SUMMER MICHIGAN AND NEBRASKA TRAVELS

SCHEDULED EVENTS:

Horizon Books in Petoskey, Saturday June 5th, 3:00-5:00pm
Horizon Books in Cadillac, Saturday July 17th, 12:30-2:30pm
Horizon Books in Traverse City, July 17th, 3:30-5:30pm
Shuler Books in Lansing,Thursday July 22nd, 7:00-9:00pm

My home state Nebraska, August 9th, 15th. Time and places to be decided.

I will talk and read, then hang around, visit and hopefully sign some books.
Horizon Book Stores are welcoming and support Michigan authors. Thank you, Horizon. I’m excited to meet and talk with readers, and traveling north in a beautiful Michigan Summer is an added bonus.

I will be able to combine the Bear River Writing Conference, at Walloon Lake near Petoskey with the talk in Petoskey. (The Bear River Conference is intense, demanding and helpful in honing one’s writing—highly recommended.)

In Cadillac I’m looking forward to reading the humorous scene that takes place on the Pine River.

My husband Murray will accompany me to Traverse City and we will enjoy a weekend on Lake Michigan.

Our twins graduated from Michigan State and we know Lansing well. On July 22nd, at the Lansing event with Shuler Books, we will “dine” at the Roadhouse, a favorite bar.

In Nebraska I will visit my sister Monna and her family. Getting to the small towns of Nebraska is a challenge. To travel to my hometown of Imperial, I fly from Detroit to Denver, rent a car and drive back east 200 miles. Believe me, that is the quickest, least complicated way to get there. However, driving across the golden Colorado and Nebraska Prairie on deserted Highway Six is relaxing, freeing and takes me back to my childhood.

If I plan the trip right I can attend the monthly fried chicken dinner at the Senior Center—melt-in-your mouth chicken like Mom used to make. Also there will be a family celebration. Monna’s kids are having a centennial celebration for her and her granddaughter Carly. Between the two they will have lived one hundred years.

I’m in the process of contacting book stores and libraries in Nebraska; hopefully I can schedule talks in Imperial, and in McCook, Grand Island and York, where my nieces and nephew live.