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Downtown Branford features local Authors for a day long book festival. Come visit your favorite author and buy some books. We’ll be there will bells a ringing and books a browsing. Saturday, May 11, 2024.
Let the art thrive! The Norwich Rose Arts Festival returns on June 29, 2024 at Chelsea Square right in front of Norwich Free Academy. Come enjoy the creativity in all forms. Music to sculpture, paintings to books. Connecticut authors will share their stories and enrich your imaginations.
https://www.roseartsfestival.com
Books. Boats. More Books! The sailor turned author returns to the CT Spring Boat Show April 26-28, 2024 at Safe Harbor Essex Island. Greg Gilmartin will be selling books, talking racing and enjoying the first big yachting event of the season. PJ McDonough, Luke Parmelian, Kathryn Byrne plus Billy and his Boys will all be on hand to share in the experience of adventure, murder, romance, spying, smuggling and good old storytelling. Crew, Spy Island and Castle Fires will all be on sale. And don’t forget the racer’s favorite, Can’t Sail In Jail! Remember, every legend begins with a little lie, but needs some truth if it’s going to fly! The fun part is combing the truth from the lies!
We are also excited to be offering the just release audio book for Spy Island featuring the dulcid tones of narrator Bob Dio. Now you can enjoy the adventures of Luke and Petrika on Block Island, and you don’t even have to read. Just listen and enjoy!
The CT Spring Boat Show will showcase the latest marine offerings from boats to bowlines, engines and gear, with live entertainment and plenty of thirst slacking refreshments. The whole weekend will benefit Sails Up 4 Cancer, helping those who need a hand fighting the Big C.
Tickets available now at ctspringboatshow.com.
(East Hampton, CT) -- Greg Gilmartin and The Dublin Tavern in East Hampton invite you to “Dinner with an Author” on Tuesday evening February 27 at 6 pm. This is the first of a series of events featuring local authors and their books at The Dublin, 42 East High Street, East Hampton, CT.
Greg is a storyteller and authorprenaur with four novels published and a fifth in the works. Connecticut sports fans remember him as a sports announcer on WTIC Radio and a national talk show host on Enterprise Radio. He was the Public Address announcer for the NHL Hartford Whalers, The Wolfpack, and the New England Blizzard of the WNBA. He wrote for several magazines including Connecticut, Wind Check, The Advocate, Cobras, Kit Car Illustrated, Sailing and Soccer Monthly. He served in the USAF as a Russian Linguist in the late 60’s, was marketing director at Ski Sundown in the 80’s and produced tourism television in the hotels of Hartford, Newport, and Mystic for over 20 years. He is currently a US Sailing race official and has settled down to being a full-time author working on is fifth novel due out in the late Spring.
Tavern on the Hill will host artists and authors on a Sunday afternoon. Enjoy some great Bar-B-Q and discover a saucey book from Greg’s collection. All welcomed in Moodus on Rae Palmer Road. Worth the trip!
“Hey, it’s only grass!” Fifty years ago, that cry got the attention of the first New England Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (NEOCDETF). Their target? Dr. Z, a sailboat racer from Mystic who also happened to smuggle 20 tons of grass up the Connecticut River. Read all about it in the historical fiction “Can’t Sail In Jail!” by Greg Gilmartin. Appearing this weekend at the 7th annual Norwalk Local Authors Festival. Fri 10 – 3, Sat 10 – 5, Sun 1 – 5 at the Norwalk Public Library, 1 Belden Ave., Norwalk, CT.
www.norwalkpl.org
Connecticut Book Festival, Saturday, October 7, 10 am - 5 pm
West Hartford Conference Center, Main Street, W. Hartford, CT
INFO LINK: https://ctauthorsandpublishers.com/connecticut-book-festival/
ReRead Book Sellers, Saturday, September 30, 11 am - 4 pm
The Watch Factory, 104 Elm Street, Cheshire, CT
INFO LINK: https://www.rereadbooksellers.org/event/meet-local-authors/
Town of Waterford Library, Monday, September 25 at 6:30 pm
INFO LINK: https://waterfordct.libcal.com/event/10891305
Come to RJ Julia’s Wesleyan book sellers win Middletown on Wednesday, September 13 at 5 pm for a local author’s talk. I’ll be joining 5 other talented writers in a discussion of Historical Fiction. “Can’t Sail In Jail!” will be featured. Here’s a link for more details.
https://www.wesleyanrjjulia.com/featured-local-authors.asp
I’ll be joining several local authors from CAPA (Connecticut Authors and Publishers Association) at the revived Norwich Rose Arts Festival on Saturday, July 1, 2023 from 11 to 6 pm at the Chelsea Parade. Stay tuned for updates.
Friday 1 - 6 pm. Saturday / Sunday 10 am - 5 pm.
Friday 1 - 6 pm . Saturday / Sunday 10 am - 6 pm.
Waterford Public Library, time TBD
Mystic Yachting Club, September 26th at 4-7pm. Cash bar and light appetizers will be served.
Essex Corinthian Yacht Club Skippers Meeting, September 24th at 5pm
Block Island / Off Soundings signing at Champlin's Marina and Resort, September 17th at 7:30-9pm
Mudhead Awards Mason's Island Yacht Club, signing at check, September 16th at 6pm
I will be one of the Connecticut authors at RJ Julia in Madison, CT when they host a Meet the Author Night on Tuesday, March 3rd at 7 pm. I am delighted for the opportunity to speak about my new novel, Spy Island, make some new friends and sell some books. Many of you know me from the sailboat racing community in Long Island Sound, some from the Hartford Whalers in ancient days, and now I look forward to meeting new and old fans of storytelling, characters that jump off the page and real life events that impact our imaginary lives. Watch for more information as we get closer to the event and plan your evening to join us for some reading fun.
I am very excited to be invited to Mystic’s Bank Square Books on Wednesday evening, February 26th at 6:00 pm for an author’s talk and reading followed by a book signing. I’ve been running all my life and it looks like I’ve finally found a neat place to hideout. Among the books, ideas and unknowns at one of the great small town book stores in America. Both Spy Island and my first novel, Crew will be available for sale. And there may even be a preview of my next epic, “Can’t Sail In Jail”. I hope you can set aside an hour in your busy evening and join us for the stimulating conversation.
Meet the Author Event, Tuesday, January 21, 2020 from 6:30 - 8 pm at Waterford Public Library. Meet Greg Gilmartin and hear about his new novel, Spy Island, his life as a writer, TV producer and past life as a car wash specialist, talk show host, sports reporter and Russian linguist. There will even be chatter about sailboat racing, pet rocks and ancient faces. Open to all.
Come meet world-renowned author, Greg Gilmartin. Hors d’oeuvres and cash bar.
Booze and Bets. Stolen Hearts and National Secrets. Old School Spies. Sailors and Mudslides. A Manhunt. A Murder. Digital Espionage. Submarines, Feds and the Russian Mobs. Petrika’s in the Cellar, Luke’s on the Lam. It’s June. Welcome to Block Island!
Greg Gilmartin delivers again on the unexpected story of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. Everyone wants Luke’s stolen files. He only has eyes for her. Make no mistake, they are coming for you.
Now in its second printing! CREW is a timeless story of average people forced to face their own threshold for danger and courage. One minute, PJ McDonough and his high flying crew are racing their high-tech sailboat on the white capped waters of San Francisco Bay. In an instant, they are targets in an international game played by drug smugglers and killers. Greg’s first novel delivers a nail-biting ride through Mystic, CT, into the skies over the Caribbean and deep in the mountains of Columbia. It’s a life changing adventure that will bring the crew together, if they can survive! Who has your Six in the Heart of Danger. Your Crew, that’s who!