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. 

Tim Hayes, December 7th from 11am to 1pm

We are excited to welcome author, Tim Hayes, to Bear Pond Books in Stowe promoting his book, "Horses, Humans and Love" on December 7th from 11am to 1pm.
About the Book:
A remarkable follow-up from the author of "Riding Home: The Power of Horses to Heal".
If you were asked to make a list of all the people you love, how long would it take until you put yourself on the list?
Years ago, when asked this question, Tim Hayes didn’t have an answer. But today, after working with horses for more than 30 years, he not only puts his name on the list—he puts it first.
When humans learn to love themselves, they become more compassionate. They become better parents, children, husbands, wives, partners, and coworkers. In fact, they have more successful relationships in general.
Over the course of his career learning about horses and horsemanship, and eventually teaching it to others, Hayes gained an understanding of the profound social skills evident in horse relationships. This is known by many as herd dynamics and includes what he names as 10 specific qualities:
Acceptance
Tolerance
Patience
Understanding
Kindness
Honesty
Trust
Respect
Forgiveness
Compassion
In Horses, Humans, and Love, his follow-up to Riding Home—the book Robert Redford called “A beautiful volume of healing and love between man and nature” and Temple Grandin said was “Essential reading”—Hayes explains how and why when humans emulate these 10 qualities of herd dynamics witnessed in horses in their own human relationships, they naturally express and thus demonstrate the true altruistic meaning of what we call “love,” both for others, and for ourselves.
Through his personal journey and inspiring stories of those he has worked with through the years, Hayes reveals how horses can teach us all how to compassionately reconnect with our shared global humanity and put an end to self-created, antagonistic, superficial human differences such as race, religion, nationality, wealth, and ideology. He shows us how horses have the ability to instantly remind us that we all share the same world, share the same fears and desires, and more than anything else, desperately desire to get along with each other.
In his thoughtful descriptions of his own experience and research, Hayes illustrates his spiritual and philosophical struggles to understand the state of the world today and how we each can work in simple yet impactful ways to make it better. His conclusions, having reflected upon and shared what he has learned through the horse, leave readers with an infectious optimism one might even call hope. His book, a gentle treatise for change from a remarkable horseman, will be enjoyed by all those seeking to improve their own lives and that of our global community.
About the Author:
Tim Hayes holds a BA in Psychology from The University of Vermont and is an Adjunct Professor of Equine Therapy and Natural Horsemanship at The University of Vermont and Vermont State University. He is an internationally recognized clinician, conducting clinics in natural horsemanship, equine-assisted therapy, and self-discovery. His clinics are available throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and Mexico. Hayes is a contributing expert consultant and columnist for EQUUS Magazine, Horse Network, and Huffington Post. Hayes is also the author of Riding Home: The Power of Horses to Heal, and lives with his wife Stephanie and their horses in Johnson, Vermont (hayesisforhorses.com).

George Woodard, December 7th from 1 - 3pm

We are excited to welcome author, George Woodard, to Bear Pond Books promoting his book, "The Christmas Calf".
About the Book:
With a small herd of cows to milk every day, Vermont dairy farmer, George Woodard has squeezed in directing, shooting, and editing two farm-related critically acclaimed feature films. The Summer of Walter Hacks, a mystery adventure where an eleven year old fiddle-playing farm boy in1952 rides around town on his bicycle fixing farm equipment. And The Farm Boy, a WWII era love
story about a young man who drives milk truck for his father and later ends up in Belgium in what would become the Battle of the Bulge. Both films are in black and white using camera techniques of those time periods.
And now George has released his first children’s book, The Christmas Calf. Illustrated in black and white, he has used his filmmaking knowledge of shot lists and story boards combined with his farm experiences to create a heart-warming story that all farmers will recognize. It is a children’s book for ages eight to eighty and beyond. With over sixty pen and ink drawings, the story is about a nine-year old boy who goes to the barn on a cold winter night to check a cow expecting a calf…and it’s on Christmas Eve. A whimsical tale of wonder and delight, The Christmas Calf invites you to be part of something truly magical.

Gina Tron, December 14th from 11am to 1pm

We are excited to welcome Gina Tron to Bear Pond Books! Join us on December 14th from 11am - 1pm for a signing event celebrating her new book, "Suspect".
About the Book:
Suspect is more than just a personal recollection— It is an examination of how people perceive mass shootings and the contagion effect. It is focused on when the author was suspected of wanting to shoot up her Vermont high school in the immediate aftermath of Columbine. She was not wholly innocent in the sense that she was an accomplice to a death threat. But mostly, the homicidal rumors about her spun from being creative. She was the only one dressing goth, and she had written a weird, rhyming story about sixth graders dying at a dance by a disco ball and other non-firearm weapons. Seamlessly blending memoir with investigative journalism, Suspect is a story of survival and social justice in black eyeliner.
The book is an elaboration of a short reflection she wrote for VICE in 2013. It went viral and was named a "best of 2013"; for Vice. It was number one on Longread’s Misunderstood List, and she went on to write about the same topic for Politico and Daily Beast. The manuscript for this book won the Tarpaulin Sky Book Award in 2020.
About the Author:
Gina Tron is the author of several books, including Suspect, which will be published with Whiskey Tit in the fall. Her 2020 debut poetry collection, Star 67, contains a poem nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She wrote true crime for Oxygen for six years and wrote reported pieces for various outlets, including The Washington Post, VICE, Politico, and The Daily Beast.

Ellen Parent, December 14th from 1pm to 3pm

Join Bear Pond Books in Stowe, Vermont on Saturday, 12/14 from 1-3pm for an author meet & greet book signing event! We are excited to welcome Ellen Parent to promote her new book, "After the Fall" which will be released in December.
About the Book:
A sinister circus. A law man with a hidden past. A young heroine searching for the truth. After the Fall is a lyrical adventure set against the backdrop of a threatening and beautiful post-apocalyptic future.
About the Author:
Ellen Parent is a writer and teacher living in rural Vermont. In 2014,
she was shortlisted for the Vermont Writers Prize. In 2022, her short fiction was runner up for the Mike Resnick Memorial Award for Fiction. After the Fall is her debut novel.

Margaret Coan, January 4th from 11am to 1pm

We are excited to welcome author, Margaret Coan to Bear Pond Books in Stowe promoting her books, "Finding My Spark & Keeping It" and "Sacred Listening From Fear to Love" on January 4th from 11am to 1pm.

About the Books:

Sacred Listening is a six-week spiritual adventure designed to awaken each of us to our true, authentic being. We are encouraged to stand still, breathe deeply, and learn to listen to the language of our life. As you turn each page and engage in the experience, you will discover the sacred gift of listening and awaken to the life that longs to live in, with, and through you. The journal prompts, experiential exercises, and holy listening are guides to open you to healing, wellness, and wholeness.

Finding My Spark & Keeping It: I am beginning to wonder if these moments of tormenting darkness , these moments of being broken wide open, are when new life is being born and we do not know it yet? Could it be like a winter that opens into spring? My experience tells me my darkness birthed a brilliant new light in my heart and in my life. My long dark winter has opened into brilliant blossoms of wondrous spring. My hope is that in sharing my simple experience you too will find your spark and keep it.

About the Author:

Margaret Coan’s life experience as a wife, a mother of three sons, a caseworker for the homeless, and a bereavement counselor for hospice, has given birth to her gift of creating and facilitating sacred listening groups designed to support those in time of transition. Margaret and her family live in Maryland.

Susan Edwards Richmond, January 25th from 11am to 1pm

We are excited to welcome author, Susan Edwards Richmond to promote her book, "Night Owl Night".
About the Book:
Sova’s mother is a scientist who studies birds and their migratory patterns. Each night she goes into the woods to conduct research, and finally Sova is old enough to join her. Securing headlamps, Sova and her mother head into the woods to capture, measure, and release saw-whet owls. Through the quiet night, Sova learns about the patience, persistence, and excitement that comes with conservation efforts and scientific research.
This heartwarming mother-daughter story is the perfect primer to conservation, science, and amazing owls!
About the Author:
Susan Edwards Richmond is the award-winning author of Night Owl Night and the community science adventures Bioblitz! Counting Critters and Bird Count. Bird Count is the winner of a Parent’s Choice Silver Award and the International Literacy Association’s Primary Fiction Award, and is a Mathical Honor Book. Susan is also the author of Science Play, an activity book for preschoolers in Storey Publishing’s Busy Little Hands series. Her third book in the “Community Science Counts” series, The Great Pollinator Count, releases April 15, 2025.
A passionate birder and naturalist, Susan teaches preschool on a farm and wildlife sanctuary in eastern Massachusetts. She earned her M.A. in Creative Writing from the University of California, Davis, and her B.A. with Honors in English from Williams College. She is also an award-winning poet with five collections of nature-based poetry for adults. Susan is happiest exploring natural habitats with her husband and two daughters, and learns the native birds wherever she travels.