PORT ANGELES — Lisa Mantchev, the local author who is nationally known for her Theatre Illuminata young-adult trilogy of novels, will give a reading plus a writing workshop at the Port Angeles Library, 2210 S. Peabody St., this Saturday.
This 10:30 a.m. event is free and ideal, youth services librarian Jennifer Knight said, for avid readers and aspiring writers from high school age and older.
Mantchev, who lives with her family in Joyce, will treat participants to a reading from her newly released picture book Strictly No Elephants, and then add an excerpt from Sugar Skulls, her forthcoming young-adult novel.
The author will discuss the picture book- and novel-writing processes, offer tips from her experience and give some writing exercises to get the creative juices flowing, Knight said.
Mantchev’s books, which also include Eyes Like Stars, Perchance to Dream and So Silver Bright, will be available for purchase during Saturday’s reading and workshop.
For information about her appearance, which is among the free National Novel Writing Month activities in November at North Olympic Library System locations, see NOLS.org or phone the Port Angeles Library at 360-417-8500.
