Local Author Fair

Name: Local Author Fair
Start: 2025-02-01T13:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-02-01T15:00:00-06:00
Location: 2629 Beaver Ave Ste S1, Des Moines, IA, United States, Iowa 50310

Schedule

Sat Feb 01 2025 at 01:00 pm to 03:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

2629 Beaver Ave Ste S1, Des Moines, IA, United States, Iowa 50310 | Des Moines, IA

Here’s your chance to meet and greet five local writers all in one afternoon, as Beaverdale Books presents its bi-annual Local Author Fair. Whether you are an aspiring writer or just a fan of writers, don’t miss this opportunity to hear these local authors share their stories, their creative process, how published their work, and what’s next in their writing journey. Of course, we will have copies of their books available for sale and signing.
Silly Animal Tales and Silly Animal Tales 2 are a collection of fast and fun limerick for kids. Each page is a new story and illustration about a whole new critter! Lions, Tigers, Bears…and a pet rock?! Silly Animal Tales 3 and Silly Pet Tales will be coming out in 2025, so the goofy limericks will continue with names I’ve picked up along the way. The author loves to use uncommon names so kids (and adults) can see their name in a book!
Uncharted Territory, by Tiffany Killoren, is full of stories. The stories may have come in all shapes and sizes over the years, but in her heart, Killoren simply loved to tell them. As an attorney, she understood that each case is a story, full of facts that will shape the opinion of the person who hears it based on how it’s told. As a magazine writer, she enjoyed diving into complex topics that required her to challenge herself, interviewing experts and educating herself to craft a finished product that she felt fortunate and honored to be a part of. As a magazine editor, she was drawn to the obscure, the stories that aren’t often told, but which have so much to say. And, as an author, she shapes her own fictional worlds, creating characters with beautiful flaws that she wishes she could sit down and get to know over a latte.
Crashing Into America: A Radical Passage from India provides a unique perspective for understanding the chaos of America today. The USA is still in an identity crisis that began in the 1960s. The Civil Rights Movement shook the country to its core. The anti-war and gender liberation movements deepened the questioning of the American story. Protests erupted across the country and continued for a decade. Assassinations and urban uprisings shattered the status quo. Radical new music reflected and reinforced the rapid changes. Crashing Into America is a compelling story of innocence, curiosity, and rebellion. Jamie, the son of Scottish and American missionaries in newly independent India, is searching for identity. From the fear of being left alone as a young child in a boarding school in India to a young adult going back to “his America” in the throes of the Vietnam War, he struggles to find his purpose in a chaotic world.
Unholy Soul is the first in the Saints Purgatory MC series. Soul, the main character, is a take-no-prisoners man who falls fast and hard for CeCe despite his intentions. CeCe has been screwed over by doctors and life itself, but Jez (Soul’s sister) has adopted her as a friend and asks the MC to step in.
Another Dance tells the story of Annie Obless who, one year after the loss of her husband, still struggles with grief while raising her two young children. Her therapist insists that her healing is being halted by her inability to open up and share details of her husband’s death. Longing to move forward, but disinterested in a traditional support group, she enrolls in a ballroom dance class, seeking an escape from the constant flashbacks of her former life and the still-present flood of guilt. At the first night of Ballroom Basics, Annie meets Milo Warner, the handsome, enigmatic instructor who is eager to have a dance partner to help lead the class. As she attempts to master a variety of dance steps and juggle her responsibilities as a mother, Annie reluctantly begins to explore friendship and flirtation after Milo reveals his own experience with love and loss. In spite of her therapists’ warnings about starting a new relationship, a potential romance and the possibility of moving on drives Annie to seek solace in Milo as their connection deepens and intensifies. Can her time with Milo help her come to terms with who she is and who she needs to be for her children, or will Annie find herself opening up to more than she had planned?