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AUTHOR AND BOOK SPOTLIGHT
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Author and Book SPOTLIGHT
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By Allison Radziwon
Looking for a new book to read this summer? Look no further! We have just the author and book recommendations for you:
Kwame Mbalia Mbalia is the New York Times bestselling author of Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, for which he won the Coretta Scott King Author Honor Award. Published by Rick Riordan Presents/DisneyHyperion, the middle grade trilogy follows seventh grader Tristan Strong’s adventures in a world of African American folk heroes and West African gods. The last book of the Tristan Strong trilogy – Tristan Strong Keeps Punching – was released on October 5th, 2021. He cowrote Last Gate of the Emperor with Prince Joel Makonnen from Scholastic. Mbalia is also the editor of Black Boy Joy, a middle grade anthology about celebrating Black boyhood, which was released on August 3rd, 2021 by Delacorte Press. To learn more about Mbalia and purchase his work, visit kwamembalia.com.
Frances O’Roark Dowell, Birds in the Air Dowell is the bestselling author of Dovey Coe, The Secret Language of Girls and Trouble the Water, and winner of the Edgar Award, William Allen White Award and the Christopher medal. Birds in the Air follows the socially awkward Emma Byrd as she and her family move to a small community in the mountains, named Sweet Anne’s Gap. While her husband thrives at his new job and her children find their footing at their new school, Emma struggles to make friends. Once Emma finds friends in a few of the quilters in Sweet Anne’s Gap, she becomes the organizer of the quilt show for the town’s centennial celebration. However, not everyone is pleased to see an outsider do the job. To learn more about Dowell as well as purchase Birds in the Air, visit francesdowell.com.
Nancy Peacock
Peacock is 2018’s Piedmont
Laureate – a program created to promote appreciation of the literary arts in the
Piedmont region of North
Carolina – and the author of the novels Life Without
Water, Home Across the
Road and The Life and Times of Persimmon Wilson. She also wrote the memoir and writing guide A Broom of One’s Own: Words on Writing, Housecleaning and Life. Life Without Water was chosen as a New York Times Notable Book. Peacock also runs several writing workshops, classes and retreats in Hillsborough. Her classes include prompt writing and often focus on the beginning of the writing process. To learn more about Peacock, her workshops and to purchase her work, go to nancypeacockbooks. com.
Michelle Weathersby, LinkedIn 101: How to Use LinkedIn & Get Connected! Weathersby is the CEO of both LENS Consulting Firm and Michelle Weathersby Enterprises, an Executive Career Life Coach and Quality Improvement Associate/ Process Master with an education in Leadership Studies and Human Resource Management. As a Career Life Coach, much of Weathersby’s writing gives advice on how to improve your career. In LinkedIn 101: How to Use LinkedIn & Get Connected!, she uses her
education and certifications to give advice on creating the best LinkedIn profile possible for any type of career, business or nonprofit organization. The book also includes a video tutorial to help your LinkedIn profile reach its fullest potential. LinkedIn 101: How to Use LinkedIn & Get Connected! can be purchased on amazon.com, and you can contact Weathersby at michelle.weathersby@ lensconsultingfirm.com If you are an author and would like to be featured in this section, schedule a 15-minute Discovery Call with us at www.thecityinsightmag.com/author-insight-sales.
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