With a heart for local, national and international issues, Lorna Tychostup has used her writing and photography skills to create awareness. Tychostup has visited Iraq on multiple occasions as a journalist and takes back with her the stories, images and realities of how the people are striving to rise out of the ashes. Tychostup comes to Central Michigan University with her Making Peace With Many Truths tour in hopes of sharing the Iraqi people's stories and giving the American people a glimpse of truth.

Amy Huntley
East Lansing Public Library
March 27, 3 p.m.
elpl.org, (517) 351-2420

Come hear East Lansing resident Amy Huntley share her writing and experience with her neighbors and friends. Published in 2009, The Everafter is a young-adult novel written by someone who knows them best. Huntley has been teaching at Okemos High School for more than 18 years and still teaches there, immersing herself in the cultures and lifestyles of her target audience. The Everafter ventures into the world of dead Madison Stanton who finds herself surrounded by lost objects from her previous life and the ability to use them to change what once was.

Colleen Gleason
Schuler Books, Eastwood
March 11, 7 p.m.
schulerbooks.com, (517) 316 7495

With vampires running rampant lately, Colleen Gleason has created the perfect solution: stories about vampire slayers. The Gardella Vampire Chronicles, a current series of five books, explores the life of Victoria Gardella Grantworth as she discovers she comes from a long line of vampire hunters. But this isn't just another modern day vampire story. Victoria is about to immerge into nineteenth-century London society and she discovers that balancing the role of a proper lady and her responsibilities after dark isn't easy. When society begins asking too many questions and her fellow vampire hunters see women as a weak link, Victoria is left defending herself throughout the series of novels.