Meet authors at Words and Wine Tuesday
Meet authors at Words and Wine Tuesday
Join local authors at 6 p.m. Tuesday for the monthly Words and Wine Event hosted by Kona Stories Book Shop. This event is free to the public and offers a chance for you to meet and greet some of Kona’s favorite authors while you enjoy complimentary pupu and wine. February’s featured authors are: Frankie Bow, Bryan Furer and J.D. Buddemeyer.
Bow — Like Molly Barda, Bow teaches at a public university. Unlike her protagonist, she is blessed with delightful students, sane colleagues, and a perfectly nice office chair. She believes if life isn’t fair, at least it can be entertaining.
In addition to writing murder mysteries, she publishes in scholarly journals under her real name. Her experience with academic publishing has taught her to take nothing personally.
The “Professor Molly Mysteries” are the first campus crime stories set in Hawaii, and the perfect gift for mystery lovers, Hawaii kamaaina and expatriates, disillusioned academics, and anyone who has ever had to attend a team-building retreat. These mysteries reflect small town life, big academic egos, corruption, revenge, and a touch of romance.
Furer is a film industry professional for over 40 years. He wrote, acted, and directed homemade monster movies when he was a kid. As fate would have it he became a make-up artist. He studied with some of the best make-up artists in the film industry: John Chambers, Dick Smith and Keester Sweeney to name a few. He became the first if not the only local make-up Department Head in the state of Hawaii. He was elected president of the Film and Video Association of Hawaii for two consecutive terms. He was able to use the wealth of knowledge that he gained from the film industry in his writing and has written several scripts, some of which have been optioned. He has now written two books based on his screenplays and writes under his pen name Elias Blackthorne. “Five Steps to Sheep” is available in bookstores now.
In “Five Steps to Sheep,” you will meet Ansell who has a problems — he is addicted to the one thing that has kept his marriage alive all these years… drinking human blood.
Ansell is a vampire as is his wife Catherine. The couple has seen happier days but like any couple that has been together for centuries, tensions grow.
Buddemeyer has been living in Hawaii since September 2008 when his wife decided she was tired of braving the frozen wilderness that was their childhood home of southern Maine. After meeting in high school at age 15, and now both 31, they have been together for more than half their lives. Shortly after graduating college they sold everything they owned and moved to Oahu, where Buddemeyer had never been before and knew absolutely no one. After being picked up at the airport by their very friendly realtor, whom they had only met by phone, they went straight to Waianae, Oahu, where they called Makaha home for the next five years.
As his family began to expand, they migrated to the Big Island in 2013 in search of a permanent home. He now lives in Puna with his wife, two kids, and many various household pets. The idea of a magical wish-granting quill had been lingering in his subconscious since college, but it wasn’t really taken seriously until a series of unforeseen events during the spring of 2015, caused him to have an abundance of time and a need for a mental escape.
Thus the land of Sarin was discovered in the book, “The Quill of Sarin.” The question “What would you wish for, if you could have anything, but only got one?” was asked of several friends and acquaintances and the possibilities became endless. Only in Sarin do dreams become reality, but you only get one…When the townsfolk of this small farming community were bestowed a magical artifact nearly 700 years ago, they first thought it a hoax. A Quill that can make any wish come true? Ridiculous! But they soon realized it was a gift.
This event starts with an informal meet and greet merging into a more formal book presentation from each author and concluding around 8 p.m. after a Q&A session.
Info: Brenda or Joy at 324-0350. ■