Fiction Addiction

1175 Woods Crossing Rd. #5
Greenville, SC 29607
864-675-0540
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Store Hours:
10am-6pm
Mon-Sat
 
www.fiction-addiction.comMarch 10, 2014

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

CONTACT:
Jill Hendrix
Fiction Addiction
864-675-0540
[email protected]
http://www.fiction-addiction.com 

Ashton Lee Book Signing     

Greenville, SC, March 10, 2014 - Southern author Ashton Lee will be signing copies of his new novel, The Reading Circle (Kensington, paperback, $15.00, on sale 3/25/14), at Fiction Addiction from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm on Saturday, April 19th. This event is free and open to the public. 

 

The Reading Circle is the follow-up to Lee's The Cherry Cola Book Club, which debuted in April 2013 to rave reviews. The Reading Circle invites readers back to the quirky town of Cherico, Mississippi, where potluck meetings at the local library provide a feast for mind and stomach alike. 

 

After winning a one-year reprieve for her underfunded library from budget-slashing, librarian Maura Beth Mayhew sets out to strengthen her case for further improvements and permanent job security. The diverse members of the Cherry Cola Book Club, which she founded to get more patrons into the library for reviews and potluck dinners, continue to meet for that purpose, reading Forrest Gump for their first assignment.

While the Forrest Gump-themed shrimp dishes are a universal hit, meetings don't always go according to plan. Between spirited debate over book choices and surprising revelations and relationship hiccups -- including Maura Beth's fledgling romance -- there's a lot to discuss.

And just when bad luck threatens to finish the library for good, the Cherry Cola Book Club may learn that the best stories have twists -- and heroes -- you never expected...
 

About the author:


Ashton Lee was born in historic Natchez, Mississippi, into a large, extended Southern family which gave him much fodder for his fiction later in life. He went to high school with Jill's dad, Greenville author Jim McFarlane. Ashton's father, who wrote under the pen name of R. Keene Lee right after WWII, was an editor and writer in New York of what is now called pulp fiction. As a result, Ashton inherited a love of reading and writing early on and did all the things aspiring authors are supposed to do, including majoring in English when he attended The University of the South, affectionately known as Sewanee. While there, he studied Creative Writing under Andrew Lytle, then editor of the Sewanee Review, and a member of the Southern Agrarians in the 1920s. Ashton lives in Oxford, MS, enjoying the amenities of a university town that many writers have called home.  

 

 

       
If you cannot make the signing, you can reserve a personalized copy of either of Ashton's books by contacting Fiction Addiction in advance at 864-675-0540 or at [email protected].
 

ABOUT FICTION ADDICTION - Fiction Addiction is a local, woman-owned, independent bookstore established in 2001. The store carries a mixture of new and used fiction and nonfiction, including children's books, as well as gift items. We have recently moved to a new, bigger location at 1175 Woods Crossing Rd.

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