Events

Wednesday, June 22, 2022, 7 pm

Norwich Bookstore, 291 Main Street, Norwich, VT

Marjorie Nelson Matthews, author of debut novel Hawai‘i Calls, in conversation with Joni B. Cole, author of Good Naked, How to Write More, Write Better, and Be Happier.


Saturday, June 25, 2022, 11:15 am

Bookstock 2022

Norman Williams Public Library, 10 on The Green, Woodstock, VT

Novelist Marjorie Nelson Matthews transports readers to 1930s and ‘40s Honolulu. With host Joni B. Cole, she discusses the book’s thought-provoking themes from defying gender norms, to reinvention after loss, to the costs of being “different”.


Saturday, March 18, 2023, 1 pm

Kellogg-Hubbard Library, 135 Main Street, Montpelier, VT

Join Rootstock Publishing for an hour with local authors! Readers include:

  • Children's book author Melissa Perley (The Violin Family);

  • Poet Scudder Parker (Safe as Lightning);

  • Novelist Marjorie Nelson Matthews (Hawai'i Calls);

  • Historian Rick Winston (Red Scare in the Green Mountains);

  • Mystery writer Bernie Lambek (Uncivil Liberties and An Intent to Commit);

  • Humorist Bill Mares (I Could Hardly Keep from Laughing);

  • Designer/daughter of the author Dana Dwinell-Yardley (Alzheimer’s Canyon);

  • Mystery writer Sam Clark (The Inland Sea);

  • Novelist Celia Ryker (Augusta);

  • Memoirist Kim Cheney (A Lawyer’s Life to Live).

Books will be for sale and publisher Samantha Kolber will be available to answer questions about publishing. 

Free and open to the public.