Award-winning author Elizabeth St. Michel visits the new Hamlin Public Library on Saturday, December 6 at 12:30 p.m. to discuss her historical romance, The Winds of Fate.
The daughter of Eugene (Jeannette) and Marci Dollard, M.D., St. Michel will elaborate on how growing up in Hamlin fostered the wellspring of her creativity. She says for her it will be coming home. (St. Michel is a pseudonym of Betsy Dollard).
She is a member of Romance Writers of America with affiliation in the Western New York Regional RWA Chapter. She has won numerous writing contests, including Toronto’s The Catherine, the SOLA, Valley Forge, Great Expectations, The Maggie, and The Golden Palm. Recently, St. Michel secured the quarterfinalist position, the top two percent of ten thousand competing worldwide authors in Amazon’s Breakthrough Novel Award.
The Winds of Fate has garnered significant reviews, including Publishers Weekly that heralded this breakthrough novel as a “… Captivating romance that takes us to the world of seventeenth-century London … Sexual tension and legal and familiar intrigue ensue with the reader cheering on the lovely pair.”
St. Michel says her talk will include amusing anecdotes shared about life in her family’s country grocery store known as Dollard’s Market and centered on the many interesting customers during her experience working there. There are bits and pieces of lovely customers as characters in her novel. She offers this teaser: “People can come and find out who is in her book – I’ll never tell, but they can have a fun time guessing!”
Note: The new Hamlin Public Library is located at 1680 Lake Road, Hamlin. 964-2320.
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