Last night, local author and NC A&T Professor Valerie Nieman spoke at Scuppernong Books downtown about her latest novel, "To the Bones." Set in West Virginia with action taking place in a coal mining community, the book is described as genre-bending with great storytelling and a strong sense of place. Nieman majored in journalism at West Virginia University. After graduating in 1978, she went on to write for newspapers, first in West Virginia and then in Greensboro. When asked how she made the transition from journalist to teaching at the university level, she explained that serving as an editor actually has a big teaching component as you are helping writers prepare their stories to go to print.
The event was well-attended and quite a bit of fun. As a nod to a scene in her book, Nieman made peach cobbler for the audience from an old-timey recipe which she shared. In the above photo, Nieman (on the right) is seen with Deonna Kelli Sayed who is membership coordinator for the North Carolina Writers' Network. Sayed added so much to the evening by asking great questions, given her thorough knowledge of the book.
Quite accomplished!
Posted by: William Kendall | Friday, August 30, 2019 at 03:12 PM