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Meet six authors! Find out more about their books and writing lives and bring any questions you have for them on writing or their paths to publication.
Meet authors K. R. Bailey, Marie Higgins, Mary Martinez, Sara Fitzgerald, Stacey Haynes, and Alysia S. Knight as they pitch their book(s) in a fun "Speed Date with a Book" format. Q&A will follow the book pitches. (Learn more about each author below in our Author Bios and Websites section.)
Book signing and book sales information: A book signing will follow this event. Each author at this event will handle their own book sales.
Registration: Registration for this event is not required, however, if you register you will receive an event reminder via e-mail, and if you opt-in to a text message, also a text reminder.
Access information: If you would like to attend via Zoom, please use this link to register for the "Brigham City Library Book Festival Events" Zoom recurring webinar. This link will work for all four of the Library's 2024 Festival events.
Related Events: This event is part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival. (Link to come.)
Credits & Partnerships: Part of the Brigham City Library Book Festival: Celebrating Books, Ideas, and Imagination.
This event is made possible in Partnership with Utah Humanities as part of the annual Utah Humanities Book Festival.
For other Utah Humanities Book Festival programs and events around the state visit the Utah Humanities website to view the Festival calendar.
Author Bio:
K. R. Bailey loves reading, romance and long drives in the mountains. She enjoys traveling and spending time at her family cabin nestled high in the mountains where deer live under the deck and hummingbirds flit around all day. She’s grandma to seven beautiful grandchildren and “mom” to a yellow lab named Shilo.
Writing has become her passion since retiring from a full-time job of over thirty years. She loves to meet new people and gather background information for her writing. There’s always a new story bouncing around in her head, and most afternoons you’ll find her in her “cave” working on her next book.
Author Website: N/A
Author Bio:
Marie Higgins is an award-winning, best-selling author renowned for her enchanting clean romance novels that capture the heart and leave readers falling in love time and again. With over 100 captivating romances published since 2010, she skillfully weaves tales that keep readers on the edge of their seats. Embracing a diverse range of genres including mystery/suspense, humor, time-travel, and paranormal, alongside her beloved historical romances, Marie has garnered a devoted following. Her readers affectionately refer to her as the "Queen of Tease," captivated by her penchant for unexpected twists and unforgettable endings.
Author Website: www.authormariehiggins.com
Author Bio:
Mary lives in Magna, a little town west of Salt Lake City, Utah. She loves to spend time with family and friends--she includes good books as friends!
Mary and her husband love to travel, especially to the Caribbean for relaxing, Ireland and Scotland for her heritage, and Italy for the wine. One of her favorite US destinations is New York/Brooklyn, where her beloved Beckett's live. When she visits, she can wander their neighborhoods, favorite parks, and visit their favorite pub, Putnam's.
Mary writes mostly romantic suspense, romance, women's fiction, and she has just begun to dabble in young adult mystery.
Mary also writes as ML Foxx. This is her first jaunt into Fantasy and Sci-Fi, she loves it. It gives her freedom of choice. You’ll see more books soon…
Mary and her husband are also enthusiastic college football fans. They have season tickets to the UTES, University of Utah Football and they tailgate every game. They love tailgating so much, that they were married at a tailgating in 1999.
Author Website: MaryMartinez.com
Author Bio:
Sara Fitzgerald has her own zany American Eskimo dog, a “meramazing” daughter, a computer geek husband, and lots of Avon boxes her family has to skirt around during their hectic lives.
In 2006, she earned Writer of the Year for the League of Utah Writers and is a multi-published, award-winning author. She loves her family, writing, selling Avon, and favorite shade of lipstick—Avon’s Triple Pink.
Author Website: www.sarafitzgeraldbooks.com
Author Bio:
Stacey Haynes is an award-winning and best-selling author. She has always enjoyed reading and writing romance stories beginning with her first story in 6th grade. Her dream has always been to have one of her books published, and now she has several, including a poem about her most disliked food, Peas! She won her first writing contest when she and her sister, Marie, entered their story The Magic of a Billionaire into an online writing contest on www.ajoara.com – and their story won 1st place!
She considers herself a hopeless romantic and tries to find the best in others. She loves to write in her spare time to relax after a hard day at work.
Stacey lives in Utah with her wonderful husband and three adorable children. She hopes to have more books published in her lifetime. You can follow her adventures on
Author Website: staceyhaynes.wixsite.com/home
Author Bio:
I grew up in a small town loving the outdoors, sports, and reading. I started writing my own stories while still in high school, but it fell by the wayside during college. I married an honorable man and had five children. Now, I’m a widow and collecting grandchildren.
I love traveling and have had the opportunity to go to many wonderful and intriguing places, such as much of the United States, Europe, Canada, Mexico, Caribbean, China, Thailand, Cambodia, Australia and South Africa. These places have provided ideas for my stories.
I am a storyteller. I write with a touch of intrigue because I think there’s a need for more heroes, love, and adventure in our lives. I’m not out to change the world with my writing. I’m just hoping to make someone’s day a bit better.
Whether it be a knight in shining armor, or the guy next door, an officer there to save the day, or a man of honor from an unknown land, Alysia’s knights are heroes for all times.
Author Website: www.alysiasknight.com
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