Clarks And Smith, Next Week At Borders
Clarks And Smith, Next Week At Borders
DANBURY â Borders Books will host two book signings next week.
Mary Higgins Clark, Americaâs âQueen of Suspense,â and her daughter Carol Higgins Clark will be at the store on Tuesday, December 12, beginning at 6 pm. The mother-daughter team, who separately have reams of best-selling titles to their credit, recently teamed up for their first joint release.
Deck The Halls (Simon & Schuster, October 2000, 176 pages), is an exciting story of high-stakes intrigue and detection in a kidnapping played out against a holiday setting â a private detectiveâs father is abducted three days before Christmas. The book continues to hold on to the #5 position on the December 10 New York Times® Bestselling Hardcover Fiction list.
On Thursday, December 14, former WTNH-TV/Channel 8 (New Haven) news anchor and reporter Diane Smith returns to Borders. Beginning at 7 pm, Ms Smith will discuss her latest book, Absolutely, Positively Connecticut.
Released in October, Absolutely, Positively Connecticut is the follow-up to Ms Smithâs October 1998 release Positively Connecticut â a book that was based on a popular weekly series she created and aired on WTNH during her tenure. The first book became a best-seller for its publisher, the Goshen-based Globe-Pequot, and Ms Smith had a state-wide book tour to meet readers and fans from all facets of her career.
Since her departure from WTNH in 1999, Ms Smith has continued her âAbsolutely Connecticutâ series with new segments she has produced for CPTV. In January of this year she also returned to broadcasting, joining Ray Dunaway and the morning team on WTIC 1080-AMâs morning show.
In August, the Emmy Award-winning journalist received an appointment to the adjunct faculty in the School of Communications at Quinnipiac College in Hamden. Ms Smith is teaching the broadcast journalism portion of the schoolâs undergraduate broadcast journalism class, while Peter Sumby, the assistant director of the Ed McMahon Mass Communications Center and former news director for Connecticut television station WVIT, teaches production.
The public is invited to meet the three authors during their book signing sessions. Borders Books is at 110 Federal Road; it can be reached by calling 798-1100.