Written by Camille White <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brackett Library hosted its annual book signing during Homecoming weekend. It was held in the Hammon Student Center in front of the bookstore Nov. 4. Published alumni, professors and students were invited to participate. Public systems and services librarian Brenda Breezeel said that Brackett Library director Jean Waldrop started this event over 10 years ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cShe started gathering and inviting, and so it\u2019s kind of grown from there,\u201d Breezeel said. \u201cSo each year, we find a few more people.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The books range from general fiction to true stories to Bible commentaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThey\u2019re there selling their books, [and they will] autograph them if you want,\u201d Breezeel said. \u201cIt\u2019s simple, casual. \u2026 These are Harding people, you know, that have written these great books.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Professor of English and Writing Center director Nick Boone said this was his second year to participate in the book signing. Boone said \u201cCall Me Buf\u201d is a book that his grandfather wrote, but he signed in his place.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI like the way that he put it,\u201d Boone said.\u201c’It\u2019s Nick\u2019s book. I just wrote it.\u2019 Nick being me. Meaning that I had to encourage him to write the book \u2014 to write these stories about his life. I\u2019d been doing it for years and years. And, finally, I felt like I had kind of a critical mass of stories. I was able to start putting them together. So I organized the book, and wrote portions of it to create links between the stories that he wrote.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cCall Me Buf\u201d <\/em>was released in 2021, and Boone said the library asked if he wanted to participate again, so he said yes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI\u2019m looking forward to talking with other people about the book, introducing them to my grandfather, his life and encouraging them to read about, you know, a different era in history, [the] history of the Church of Christ, as well, since he was a minister in the Church of Christ,\u201d Boone said before the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tiffany Yecke Brooks is a Harding alumna and author. She worked as a ghostwriter for 14 years and began publishing under her own name in 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt\u2019s exciting to be on campus today, see other Harding authors, see people from all different eras,\u201d Brooks said at the event. \u201cIt\u2019s just wonderful to see the creativity of, you know, so many different Harding alumni [and] professors.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Authors interested in doing the event in future years can email library@harding.edu. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Written by Camille White Brackett Library hosted its annual book signing during Homecoming weekend. It was held in the Hammon Student Center in front of the bookstore Nov. 4. Published…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15068,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15068"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19075"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19093,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19075\/revisions\/19093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}