ReadAloud invites the community to join us for our winter programming in the Thompson Library (room 202, 2nd floor NE corner). Please stop by and enjoy faculty, staff, students and community members reading from their favorite works.

The Ohioana Library and the Central Ohio Festival Writers join together to bring three Central Ohio romance writers to the OSU Libraries ReadAloud. Jules Bennett, Susan Gee Heino, and Karin Shah will present readings in celebration of Valentine’s Day.

Jules Bennett first published in 2005 and since has published six novels and will have four more in 2010 from Silhouette Desire in Berkley Publishing. She married her high school sweetheart and is the mother of 2 toddler girls. She also works full-time in a beauty salon and attributes all her success and happiness to God and her husband.

Susan Gee Heino began her writing career as a playwright. After some years in the Theatre she turned her efforts to writing Regency historical romance, which was always her first love. Her debut novel, Mistress by Mistake, won the Romance Writers of America Golden Heart Award and was released in December, 2009. Her next novel, Damsel in Disguise, will be released by Berkley Sensation in summer 2010.

Karin Shah lives in Westerville and has a degree in English as a Writing Art and a Master’s in Library and Information Science. She will read from her debut Sci-Fi romance novel, Starjacked available from Samhain Publishing.