As part of Joeten-Kiyu Public Library\u2019s celebration of its 28th year of serving the community and supporting local authors, the public is invited to the rare opportunity to meet, greet, and chat with several local and published authors over the course of its three-day series of events.<\/p>\n
The author events start today, Dec 19, at 4:30pm with an informal question-and-answer session with author Walt F.J. Goodridge, author of over 24 books, including several about Saipan like\u00a0Chicken Feathers & Garlic Skin: Diary of a Chinese Garment Factory Girl on Saipan,\u00a0Saipan Living,\u00a0Saipan Now,\u00a0From Bugle Boy to Battleship, and\u00a0There\u203as Something About Saipan. Goodridge will be answering participant questions and speaking informally on \u201cthe wins and woes of being a Saipan writer,\u201d including where ideas come from, how to stay motivated, etc.<\/p>\n
Lino Olopai, author of\u00a0Rope of Tradition,\u00a0will be the featured guest speaker on Friday, Dec. 20 at 4pm.\u00a0<\/p>\n
There will be an \u201cAuthor Fair: Meet & Greet\u201d all day Saturday, Dec. 21, from 11:30am to 2pm featuring Jane Mack, Lynn Tenorio, Denita Yangetimai, Olopai, Goodridge and Zaldy Dandan, who is editor of Marianas Variety and author of\u00a0Die! Bert! Die! & Other Fictions,\u00a0We\u2019ll Kiss Like It\u2019s Air and We\u2019re Running Out of It, and\u00a0How I Learned What Really (Probably) Happened to Amelia Earhart. Authors will have books on sale.<\/p>\n
The Meet & Greet will be followed by a special guest presentation at 3pm by Mack.<\/p>\n
This unique 28th anniversary series of events kicks of today, Thursday, Dec. 19, at 10am with book donations by Delegate Gregorio Kilili C. Sablan, and also includes bracelet-making demonstrations, an online scavenger hunt, art classes, Christmas carolers, and much more over the three days! Visit the library for more details or call 235-7323. (PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As part of Joeten-Kiyu Public Library\u2019s celebration of its 28th year of serving the community…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":309809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[412],"class_list":["post-314337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-jkpl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}