Local Author Book Signing
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An afternoon of storytelling, conversation, and community awaits. Local authors Hillary Gauvreau Oat, Patricia Ann Chaffee, and Joanne Moore will be sharing their work in a cozy, welcoming space steeped in creativity and connection.
Guests are invited to enjoy complimentary tea while browsing books, chatting with the authors, and getting copies personally signed. It's a beautiful way to support local voices and spend a summer afternoon immersed in words that inspire!
📖 About the Authors:
Hillary Gauvreau Oat grew up in Schenectady, New York but has lived in the Waterford/East Lyme area since 1981. For over thirty years she has had a private energy medicine practice. She is a mother of three and grandmother of five. Writing romance stories and women’s fiction is her passion. It’s About Time is her independently published debut novel and the first in The Ogilvie Family Series. Book Two, Thomas’s Second Chance, is coming soon. A third book is in the works.
It’s About Time. Romance and retribution collide in a peaceful seaside village. Bess and James, two wounded people who accidentally meet on Main Street in front of It’s About Time clock shop, are reluctant to take a chance on love. Maura, a vengeful woman from James’s past, adds to their trouble. Can love survive? Book One in the Ogilvie Family Series, is available in paperback and ebook on Amazon.
Thomas’s Second Chance. Thomas Ogilvie has known trouble over his fifty-three years. After his stepmother’s funeral, he moves back home to Niantic, hoping for a second chance to do better. When tragedy strikes, Thomas’s life is changed in unexpected ways. Can Thomas make a second chance count? Book Two of the Ogilvie Family Series.
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Patricia Ann Chaffee is an award-winning writer and published poet from the Connecticut shoreline who considers Cape Cod her second home. Spirituality is central to her life and so is writing. She began creating the journey of Seth and Anna over a decade ago, from prompts at a writing group. Two years ago she took that pile of hand-written material that had amassed, and finally wrote Synchronicity ~ Two Hearts, One Spirit, a Forbidden Love. She celebrates life by the ocean, loves all things simple, spiritual, quiet, and creative, and is now working diligently on the sequel to Synchronicity, her debut novel.
Synchronicity is a story about relationships and the human condition that makes them so messy and meaningful, especially as we get older. It’s about God, commitments, unexpected blessings, and being vulnerable to love of all kinds. Both Seth and Anna are deeply faithful, and while serendipity brings them together on the beach, they each struggle with decisions about their future. Religion and romance wrestle in this tension-filled, emotional, and sometimes humorous story. Two hearts, and one spirit, on a journey fraught with uncertainty and the most forbidden love that can exist.
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Joanne Moore is a retired board-certified orthopedic physical therapist with a doctorate in health sciences. She started this book during her working years but finished it upon retirement with the support of her writing group. She drew upon her own experiences as a widow but also upon the lessons she learned from her patients. She understands that everyone encounters loss, whether of function or of people, and she respects each person's creative strategies for living with grief. There is no right or wrong way to move forward after loss. Joanne treasures the large family that sustains her, her church, and her friends and writing group. Her latest release is The Invincibles: A Story of Love, Loss, and Doughnuts and is pure fiction, though it contains a lot of truth. It is the story of five people who meet in a grief support group. Their beginning is awkward, as they each feel that their loss is unique. Tony, a well-worn sailor, seeks a warm dinner and someone to help with chores. Dorothy is just there at the direction of her boss. Joanie is only 42 and feels that the rug has been pulled out from under her. Rebecca is a coffee shop guitar-playing songwriter. Everett is still raising children as he is coping with his own grief. A sense of community develops and helps each one to find a new reason to go on living and even thriving. Though there is always sadness in grief, this story is uplifting and hopeful.
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Guests are invited to enjoy complimentary tea while browsing books, chatting with the authors, and getting copies personally signed. It's a beautiful way to support local voices and spend a summer afternoon immersed in words that inspire!
📖 About the Authors:
Hillary Gauvreau Oat grew up in Schenectady, New York but has lived in the Waterford/East Lyme area since 1981. For over thirty years she has had a private energy medicine practice. She is a mother of three and grandmother of five. Writing romance stories and women’s fiction is her passion. It’s About Time is her independently published debut novel and the first in The Ogilvie Family Series. Book Two, Thomas’s Second Chance, is coming soon. A third book is in the works.
It’s About Time. Romance and retribution collide in a peaceful seaside village. Bess and James, two wounded people who accidentally meet on Main Street in front of It’s About Time clock shop, are reluctant to take a chance on love. Maura, a vengeful woman from James’s past, adds to their trouble. Can love survive? Book One in the Ogilvie Family Series, is available in paperback and ebook on Amazon.
Thomas’s Second Chance. Thomas Ogilvie has known trouble over his fifty-three years. After his stepmother’s funeral, he moves back home to Niantic, hoping for a second chance to do better. When tragedy strikes, Thomas’s life is changed in unexpected ways. Can Thomas make a second chance count? Book Two of the Ogilvie Family Series.
__________________________
Patricia Ann Chaffee is an award-winning writer and published poet from the Connecticut shoreline who considers Cape Cod her second home. Spirituality is central to her life and so is writing. She began creating the journey of Seth and Anna over a decade ago, from prompts at a writing group. Two years ago she took that pile of hand-written material that had amassed, and finally wrote Synchronicity ~ Two Hearts, One Spirit, a Forbidden Love. She celebrates life by the ocean, loves all things simple, spiritual, quiet, and creative, and is now working diligently on the sequel to Synchronicity, her debut novel.
Synchronicity is a story about relationships and the human condition that makes them so messy and meaningful, especially as we get older. It’s about God, commitments, unexpected blessings, and being vulnerable to love of all kinds. Both Seth and Anna are deeply faithful, and while serendipity brings them together on the beach, they each struggle with decisions about their future. Religion and romance wrestle in this tension-filled, emotional, and sometimes humorous story. Two hearts, and one spirit, on a journey fraught with uncertainty and the most forbidden love that can exist.
________________________
Joanne Moore is a retired board-certified orthopedic physical therapist with a doctorate in health sciences. She started this book during her working years but finished it upon retirement with the support of her writing group. She drew upon her own experiences as a widow but also upon the lessons she learned from her patients. She understands that everyone encounters loss, whether of function or of people, and she respects each person's creative strategies for living with grief. There is no right or wrong way to move forward after loss. Joanne treasures the large family that sustains her, her church, and her friends and writing group. Her latest release is The Invincibles: A Story of Love, Loss, and Doughnuts and is pure fiction, though it contains a lot of truth. It is the story of five people who meet in a grief support group. Their beginning is awkward, as they each feel that their loss is unique. Tony, a well-worn sailor, seeks a warm dinner and someone to help with chores. Dorothy is just there at the direction of her boss. Joanie is only 42 and feels that the rug has been pulled out from under her. Rebecca is a coffee shop guitar-playing songwriter. Everett is still raising children as he is coping with his own grief. A sense of community develops and helps each one to find a new reason to go on living and even thriving. Though there is always sadness in grief, this story is uplifting and hopeful.
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