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Meet and talk with local Southern Arizona authors at the annual Oracle Oaks Festival on Saturday, April 23, 2016. Throughout the day, from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m., published authors will display and sign their books for sale on the west side of the Oracle Community Center. This year’s participating authors include Sherrie Todd-Beshore, William “Flint” Carter, Doug Hocking, and Robert Zucker. For more information, call 520-623-3733.
Sherrie Todd-Beshore
Sherrie Todd-Beshore began writing for her high school newspaper then over three decades published features and columns in both magazines and newspapers in Alberta, Colorado and New York. In 2006, Sherrie left journalism to concentrate on her fiction ideas full time. To date she has published five adult suspense novels, a MG mystery series and the first book in a YA fantasy-suspense trilogy. Her titles include: Mountains and Shadows, (sequel) Shadows and Light, 24 Sussex Drive, Behind the Sun, The Count of Baldpate; seven books in middle-grade mystery series, including Mosquito Creek, Black Eagle Pass, High Stakes Gamble, Dakota Mist, Toy Master, and Crow Child. Sherrie can be contacted via email from her website: www.patchworkpublishing.com.
William “Flint” Carter
William “Flint” Carter is a local seasoned prospector and author of The Canyon of Gold, Buffalo Bill Cody & the Legendary Iron Door Mine Treasure and collaborator of Treasures of the Santa Catalina Mountains. Flint has a large artifact and mineral display on the Catalinas and Buffalo Bill Cody at the Oracle Inn Steakhouse in Oracle. He has spent the past four decades prospecting and mining hundreds of claims in the Santa Catalina Mountains. Visit his web pages at emol.org/flintcarter.
Doug Hocking
Doug Hocking is an independent scholar who has completed advanced studies in American history, ethnology and historical archaeology. A retired armored cavalry officer, he grew up among the Jicarilla Apache and paisanos of the Rio Arriba (Northern New Mexico). Doug writes both fiction and history and is working on a biography of Tom Jeffords. He is a member of the board of the Arizona Historical Society. He serves as Sheriff of the Bisbee Corral of the Westerners twice winning the Heads Up Award for best corral and is a Road Scholar for AZ Humanities. His books include Massacre at Point of Rocks, Mystery of Chaco Canyon and Devil on the Loose.
Robert Zucker
Robert Zucker is the author of Treasures of the Santa Catalina Mountains, an extensive review of the history and legends of the Catalinas; Entertaining Tucson Across the Decades, a three-volume set of Tucson entertainers and musicians from the 1950s through the 1990s; and Traveling Show. Bob publishes the 20-year old Entertainment Magazine On Line website at EMOL.org and the Tucson Chronicles online at tucsonchronicles.com. Bob is a former journalism instructor at the University of Arizona and Pima Community College. He is also representing local author Ron Quinn who published Searching for Arizona’s Buried Treasures and Mysterious Disappearances. Visit his web site at robert-zucker.com
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