Author Events

Bear Pond Books is excited to bring your favorite authors to Stowe, Vermont! We often host book signings, readings and discussions. View our events calendar, below, for more information! We hope to see you at our next author event. 

Elaine Cole-Kerr, February 7th from 9am to 2:30pm

Join Bear Pond Books in Stowe, Vermont for an author / illustrator event on February 7th from 9am to 2:30pm celebrating Elaine Cole-Kerr's latest children's book, The Heart Tree!

About the Elaine Cole-Kerr:

Elaine was born and raised in Westmore, where the mountain top view of Lake Willoughby inspired her painting. Works include portraits of animals and friends and depict landscapes and sights familiar to residents of the NEK.

A self-taught, inspiring artist, Elaine enjoys working in a number of mediums including pencil, watercolor, oils and acrylics. Familiar scenes presented by the artist move from the common-place to the extraordinary. Many of her frames are designed and created by her husband, Rod Kerr. Says Cole Kerr, "My husband not only makes the beautiful frames but has helped me build my business and is very supportive."   This is a great passion that I so cherish !

Following a brief retirement from painting, Elaine returned to share her talents, creating scenes on not only canvas, but also barn board and glass. Cole Kerr was recently the featured artist at Copley Hospital Morrisville, NVRH Hospital in St. Johnsbury, WREN Gallery, Bethlehem, N H.  Some of her work is also at the NEK Crafter’s Emporium in Newport, Vt.   Elaine will do commissioned work of your favorite place, jus email her!  Elaine also has a gallery at her residence in Greensboro, VT.

She has also exhibited in other venues in our area, including a display at Greensboro Free Library, and the Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro.

The artist's works call to mind painting by "Grandma Moses," Ralph Cahoon and Martha Cahoon, whose artworks have been associated with the "primitive" school of painting. 

Geri Lewis, February 14th from 1pm to 3pm

Join Bear Pond Books in Stowe, Vermont for an author event on February 14th from 1pm to 3pm with Geri Lewis signing her Deadly Deadlines Mystery Series!
About the Series:
The series is set in Ridgefield, Connecticut, a postcard worthy small town with a tree-lined Main Street of grand homes, lamp posts dripping with colorful flower baskets, outdoor diners spilling onto the sidewalks and mom and pop shops where everyone knows your name. Once home to such publishing magnates as J.P. Dutton and Charles Holt, this idyllic New England town with its many attractions and visitors is just begging for a mystery series that can grace the window of Books on the Common, the local independent shop on the corner of Bailey and Main. Ridgefield is an ideal place for obituary writer Winter Snow, documenter of resident stories and keeper of family histories, to happen upon mysteries—all in need of unraveling.

Michael Caldwell, February 21st from 11am to 1pm

Join Bear Pond Books in Stowe, Vermont for an author event on February 21st from 11am to 1pm celebrating Michael Caldwell's book, Tao of Snow: Essays from Dawn Land.
About the Book:
Tao of Snow: Essays from Dawn Land is a collection of 17 essays on backcountry skiing, wilderness paddling, and conversations with old-timers in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine.
"Dawn Land" reports on his thirty year fracas with beavers on his maple woodlot. Wobanaki axe heads in his garden adjacent to the beaver pond connect him to the native people who have lived with beavers here for maybe thousands of years.
"Ski Logger," "Rocking Chair Lift," and "Two Below Honey" offer spiritual reflections on outdoor life. Humor and grief combine in "Tao of Snow" and "Laugh."
About the Author:
Michael is a retired Congregational pastor and sugarmaker who stays active as a varsity high school soccer official and certified tree farmer. He and his wife Patience Whitman are members of the ecumenical international Iona Community

Author Talk with Bailey Seybolt, March 12th at 6pm at the Stowe Free Library

Join the Stowe Free Library and Bear Pond Books for an Author Talk featuring Bailey Seybolt, author of "Coram House" on Thursday, March 12th at 6pm.

About the Book:

A haunting novel—inspired by a true story—about a crime writer who risks everything as she investigates the mystery of two deaths, decades apart, at a crumbling Vermont orphanage.

On a blistering summer day in 1968, nine-year-old Tommy vanishes without a trace from Coram House, an orphanage on the shores of Lake Champlain. Some say a nun drowned him, others say he ran away. Or maybe he never existed. Fifty years later, his disappearance is still unsolved.

Struggling true crime writer Alex Kelley needs a fresh start. When she’s asked to ghostwrite a book about the orphanage—and the abuses that occurred there—she packs up her belongings and moves to wintry Burlington, Vermont.

As Alex tries to untangle the conflicting stories surrounding Tommy’s disappearance, her investigation takes a chilling turn when she discovers a woman’s body in the lake. Alex is convinced the death is connected to Coram House’s dark past, even if local police officer Russell Parker thinks she’s just desperate for a career-saving story. As the body count rises, Alex must prove that the key to finding the killer lies in Tommy’s murder, or risk becoming the next victim.

About the Author:

Bailey Seybolt grew up in New York City. She studied literature at Brown University and creative writing at Concordia University. She’s worked as a travel writer in Hanoi, a tech writer in San Francisco, and many writerly jobs in between. She now lives with her family in Vermont, not far from Lake Champlain. Coram House is her debut novel.  

Location: Stowe Free Library, 90 Pond Street in Stowe, VT