By Margaret Evans, Editor

Novelist Karen Spears Zacharias is a Georgia-raised Gold Star daughter. Her work as a journalist has been featured in the New York Times and on CNN, NPR, and Good Morning America. She is the author of eight books, including Mother of Rain, which received the Weatherford Award for Best in Appalachian Fiction and was adapted for the stage by Georgia'€™s Historic State Theater. Karen and her husband divide their time between Oregon and Georgia. She will appear as part of the Pat Conroy Literary Center'€™s Visiting Writers Series on September 9th with her newest novel, Christian Bend.

The 2017 Friends of the Beaufort Library Fall Book Sale is right around the corner, with thousands of boxes of donated books plus audio-visual materials (books, music, and movies) available at give-away prices for the annual fundraiser.

Interview by Jonathan Haupt

A Hilton Head Island native, writer and artist Nicole Seitz is the author of six novels, including The Spirit of Sweetgrass, The Inheritance of Beauty, and Beyond Molasses Creek. Nicole'€™s fiction has been honored by Library Journal, Romantic Times, the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance, the Christian Booksellers Association, the Pulpwood Queens Book Club, and Books-a-Million.