ALTHOUGH THIS EVENT IS OVER,
SHOW SUPPORT FOR OUR LOCAL AUTHORS,
Marcia Hawley Barnes and Lorraine Martin Bennett.
THEIR BOOKS ARE STILL AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AT
Historic Hayesville Inc.
HHI Centennial Exhibit
116 Sanderson Street
downtown next to the Post Office.
Author Marcia Barnes has authored four published books. Her latest work "Blue Mountain" is a documented narrative on Southern Appalachia 1750 to 1900. Her poetry has been published by Negative Capability Press, Poem, Slant and appeared in Poetry and Prose Anthologies published by Old Mountain Press. Her book "Blue Mountain" and note cards from her illustrations will be available for purchase.
Other published books include “The Little Book of Secret Family Recipes” and “Tobijah”, illustrated by Doreyl Ammons Cain. Marcia was awarded the Georgia Author of the Year Award in the Children’s Book Category for “Tobijah” in 2017, by the Georgia Writers Association. Marcia's second children’s book, “A Day with Tobijah” was published in 2019.
Marcia earned a Bachelor’s degree in fine art, with a concentration in drawing, from the University of South Florida, Tampa. She grew up in Washington State near Puget Sound and in sight of the mountains. After a series of nondescript jobs while finishing college and raising four children, she had a 20-year career in the commercial flooring industry. Working from an office in Tampa, she traveled west to Fort Worth, south to the Bahamas, north to Kentucky, and many places in between. In March 2004, her husband’s engineering work moved the couple to Middle Georgia. Marcia took a part time job with a designer in Perry, then started writing and never stopped. She now lives in Clay County with her lively cat Celeste.
Author Lorraine Bennett has authored three novels. Her latest work is titled "Twenty Seconds to Midnight" and is set around the Domesday Clock.
The story in brief -- Each year the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists sets the Doomsday Clock after consultation with its board of sponsors, which includes nine winners of the Nobel Prize. The clock is a universally recognized indicator of the world’s vulnerability to global catastrophe brought about by man-made technologies.
On January 29, 2025 the Atomic Scientists shifted the clock’s hands to 89 seconds to midnight, citing the combined threats of climate change, nuclear war and misuse of artificial intelligence.
Working at a point in the future, Nobel Prize-winning scientist Dr. Clare McGarrity has developed a formula that made the Mojave Desert in Death Valley bloom. She has been tasked with trying to expand and refine her formula for use in the great Sahara Desert.
Unknown to her, the research assistant working beside her is a terrorist, ordered by his government to steal her formula.
Lorraine's other novels include "Cat on a Black Moon" and the sequel, "Darla".
Lorraine's " was reflection of her years as a print and broadcast journalist, copy editor, fiction writer, and occasional poet. Many subjects on these pages spring from her personal experience. The poems come from times of wondering, searching and growing. The essays and short stories are largely fictional, and the characters are mostly composites.
Both authors can be found on Amazon and other websites.