Two authors coming to Sip and Sign

Authors Patti Callahan Henry and Nicole Seitz will arrive at Burry Bookstore on Tuesday, June 16, at 7 p.m. for a Sip and Sign. Tickets are $5 and will include light refreshments, the opportunity to meet the authors, hear them speak and purchase copies of their books. Tickets are available at Burry’s.

For more information about the Sip and Sign, call 332-2511 or visit Burry's Web site at www.burybookstore.com.

A minister's daughter, Henry, learned the importance of storytelling and how it affects lives. As a child, she spent many of her summers at Cape Cod before moving south at the age of 12. Her summers at Cape Cod are where she discovered a love for the ocean. And when the family moved to the South, she found solace in books.

Henry's latest story, "Driftwood Summer," is set at the seashore and encompasses her love of books in the story's setting of a bookstore on the beach.
The story revolves around three sisters, their ailing mother and a determination to save the bookstore while finding peace with each other. Riley is the responsible one. She remained in the small seaside town of Palmetto Beach where she helps her mother run the bookstore and lives above it with her son. Maisy, the vivacious sister, moved to California and is an interior designer. Adalee is a fun-loving college student who resents having to spend her summer working.

The sisters are coming home for their mother's birthday and a big celebration planned for her and the 200th anniversary of the bookstore dwelling. It also brings home Mack Logan, who 13 years before, broke Riley's heart when he chose her sister, Maisy, who had a teenage crush on him, over her as his true love.

During the summer Mack chose Maisy, the bond between the sisters was broken and each went their separate ways.

The sisters must deal with the long-held beliefs about the conflicts that sent them their separate ways. Will family loyalty win out and draw them together as they try to save the bookstore?

Henry lives with her husband and three children near Atlanta, Ga. She is also the nationally-bestselling author of such books as “Losing the Moon,” “Where the River Runs,” and “The Art of Keeping Secrets.”

Visit her online at www.patticallahanhenry.com.

Nicole Seitz, author, artist and speaker, is the author of “A Hundred Years of Happiness, also set in the South. This story is set in the South Carolina

Lowcountry and is about a young mother named Katherine Ann who struggles to help her father by "plunging into a world of secrets he never talks about," and Lisa, a fry cook who is trying to reach her grieving Vietnamese mother who has never fully adjusted to living in the States. "And somewhere far away, a lost soul named Ernest is drifting, treading water, searching for what he lost on a long-ago mountain."

These characters are all longing for connection and for the war that has touched their lives to finally end.

Seitz grew up on Hilton Head Island. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in journalism and mass communications from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a B.F.A. in illustration from Savannah College of Art & Design. She lives in Charleston with her husband and their children.

Visit her Web site at www.nicoleseitz.com.