READING, WRITING AND THE CREATIVE PROCESS

In celebration of National Author’s Day, Peters
Township Public Library is proud to host three local authors.


Patricia Easton, Stephanie Keyes, and Jeanne Marie Laskas will
share how reading influences their writing, and what rituals,
superstitions, settings, and habits shape their creative process. We
will also learn what/who inspired them to write. Our panelists are also
looking forward to learning from you how a story changes the reader and
how a reader can change a story.


Patricia Harrison Easton is the author of seven books, five of them for young people. Her latest book Davey's Blue-Eyed Frog won the Beverly Cleary Children's Choice Award. Stephanie Keyes, is the author of the YA Fantasy series, The Star Child, which currently includes The Star Child and The Fallen Stars, and After Faerie , all released by Inkspell Publishing. Jeanne Marie Laskas is the author of six books, including her latest, Hidden America, as well as the award-winning trilogy of memoirs: Fifty Acres and a Poodle, The Exact Same Moon, and Growing Girls. She is also the voice behind Reader’s Digest’s “Ask Laskas,” where she dispenses wisdom with zero authority but plenty of common sense.


Following our panelists sharing information/ideas about their
craft, our guests will have the opportunity to interact with these three
writers. Books will be available for
sale. Light refreshments will be served. Register for this program online, at the library's circulation desk or call 724-941-9430.