Nibbles, Novelist and New Beginnings, an evening featuring four noted authors and emceed by Teri De Boer, will be presented by Green Gables Haven on May 17 at 5:30 p.m. at the Ever After Banquet Hall and Concert Center, 1230 North Michigan Avenue in Hastings. For more information or tickets, call 269-804- 6021 or Janie@greengableshaven.org
It’s an evening to enjoy cocktails and dinner while networking with colleagues, friends and best-selling authors, organizers say. Proceeds will help Green Gables serve those in domestic violence and crisis situations.
The authors:
Wade Rouse, an award winning memoirist, writes under the pen name Viola Shipman, his grandmother, whose heirlooms and family stories inspire his fiction. The Charm Bracelet, a 2017 Michigan Notable Book and The Hope Chest have been translated into a dozen languages and become international best sellers.
Katie Hart Smith has been a published author for more than 20 years. People, places and political and social issues inspire her writing of medical, academic, historical non-fiction, fiction, and children’s stories. In 2016, she released Aspirations of the Heart, which was placed in the Georgia Governor’s Mansion Library.
Shenandoah Chefalo, a survivor and alumna of the foster care system, and co-founder of Good Harbor Institute, is a guest speaker on foster care issues locally, nationally and internationally. Author of Garbage Bag Suitcase and an e-book, Setting Your Vision and Defining Your Goals, she is working on a manuscript, Hiking for Stillness.
Mardi Link is a New York Times bestselling author of five non-fiction books, twice winner of the Michigan Notable Book Award, the Booksellers Choice Award and the Housatonic Award for Creative Non-Fiction. Her memoir Bootstrapper has been optioned for film by actress Rachel Weisz.
The evening will be emceed by Terri DeBoer, a staff meteorologist and co-host of eight West, a life style show, on WOOD-TV. A working mom most of her career, DeBoer understands the need to support women and families.
