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   The Northwoods Art and Book Festival is celebrating its 30th Anniversary on August 9th from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Lake Avenue, east of highway 371 in Hackensack. For this free one-day event, the festival will bring back your favorite artists and authors and introduce you to new ones. Award-winning Minnesota authors covering multiple genres will be in attendance. In honor of the 30th anniversary, there will be a raffle drawing four times during the day. Thirty authors have signed and donated books for the raffle. You don’t want to miss Author Laura Hern’s exciting and informative presentation, “Insurance Investigator Turns Amateur Sleuth.” She will share her writing expertise on how to write cozy mysteries. The presentation will take place at 11:00 a.m. in the United Congregational Church (UCC) Sanctuary. The following authors will be available for book signings and selling in the UCC Friendship Hall from 9:00 to 3:00.

   Margaret A. Blenkush-fiction, cozy British mystery; Darren Boeck, YA adult fantasy; Rhonda Buerkle, Children’s books; Willam Burleson, humorous literary fiction; Bruce Carlson, natural history, non-fiction; Jessie Chandler, mystery; Nan Dixon, contemporary romance, women’s fiction, romantic suspense; William Durbin, historical fiction; M.E.Fuller, literary fiction and mysteries; Julie Gurth, children’s book; Marjorie Mathison Hance, The North Lakes Murder Series; Margo Hansen, Christian fiction; Sharon Harris, regional anthology; Laura Hern, cozy mystery, contemporary romance; Christine Husom, Winnebago County Mystery Series, Snow Globe Shop Mysteries; Nathan Jorgenson, fiction northern Minnesota setting; Judy Kerr, crime fiction, police procedural; Jeff Krogstad, fiction and non-fiction; Julie Jo Larson, Minnesota travel; Mike Lein, creative non-fiction based on Northwoods life; CA Lewis, epic fantasy; Brenda Lyne, paranormal mystery; Jodie Leigh Murray, romantic suspense and historical suspense; Jan Payne, suspense; Darrell Pedersen, non-fiction memoir; Mary Perrine, fiction, thrillers, and dramas; Niomi Phillips, literary fiction; Chris Norbury, thriller, mystery; Richard Sherry, political thrillers; Candace Simar, historical fiction with Minnesota settings; Jonathan Sweet, mystery, thriller, Minnesota non-fiction; J. Marie Rundquist,  women’s fiction, LGBTQ; John Warren, biography; Scott Welvaert, YA fiction, fantasy adventure series; Jason Lee Willis, histories, mysteries, legends, lore.

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