Library hosts author showcase

March 22, 2017 at 5:00 a.m.

Keith Bryant/The Weekly Vista Local author Linda Pumphrey, left, talks with Debbie Saalfeld during the Local Author Showcase at the Bella Vista Library Saturday, March 18. Pumphrey said she has a history of working in the quilting industry and she wrote Mountain Mist Historical Quilts: 14 Mid-Century Quilts Made New.
Keith Bryant/The Weekly Vista Local author Linda Pumphrey, left, talks with Debbie Saalfeld during the Local Author Showcase at the Bella Vista Library Saturday, March 18. Pumphrey said she has a history of working in the quilting industry and she wrote Mountain Mist Historical Quilts: 14 Mid-Century Quilts Made New.

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The Bella Vista Library had its first Local Author Showcase, which 18 area authors signed up for.

Tables filled all the otherwise open space in the library, each manned by a writer -- often with a collection of books and a series of related items, including bookmarks, visual aids and, in at least one case, a series of tie-in candles.

Those candles were at Jan Huneycutt's table, with the scent of gardenias to tie in with her first book, "Ardenia Dovie's Card Catalog."

The book, she said, is a coming of age story that takes place in 1974, and consists entirely of card catalog entries by the titular "Ardenia Dovie."

"The character came to me," she said.

Library event coordinator Bailley Kinser said this is something the library may do twice each

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