Author showcase in Fairmont Dec. 13

The Marion County Reading Council’s first Author Showcase will be 1-3 p.m. Sunday, December 13 at 406 Alta Vista Avenue in Fairmont.

Nine West Virginia and award winning authors will be present to autograph their books, which will be available for purchase. There will be a bake sale and the raffling off of items donated by local merchants.

Authors who will attend include Lisa Myers McCombs, Class of 1977, author of “I Have MS – What’s Your Superpower?” and several children's books and Monongah Middle School language arts teacher; Fairmont’s Diana Pishner Walker, a Clarksburg Notre Dame graduate who wrote ”I Don’t Want To Sit In The Front Row Anymore” and “Spaghetti and Meatballs: Growing up Italian”;
Georgeann Swiger, The Trinity Series (“Adorned,” “Cloven” and “Trivium”); and Linda Tomlinson,
Class of 1955, who lives in Monongah (“Chetty T. Chipmunk,” "The Ghost of Maple Road," "They Came to the Mine," “Monongah 1949” and “The Gnome’s Dome.”