# Event Details - **Event Name**: Books & Beyond: Laurie Herlich, Alex Gordon, Susan Marie Graham, sarah elizabeth, and Mary Nees - **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 30 Jan, 2026 at 10:00 am – Fri, 30 Jan, 2026 at 04:00 pm - **Event Description**: Join us for a visit with authors Laurie Herlich, Alex Gordon, Susan Marie Graham, sarah elizabeth, and Mary Nees. They’ll have books available for purchase and signing. Come learn about these creative local authors. Laurie Herlich followed the Lord’s leading across the country to the ‘promised land’ of Northeast Tennessee, where Story is everything. She writes cozy mysteries in a converted garden hut situated in her back yard. Her love for “being where the pets are and their owners aren’t” inspired this series. Laurie won a first place 2023 Foundation Award from Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference for Waylaid on Whidbey. The sequel, Peril in Potter Valley won first place in 2024 in the same contest and was a finalist for Cozy Mystery in Killer Nashville’s Claymore Awards. The third book in the series, Wary in Wears Valley, earned a Judge’s Top Pick for Cozy Mystery in Killer Nashville’s 2025 Claymore Awards. Find out more at www.LaurieHerlichAuthor.com. Alex Gordon writes romance. Crimson Jewel is her standalone romantasy, a spicy retelling of The Bachelorette meets Jack and the Beanstalk (Enemies to Lovers, Friends to Lovers, Forced Proximity, Forbidden Love, Fated Mates, Found Family). Wicked Wish is her YA/NA Paranormal Romance, a mash-up of Dexter meets Mean Girls with a supernatural twist (Supernatural Powers, Morally Gray FMC, Small town Romance, Vigilante Justice, Love Triangle, Found Family). Susan Marie Graham writes Contemporary and Historical Christian Fiction. sarah elizabeth is an author nestled in the East Tennessee mountains. Even as a child, she always enjoyed creating characters and imagining adventures. After college, she took an extremely brief (roughly two decade) hiatus from writing to focus on her family but is thrilled to be returning to her first love. Her stories can be found in anthologies such as Draw Down the Moon, Kaleidoscope, Shelved: Appalachian Resilience Amid COVID-19, Chicken Soup for the Soul, Lucky Jefferson and Haints and Hollers. In 2022, she was awarded the StoryTown Write Stuff Award and was the runner up for the Kingdom Writer’s Guild. Currently, sarah elizabeth is a contributing writer for the StoryTown Radio Show and Podcast on the NPR station, WETS, and an active advocate for disability rights. When not reading or writing, sarah elizabeth enjoys drinking copious amounts of coffee, spending time with her kids and their fantastic dog, Finn. If you’d like to know more about sarah elizabeth, she can be found on Facebook , Twitter/X , Instagram and TikTok . If you would like to follow Finn’s adventures between picture books, he can be found on Instagram. Mary Nees is a landscaper rooted in the grand prophetic story. She was trained in Design and Environmental Analysis, Cornell University, earned her MFA in printmaking at East Tennessee State University, and did studies at the Barnes Institute, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Find Mary here: www.marynees.com - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/kingsport/books-and-beyond-laurie-herlich-alex-gordon-susan-marie-graham-sarah-elizabeth-and-mary-nees/200029476782623 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, contests, trips-adventures, business, kids, conferences, dog - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 9 ## Ticket Details ## Event venue details - **city**: Kingsport - **state**: TN - **country**: United States - **location**: 2101 Fort Henry Drive, Kingsport, TN, United States, Tennessee 37664 - **lat**: 36.52902 - **long**: -82.52079 - **full address**: 2101 Fort Henry Drive, Kingsport, TN, United States, Tennessee 37664 ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Books & Beyond: Laurie Herlich, Alex Gordon, Susan Marie Graham, sarah elizabeth, and Mary Nees - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/3270be714011ce227af09b0dce690963747d6320caa3651110f7dfd0f123e647-rimg-w1200-h675-dcf7f6f1-gmir?v=1768762109 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Books & Beyond: Laurie Herlich, Alex Gordon, Susan Marie Graham, sarah elizabeth, and Mary Nees being held? - **A:** Books & Beyond: Laurie Herlich, Alex Gordon, Susan Marie Graham, sarah elizabeth, and Mary Nees takes place on Fri, 30 Jan, 2026 at 10:00 am to Fri, 30 Jan, 2026 at 04:00 pm at 2101 Fort Henry Drive, Kingsport, TN, United States, Tennessee 37664. - **Q**: Who is organizing Books & Beyond: Laurie Herlich, Alex Gordon, Susan Marie Graham, sarah elizabeth, and Mary Nees? - **A:** Books & Beyond: Laurie Herlich, Alex Gordon, Susan Marie Graham, sarah elizabeth, and Mary Nees is organized by Kingsport Public Library. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Books & Beyond: Laurie Herlich, Alex Gordon, Susan Marie Graham, sarah elizabeth, and Mary Nees", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/3270be714011ce227af09b0dce690963747d6320caa3651110f7dfd0f123e647-rimg-w1200-h675-dcf7f6f1-gmir?v=1768762109", "startDate": "2026-01-30", "endDate": "2026-01-30", "url": "https://allevents.in/kingsport/books-and-beyond-laurie-herlich-alex-gordon-susan-marie-graham-sarah-elizabeth-and-mary-nees/200029476782623", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "2101 Fort Henry Drive, Kingsport, TN, United States, Tennessee 37664", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "2101 Fort Henry Dr, Kingsport, TN 37664-3658, United States", "addressLocality": "Kingsport", "addressRegion": "TN", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "36.52902", "longitude": "-82.52079" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Join us for a visit with authors Laurie Herlich, Alex Gordon, Susan Marie Graham, sarah elizabeth, and Mary Nees. 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