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Oil Painting by Dee Siegmund

In response to those who have asked about this portrait. Dee Siegmund painted this spontanious oil painting as I worked in her studio in Mahomet, IL

Most authors are available for interviews and appearances.

Please call our toll-free number 866-586 4403 to arrange an interview or event with the author.

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Congratulations to the Pixar Animation Studios' Academy Award for the hit animated film, UP. We are pleased that actor Ed Asner—"Carl," in UP— is also among Mayhaven's outstanding authors. And for those of you who would like to see Asner perform on stage, he is appearing as FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) in Covington, VA, in April.

Ed Asner and Burt Hall co-authored Misuse of Power

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Congratulations!

Congratulations to the Glen Carbon Public Library, Glen Carbon, Illinois, selected as the Best Small Library in America and we are proud of the entire staff, which includes Michelle Petersen, daughter of Mayhaven's publisher. The cover of the Library Journal is below, and the article is listed on line.

Staff: Anne Hughes - Director, Janet McAllister - Assistant Director, Michelle Petersen - Head of Circulation/Homebound Coordinator
Magi Henderson - Youth Services Director, Christina Walker - Youth Services Assistant, Susan Kesler - Head Cataloger
Joyce Bringenberg - Cataloger, Joan Schneider - Associate, Amanda Wendel - Associate, Tammy Green - Associate, Michelle Mondloh - Associate, Leigh Gardner - Associate, Christine Gerrish - Associate, Donald Ladd - PageLaura Kubicek - Page, Jenna Stoeber - Page

Best Small Library in America 2010 awarded by Library Journal and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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2010 Events Etc.

Press Release: Lincoln Poems at Decatur Public Library

Dr. Dan Guillory, Professor Emeritus of English at Millikin University, will present another reading from his recent book, The Lincoln Poems, at 2:00 PM in the Madden Auditorium of the Decatur Public Library on Sunday April 19, 2009. April is National Poetry Month, and Professor Guillory will focus on poems that have not been previously performed at the Library. Copies of his book will be offered for sale after the reading.

The Lincoln Poems was one of only 21 books from across the country chosen for presentation at the National Lincoln Bicentennial Celebration in Springfield on February 12, 2009. Before the poetry reading, Dr. Guillory will share his impressions of that special day, including the Bicentennial Banquet, where President Obama spoke briefly. Dr. Guillory will also have on display some of the artifacts he collected on the Bicentennial day, including Lincoln “First Day of Issue” stamps and envelopes, a Lincoln coffee mug, the Bicentennial Banquet menu, and other items of interest.

In partnership with Melody Arnold and Brent Wielt of the Macon County Conservation District, Dr. Guillory presented an all-day Lincoln workshop for Macon County schoolteachers on March 21, 2009. The day was very successful, according to the evaluations. The teachers went in three vans on a tour of Lincoln sites in and around Decatur. The workshop will be repeated on Wednesday June 10, 2009.

An audiobook of Dr. Guillory's The Lincoln Poems will soon be released by Mayhaven. Dr. Guillory has signed another contract with Mayhaven for a new book entitled People and Places in the Land of Lincoln.

January 2010—The State of Maine Museum, Augusta, Maine, featured Nancy Orr Johnson Jensen's book and audio book: Helen, Ethel & The Crazy Quilt—Based on the 1890 Letters Between Helen Keller and Ethel Orr. The actual quilt and the letters from Helen Keller to Ethel Orr are on display and the author will be available for interviews and signings. Author Judith Joy (A Doorway Through Space) recently visited the museum and was impressed with the quilt, the letters and presentation of the book and audio book.

January 10, 2010—Doris Replogle Wenzel (publisher and editor) was Alex Ruggieri's guest on WCIA TV's One on One—right after Face the Nation and just before the game! Those who missed can Google One on One with Alex Ruggieri can Google it.

February 2010—The Children's Writer newsletter includes quotes from Doris Replogle Wenzel in an article on Science Fiction for Children and Young Adults.

February 17, 2010—Harry Haines (Orphan, and Texas Panic!) will be a guest speaker at the Southwest Writers Event in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

February 25, 2010—Dan Guillory will read from his highly acclaimed book and audio book (The Lincoln Poems) at Barnes & Noble in Champaign, IL. 4:30 — 6:30

March 4, 2010—Heidi McIntyre (Jack's Snack Attack) will be featured at the Family Literacy Night at the "A" rated PS 154, 6-8 PM, 333 East 135th St, Bronx, NY.

March 15, 2010—Dan Guillory Interview, WSEC-TV, Illinois Stories, Macon Co. Conserv. District, 10:30 AM

March 18, 2010—Dan Guillory, Macon Co. Conserv. District, “Women in Illinois,” Program, 4-8 PM

April 10, 2010—Helen Rademacher read from her new book, Collage, to a nearly full house at Windsor of Savoy, with guests from as far away as OK.

April 11, 2010—Dan Guillory, Madden Auditorium, Decatur Public Lib., Decatur, IL, Poetry Reading, 2 P

April 11-14, 2010—Ed Asner, actor (UP), and co-author with Burt Hall (Misuse of Power), will portray FDR in Covington, VA.

April 17, 2010 (Saturday) —Meet Mayhaven's Illinois Authors, Cullen Porter, Brian Porter, Valerie Osborn, Bob Auler, and Dan Guillory, Rantoul, IL, Library Festival.

April 18, 2010 (Sunday)—Mayhaven Authors: Cullen Porter, Valerie Osborn, Helen Rademacher, and Dan Guillory, and Helen Rademacher will be featured at the Early American Museum and the Mahomet Library in Mahomet, IL. (North of Mahomet on Rt. 47. 10:00 to 2:00.

April 19, 2010 (Monday)—Doris Replogle Wenzel will be a guest at The Reading Circle in Champaign, IL

April 28, 2010—David Selby will be one of three on a panel to discuss American History at the Smithsonian in Washington, DC

May 3, 2010—Helen Rademacher will read from her work at the Tolono Library, 7:00 — 8:30 .

May 4, 2010—Cullen Porter and Doris Wenzel will take part in an event at the Cerro Gordo Grade School.

May 12, 2010—Helen Rademacher (Collage: Poems and Essays) will read from her work at the Reading Circle, Champaign, IL

May 22. 2010—Heidi McIntrye, Signing at Barnes & Noble, New York, NY

2009

March 1, 2009—Library Journal Review of The Lincoln Poems (Guillory)

April 11 and 12, 2009—Doris Wenzel was Alex Ruggeri's guest on Central Illinois Business Report, WDWS radio.

April 18, 2009 Authors Valerie Osborn, Robert Auler, Brian Porter, Cullen Porter, and Doris Wenzel, attended the very successful event at the Rantoul Library in Rantoul, IL. The authors read from their work, and publisher Doris Wenzel held a 2-hour workshop for authors.

May 28, 2009—Judith Joy spoke to students at King Middle School in Portland, Maine. Joy has also been named to the Maine Libraries Conference YA panel

September 11-12, 2009—June Weltman at Florida Heritage Book Festival, St. Augustine, FL

Sept. 25th—Dan Guillory at Knox College, Galesburg, IL, 4:00 PM Reading

October 6, 2009—Doris Wenzel, Champaign Public Library, Urbana, IL

October 18, 2009—Doris Wenzel and Cullen Porter will speak at the Illinois Artisans Shop, Rend Lake (IL)

October 18-20, 2009—Terri DeMitchell, Jigsaw will be exhibited at the New England Library Association conference in CT .

October 23, 2009—Doris Wenzel and Cast, Stage Reading of Without Discretion, by Doris Replogle Porter Wenzel, Early American Museum, 7:00 PM. Call 217 586 4493 for reservations.

October 23-25, 2009—June Weltman, Florida Writer's Association, Orlando, FL

October 24, 2009—Terri DeMitchell, Halloween Town 2009 (Benefit for the Bostobn Medical Center's Kids Fund), Seaport World Trade Center, Boston, MA 11:00 to 2:00 PM

October 27, 2009—Dan Guillory, Elgin Community College, Elgin, IL, 11:00 AM and 7:00 PM

October 27, 2009—Dan Guillory, Elgin Community College, Elgin, IL, 11:00 AM and 7:00 PM

October 28, 2009—Dan Guillory, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, MO

October 28, 2009—Dan Guillory, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, MO

November (to be announced) Dan Guillory, University of Illinois at Springfield, Brookens Library (date and time to be announced)

November (to be announced)—Dan Guillory, Vachel Lindsay Association Annual Meeting (date TBA), Springfield

November 14, 2009—David Selby with the San Luis Obispo Symphony Orchestra at 8:00 PM - Performing Arts Center, campus of Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo. Selby will be narrating Aaron Copeland's "A Lincoln Portrait."

November 19, 2009—Donna Bennett read Jessica's Bear, Glen Carbon Library, Glen Carbon, IL

November 19, 2009—Cullen Porter entertained at the Cerro Gordo Grade School

November 21, 2009—Terri DeMitchell read from her newest book, Jigsaw, at the 32nd Annual Yuletide Fair, Cooperative Middle School, Stratham, NH.

December 5, 2009—Terri DeMitchell, will appear at Fox Tale Books, Alton, NH 12:00 Noon to 2:00 PM.

December 6, 2009—Steve Shoemaker PBS interview with Dan Guillory, WILL Radio and WILL.illinois.edu

Portions of the following books on Lincoln by Wayne C. Temple and Sunderine Temple, published by Mayhaven, are included on the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Web site: Abraham Lincoln: From Skeptic to Prophet; By Square & Compass: Saga of the Lincoln Home; "The Taste is in My Mouth...A Little" ; Lincoln's Travels on the River Queen During the Last Days of His Life, and, co-authored with Sunderine Temple, Abraham Lincoln and Illinois' Fifth Capitol.

March 18-21, 2009, Mayhaven Children and Young Adult Books were represented at the ACEI 2009 International Conference and Exhibition March 18-21 in Chicago.

February 12 - March 8, 2009, CBS Sunday Morning announced the reopening of Ford's Theater in Washington D.C. and Actor David Selby (Lincoln's Better Angel) portrayed Lincoln to rave reviews.

February 12, 2009, Illinois authors Wayne C. Temple and Dan Guillory were featured at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and several other events.

February 18, 2009, Wayne C. Temple made a standing-room only appearance Glen Carbon Library, Glen Carbon, IL.

2009 University of Illinois Alumi Magazine - Ad on Robert Isham Auler's Keep and Bear Arms

April 30, 2009 The Tin Pan restaurant in Paxton, IL will host a wine and signing party for our newest author, Brian H. Porter (Harvey's Life - Now What?) from 5:30 to 7:30 pm.

April 11 and April 12, 2009, Doris Wenzel was Alex Ruggeri's guest on Central Illinois Business Report - WDWS radio

April 30, 2009—Brian Porter (Harvey's Life - Now What?) signing and wine tasting party at the Tin Pan restaurant in Paxton, IL 5:30 - 7:30.

May 6, 2009children's authors Cullen Porter (Grandpa Grumpy Pants) and Valerie Huffman Osborn (A Week of Bunnies) will attend a luncheon at the Cerro Gordo, IL elementary school, at 11:30 to 1:00.

May 6, 2009—the Ten Sisters (Ten Sisters: A True Story) will be featured at the Paxton Women's Club luncheon at the Paxton Country Club at Noon.

May 17, 2009—Dan Guillory will be appearing at Decatur Central Park, Vietnam Veterans Program, Decatur, IL, at 2:00 PM. (sponsored by DPL)

May 27, 2009—Dan Guillory will be appearing at the Decatur YMCA, “History of Decatur,” from 1:00 to 2:00 PM

June 10, 2009—Dan Guillory, Macon Co. Conservation District-Workshop for Teachers, 8:00 AM-3:30 PM

June 25, 2009—Ray Elliott* will speak at the Glen Carbon Library in Glen Carbon, IL

July 19, 2009—Dan Guillory, Decatur Audobon Society, Lincoln Trails Homestead State Park, 4:30 PM

Robert Isham Auler - Keep and Bear Arms

2008 Keep and Bear Arms (Auler) The University of Illinois Alumi Magazine

2008 Keep and Bear Arms (Auler) Printer's Row, Chicago, IL hosted by the Illini Book Shop (Urbana).

2008 Keep and Bear Arms (Auler) WDWS Radio Interview, Champaign, IL.

2008 Keep and Bear Arms (Auler) Pages for All Ages, Savoy, IL

June 2008 Keep and Bear Arms (Auler) American Library Association Booklist ad

October 14, 2007—Keep and Bear Arms (Auler) Notice of Auler's novel in Roger Ebert's column. By the way, for those few of you who don't know: Roger Ebert won the Pulitzer Prize and has been selected as one of the most trusted columnists in America!

2008 Keep and Bear Arms (Auler) Article - Charleston Times Courier - Headline: "Courtroom drama is a perfect fit for lawyer-author"

Keep and Bear Arms (Auler) Mahomet Citizen, Mahomet, IL - Headline: "Mayhaven publishes Robert Auler's first mystery "Keep and Bear Arms"

Keep and Bear Arms (Auler)Author's Showcase, hosted by Bloomington Pantagraph and Urban League, Bloomington/Normal, IL

Keep and Bear Arms (Auler) Jim Dey's Column, Champaign News Gazette, Champaign, IL

Keep and Bear Arms (Auler) Barnes & Noble Event, Champaign, IL

Keep and Bear Arms (Auler) Decatur Herald & Review, Decatur, IL

Margee Bugbee Winner of Mayhaven's Award for Fiction with Beyond the Road

The Royal Palm Book of the Year for Beyond the Road (young adult novel)

February, 2007 Midwest Book Review "....a story with soul. Lakota Indian soul to be precise. ....Besides the credible characters and the Lakota intrigue, the plum in the book is the ending. It is a hook-the-reader-can't-put-it-down adventure. Emotions run high when the characters are thrown to the wolves and this is when the reader learns why this book has won two formidable awards. This is when you feel satisfaction at having spent time in another world."

Barnes & Noble, Newington, New NH

Nashua Public Library, Nashua, NH

Farris speaking at several conferences in the midwest on Crossover Dribble.

Audio book of Crossover Dribble now available.

Crossover Dribble (P. J. Farris) Northern Today, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL - Headline: "Retired professor's novel for boys offers humor, suspense, practical basketball tips"

Author's Showcase, hosted by Bloomington Pantagraph and Urban League, Bloomington/Normal, IL

The Midweek - Chronicle News Group - headline: "Crossover author's got game"

12/1/07 Big news! William Safire (New York Times Magazine) recommends The Party of the First Part by Adam Freedman (Henry Holt & Co.) as one of three late-summer reads about the "use and abuse of words." He praises the book as a "lighthearted but lucid explanation of legalese." We are pleased to say Freedman won Mayhaven Awards for Fiction for a collection of his short stories, Elated By Details. Check out the New York Times for my Op-Ed on the language of the Second Amendment's "right to keep and bear arms": http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/opinion/16freedman.html

Dan Guillory's (The Lincoln Poems) List of Events

Fri. March 14th, 2008-Millikin University, Illinois State Historical Society, Parquet Room,

Richards Treat University Center, 3:15 PM.

Sun. April 6th, 2008—Madden Auditorium, Decatur Public Library, 2 PM.

Sat. April 12th--Millikin University, Illinois Philological Assoc. Conference, 1 PM

Sat. April 19th-Lincoln Re-Enactment Shelby Co. Court House, Shelbyville, 2PM

Thurs. April 24th-Richland Community College, Decatur, 12:00 PM.

Sat. April 26th-Macon County Conservation District, Rock Springs Environmental Center, 2 PM

Mon. May 19th-Decatur YMCA, Lobby, 2 PM.

Sun. June 8th-History in Stone Re-Enactment, Shelbyville, 2:00PM

Wed. June 18th-Barclay Public Library, Warrensburg, 11:00 AM

Mon. June 30th-Shelbyville Rotary Club, Shelbyville-Noon

Sat. July 5th—Book-signing, Haines and Essick Bookstore, Decatur, 11:00AM-2:00PM

Sat. July 12th—Moweaqua Lions Club, 5:00 PM

Sat. July 19th—“Poets in the Parlor,” Vachel Lindsay Home, 603 South 5th St., Springfield, 2PM

Thurs. July 24—Interview with Peg Knoepfle, Public Access Cable TV, Springfield

Sat. Aug. 9th—Re-Enactment, Shelby Co. Court House, Shelbyville, 2PM

Mon. Aug. 11th—Interview on WUIS-FM, Springfield, Quiddity Program (to be aired early2009)

Thurs. Aug, 28-Book Signing, Barnes and Noble Bookstore, Springfield, 6PM

Sat. Sept. 6-Macon County Historical Museum, Decatur, 2PM

Sat. Sept. 13-Pages for All Ages Bookstore, Savoy, Illinois, 2PM, Book-signing and reading!

Thurs. Sept. 18-Dove, Inc., Volunteer Luncheon, Baptist Tabernacle Church, Decatur, Noon

Thurs. Oct. 9-Book-signing at Barnes and Noble Bookstore, Champaign, 7:00-9:00 PM

Sat. Oct. 11th-“Lincoln in Art: Sights and Sounds,” Old State Capitol, Springfield,5:30-8:00PM

Sun. Oct. 12th-History in Stone Reenactment, Glenwood Cemetery, Shelbyville, IL, 2PM

Sun. Oct. 19th-Rend Lake Artisans Center, Mayhaven Publishing Event (TBA)

Wed. Oct. 22-Wheaton College, Prof. David Maas, History Dept., 12:45-1:50 PM

Tues. Nov. 11-WILL Radio, Tom Rogers Show, Urbana, IL, 2:45-3:00PM

Sun. Nov. 16th-Re-Enactment, Shelby Co. Court House, Shelbyville, 2PM

Sat. Dec. 20th-Book sale at County Market, Shelbyville, for Lincoln Foundation, 11-2PM

Haines, Harry - Orphan - Winner of Mayhaven's Award for Fiction

Accent West (The Amarillo Magazine) Amarillo, TX - Headline: Beating the Odds: Harry Haines Gets First Novel Published

Featured at the Buffalo Bookstore, Canyon, TX

Frontiers in Writing Conference, Amarillo, TX

The Elk City Daily News, Western Oklahoma's No., 1 Newspaper Since 1901 Headline - "ECHS Alumnus Publishes First Work of Fiction"

Book Signing Carnegie Library - Elk City, OK

Book Talk and Signing, Hastings, Amarillo, TX

Enid Public Library, Enid, OK

Barnes & Noble, Oklahoma City, OK

Maui Writers Retreat and Conference, Maui, Hawaii

Book Talk, Friends of the Library, Commerce, TX—Noon

Hastings, Greenville, TX

Book Talk and Signing - Cowhill Express Coffee Shop, Commerce, TX Sat.

Hastings - Amarillo, TX

Norman Public Library, Norman, OK

Osborn, Valerie Huffman - A Week of Bunnies

Presentation, Rantoul Library April, 2009

With Illustrator Michael Osborn - Changing Hands Bookstore

WDWS Interview with Gary O'Brien

Author's Showcase, hosted by Bloomington Pantagraph and Urban League, Bloomington/Normal, IL

Porter, Brian H. - Harvey's Life - Now What?

Presentation, Rantoul Library, April, 2009

Harvey's Life - Now What? is now available.

Brian is also the narrator on the audio version of A Family Possessed by L. W. Stevenson

2008 - Guest Author, Mayhavenpublishing.com

Porter, Cullen - Grandpa Grumpy Pants

2007-2009 Appearances at various IL schools and libraries in Illinois

Charleston Times Courier

Decatur Herald and Rivew

Frontiers in Writing, Amarillo, TX

Author's Showcase, hosted by Bloomington Pantagraph and Urban League, Bloomington/Normal, IL

IL Illinois Artisan's Shop, Rend Lake, Whittingham, IL—Noon to 3:00 PM

Porter, Todd - Firefly Fred (Children's Book and Audio Book)

Audio Book of Firefly Fred (narrated by Faye Porter)

Porter, as a software and game designer, introduces his book to a variety of people across the country.

The Park City News, Highland Park, TX

Jensen, Nancy Orr Johnson Jensen - Bailey Island: Memories, Pictures and Lore (Nonfiction 3rd Printing); Helen, Ethel & The Crazy Quilt: Based on the 1890 Letters between Helen Keller and Ethel Orr (Children's Book and Audio Book)

Decatur Herald and Review article

The Governor Baxter School for the Deaf on Mackworth Island, ME

State of Maine Museum, Augusta, ME with Illustrator

Land's End, Bailey Island, ME

Selby, David - Lincoln's Better Angel (Novel); My Mother's Autumn (Book and Audio book); Happenstance (Book and Audio Book); In and Out of the Shadows; A Better Place

See his website: DavidSelby.com for additional events and appearances.

Feb. 8, 2009 CBS Sunday Morning's piece on the reopening of Ford's Theater

Beginning February 12, 2009 Selby performed the role of Lincoln in the reopening of the Ford Theater in Washington D.C.

February 20, Guest Speaker, National Cathedral, Washington D.C.

Guest appearance on TNT's new series: Raising the Bar.

Barnes and Noble - Las Vegas, NV

East coast tour For a complete listing of David Selby's activities and appearances, please check his website: David Selby.com

CBS Sunday Morning featured a clip from Tell Me You Love Me (HBO series), with another new Mayhaven author, actor and author David L. Selby—Lincoln's Better Angel.

WDWS Radio Interview with Gary O'Brien, Champaign, IL

Barnes & Noble, Morgantown, WV

Morgantown Rotary, Morgantown, WV

Dark Shadows Fan Club, Martinsville, WV

Keynote Speaker, St. Peter's Episcopal Church's 275th Anniversar, Boston, MA

Harvard Square Coop, Level 3, 1400 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA

Barnes & Noble, West, Springfield, NJ

Borders Books & Music, Haggerstown, MD

Barnes and Noble, Las Vegas, NV

Ten Sisters (Rackley, Hart, Brniak, Allen, Hickmott, Ariel, Ferguson, Barber, Alford, and Wenzel) - Ten Sisters: A True Story (Book (in 5th Printing), Audio Book, DVD (PBS documentary); Ten Little Sisters (Children's book).

Ten Sisters: A True Story will return to PBS (WILL-Champaign) March 16, 2009

WDWS interview with Doris Wenzel March, 2009

Ten Sisters: A True Story TV Documentary played on PBS (Chicago) in February 2009

February, 2007 - February 2009 Ten Sisters: A True Story - Television Documentary - various PBS stations across the country.

Onarga Academy, Onarga, IL

Author's Showcase, Bloomington, IL

Bloomington, IL Methodist Women's luncheon Noon. Reservations required.

Southern Illinois Artisans' Shop, Rend Lake, IL

Temple, Wayne C. - Abraham Lincoln: From Skeptic to Prophet (2nd Printing); By Square & Compass, Saga of the Lincoln Home; The Taste IS In My Mouth a Little: Lincoln's Victuals and Potables; Abraham Lincoln and Illinois' Fifth Capitol (co-authored with Sunderine Temple); and Lincoln's Travels on the River Queen During the Last Days of His Life. All nonfiction.

Wayne C. Temple has been called the greatest living Lincoln historian. You can see Wayne Temple on the History Channel

Presentation, Glen Carbon Library, Glen Carbon, IL

February 2009 Guest appearance on PBS documentary premiering on WILL, Champaign, IL (on PBS stations across the country)

Signing, February 12, 2009 Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum, Springfield, IL (and other locations)

Lincoln College, Lincoln, IL Presentation

The entire June, 2008 issue of the Cook-Witter Report was devoted to Dr. Wayne C. Temple's research and published works, including the five titles Mayhaven has published.

Lewiston, IL presentation

Guest lecturer in October at the University of Illinois - Urbana/Champaign.

Weltman, June - Mystery of the Missing Candlestick - Winner - Mayhaven Award for Children's Fiction

June Weltman has been appearing in many, many signings and workshops in Florida and other areas.

Musician and Author, Randall Franks wrote to ask for the use of a recipe from Dr. Wayne C. Temple's The Taste Is in My Mouth a Little... for his upcoming cookbook, Southern Style: Musings, Memories and Marvelous Makin's, the proceeds of which will go to his not-for-profit Share America Foundation, Inc. serving Georgia and Tennessee. Some of you may remember Randall as "Officer Randy Goode" on TV's In the Heat of the Night, or other TV and film appearances. Others will know of his work, as a very young fiddle player, with Bill Monroe and, over the years, many others. He was inducted into the Atlanta Country Music Hall of Fame in 2004. Though Mayhaven is not publishing this work, we will let you know when it is available.

Daughter and Librarian, Michelle Petersen, writes: " ....Here is an article that appeared about our Library's platoon the Glen Carbon Library adopted!" http://www.bnd.com/news/local/story/204892.html

The talented Yolanda and Earl Hughes, drove from Pittsburgh, to visit with us during the November Literacy Event in West Virginia. Yolanda won the Mayhaven Award for Children's Fiction with Cruisin' Sarah, for older children and young adults. A wonderful writer, Yoli and Earl have worked professionally in theater for many years. They are delightful company. So is their well-behaved little dog. No "Dog Whisperer" needed. Watch for Yoli's award-winning book, Crusin' Sarah, coming SOON!

We thank Bill Lucht, and Sandy Baker, her husband Ove (for his wonderful dinner and excellent conversation), their delightful daughter Joanna, and all those we met at the recent West Virginia Book Faire. The guest list was impressive, and included many fine authors and artists, including Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club, and Kieu Chihn, memorable star of the movie version. Mayhaven was happy to take part in various events, including a presentation by screenwriter and novelist, Loraine Despres (you will remember her famous TV episode "Who Killed J.R.?", or her recent novels, The Scandalous Summer of Sissy LeBlanc and The Bad Behavior of Belle Cantrell. It was also inspiring to be present at a little bit of history when the charming Doro Bush Koch, assisted by and her lively sister-in-law, spoke about her memoir of George H. W. Bush: My father, My President.

We were pleased when Bill Lucht introduced author and actor David L. Selby's newest book, Lincoln's Better Angel, a moving and imaginative novel, in which Lincoln returns to the present as a fascinating ghost.

CBS Sunday Morning showed a clip from Tell Me You Love Me (HBO series), with another new Mayhaven author, actor and author David L. Selby, whose newest novel, Lincoln's Better Angel is available. Selby has also published: Happenstance, In and Out of the Shadows, and My Mother's Autumn. My Mother's Autumn is also available as an audio book. All are available through Mayhaven.

Congratulations Stanley A. Changnon, PhD!

The authors and artists who publish with Mayhaven are extraordinary people—talented in many ways. Stanley Changnon is one of them. Mayhaven published his first book on trains, America's Rural Hub, but the world now recognizes him as one of the authors of the International Climate Committee Report on Climate Change, the report written for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The Panel and former Vice President Al Gore shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.

Congratulations Ten Sisters! During 2008, a PBS documentary, Ten Sisters: A True Story, has been shown on many PBS stations across the country. Ask your local PBS station for dates and times in your area.

Thanks to Joe Morgan, author of Potato Branch: Sketches of Mountain Memories, and Into the Chilling Water (Bright Mountain Books) for including Doris Wenzel in his acknowledgements.

Congratulations! Susan McBride (Winner of Mayhaven Awards for Fiction for her first novel, And Then She was Gone) has informed us that she has just signed with Random House for her newest publication. Mayhaven also published her second novel, Overkill.

Congratulations! Michelle Petersen, Head of Circulation, Glen Carbon Centennial Library was also a co-winner of Reaching Forward South Award for 2006 Support Staff Person of the Year.

Congratulations! Author M. Howe Bugbee's Beyond the Road has won both First Place in the Children's and Young Adult Category and the 2006 Royal Palm Literary Award for Best Book in all Categories at the Florida Writers Association's Annual Conference. Beyond the Road, in manuscript form, was the winner of Mayhaven's Award for Fiction and was published by Mayhaven. Artist and Graphic Designer, Jean Spencer created the cover for Beyond the Road, a mystery for older children and young adults set in southern Indiana. For more on M. Howe Bugbee and Jean Spencer, see Authors .

Congratulations! June Weltman, Winner of Mayhaven's Awards for Fiction, Mystery of the Missing Candlestick, has won the Best Young Adult Fiction award from the Florida Publishers Association, and First Place for Juvenile Fiction in the 2005 National Federation of Press Women At-Large Communications Contest. The book also won Honorable Mention in the NFPW National Communications Contest. She previously won the Journeys For The Junior Historian Book Award from the Florida Historical Society with Mystery of the Missing Candlestick.

It was a pleasure to speak with Margaret Hay Van Damm (The River Love). Her love story for mature readers is now in audio, read in her own rich voice. Some will remember that her father, George Hay, established the Grand Old Opry.

Marjorie Lynn Heaton. At the age of 80, compiled an extrodinary 2-volume history of her family. The first, Dear Family, traced her family from 1780's England to Iowa through the 1920's; the second, Sugar From Lettuce, took up the journey through the decade of the 1930's. Now in her 90's, Marjorie is still light-hearted, busy, and continues to write.

Don't leave Springfield, IL without Abraham Lincoln and Illinois' Fifth Capitol by Sunderine (Wilson) Temple and Wayne C. Temple, a vivid account of the building of Springfield, Illinois' old state capitol and the people and events that linger in within its halls. Autographed copies available at Prairie Archives and the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum, Springfield, IL.