Local author Susan Alice Bickford will present a Zoom talk about genre fiction and the writing process on Thursday, August 6 at 7:00 p.m. Susan writes thrillers and suspense stories that are deeply embedded in the rural areas of New York State and New England, featuring resourceful female protagonists. Her 2019 novel Dread of Winter was nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award by the Mystery Writers of America.

Susan is unable to return to Greensboro this summer, so has offered this free ZOOM program to the Greensboro Free Library for local readers. Her talk is titled "Genre Fiction: The Stuff They Never Teach in English Classes," and will explore the choices, tropes, and delights of genre fiction in general, and provide some insights into her thrillers (which she insists are not mysteries) and her struggles with the empty page.

Susan's novel The Dread of Winter will be available to purchase or order through Galaxy Book Shop in Hardwick, which is donating 20% of the sale proceeds to the library. This title, as well as Susan's first book, A Short Time to Die, is also available for checkout at the library.

Anyone interested in Susan's Zoom talk should e-mail the Library at greensborofree@gmail.com to request the link and password.

Greensboro Free Library's summer book discussion series continues in August featuring a modern classic by Robertson Davies. World of Wonders stands alone as the story of an illustrious magician who is spirited away from his home by a member of a traveling sideshow, but readers may want to explore the entire Deptford Trilogy, which World of Wonders concludes. Copies of the book as well as the trilogy in one volume will soon be available for checkout at the library. Rosann Cook will lead a discussion of Davies' novel both in-person and via Zoom on Wednesday, August 26 at 7:00 p.m.

GREENSBORO FREE LIBRARY SUMMER HOURS: MONDAY 10-4, TUESDAY 10-7, THURSDAY 10-4, FRIDAY 10-4, SUNDAY 11:30-1:30.