USCB Lunch with Authors welcomes Sarah Blake

The NY Times best selling novel, The Postmistress, debuts in paperback at the USCB Lunch With Author series on Thursday, February 3^rd/  Author Sarah Blake will discuss this mind-boggling, fabulous book which alternates between an America on the eve of entering into World War II, still safe and snug in its inability to grasp the danger at hand, and a ravaged Europe being torn apart by war. The stories collide in two letters: one kept by Iris James, the postmistress of a tiny Cape Cod town, and the other by Frankie Bard, an American radio journalist covering the London blitz and fleeing European Jews with the iconic radio broadcaster, Edward R. Morrow.

Books Sandwiched In, sponsored by Friends of the Beaufort County Library, returns for the 25^th year on January 10, 2011, and continues every Monday through February 28, 2011.  The 8-week program will be held in a different place - USCB Performing Arts Center, 801 Carteret Street, Beaufort, and at a different time – noon to 1 p.m.  Co-Chairs Sherry Hirsch and Gretchen Blickle selected local personalities to review the 8 books that focus on Beaufort and South Carolina in recognition of the 300^th anniversary of Beaufort.

The program is free and open to everyone.  Attendees are encouraged to bring their lunch or, as an alternative, purchase it from the Outtakes Café take-out table in the Performing Arts Center.  Doors open at 11:30 a.m.

When the Lowcountry pulls off a coup, it’s always a big one, and when the University of South Carolina Beaufort was selected to sponsor the Steve Berry History Matters Writer’s Workshop, it was an impressive coup for the Lowcountry!

On January 17, 2011, the 300^th anniversary of the town of Beaufort, Steve Berry, international and New York Times bestselling author, will spend 3 hours teaching aspiring authors how to hone their craft and become bestselling authors.  The Steve Berry Writer’s Workshop will be held at the Holiday Inn Beaufort, 2225 Boundary Street, Beaufort, from 1:30 – 5:00 pm on Monday, January 17, 2011.  Registration is $95 and must be made through Jo Ann Kingsley, 843-521-4147 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .