{"id":46338,"date":"2013-05-20T10:00:48","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T14:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=46338"},"modified":"2013-05-17T10:00:22","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T14:00:22","slug":"author-monica-meira-vaughan-to-speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=46338","title":{"rendered":"Author Monica Meira Vaughan to Speak"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cazenovia Public Library news<\/p>\n

(Cazenovia, NY – May 2013\"Cazenovia<\/a>) All are invited to join author Monica Meira Vaughan on Thursday, May 23\u00a0at 7 p.m. in the Cazenovia Public Library Community Room.\u00a0 Her presentation \u201cBeing a Writer\u201d will focus on the process of writing and how it led to her recent novel\u00a0The Ability.<\/p>\n

Appropriate for ages 8 to adult,\u00a0The Ability\u00a0delves into the extraordinary abilities of the twelve-year-old mind.\u00a0 One such twelve-year-old is Christopher Lane, who has been discounted by his teachers as a liar and thief, and whose mom doesn\u2019t have the energy to deal with him.<\/p>\n

But a mysterious visit from the Ministry of Education indicates that Chris might have some potential after all.\u00a0 When he is invited to attend the prestigious Myers Holt Academy, he is astounded at what he\u2014and his peers\u2014can do as they test the boundaries of the human mind.\u00a0 Their experimentation has consequences, though, and soon Chris is forced to face them.<\/p>\n

After the age of fifteen, Vaughan spent every summer in Cazenovia with her father and stepmother Frederico and Kathy Meira.\u00a0 Here she spent time at the lake and bought books at the Friends of the Library Book Sale.\u00a0 Where she writes is part of Vaughan\u2019s writing process, and her time in Cazenovia was one of those places.<\/p>\n

A book that appeals to adults and children alike,\u00a0The Ability\u00a0has received rave reviews.\u00a0 \u201cI can now see how adults could love a story told for children,\u201d one reviewer writes, and\u00a0Publishers Weekly\u00a0adds,\u00a0\u201cReaders will enjoy the candy-shop wish fulfillment in this fast-paced, superhero-tinged spy novel.\u00a0 This could hit a middle-grade sweet spot.\u201d<\/p>\n

Copies of\u00a0The Ability\u00a0will be available for purchase and signing at the May 23rdpresentation where Vaughan will also do a short reading and give the audience a few little secrets about the book that they won\u2019t find anywhere else.<\/p>\n

This event is free and open to the public.\u00a0 For more information on Vaughan\u2019s presentation or other events at the Cazenovia Public Library, call 655-9322 or visit cazenoviapubliclibrary.org.<\/p>\n

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Cazenovia Public Library news (Cazenovia, NY – May 2013) All are invited to join author Monica Meira Vaughan on Thursday, May 23\u00a0at 7 p.m. in the Cazenovia Public Library Community Room.\u00a0 Her presentation \u201cBeing a Writer\u201d will focus on the process of writing and how it led to her recent novel\u00a0The Ability. Appropriate for ages […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libraries"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-c3o","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}