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Fun Book Signing at Schuler Books in Grand Rapids on December 10, 2016

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:December 13, 2016
Post category:Autographing Books Children's Literature Literature Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators

I had a great time at my book signing at Schuler Books in Grand Rapids. Dawne Webber of the Michigan chapter of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators organized this event. I enjoyed meeting the other two authors who shared this signing with me, PJ Lyons and Erica M. Chapman. Erica has a brand-new young adult novel, and PJ writes books based on Bible stories for young children. I think that we three made a good team, and all of us sold books. (more…)

Book Signing by Three Authors of Children’s Books at Schuler Books in Grand Rapids on Saturday, December 10, 2016 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:November 14, 2016
Post category:Autographing Books Bullying Chapter Book Children's Literature Fiction Historical Fiction Janet's Speaking Events Literature Picture Book Poetry Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators

Saturday, December 10, 2016 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.—Authors Janet Ruth Heller, P. J. Lyons, and Erica Chapman will sign their children’s and other books at Schuler Books & Music at 2660 28th St. SE in Grand Rapids, MI 49512. (more…)

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I love books by British writers P. D. James, Seamus Heaney, S. T. Coleridge, Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, W. B. Yeats;

American writers Judy Blume, Edna St. Vincent Millay, T. S. Eliot, Maxine Kumin, Jim Daniels, Mong-Lan, Robert Hayden, Langston Hughes, Naomi Shihab Nye, Alberto Ríos, Gail B. Griffin, Jerry Spinelli, Jane Yolen, Kathryn Erskine, Gary D. Schmidt, Adrienne Rich, Judith Minty, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marge Piercy, Grace Paley, Alicia Ostriker, Jaimy Gordon; South African writer Athol Fugard;

Israeli writers Chaim Nachman Bialik, Yehudah Amichai, Rachel Bluwstein, Chaim Guri, S. Y. Agnon; and Hispanic writers Sor Juana, Federico García Lorca, Ruben Darío, Antonio Machado, Jorge Guillén, Pedro Salinas, and Dámaso Alonso.

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My writing has been influenced by many other authors, including British writers Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, W. B. Yeats;

American writers Edna St. Vincent Millay, T. S. Eliot, Maxine Kumin, Adrienne Rich, Judith Minty, Gwendolyn Brooks;

Israeli writers Chaim Nachman Bialik, Yehudah Amichai, Rachel Bluwstein, Chaim Guri, S. Y. Agnon, and Hispanic writers Sor Juana, Federico Garcia Lorca, Ruben Dario, Antonio Machado, Jorge Guillen, Pedro Salinas, and Damaso Alonso.