On Saturday, March 10, 2018 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., Janet Ruth Heller will speak about “Nine Tips for a Successful Book Signing Event” for the Motown Writers Network Monthly Meet Up at the Detroit Public Library Main Branch at 5201 Woodward Ave. / Detroit MI 48202. The talk will occur on the third floor in the Old Fine Arts Room. For more information about this writing group, please see its website at https://motownwriters.wordpress.com/
Janet Ruth Heller is president of the Michigan College English Association. She has published three poetry books: Exodus (WordTech Editions, 2014), Folk Concert: Changing Times (Anaphora Literary Press, 2012), and Traffic Stop (Finishing Line Press, 2011). The University of Missouri Press published her scholarly book, Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, and the Reader of Drama (1990). Fictive Press published Heller’s middle-grade chapter book about sibling rivalry, The Passover Surprise (2015). Her children’s book about bullying, How the Moon Regained Her Shape (Arbordale, 2006; 4th edn. 2014), has won four national awards.