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Charlene D’Avanzo

Environmental Mystery Writer

Upcoming & Recent Events

August 2021

Maine Authors Publishing Book Festival

Saturday, August 28th, 2021
11:00am – 3:00pm

Maine Authors Publishing, 12 High Street, Thomaston, ME

Meet the Author and get your book signed!


September 2021

Books in Boothbay

Saturday, September 11th, 2021
9:00am – 4:00pm

Boothbay Railway Village Museum, 586 Wiscasset Road, Boothbay Harbor, ME

The largest and longest running book fair in Maine.

For more information, visit www.booksinboothbay.blogspot.com or follow @booksinboothbay on Facebook for updates.

   

Common Ground County Fair

Friday and Saturday, September 24th-25th

MOFGA’s Education Center 294 Crosby Brook Rd, Unity, Maine


OCTOBER 2021

Freeport Fall Festival

Saturday October 2, 2021


Fall Foliage Festival

Saturday October 9, 2021

Boothbay Railway Village Museum, 586 Wiscasset Road, Boothbay Harbor, ME

NOVEMBER 2021

New England Crime Bake

Friday and Saturday November 12-13

Hilton Boston/Dedham, MA 

Panelist in Suspense and Social Issues Panel, Saturday November 13th


Maine Harvest Festival

Saturday November 20th

Cross Insurance Center, 515 Main St. , Bangor, ME


2020

September: Berwick Maine Public Library presentation. Posted on the library’s website.

September 25: Common Ground Fare (sign & sell books)*

October: Presentation, Curtis Memorial Library, Brunswick, Maine, posted on the library’s website

August 29 Maine Authors Publishing Book Festival, Thomaston, Maine *

July 11 BOOKS IN BOOTHBAY, Boothbay Maine*

June 19 CRIMEWAVE meeting, Portland, Me.* (I am on the panel “Mysteries As Vehicles for Social Messages”)

April 25 Earth Week Event: Sign/Sell books, Royal River Books, Yarmouth*

April 22 Berwick Public Library Presentation, 6PM*

February 24  GOMMEA (Gulf of Maine Educators) Presentation, Yarmouth Community House, 6 PM

Maine Crime Writers Posts:  “The Nature of Life & Death: Tales of a Foresntic Ecologist” by Patricia Wiltshire  (January 20); “An ecologist’s take on “Sense of Place” (February 28 ;”On Our Own in Maine” (March 30); “Why Writers Write (April 20); “Covid Reads” (May 21); “Where Writers Get Their Ideas” (June 19); “What We Are Reading” (July 20), “Agatha Christie” (August); “Why I Like To Kayak” (September); “The Importance of Your First Line” (October 22) Go to Maine Crime Writers (https://mainecrimewriters.com/).

* Postponed (Covid)

2019

January 10: “New England Authors” YouTube Interview by Kamel Nasr, Cambridge, MA (posted on charlenedavanzo.com)

April 10, South Portland High School Earth Day presentation

May 11, “Mystery Making”, Sisters in Crime event, A FreeThinkers Corner, Dover, New Hampshire

May 31-June 1 New England Crimewave meeting, Portland, Maine

June 25 Maine Crime Writers Post “Barbara Kingsolver”

July 17 Windham Public Library, “A Universe of Stories” presentation, 6-7pm

July 27 “Books in Boothbay”, Boothbay, Maine, sell & sign books

July 30 Maine Crime Writers Post “On Libraries”

August 2 Damariscotta Sherman’s Bookstore, sell & sign books; Maine    Lobster Festival, Rockland, Mane, sign & sell books

August 24 Maine Book Festival, Thomaston, Maine

August 29, Maine Crime Writers Post, “Seminolon by Ceclia Watson”

September 11, Waterford, Maine, Library guest speaker: All About Books”

October 24, Speaker at Katz Library, University of Maine, Augusta

October 28 Maine Crime Writers Post, Walter Mosley’s “Elements of Fiction”

November 8-10 New England CrimeBake Meeting, Woburn, MA

November 20, Speaker at Freeport Library, Freeport, Maine

December 31 Maine Crime Writers Post, “The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves A Trace: Tales Of A Forensic Ecologist” by Patricia Wiltshire

Maine Musings

  • Frosty Maine Morning
  • Applause
  • Full Moon Devotee
  • Short Stories etc.
  • Fog
  • Safety First!
  • There’s No Place Like Maine
  • Rafting, Turtles, and More!

My Books

  • Cold Blood, Hot Sea (2016)
  • Demon Spirit, Devil Sea (2017)
  • Secrets Haunt The Lobsters’ Sea (2018)
  • Glass Eels, Shattered Sea (2020)
  • The Shark, The Girl, And The Sea (2021)

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