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November 14, 2009

Local Books In Brief: 11/15/2009

Writing workshop Friday at NMC

TRAVERSE CITY -- National and regional writers will hold a creative writing workshop at Northwestern Michigan College Friday.

The workshop will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Oleson Center and costs $95, which includes lunch.

Authors holding sessions include Benjamin Percy ("Language of Elk," "Refresh, Refresh") leading the opening session, "The Single-Minded Writer," and a fiction workshop session. Other workshop and session leaders include Aaron Stander ("Summer People," "Deer Season"), Elizabeth Buzzelli ("Dead Dancing Women," "Dead Floating Lovers"), Fleda Brown ("Reunion," "Breathing In, Breathing Out") and Anne-Marie Oomen ("Putting Down the Barn," "House of Fields"). Also featured with be Robert Downes and Anne Stanton, both of Northern Express weekly, and screenwriter Lesley Tye.

For information or to register, call 995-1700 or go to www.nmc.edu/ees.

Lighthouse keepers wanted in N'port

NORTHPORT -- The Grand Traverse Lighthouse Museum is accepting applications for live-in lighthouse keepers.

New this year is the Off Season Keepers Program, which runs December through April. For $100 per night, up to four people can stay at the lighthouse.

The standard keeper program runs April through November. Keepers live in an apartment at the lighthouse for one or two weeks. There is a program fee of $195 per person per week for members and $220 for non-members. Keeper are responsible for greeting visitors, running the gift shop, and doing minor work on buildings and grounds. They must be in good health, able to climb stairs and work eight to nine hours a day.

Winter keepers don't have the lighthouse duties because the museum and gift shop are closed.

For more information, an application and a handbook, contact Lisa Drummond at 386-7195 or e-mail progcoor@triton.net.

Local author pens action thriller

TRAVERSE CITY -- Local author Richard Trevae has written an action/thriller novel.

"The Tarasov Solution" has espionage and intrigue, much of it drawing from Trevae's own extensive travels. Trevae is an engineer and businessman who has written about business valuation, mergers, acquisitions and management practices while building a startup business into an New York Stock Exchange company. He calls "The Tarasov Solution" "reality-inspired fiction." He is already at work on his next novel.

The book is published by Charles River Press and is available at www.amazon.com for $15.95. For more information, go to www.charlesriverpress.com.

Recognizable places in story collection

TRAVERSE CITY -- Many northern Michigan locales made it into Kelly Bruning's new book, "Misadventures and Fishing Tales."

Sales from the collection of short stories will go to fight multiple sclerosis.

The Mackinac Bridge, the straits, Alpena, Lake Huron and Lake Superior State University are some of the places mentioned in Bruning's stories. Bruning relocated to Michigan from her native Massachusetts.

The 74-page book is published through Lulu.com and is available at that Web site as well as www.amazon.com and www.Barnesandnoble.com and some retail stores for a suggested price of $13.96. One dollar from each sale will be donated to fight multiple sclerosis.

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