Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 11:08:55 -0400
From: “judyhogan
Subject: Judy Hogan Has Two New Books Out
MYSTERY AUTHOR AND POET JUDY HOGAN HAS TWO NEW BOOKS OUT
For release October 15, 2013. Moncure, N.C.
Judy Hogan, known in the Triangle area as an editor, teacher, and poet, has her second novel in her mystery series, Farm Fresh and Fatal coming out October 1from Mainly Murder Press in Connecticut. Her poetry chapbook, Beaver Soul, is also due out October 1 from Finishing Line Press in Kentucky. She plans a book launch for both books October 20, at her Hoganvillaea Farm in Moncure, followed by readings at local libraries and bookstores.
Early review comments for the mystery include:
Farm Fresh and Fatal features an appealing protagonist, an intriguing background, and well-realized characters. Readers will enjoy these characters and empathize with their successes and failures. In the tradition of Margaret Maron. –Carolyn Hart, author of Dead, White, and Blue.
In Farm Fresh and Fatal Hogan serves up a complex dish that is flavored with community and family drama. It is spiced with intrigue, finished with mystery and delivered right off the vine.
–Lyle Estill, President, Piedmont Biofuels and author of Small is Possible
Judy Hogan delivers again in her fearless Farm Fresh and Fatal. Through a story built on a strong foundation of research she tackles difficult issues, all the while giving us a first-rate read. And that authentic voice her readers have
come to expect shines on every page.
–Lane Stone, author, Tiara Investigations Mystery series.
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When Penny Weaver joins the new Riverdell Farmers’ Market to represent their neighborhood garden, squabbles break out among the farmers about their places. The county poultry agent tries to sort them out before Nora, the market manager, arrives, infuriating her. Penny discovers that there may have been racism behind her friend Sammie’s almost not being accepted to sell her flower bouquets. After the third market, the poultry agent is found dead of food poisoning, apparently from drinking the punch provided by Nora. That and her fights with him cause her to be arrested. Meantime Penny is skeptical of her daughter’s new sponging boyfriend, and her husband Kenneth confesses to being homesick for Wales.
Penny and Sammie work to uncover the real poisoner and to release Nora. Derek, the lead detective and Sammie’s husband, wants them to stay out of it. The poultry agent was unpopular with the quirky farmers, with the exception of the genetically modified seeds man and the baker/jelly maker. Penny and Sammie discover that the poison was black nightshade, but which farmer grows it and who put it in the poultry agent’s punch? The state ag department threatens to close the market, if the case isn’t solved.
Review comments for Beaver Soul include:
Judy’s writings about the natural world use metaphors as a way of exploding the bounds of perception. Her poems are informational, compressing experiences, and continue over a span of thirty years to help us see the likenesses between systems of human, plant, animal, and celestial worlds. Judy teaches us how to use our poet eyes, how to guide us to truths beyond the scientific way of seeing, weighing, measuring, abstraction, and dissection.
–Jaki S. Green, 2003 winner of the North Carolina Award, 2009 Piedmont Poet Laureate
These are love poems. The heroine-hero is the Earth. In this way, Judy Hogan’s poems remind me of Thoreau’s journals. Like Thoreau, she is a natural-born lover of anything that grows, anything original, most particularly the earth that looks after itself continually… You hear Emerson’s world in the background, that yearning to transcend the self. To do this the poet must keep open house to the world. So Judy Hogan writes within the romantic sensibility. She is a passion child. Her structure is the old and classical kingdom’s.
–Shelby Stephenson, Playing Dead and Play My Music Anyhow, Finishing Line Press.
Beaver Soul is Judy Hogan’s love song for Russia. The poems begin along the shore of the Haw River, and move to Russia. The Russian translator said, “Her own soul in her poems is associated with the image of the beaver–a builder, patient and persistent in its work and in taking care of its family. Everything that takes place in the beaver’s life–its joys and sorrows, its misfortunes and successes–corresponds to events in her own life. The motto of Judy Hogan is creating and overcoming.”
Book events in the greater Triangle area for both books include:
October 24, Thursday, 3:30-6 P.M. Pittsboro Farmers’ Market at Fairgrounds. Signing.
October 26, Saturday, 2 PM. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill.
November 2, Saturday, 11 AM-1 PM. Paperbacks Plus, Siler City. Signing.
November 8, Friday, 6 PM. Jackie Helvey’s radio show video-taped interview on community radio and TV–WCOM, Carrboro.
November 12, Tuesday, 7 PM, Goldsboro Library, Goldsboro, NC.
November 19, Tuesday, 7 PM. Regulator Bookshop, 720 W. Ninth St., Durham.
December 1-31. Display of Beaver Soul, Farm Fresh and Fatal, and Killer Frost at Capital Bank, on the circle in Pittsboro. With bookmarks and cards.
December 3, Tuesday, 7 PM. South Regional Branch of Durham County Library.
December 8, Sunday, 2 PM. McIntyre’s Books in Fearrington Village, Chatham
After many years as a small press editor, creative writing teacher, published poet, organizer of Sister Cities exchange visits with Kostroma writers and painters, Judy sees her postmenopausal zest years as focused on farming,
writing, and getting more books published. Penny Weaver’s sleuthing adventures are part of a series. Look for more mysteries and books of poetry from Judy Hogan.
Contact: Judy Hogan, 919-545-9932.
http://judyhogan.home.mindspring.com http://postmenopausalzest.blogspot.com