Mark your calendar: We'll be at the Michigan History Author Symposium
A year ago, my fellow author Michael Delaware hosted a wonderful event in Battle Creek that assembled various other authors from around Michigan who make it a business of chronicling some sort of state history. Me, I'm true crime, and I was there. Some of the other authors who were there are true crime. Some are general historians. Whatever the style or era of history, you'll want to hear from these authors at the next annual event in Battle Creek: the third annual Michigan History Author Symposium. It's next month, so mark your calendar: It's Saturday, October 10, in the afternoon, at the Battle Creek History Museum on Jackson Street. Tickets are only $5 -- that's less than a matinee movie these days. Heck, that's less than a Starbucks. You'll have an opportunity to get the perspective of several Michigan authors, then meet them and purchase whatever books you might be interested in, all personally signed. Here's the Facebook page for the event , and...