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OUR NEXT READING
ELIZABETH SIMS • THE EXTRA
7PM, Friday, October 30th
Carver Room, Port Angeles Public Library
The entertaining, enthusiastic, and enlightening Elizabeth Sims returns to present the second Rita Farmer mystery, The Extra.
Rita Farmer knows what it’s like to be flat broke. Even now, when studying to be a lawyer, Rita is so far in debt that she has to scrounge for acting jobs to keep herself and her son afloat. Decked out in a police uniform as an extra on a low-budge movie shoot, she wanders into a rough part of town and is pulled into a vicious assault. Rita chases off the men but doesn’t escape unscathed, and the boy they attacked isn’t out of danger yet. His injuries could last the rest of his life.
Rita’s heart goes out to him and his grandmother, Amaryllis B. Cubitt, the director of an urban mission that Rita had turned to for help years ago. But the mission has changed from its unassuming past and is now flush with secret donations and gruff guards posted at the doors. Rita can’t help but wonder if now Amaryllis is too proud to ask for the help she needs.
Smart, charming and delightful as her creation Rita Farmer, Elizabeth Sims was quite humorous and engaging the last time she read for us. Elizabeth is a contributing editor for Writer’s Digest magazine. Her craft-of-writing advice has appeared in those pages since 2006, and she coaches aspiring writers individually and through workshops.
Rita Farmer knows what it’s like to be flat broke. Even now, when studying to be a lawyer, Rita is so far in debt that she has to scrounge for acting jobs to keep herself and her son afloat. Decked out in a police uniform as an extra on a low-budge movie shoot, she wanders into a rough part of town and is pulled into a vicious assault. Rita chases off the men but doesn’t escape unscathed, and the boy they attacked isn’t out of danger yet. His injuries could last the rest of his life.
Rita’s heart goes out to him and his grandmother, Amaryllis B. Cubitt, the director of an urban mission that Rita had turned to for help years ago. But the mission has changed from its unassuming past and is now flush with secret donations and gruff guards posted at the doors. Rita can’t help but wonder if now Amaryllis is too proud to ask for the help she needs.
Smart, charming and delightful as her creation Rita Farmer, Elizabeth Sims was quite humorous and engaging the last time she read for us. Elizabeth is a contributing editor for Writer’s Digest magazine. Her craft-of-writing advice has appeared in those pages since 2006, and she coaches aspiring writers individually and through workshops.
Elizabeth is also the author of four novels comprising the Lillian Byrd Crime series. In 2007 she wrote a history of the Port Angeles Symphony Orchestra (with Ned Thomas). She plays percussion in that ensemble.
Elizabeth Sims was born in Wyandotte, Michigan, in 19coughcough. Her formative years were spent investigating the lives of Nancy Drew, Laura Ingalls, and Sherlock Holmes, as well as making gunpowder in her basement with her chemistry set. Now, as a published crime author, she’s living proof that studying literature and misbehaving with reactive compounds can work out.
The Extra is published by St. Martin’s Press.
Elizabeth Sims was born in Wyandotte, Michigan, in 19coughcough. Her formative years were spent investigating the lives of Nancy Drew, Laura Ingalls, and Sherlock Holmes, as well as making gunpowder in her basement with her chemistry set. Now, as a published crime author, she’s living proof that studying literature and misbehaving with reactive compounds can work out.
The Extra is published by St. Martin’s Press.
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