Paranormal Night at A Novel Idea April 18 in Dunwoody Sure to Thrill

National Paranormal Day is the first Wednesday in May, which means A Novel Idea’s paranormal night April 18 is timely indeed. The Dunwoody event will feature two authors well versed in otherworldly topics: Ann Hite and Delilah Dawson.

Hite’s debut novel, “Ghost On Black Mountain,” won Georgia Author Of The Year and was a Townsend Prize Finalist in 2012. She has since penned a host of personal essays and short stories that have appeared in numerous national anthologies, as well as novels and other works, including “Haints on Black Mountain,” a haunted short story collection released in September. Hite, who lives near Powder Springs, will be in conversation with Dawn Major, a literary fiction writer who has gravitated into the horror, weird fiction and magical realism genre.

Dawson is the author of the New York Times bestsellers “Star Wars: Phasma,” “Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge,” and the Blud series, along with a number of other novels, short stories, comics and other compositions. She will be discussing “The Violence,” in which three generations of women forge a new path through an America torn by a mysterious wave of violence in this “chilling [and] dizzyingly effective” (The New York Times Book Review) novel of revenge, liberation and triumph. Dawson will be in conversation with Brenda Sevcik, co-author with Jeremy Logan of “The Trigger Effect,” a crime novel concerning a pair of 17-year-olds whose deaths “spark a chain reaction, infecting everyone they touched with a plague of misfortune, revealing secrets, perversion, and violence beyond measure.”

The free program begins at 7 p.m. at Vintage Pizzeria Dunwoody, 5510 Chamblee Dunwoody Road, Dunwoody. Bookmiser, the event’s bookseller, will have copies of the authors’ books to purchase. To register, click here.

About A Novel Idea

Begun in 2016, ANI provides a forum for authors to exhibit their works in an informal and welcoming setting, in collaboration with the Atlanta Writers Club. ANI meets monthly at Vintage Pizzeria in Dunwoody and the Alpharetta Public Library. For more information, visit anovelidea.us. Authors interested in being considered for future ANI presentations or in volunteering to help should contact Jeremy Logan at anovelidea.authorshowcase@gmail.com.

About Atlanta Writers Club

Founded in 1914, the AWC teaches the business and craft of writing, supports the local literary community and encourages more reading by the public. For more information, visit atlantawritersclub.org.

About Bookmiser

Since 1998, Bookmiser, an independent bookseller in Marietta, has been selling new and used books, hosting author events and facilitating store-hosted book clubs. Bookmiser will be on hand at all ANI events as its primary bookseller. For more information, visit bookmiser.net.