Columbia City, Indiana
Earlier this month publisher Open
Books released a paperback edition of Hoosier author Susie Duncan
Sexton’s first book, Secrets of an Old Typewriter (ISBN
9781452414003). The prior year, the book was released in a digital
edition for all eReaders including Kindle and Nook. To celebrate the
paperback release, Sexton will be making several appearances
throughout Indiana.
·
September 29 – Noon to 4 pm – Sexton will be signing her book at the
James Dean Gallery during the James Dean Festival
(http://jamesdeangallery.com/)
· October 6 - 2-7 pm - Sexton will
participate in South Whitley Cleveland Township Library’s “Souper
Stompin’ Saturday” (http://www.swhitley.libguides.com/home)
· October 25 – 10 am – Sexton will be doing
a reading at the Churubusco Public Library
(http://www.churubusco.net/library.htm)
· November 3 – 5 pm – Sexton will be in the
Community Room of Columbia City’s Peabody Public Library for a
reading/signing. (http://ppl.lib.in.us/)
Currently, the
paperback edition is being carried by the James Dean Gallery in
Fairmount, Indiana and Literary Bookpost in Salisbury, North
Carolina (http://www.literarybookpost.com/). Autographed copies of
the book also will be available for purchase at the Whitley County
Historical Museum (http://whitleygov.com/department/?fDD=27-0). The
Whitley County Historical Society is planning an author event in the
first quarter of 2013.
Secrets of an Old Typewriter is also
available to order at www.open-bks.com, www.amazon.com, and
www.susieduncansexton.com.
Sexton remarked, “I thought it was exciting
to see my writing collected in book form, first digitally and then
in paperback, but this response from Indiana, my home state, and
North Carolina, the birthplace of my mother, has just been
astounding. I feel so gratified and humbled by these opportunities.
I look forward to meeting my current and, hopefully, future readers
out there!”
Open
Books publisher David Ross noted, “As I read a few of Susie’s
stories when we started work on this book, I became hooked on the
author's unique and out-front perspective on everyday events as well
as 'big' issues. Susie Sexton makes no apologies for having been
'around the block' and draws from her experiences over six decades
to color in the chiaroscuro of the American Experience….I am now a
big fan of Susie Duncan Sexton and hope to see more of her
down-to-earth writing in the future.”
Please contact Sexton at
info@susieduncansexton.com if you would like to schedule her for an
appearance.
Find out
more about Susie Duncan Sexton and her writing at
www.susieduncansexton.com
[Photos attached include a candid portrait
of the author and the Secrets book cover]
Topics in the book include: small town
America, Midwest, classic film, literature, politics, religion,
animal rights, animal rescue, vegetarianism, veganism, nostalgia,
theatre, Baby Boomers, 1950s/60s, celebrities
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About the Author: Susie Duncan Sexton grew
up in Columbia City, Indiana (CCJHS 1964). After graduating twelfth in her class
at Ball State University (winning the first ever John R. Emens award
for “most outstanding senior”), she returned to Columbia City where
she has worked as a teacher, a museum curator, a publicist and a
health lecturer.
She
currently writes monthly columns Old Type Writer for local blog Talk
of the Town and Homeward Angle for the Columbia City Post and Mail
newspaper. She has contributed to the literary journal Moronic Ox,
and her poetry was selected by Wayne State professor M.L. Liebler to
be featured in Poetic Resonance Imaging: Behind the Door. She also
has been featured in Writing Raw and InD'tale magazines. Her first
book Secrets of an Old Typewriter (ISBN 9781452414003) was released
as an ebook by Open Books (www.open-bks.com) in September 2011, and
the book has now been issued in paperback (September 2012).
About her work, Sexton remarked, “I
willingly share nostalgic trips to the past as I have now achieved
such an old age that no one remains who can question the
authenticity of my memory of places, people and events that were
very much never what they were cracked up to be.... I have searched
for the 'We of Me' since toddler days and have always come up
wanting, though I trust that in my next life I shall finally have
figured out how to make this world a better place full of tolerance
and inclusiveness and understanding for all forms of life