Meet the Author Events

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Meet Local & Bestselling Authors

Meet local authors and nationally bestselling authors and illustrators with our Meet the Author events! Browse our upcoming author visits below, and register for Meet the Author events on https://wcdpl.libcal.com/calendar/events.


Meet the Local Author: Constance Phillips
Saturday, April 13 | 2:00 pm | Meeting Room A&B at the Bowling Green Library

Meet local author Constance Phillips on Saturday, April 12 at 2:00 pm! Constance is a contemporary romance and paranormal romance novelist, and she will join us to talk about her new books and her writing process.

Constance lives in Ohio with her husband, daughter, and three canine kids. She had two upcoming books: Family Reclaimed and The First & The Last, and plenty of other books and series, including the Sunnydale Days Series and the To Protect & Serve Series.


Meet the Local Author: Anya Light
Saturday, May 11 | 2:00 pm | Meeting Room C at the Bowling Green Library

Meet local author Anya Light on Saturday, May 11 at 2:00 pm! Anya will be discussing her latest book, The Peace of Reiki: Practices for Co-Creating New Earth. This book is a spiritual guidebook for those who have an interest in holistic healing through the Japanese practice of Reiki (a form of meditation).


Meet the Author: Elle Cosimano
Wednesday, May 15 | 7:00 pm | Bowling Green Library Atrium

Join WCDPL to meet bestselling author Elle Cosimano on Wednesday, May 15 at 7:00 pm in the Bowling Green Library Atrium! Elle will be joining us to talk about her work as an author, and a Q&A and book signing will follow.

Elle is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, an International Thriller Award winner, a Bram Stoker Award finalist, and an Edgar Award nominee. Her acclaimed young adult novels include Nearly Gone, Holding Smoke, The Suffering Tree, and Seasons of the Storm. Elle’s debut novel for adults, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It, kicked off a witty, fast-paced contemporary mystery series, which was a People Magazine Pick and was named one of the New York Public Library’s Best Books of 2021. In addition to writing novels for teens and adults, her essays have appeared in The Huffington Post and Time Magazine. Elle lives with her husband and two sons in Virginia.

Books will be available to purchase at the event. No registration is required. For more information, call (419) 352-5050 or email woodref@wcdpl.org


Meet the Local Author: Bettie Boswell
Saturday, June 8 | 2:00 pm | Meeting Room C at the Bowling Green Library

Meet local author Bettie Boswell on Saturday, June 15 at 2:00 pm! Bettie is a traditionally published author for all ages of readers. Her books include On Cue, Free to Love, and Hoping for Treasure for adult readers, and Lucy and Thunder, Dottie's Dream Horse, Mazza Mystery, and more for kids.

This program will feature an informative and hands-on presentation with fun for children and adult readers and writers. A Q&A and book signing will follow. Books will be available for purchase.


Meet the Local Author: Carole Sarkan
Saturday, July 13 | 2:00 pm | Meeting Room A&B at the Bowling Green Library

Meet local children's author Carole Sarkan on Saturday, July 13 at 2:00 pm! Carole is the author of And Candy Smiled, a Caldecott Award nominee, and the sequel, And Candy Lived. This program will feature Carole as she talks about her work as an author, a Q&A, and a book signing.

Carole was a teacher from Bowling Green for 35 years, and currently lives in Grand Rapids, Ohio. Carole comes from a family of artists with her grandparents being professors and songwriters and her parents as teachers and musicians. She has always had a passion for writing, music, history, and art. Since the age of six, she always wanted to write children's books, and in partnership with author Emily Christoff-Flowers, she finally achieved that dream and began writing about her English springer spaniel dog, Candy.

Her newest book, Aunt Mary's Pottery, is about a potter named Mary Grabill who was an established artist in Florida and made her life creating pottery, despite her issues with arthritis and polio.


Meet the Author: Cara Mangini
Saturday, September 21 | 2:00 pm | Bowling Green Library Atrium

Meet award-winning cookbook author Cara Mangini on Saturday, September 21 at 2:00 pm in the Bowling Green Library Atrium! Award-winning author of The Vegetable Butcher: How to Select, Prep, Slice, Dice, and Masterfully Cook Vegetables from Artichokes to Zucchini, Cara will discuss her work as a chef, creator, and author.

Cara is a James Beard Award finalist, chef, creator, and author of The Vegetable Butcher and her much-anticipated second cookbook, The Vegetable Eater: The New Playbook for Vegetarian Cooking. She draws from decades of spotlighting vegetables in her cooking, writing, professional kitchen, and her own home. Bringing together this passion and experience in her newest book, she presents approachable, crave-worthy recipes that make it second nature for home cooks to create vibrant, flavorful, vegetable-based meals. With Cara’s encouragement and expertise, everyone can be a vegetable eater!

This program will include an author discussion, a Q&A, and a book signing.


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