New Lebanon Library Director Jeannie Bogino will launch her debut novel – Rock Angel – at an event sponsored by Prashanti Press and hosted at the New Lebanon Library on September 13 at 6 pm. Bogino will introduce and read from her book as well as autograph copies. Light refreshments will be served.
Betsy Gitter, President of the New Lebanon Library’s Board of Trustees said, “All of us connected to the Library – patrons, trustees and volunteers – are so proud of Jeannie, who is not only a dynamic and imaginative Library Director but also a well respected book critic and an accomplished fiction writer. We look forward to celebrating the publication of her exciting new novel with her many admirers and friends in the Lebanon Valley community.”
Jeannie has already had a varied and successful writing career. She is a published author of short horror, fantasy, romance, memoir and gay fiction and is a regular contributor at Library Journal, where she was named 2011’s fiction reviewer of the year. She is widely regarded as an expert on zombie lit and horror films.
Jeannie has been director of the New Lebanon Library since 2007. Prior to that, she served as Reference Librarian at Southern Vermont College and Senior Assistant Librarian at the Berkshire Athenaeum. She lives in Hancock with partner Frank Kennedy, two lab mixes, a flock of chickens and several hives of honeybees.
Rock Angel, published by Prashanti Press and available as a paperback ($18) or ebook ($9.99) is set in the intoxicating world of the 1990s rock scene. The novel follows the meteoric rise of young, beautiful, heroin addicted Shan to guitar goddess stardom.
Early reviews of Rock Angel have been very positive. The Library Journal described the novel as “true music fiction, a soulful ballad that will interest readers of rock nonfiction titles . . .or drug-fueled fiction . . . ”
For more information, call 518-794-8844. The Library, at 550 State Route 20, is located ¼ mile north of the yellow blinking light at the intersection of Routes 20/22.