Please join Rootstock author William Mark Habeeb in Charlottesville on Thursday, March 23, at the 29th annual Virginia Festival of the Book -- the largest book festival in the mid-Atlantic, attracting over 20,000 booklovers per year!

Habeeb will be moderating the authors' panel FORBIDDEN DREAMS: COMING-OF-AGE FICTION, featuring his novel Venice Beach along with two other wonderful new coming-of-age novels by Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry and Jeffrey Dale Lofton (see the book descriptions below).

Check out the Festival's web site to learn about all of the panels, author talks and other events taking place during the four-day long Festival (March 23-26) [https://www.vabook.org/].  

About all three novels: In rural Georgia, an outsider—a gay, physically misshapen kid—searches for love and acceptance. Near Moscow, four inseparable girls’ secrets, dreams, and desires are interrupted when the Soviet Empire teeters on the verge of collapse, in a retelling of Anton Chekov’s The Cherry Orchard. In California, the late 1960s bring tumult and revolution—and a sense of home to a teen fleeing his abusive family, before a shattering discovery threatens to spin his life around. 

Join Jeffrey Dale Lofton, author of Red Clay Suzie, and Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry, author of The Orchard, in a conversation with William Mark Habeeb, author of Venice Beach, for three compelling coming of age stories.

SPEAKER BIOS: click below.

Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry

William Habeeb

Jeffrey Dale Lofton

Don Hooper & Bill Mares, authors of I Could Hardly Keep from Laughing, will read and sign books at Bookstock: the Green Mountain Festival of Words, which showcases literary luminaries and cross-cultural voices, including Pulitzer Prize winners, Poet Laureates, National Book Award winners, plus debut and bestselling authors from Vermont and beyond. Features a huge sale of used, rare, and vintage books, along with author book signings, live music, food, and entertainment all on The Green in this storybook New England village. It’s free, walkable, and fun for all ages.

The festival runs June 24, 25, and 26. Learn more at bookstockvt.org.

Celia Ryker, author of Walking Home: Trail Stories, will read and sign books at Bookstock: the Green Mountain Festival of Words, which showcases literary luminaries and cross-cultural voices, including Pulitzer Prize winners, Poet Laureates, National Book Award winners, plus debut and bestselling authors from Vermont and beyond. Features a huge sale of used, rare, and vintage books, along with author book signings, live music, food, and entertainment all on The Green in this storybook New England village. It’s free, walkable, and fun for all ages.

The festival runs June 24, 25, and 26. Learn more at bookstockvt.org.