NWS Author Next Door Spotlight: Chris Convissor
Chris Convissor lives west of Traverse City. Her business, Neighbor On Call, builds decks, repairs household issues, paints, and helps people consolidate their estates. When she’s not outdoors working and adventuring, you can usually find her indoors writing about her imaginary friends. Her first novel, The Urn Carrier, bought by Binkbooks came out on September 1, […]
NWS Author Next Door: Priscilla Miller
NWS Author Next Door Spotlight: Priscilla Miller We first featured Priscilla Miller as an Author Next Door in 2015. Now she’s returning with her latest book, Remmy: A Hero Dog Of War. Based on her feature article that appeared on the front page of the Elk Rapids News in 2012, Miller’s new book is about a retired military service dog adopted by […]
NWS Author Next Door: Jeff Smith
NWS Author Next Door: Jeff Smith Summer 2016 release: “Becoming Amish” By: Jeff Smith Book Description: Bill and Tricia Moser were living in one of America’s wealthiest communities—Grosse Pointe, Michigan—when they stepped away and began a journey that led to full immersion in a horse-and-buggy Amish life. No more BMWs. No more architecture career for […]
NWS Author Next Door: Kathleen Stocking
Anne Stanton recently caught up with author Kathleen Stocking. What makes a person want to be a writer? Troubles, I think. Someone, not me, said somewhere that a person starts with a wound they need to heal and once they figure out how to do it by creating – in art, writing, music — then […]
Crime Novel author to visit Brilliant Books
Peter Robertson will be visiting Traverse City, Michigan on June 11th.
NWS Author Next Door: Jay Harrington
NWS Author Next Door: Jay Harrington Meet One-of-a-Kind Lawyer/Author/Branding Creative Guy. While toiling away in Chicago at one of the world’s largest law firms as a twenty-something attorney, Jay Harrington never could have imagined where his career would take him 15 years later. Today, along with his wife Heather, he runs a brand strategy and […]
Michael Delp launches new book this Saturday, May 7th

This Saturday, May 7th at 2pm- Workshop Brewing Company in the Warehouse District. Park on Hall Street! Click here for the Facebook invite details:
Brianne Farley- "Secret Tree Fort" Book Launch
Brianne Farley – guest host for Tui T. Sutherland is releasing “Secret Tree Fort”, her second children’s book. Event is… Posted by Traverse City National Writers Series on Monday, April 4, 2016
TC Author Expo- Detailed Schedule
Full Schedule details for the TC Author Expo: 12 Noon – Joan Schmeichel, author of Devil’s Rock, speaking on “I Played With Paper Dolls.” 12:15 p.m. – Michael Dow, author of the forthcoming Dark Matters, speaking on “The Future of Income Inequality.” 12:30 p.m. – Bill Smith:, author of Chickadees at Night, speaking on “Creating […]
NWS Author Next Door update: Cari Noga
Cari Noga was lucky enough to be discovered and picked up by an acquisitions editor at Lake Union, an imprint of Amazon Publishing. Her novel Sparrow Migrations, was re-released by Lake Union Publishing on June 23, 2015 with manuscript revisions which deepen character relationships, a new cover and an audio edition (CD and mp3), as […]