Greed, deception, lost loves, fiendish bargains with the devil, and mass murders abound in Palmetto Ghosts, an audio book of South Carolina’s favorite haunted tales told by Charleston’s best storytellers and tour guides.

Storyteller Alada Shinault-Small, one of the performers on Palmetto Ghosts, will be at Here Be Books in Summerville on Saturday, October 11 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. to sign copies of this chilling audio book. Just in time for Halloween!

About Palmetto Ghosts

Stories include: A Deal With The Devil, The Gray Man, The Unknown Voice of Kiawah, Miz Nollie’s Blue Bowl, Infamy At The Jones Hotel and more.

Alada is a Charleston native and graduate of the University of South Carolina and the Citadel (MA in History).  She is a storyteller and a City of Charleston Licensed Tour Guide.

You can learn more about Palmetto Ghosts and Alada at: http://www.cornbreadandcaviar.net/palmettoghosts.html.

National award winning author Robin Merrill, creator of the Red Hot Ladies Club erotic-romantic-suspense novels, will be joining us on Saturday, September 27, 2008 to sign her new book, Some Like It Red Hot. Some Like It Red Hot is the first of a new series of novels about the adventurous Lotsimina Hannon. The second book of the series, Red Hot August Night is in the works now.

About the Book
Lotsimina Hannon takes on the corporate world and wins…but can she beat the odds against a killer?

Embracing her early retirement, Lotsi sets out on her new life with an aging motor home and a hot new motorcycle. First stop, Las Vegas! Bright lights and dazzling shows seem exciting, until she meets the sexiest man she’s ever seen at the RV Park’s hot tub. Fireworks? At her age? Oh, yeah! Trenton Wallace sets Lotsi ablaze, and he is determined to fan the flames.

While Lotsi struggles with her desires and her inner demons, she revels in the RV lifestyle. Going new places, seeing new things. Lotsi enjoys friends old and new among the RVers and the local Red Hot Ladies Club. Retirement rocks, but Trent…Trent makes her burn. Who knew she’d love playing with fire.

Then she discovers a devastating murder, and the sexy fun becomes a fight for survival as the killer targets Lotsi. Embroiled in a series of adventures, Lotsi eludes the killer but can’t escape Trent. Then Trent is kidnapped, and Lotsi takes on the killer in a high-stakes gamble where their lives and their blazing passion rest on an illusion of smoke and mirrors.

You can learn more about Robin Merrill and her Red Hot books at her web site: http://www.robin-merrill.com/.

Local author, Mary Elizabeth Reynolds will be on hand Saturday, August 23 from 1pm to 3pm to chat with readers and sign her book, Diary of a Ghost.

About Diary of a Ghost:

After losing her lover to suicide, Samantha, the heroine of the story, sinks into a terrible depression relieved only when she begins transcribing the war journals of a Union soldier. The dead journalist, Josiah, appears to Samantha as a ghost and takes her back in time to visit the battles and places he experienced while a Union soldier. Samantha’s ghostly journeys have a cost, though: the more she delves into this fascinating spirit world of the past, the further she drifts from reality. Can Sean, the young Charleston lawyer who loves her, save Samantha from herself at the risk of losing himself?

Diary of a Ghost is based on the authenticated Civil War diaries of New Jersey soldier Eugene Forbes, that were transcribed by the author. Set in Charleston, South Carolina, every place the ghost and Samantha travel to, through time, are the same places where Eugene Forbes fought and endured.

You can learn more about Eugene, the diaries, and the inspiration for Diary of a Ghost at the author’s website:www.ereynolds.net.

Are you an author? Would you like to hold a book signing?

Bring in a copy of your book and let’s talk about it.

- Tina McDuffie
Here Be Books

Just in time for Father’s Day, D. Clayton Meadows will join us Saturday, June 9 at 1:00 pm to sign copies of his tale of men and submarines at war, Of Ice and Steel. It’s Hunt for Red October on steroids. Meadows’ novel gives a nerve-wracking scenario of how men and machines might react to a mysterious threat. In this case, the crew of a WWII German U-Boat with an exotic cargo wakes after sixty years in suspended animation and continues their war mission oblivious to the changes that have occurred in the world at large. The result is a frighteningly realistic yarn of how skilled submariners of different times and nations figure out what happened and deal with it… hopefully, without destroying the world in the process.

Don will be on hand to answer questions and, of course, sign copies of his book, which can be purchased that day or prior to the signing at Here Be Books. Visitors are, of course, welcome to bring copies they purchased elsewhere for signing, too.

To learn more about the author and his book Of Ice and Steel, visit the author’s web site at: www.oficeandsteel.com. For information about the book signing and other Here Be Books events, please contact Tina McDuffie at (843) 695-1498.