It looks like 2010 will be an especially exciting year for Appalachian-based books as Woodland Press contributing authors begin an aggressive book signing touring schedule. Below are a few of the dates already established for 2010*. We cordially invite you and your family to come to Woodland Press book events and meet and greet our authors, editors, and storytellers. Also, consider telling others about these dates. Help us get the word out.

LOGAN, W.Va. - Writers and storytellers in Southern West Virginia will have a rare learning opportunity in the coming months as nationally and state recognized author, editor and instructor Michael Knost will teach a creative writing course at Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College.

WILLIAMSON, W.Va. - West Virginia UFO author and researcher Kyle Lovern recently appeared as the guest on the Coast to Coast AM radio show, on Thurs., Jan. 14, 2010 (more accurately, in the wee-hours on Friday morning).

The staff and management of Woodland Press, LLC, along with Holiday Book Tour participating authors Mark Justice, Michael Knost, Brian J. Hatcher, Geoff Fuller, Kyle Lovern and Keith Davis, would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who attended book signing dates through the Thanksgiving and Christmas season.

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Prolific regional author Jane H. Lipscomb, of Proctorville, O, recently signed copies of her new literary offering at Empire Books and News, 30 Pullman Square, in Huntington. The regional author event was held on Sat., Dec. 12th, 2009.

Dark Scribe Magazine, the virtual magazine dedicated to the books that keep readers up at night, has announced that Writers Workshop of Horror (published by Woodland Press) has been nominated for the 3rd Annual Dark Scribe Magazine Black Quill Award, in the Best Dark Genre Book of Non-Fiction category.

By Steve Hammons
November 29, 2009
(This article originally appeared on the Transcendent TV & Media site.)

Eyewitness accounts of UFO sightings and strange encounters in the Appalachian Mountain region provide fascinating reading in a recently-published book by researcher, journalist and author Kyle Lovern.

Volume 2 of "Appalachian Case Study: UFO Sightings, Alien Encounters & Unexplained Phenomena" continues the exploration that Lovern began in the first volume, published in 2008.

Reviewed by David M. Kinchen
Huntingtonnews.net Book Critic
(Re-printed from Huntingtonnews.net)

"A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens can be credited with furthering the art of the ghostly or horrific and scary Christmas story, but the tradition goes back well before the great English writer published his novella in December 1843.

LOGAN, W.Va. – (Fri., Nov. 20, 2009) - Authors, editors, librarians, teachers and book enthusiasts of all ages converged on the county’s three public libraries earlier this week for the Logan County Book Fair. The three-day literary event, a first for this area, was sponsored by the Logan County Commission, Logan County Libraries, and local author Michael Knost, a.k.a. Mike Collins.

LOGAN, W.Va. - Logan County's public libraries, the Logan County Commission, and local writer Michael Knost will be hosting a Logan County Mini-Book Fair next week, coinciding with National Children's Book Week.

The event is scheduled over a three-day period: this Mon., Nov. 16th, at Buffalo Creek Memorial Library, from 10 a.m. to 12-noon; Tues., Nov. 17, at Logan Public Library, from 10 a.m. to 12-noon; and Wed., Nov. 18th, Chapmanville Public Library, from 10 a.m. to 12-noon.