The book is by Tammy Newsom, who grew up in Germantown, now lives in the Dayton area and works as a program administrator for the Logistics Training Course offered through Montgomery County Job and Family Services.
Tammy, who has freelanced articles for a wide variety of newspapers, says “I’ve always loved to write. A friend of mine alerted me that Arcadia Publishing was looking for new material. I was inspired by the peace events in Dayton — the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and Dayton Peace Accords celebrations — to start exploring Dayton’s overall peace history.”
What Tammy discovered was a rich, deep history that she thought would be worthy of a book.
“I pitched the idea, and the publishing company liked it,” Tammy says. “I spent five months researching and writing. The more I researched and wrote, the more I found new possibilities to research. It was not hard to find enough material about Dayton’s involvement in peace issues to fill a book. It’s fascinating to me how closely aligned with peace work Dayton has always been, especially at a grassroots level.”
Tammy is working now on both nonfiction and fiction.
“I’m not happy without writing,” Tammy says. “It’s really an outlet for me.”
She hopes people will read her debut book because, she says, “Dayton is known for many things, but perhaps not as much as it should be for its peace work. I hope readers will get to know the Daytonians who, over the years, have contributed to peace for humanity in general.”
Learn more about the book and order at www.arcadiapublishing.com
Upcoming events
Friday, Dec. 4, 9 p.m. at The Loft Theatre (126 N. Main St.) — Oral Funk Poetry Productions and The Human Race Theatre Present “The Signature: A Poetic Medley Show.” For more information, visit www.tripplecroxxent.org. For tickets, visit www.ticketcenterstage.com/hrtc
Sunday, Dec. 6, 1 p.m., Books & Co. at The Greene — Karl Rove will discuss his book “The Triumph of William McKinley: Why the Election of 1896 Still Matters.”
Thursday, Dec. 10, 7 p.m., Books & Co. at The Greene — Rebecca Morean, writing as R.A. Morean, will introduce “Azimuths,” her newest novel. This one is a literary novel told from the point of view of five different women living in a trailer park near the Mojave Desert. Rebecca is a professor of English at Sinclair Community College and the former president of the board of the Antioch Writers’ Workshop. Learn more about her work at www.ramorean.com
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