Five authors scheduled for Always Buying Books event

Five authors, including me, will participate in a book signing 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, August 23, at Always Buying Books, 5357 N. Main, Joplin.

The activity closes out the three-day Wordstock 2014 sale at Always Buying Books, in which customers can buy one book and get one of equal price free.

Authors scheduled for the event include the following:

-Larry Wood, author of Wicked Springfield, Ozarks Gunfights and Other Notorious Incidents, Wicked Joplin, The Civil War On the Lower Kansas-Missouri Border, and other books.

-Cheryle Finley, author of The Best of Cheryle Cookbook

-Helen Hunter, author of Echos of School Bells (a book about Jasper County rural schools)

-Michele Newton Hansford, author of Images of America, Carthage, Missouri

-Randy Turner This will be the first official signing for my book Let Teachers Teach. Other books available include No Child Left Alive, 5:41: Stories from the Joplin Tornado, Spirit of Hope, the Year After the Joplin Tornado, Scars from the Tornado, One Year at Joplin East Middle School, Small Town News, The Turner Report, and Newspaper Days.