Susan Gee Hieno will read from her soon to be released book Passion and Pretense. Reviewers have declared her four star rated book to  be witty, funny, and sexy pure reading indulgence. Susan’s career with writing for the theatre and her love of the English Regency time period led her to writing historical romance. In 2008 she won Romance Writers of America’s Golden Heart Award for Best Regency Historical. Susan has three published novels and has contributed to at least one anthology. She lives in rural Ohio, a minister’s wife, and a mother of two children.

Donna MacMeans will read from her recently released book Redeeming the Rogue and forthcoming book The Casanova Code. Donna is a mild-mannered certified public accountant with a small tax practice. But come April 16th, she transforms into an impassioned writer of sexy historical romance novels, paranormals and romantic suspense. Her manuscript, The Education of Mrs. Brimley, won the coveted Golden Heart medallion for Best Long Historical Manuscript presented by Romance Writers of America.  Penguin Books purchased it and launched her career as a published author. She has also won multiple other awards including the Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award for Historical Love & Laughter.

Paige Cuccaro will read from her newly released book, Hellsbane. Garnering 5 star reviews and reviewer’s Top Pick, Hellsbane is described as a thrilling read with just enough fast-paced action and excitement to leave you hanging onto the edge of your seat. Cuccarro has a way of pulling you into a scene–I was smelling the brimstone, and feeling the black goo that at one time was a demon, say readers. Paige Cuccaro spends her days as a Navy wife and mother, writing her books here in central Ohio. Her road to publication was not without its ups and downs, but with several books out under her penname, Alison Paige, and the launch of her new urban fantasy 3 book series, Hellsbane, she is well on her way to achieving her dreams.

February 16, Thursday, 3-4 pm,  Mortar Board Centennial Suite (Thompson Library Room 202)

Robyn Warhol, a Distinguished Professor, Vice Chair of the Dept. of English and Director of Project Narrative, will read from her own works: Having a Good Cry: Effeminate Feelings and Popular Forms (2003), and Adventures in the Archive: Two Literary Critics in Search of a Victorian Subject.

February 23, Thursday, 3-4 pm,  Mortar Board Centennial Suite (Thompson Library Room 202)

Dan Noonan: Dan’s theme will be “Read Across America” focusing on a multi-generational presentation of the works of Dr. Seuss. (Dr. Seuss’ birthday is March 2)

March 1, Thursday, 3-4 pm,  Mortar Board Centennial Suite (Thompson Library Room 202)

Naked Sunfish presents Rick Brown, Elisa Phillips and John Bennett, each reading original work. Also, Rick’s wife, Yvonne Brown, will join him for a few musical numbers.

January 12, Thursday, 3-4 pm,  Mortar Board Centennial Suite (Thompson Library Room 202) 

The father-daughter writing team of David Meyers and Elise Meyers Walker read selections from Historic Columbus Crimes: mama’s in the furnace, the thing, and more as well as their latest book, Look To Lazarus: The Big Store.

* Due to technical problems, the sound file of the ReadAloud this week was not produced.

January 19, Thursday, 3-4 pm,  Mortar Board Centennial Suite (Thompson Library Room 202) 

Diane Kinser,Faculty from CSCC Communication Skills Department, read excerpts from her “Black Diamond” trilogy, I Owe My Soul: The Black Diamond Covenant, Dappled Glory: The Black Diamond Heritage,and In the Eyes of God: The Black Diamond Legacy. These historical novels tell of the coal mines in Southeastern Ohio but also immigration, racial inequality, women’s suffrage, merchandising and other cultural issues of the early 1900s.

January 26, Thursday, 3-4 pm,  Mortar Board Centennial Suite (Thompson Library Room 202)

Members of WOSU Public Media’s Classical 101 staff- Boyce Lancaster, Christopher Purdy,Beverley Ervine and Jennifer Hambrick– read some of the best music writing of 2011 and also accounts of George Gershwin and the rise of Tin Pan Alley, Leonard Bernstein’s overnight rise to fame, Igor Stravinsky’s visit to the Kennedy White House and other music-related writings. Boyce Lancaster read Leonard Bernstein by Humphrey Burton. Beverley Ervine read Stravinsky: chronicle of a friendship by Robert Craft.Christopher Purdy read The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein.Jennifer Hambrick read Listen To This  and Best Music Writing 2011 by Alex Ross.

February 2, Thursday, 3-4 pm,  Mortar Board Centennial Suite (Thompson Library Room 202) 

Kathy Northern, Associate Dean of Admissions for the College of Law, and Rob Solomon, Assistant Dean of Admissions, from the Law & Leadership Institute presented readings honoring Black History. Kathy Northern read Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Patillo Beals and The collected poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes, Arnod lRampersad, David Roessel.Rob Solomon read Mirror to America: The Authobiography of John Hope Franklin and God’s Trombones: seven Negro sermons in verse by James Weldon Johnson, Aaron Douglas.