Meet an author at the Storyteller's Cottage in October

This October, the Storyteller’s Cottage will host seven talented authors for exciting book discussions and signings. Each event offers unprecedented up-close access to fascinating and creative artists at a fantastically low cost for a fun and stimulating evening. Individual author talks are just $5, and the All Access Authors talk, featuring 3 authors at once, costs just $10. Enjoy a casual discussion about the works and the writing processes of the authors, then share a light reception afterward. Tickets can be reserved at www.StorytellersCottage.com/book-online.

Thursday, October 10 | 7:00-8:30pm
Shelby Davis, “Everything My Parents Taught Me in 6 Steps”

ABOUT THE BOOK: Each day begins with you. Using six easy steps and a few words of wisdom, this book will motivate you! Motivation is key to moving forward towards growth. It’s perfect for any young adult or student!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Hailing from Waterbury, CT, Mr. Shelby C. Davis received his Masters in Counseling from the University of Bridgeport. Shelby C. Davis is also a graduate of Western Connecticut State University, with a Bachelor of Arts in Social Work. His course of study included many classes in social work, counseling, education, and higher education. In his spare time, he enjoys volunteering, theater arts, exercising, and traveling. Shelby is a mentor for individuals in his community and a vibrant educator of diversity-related issues, theater, and career-building. He also enjoys spending time with his dog Murphy.
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Saturday, October 12 | 2:00-3:00pm
Allia Zobel-Nolan, “Laugh Out Loud: 40 Women Humorists Celebrate Then and Now... Before We Forget”

ABOUT THE BOOK: Remember ironing your hair? Rolling it in soda cans to straighten it? Lacquering it with enough spray that it could ward off bullets? Ever slather on cement-colored lipstick so heavy, you looked like a zombie princess? Remember hot pants and platform heels? The danger of patent-leather shoes? Were you a secretary, nurse, or teacher, but only, as our mothers urged us, until you found “Mr. Right?” In her new book, Laugh Out Loud: 40 Women Humorists Celebrate Then and Now... Before We Forget, Allia Zobel-Nolan and 40 funny ladies from the Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop chronicle these blips in time as they look back at life in the past lane. Zobel-Nolan and the other dancing queens then fast forward to today and write about what it’s like to blink and wake up to be 50, 60, 70, and beyond—experiences ranging from cremation ceremonies to marrying younger men, from senior online dating to finding yourself a menopausal maniac in Mexico.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Allia Zobel-Nolan has written books for children, cat lovers, worrier, tween devotionals, and more. She’s been writing books for a long time and has close to 200 to her name. Some have won awards; some have been translated into foreign languages. But her favorites are the books that make people laugh... and those that bring folks closer to God. Before she branched out on her own, she was Senior Editor/Religious Books at Reader’s Digest Children’s Publishing for nine years.

She then decided to become a stay-at-home mom/author so she could tend to her cats and write children’s books and cat books. She hopes her readers enjoy reading them as much as she enjoys writing them.
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Saturday, October 20 | 2:00-3:30pm
Jonathan Rosen, “The Untold Tragedies of Ethan Morton

ABOUT THE BOOK: Ethan Morton, a college freshman on a school outing, commits horrific suicide. His parents are devastated and paralyzed. Those perhaps least familiar with Ethan—the Emergency Physician who tried to save his life, a Family Physician who had once treated him, plus one of his college professors—are moved and mobilized to unravel the mystery that surrounded Ethan’s act of extinction. As these three searchers delve into Ethan’s past, they confront the painful truth that uncovering the secret to a suicide is akin to “turning a flashlight on a shadow.” Though the novel explores the self-destruction of one young man, infiltrating throughout the book is the insidious revelation that we are also simultaneously probing the self-destruction of our planet.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jonathan Rosen is a Family Physician who has written five novels. The last, Displaced Persons, was published in 2011. When not writing, he is seeing patients in his office in Connecticut. He is married to Linda and has two children and two grandchildren: Luke and Dex.
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Sunday, October 27 | 3:00-4:30pm
Judith Sumner, “Plants Go to War: A Botanical History of World War II”

ABOUT THE BOOK: Plants Go to War examines military history from a botanical perspective, and the images say it all: From victory gardens and agriculture to rubber, coal, paper, timber, drugs, and fibers, plant products supplied the wartime materials that played key roles in victory. The notion of Lebensraum, the acquisition of agricultural territory outside of Germany, began in the pre-war 1930s. Once the war began in Europe and the Pacific, military needs were vast and complex. Jungle warfare, forest survival, and camouflage techniques all required essential plant knowledge. Food to supply the troops was a particular concern, requiring that Americans and Europeans on the home front grow and consume many more plant foods. Victory gardens were planted in America and England, and many Germans turned to their klein Garten for food and shelter after cities were bombed. The botanical connections to World War II are numerous.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Judith Sumner is a botanist who specializes in ethnobotany, flowering plants, plant adaptations, and garden history. She has taught extensively both at the college level and at botanical gardens, including the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University and Garden in the Woods.
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The Storyteller’s Cottage is located in a vintage Victorian house in the center of historic Simsbury, CT, and hosts all manner of immersive literary events throughout the year, including Agatha Christie inspired live murder mystery parties, Great Gatsby themed Jazz Supper Clubs, fascinating close-up illusions at Fine Parlor Magic nights, a Literary Dinner Party series on select evenings at midnight, and more.

The Storyteller's Cottage is located at 750 Hopmeadow Street in Simsbury. Parking for The Storyteller's Cottage is free, and is available on the street in front of the building, and in the Fiddler's Green parking lot on Wilcox Street (behind the house). For more information, please call 860-877-6099 or visit www.StorytellersCottage.com.