The 16th annual Book & Author dinner will be held Friday, April 11 at The Hotel Roanoke & Conference Center. Sponsored by the Roanoke Academy of Medicine Alliance Foundation, they have raised over $550,000 for a variety of local charity and educational organizations. This year’s recipients will be Greenvale School, Healing Strides, Project Access, Saint Francis Service Dog Foundation, and the RAMA Foundation Scholarship fund.
The format of the evening will include a VIP cocktail party, a sumptuous dinner, followed by John Carlin, well-known Channel 10 co-anchor of evening news as emcee and three outstanding authors whose presentations never fail to delight. Book signings will follow.
There will be an absolute first this year! RAMA is excited to announce that Sugarfoot will be greeting our guests at the Roanoke Book and Author Dinner. Sugarfoot was the 2011 Horse of the Year for Healing Strides of Virginia and awarded the State 2012 Therapeutic Riding Association of Virginia (TRAV) Horse of the Year. Superstar Sugarfoot was also presented the 2013 Region 3 Horse of the YEAR Award at the 2013 PATH Int’l National Conference in Orlando Florida. Join us at the Book and Author Dinner and meet this incredible horse! It is unclear whether autographs will be available.
This year’s presenters are up to the high standard set by previous authors:
GREGG HURWITZ is the New York Times bestselling author of 13 thrillers, most recently, Tell No Lies (8/20). His novels have been short-listed for numerous literary awards, graced top ten lists, and have been translated into 22 languages.
He is also a New York Times Bestselling comic book writer, having penned stories for Marvel (Wolverine, Punisher) and DC (Batman, Penguin), as well as produced and written screenplays for film and television (ABC’s “V”, “Expulsion” spec script to Warner Bros, and many more). He recently announced that he will be developing his Tim Rackley books for TNT/Sony. Gregg resides in Los Angeles. Gregg Hurwitz is online at http://gregghurwitz.net/ and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/gregghurwitzreaders.
CATHY MAXWELL is one of the most widely respected voices in the romance industry, with one of the most compelling backgrounds. She spent six years in the Navy, during which she worked in the Pentagon and for Naval Intelligence (read: she was a spy!). While serving, she also met the love of her life—and married him only a month later. They were married for many happy years before he passed away almost 25 years to the date after he proposed. Maxwell has written more than 30 historical romance novels, and has appeared on the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists numerous times. She also blogs regularly forFoxNews.com on military-related issues. Maxwell’s last novel, THE DEVIL’S HEART, is the conclusion to an innovative trilogy in which the fate of the cursed Chattan family—and their true loves—is decided. Her next trilogy begins with THE BRIDE SAYS NO, out in February 2014. Cathy Maxwell is online at http://www.cathymaxwell.com/ and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cathy-Maxwell-Fan-Page/144546442251787
JAMES ROLLINS is the New York Times bestselling author of international thrillers, translated into more than forty languages. His Sigma series has been lauded as one of the “top crowd pleasers” (New York Times) and one of the “hottest summer reads” (People Magazine). In each novel, acclaimed for its originality, Rollins unveils unseen worlds, scientific breakthroughs, and historical secrets–and he does it all at breakneck speed and with stunning insight.
KILL SWITCH (on sale 5/13/14) is the first in an exciting Sigma Force spin off series featuring rogue agent Tucker Wayne and his military working dog Kane from the new collaboration of New York Times bestselling authors James Rollins and Grant Blackwood. NOTE: RAMA Book and Author dinner guests will have an exclusive opportunity to purchase this copy in advance of it being available to the public. James Rollins is online at http://www.jamesrollins.com/site and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/sigmaforce?ref=br_tf.)
Don’t miss this outstanding evening. For ticket information, please call 540-553-1956, visit our website http://www.bookandauthordinner.com/book.htm or email [email protected].
Hayden Hollingsworth