Gerke (writing as Jefferson Scott) will read from his thriller "Fatal Defect."

Dan Rehwalt from Madras has written " A Place to Grow" a memoir of growing up in a logging town. Bend author Helen Vandervort has contributed an essay "No More Waiting" to a book on women coming of age.

"Kiss Your Fat Good-Bye" is the work of another Bend resident, Lorette Simonet-Jones. Frank Fiedler has written a history of COCC, the oldest public community college in the state.

Sisters author Daniel Partner will be feature a gift book and CD "Sounds of the Season: The Stories Behind Your Favorite Carols."

Refreshments will be served and there will be time to interact with the authors.

For more information, call 549-0866.