Excerpt from the SIBA Blog (http://www.wanda.sibaweb.com/?p=858): "Authors went on the auction block Saturday night (September 26, 2009) to raise buckets of money for the local Greenville charity Loaves & Fishes. Authors “Tweeted” their answers to questions in an attempt to whet the appetite of bookstore owners who “bought” them for the evening to have dinner and chat at local restaurants. The brave authors featured were those whose books were nominated for 2009 SIBA Book of the Year Award. Brave authors ( and their novels) who participated: Gigi Amateau Chauncy of the Maury River Raymond Atkins The Front Porch Prophet Gene Fehler Beanball Susan Gregg Gilmore Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen Alan Gratz Something Wicked Patricia Harman The Blue Cotton Gown: A Midwife’s Memoir N. M. Kelby Murder at the Bad Girl’s Bar and Grill Howard Lee The Courage to Lead Ed Madden Signals William McKinney Holy Smoke: The Big book of North Carolina Barbecue Mary Alice Monroe Time is a
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