Are you a writer curious about the process of completing and publishing a book? Don’t miss this event featuring two of our town’s very own published authors! Cape Elizabeth’s Kevin St. Jarre and Richard Cass will be here to interview each other, talk about their most recent books, and read short excerpts from them. They will cover everything from the writing process, their paths to publication, and the current state of the book world. Books will be available for sale and signing and a Q&A session will follow.

Richard Cass is the author of  the Elder Darrow jazz mystery series. The first book in the series won the 2018 Maine Literary Award for Crime Fiction. The fifth, Sweetie Bogan’s Sorrow, won the Nancy Pearl Librarians’ Prize for Genre Fiction. The seventh book in the series Closing Time will be published in October, 2024. Dick has also published a thriller called The Last Altruist and a book of short stories entitled Gleam of Bone. He holds a graduate degree in writing from the University of New Hampshire. His short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Playboy, Gray’s Sporting Journal, ZZYZVA, Tough, Shotgun Honey and Best Short Stories of the American West. He lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine with his wife Anne.

Kevin is a novelist whose Pushcart-nominated fiction has appeared in journals such as Story and Solstice Literary Magazine. His last 7 novels have been published by Encircle Publications. He is also an educator and  an essayist. He has worked as a corporate consultant and is a combat veteran.He grew up in Maine’s most northeastern town, Madawaska, and now lives in Cape Elizabeth.