Fangs, Fur, Fey, and Phantoms: Why We Love Paranormal Fiction

Saturday, November 7
Start Time: 2:00 PM

You're invited to a panel discussion on what's new and hot in paranormal novels.  Three authors and a bookseller will discuss popular books about vampires, werewolves, faeries, ghosts, zombies and other supernatural creatures... and why readers love them.  A dessert reception and book-signing will follow.  Seating may be limited, so please sign-up in advance by clicking HERE.

Panel members will include:

• Maggie Shayne, best-selling and award-winning author of paranormal romance, including the Wings in the Night series and Bloodline
• Pamela Palmer, author of the new Feral Warriors series (about an elite group of immortal shape-shifters)
• John Goodrich, horror writer, essayist, and literary critic, whose short fiction has appeared in the anthologies Arkham Tales and Cthulhu Unbound
• Heather Elia, bookseller and avid reader of paranormal fiction
• Moderator - Samanthi Martinez, local journalist & contributor to the Central New York Family Times, Syracuse New Times, and the Madison Eagle

Please see below for more information about the panel members:

Maggie Shayne is the author of more than forty novels, ranging from stories about Witches, vampires, psychics and ghosts, to bone chilling, edge-of-your-seat romantic suspense and beyond.  The genres she has mastered include women’s fiction, category romance, romantic suspense, and paranormal fiction.  Maggie is the winner of numerous awards, including two Romantic Times Bookclub Career Achievement Awards, the National Readers Choice Award, and the coveted RITA Award, for which she was nominated twelve times before finally winning.

Click on the book cover image for more information about Maggie's recent novels:

About Pamela Palmer: When Pamela Palmer's initial career goal of captaining starships didn't pan out, she turned to engineering, satisfying her desire for adventure with books and daydreams, until finally succumbing to the need to create worlds of her own. She is a member of the Romance Writers of America and, in addition to the new Feral Warriors series (about an elite group of immortal shape-shifters), she also writes time-travel romance (under the pseudonym Pamela Montgomerie).  Pamela lives and writes in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., with her husband and two kids. 

Click on the book cover image for more information about Pamela's recent novels:

John Goodrich lives and writes in Vermont's haunted Green Mountains.  He writes horror and literary criticism, which aren't as far apart as most people assume.  His stories have appeared in the anthologies Arkham Tales, and Cthulhu Unbound, and will appear in the forthcoming Cthulhu 2012, Cthulhu’s Dark Cults, Tales Out of the Miskatonic University, and R'lyeh Rising.  His literary criticism has appeared in Two-Gun Bob, Dissecting Hannibal Lecter, and American Exorcist.

Click on the book cover image for more information about Pamela's recent novels:

Heather Elia is the Marketing Coordinator and one of the friendly booksellers at the Colgate Bookstore.  She has been an avid reader of horror novels and paranormal romance, for both the young adult and "grown-up" age groups, for more years than she cares to confess.  She reads more books than are good for her and frequently lets her imagination run wild, to the extent that she refuses to step foot inside her own basement at night unless her husband accompanies her.

Panel Moderator - Samanthi Martinez is a local journalist and contributor to the Central New York Family Times, the Syracuse New Times, and the Madison Eagle.