The Wood County District Library in downtown Bowling Green will host a Local Author Fair Saturday from 1
to 4:30 p.m.
The public is invited to meet local writers, attend sessions on children’s literature, self-publishing,
memoir-writing, and comic books.
At 1:15 p.m. Rona Klein will present "What Makes Great Children’s Literature" in the upstairs
reading lounge.
Jean Ann Geist will present "Confessions of a Repeat Self-Publisher" at 2:30 in the Reading
Lounge. The Bowling Green area author of the northwest Ohio-set "Only on the Radio" and
"Only in the Movies" novels, had an earlier career at the Popular Culture library at Bowling
Green State University.
At 3:30 Larry Nader will present a talk on "Exploring Comics" in the upstairs reading lounge.

Also slated at 3:30 is the program "Kickstart Your Memoir" with Lois Sonnenberg. It will be
held in the Local History Lounge. Sonnenberg, author of a free verse satire of a fairy tale, "Grave
Tales: A Mother Goose Spoof," has held careers as a nurse, teacher of French and English
literature, and is now working on a memoir.
Among other local authors who will be on hand during the afternoon are:
• Teresa Milbrodt, author of flash fiction, a short story collection and the novel "The Patron Saint
of Unattractive People," who teaches fiction and creative nonfiction workshops.
• Charlie Jones, a Bowling Green resident who has written the story of his father’s life.
• Kevin C. Martin, a poet and writer from Pemberville who has written 21 poems on faith, hope, and love.

• Jodie Dye, a Perrysburg resident who has written a book on inner beauty based on the Book of Esther.

• Luis Chaluisan, aka El Extreme, an original Nuyorican poet, author, Telemundo reporter, and national
slam poetry team champion.
• Susan Henke Goslak, originally from Pittsburgh, and a retired elementary school teacher.
• Steven Smetzer, a children’s book author who has been visiting area schools to share his love of
reading.
• Robert Barr, who has served as pastor, associate pastor, and Christian education director for a variety
of denominations and writes about church organization and Christian missions.
• Jason Born lives outside Grand Rapids and is the author of two separate historical fiction sagas.
• Constance Phillips, an Ohio romance writer, has two books coming out in May and August from Whisky
Creek Press.
• Shay Lacy, who lives in Northwest Ohio and writes in many genres, including contemporary romantic
suspense with paranormal elements.
• Ray Wenck, a retired elementary school teacher, cook, and restaurant owner who writes thrillers set in
the Toledo area.