Blue Ridge Bookfest in Henderson County this weekend

The  annual Blue Ridge Bookfest held at Blue Ridge Community College in Henderson County, NC promises to  be another  big success for  authors and attendees. The venue is perfect - large indoor space where simultaneous events happen all day Saturday. 

One of the writers you will see at the Bookfest this year is Karen White, a favorite of women who like "grit lit" or stories set in the south and geared toward women. I've read one of her books and really enjoyed it.  

 Karen White

• Saturday, April 25, 2015
• 10:00 - 10:45 am
• TEDC Classroom 311
• A Long Time Gone  

After playing hooky one day in the seventh grade to read Gone With the Wind, Karen White knew she wanted to be a writer—or become Scarlett O'Hara. In spite of these aspirations, Karen pursued a degree in business and graduated cum laude with a BS in Management from Tulane University. Ten years later, after leaving the business world, she fulfilled her dream of becoming a writer and wrote her first book. In the Shadow of the Moon was published in August, 2000.  Her books have since been nominated for numerous national contests including the SIBA (Southeastern Booksellers Alliance) Fiction Book of the Year, and has twice won the National Readers’ Choice Award.

Karen currently writes what she refers to as ‘grit lit’—southern women’s fiction—and has also expanded her horizons into writing a bestselling mystery series set in Charleston, South Carolina. Her eighteenth novel, A Long Time Gone, was published in June 2014 and debuted at #24 on the New York Times bestseller list.  Her next novel, The Sound of Glass, will be published in May 2015 by New American Library, a division of PenguinRandomHouse Publishing Group.

Karen hails from a long line of Southerners but spent most of her growing up years in London, England and is a graduate of the American School in London. When not writing, she spends her time reading, scrapbooking, playing piano, and avoiding cooking.  She currently lives near Atlanta, Georgia with her husband and two children, and a spoiled Havanese dog (who appears in several of her books), Quincy.

To see who else will be presenting on Friday and Saturday, visit this site