Hear from three local authors about their new novels as they share their writing and publishing experience at Coffee with Local Authors, at Thayer Public Library, Saturday, October 4, 11 am-12:30 pm.
This event is a hybrid event, so you may attend in person or virtually. Advance registration is required for virtual attendance to receive Zoom link. Please register for in-person or virtual through Thayer Public Library's online event calendar at thayerpubliclibrary.org/events. Both are free and open to the public.
Copies of the authors' books will be available for sale, but no purchase is necessary to attend this free program. Complimentary light refreshments will be available at in-person event.
Paul Yovino of Braintree
The Man from Swan Lake – A Hero of the Cocoanut Grove Nightclub Fire: The Clifford Johnson Story (2025)
Paul Yovino's first novel, Portals, was sparked by the assassination of JFK. His new novel, The Man from Swan Lake is historical fiction based upon the life of twenty-one-year-old Coast Guardsman Clifford Allison Johnson, a burn survivor of the Coconut Grove Nightclub fire in the Bay Village section of Boston on the night of Saturday, November 28, 1942 -- a fire that took the lives of 490 people.
Rich Feitelberg of Quincy
Air and Wind (2025)
Rich Feitelberg is a fantasy author, poet, playwright, map nerd, gamer, and comic book lover. Author of the fantasy series, the Gambit Trilogy, he has written both fiction and nonfiction for many years. Prior to starting his novel writing, Rich wrote plays, poetry, biographical anecdotes, blog posts, and instructional text. More recently, he began to chronicle the history of comic books. Air and Wind is his latest a romance/fantasy novel.
Neil Liebowitz of Braintree, writing as Aaron Riley
Deception: A Psychiatrist’s Stolen Journal (2024)
Neil Liebowitz is a partially retired psychiatrist who took on the alias of Aaron Riley in order to creatively tell the “real story” of being a psychiatrist. Full of personal challenges and struggles with patients, Deception is also full of every kind of deceit the author could think of. Two early career psychiatrists are learning on the job while a serial killer lurks in the background. The reader will learn about a multitude about psychiatric conditions.
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