**Please excuse cross-posting - casting a wide net** Hello everyone! The Detroit Chapter of the Women’s National Book Association is pleased to present two outstanding authors for an evening of National Reading Group Month Celebration at Novi Public Library on Wednesday, October 8, 2014 beginning at 7:00 pm. The two authors will participate in a Q & A moderated by Willetta Heising, local author and current president of the Detroit Chapter of the Women’s National Book Association. Audience members will be able to purchase authors' works from Book Beat bookstore, which will be set up at the library for the evening. Signing will take place from 8 to 8:45 pm. LAUREN FRANCIS-SHARMA Lauren Francis-Sharma, a child of Trinidadian immigrants, was born in New York City and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English literature with a minor in African-American Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School. She lives in the Washington, D.C., area with her husband and two children. *'Til the Well Runs Dry* is her first novel. MARISSA STAPLEY Marissa Stapley is a writer and former magazine editor who contributes to *Elle*, *The Globe and Mail*, and *The National Post*, among others. She also teaches writing at the University of Toronto and editing at Centennial College. She lives in Toronto with her husband and two young children. *Mating for Life *is her first novel. I've attached the press release and a flyer to this email in .pdf format. We hope to see many of you there to support women, books, authors, and reading - please distribute far and wide! Charli Charli Osborne Annette Haley Co-Chairs, WNBA NRGM