Harbourside Place to Host Author Meet and Greet at Too Bizaare Restaurant

Published author and playwright Donna Carbone will once again introduce local writers to our community at a meet and greet on May 4th from 3 to 5 pm. The event will be held at Too Bizaare Restaurant and will be hosted by Harbourside Place, Jupiter's premier waterfront shopping, dining and entertainment destination. In April 2016, Carbone moderated Beignets, Bagels and Conversation, which was also hosted by Harbourside Place. Joining Carbone on May 4th will be Palm Beach Gardens' author David Mallegol and Patty Tracy Perrin, a resident of Jupiter.

Carbone is an established writer and serves as The Managing Director of the Burt Reynolds Institute for Film and Theatre where she teaches screen, stage and novel writing. In January of last year, she published her first book in the Cat Leigh and Marci Welles crime novel series, Through Thick and Thin. In January of this year, she published the second in the series, Silk Suit/Stone Heart. In between she published a third crime novel, Private Hell, and completed her first children's book, Lambie and Me.

The Cat Leigh and Marci Welles books feature two female homicide detectives with the PBC Sheriff's Office. Private Hell is a semi-autobiographical account of a dysfunctional childhood and domestic abuse. In a recent interview, Carbone explained that she writes crime novels because she knows what it is like to be on the receiving end of violence. She knows what it's like to have someone you love survive a violent crime. She wants to spare as many women as possible the trauma of assault. Her goal is to educate through entertainment.

Asked to give a synopsis of her stories, Carbone said, "The stories are dramadies. Yes... people die. But people also live, laugh and love. While the books are categorized as crime novels, they are also about friendship, loyalty, dedication and values. The stories feature real people... people who are humanized by their strengths and weaknesses."

David Mallegol, originally from New Jersey, got his start producing Rider College basketball programs. He joinEd Johnson and Johnson in 1965 and spent the next 38 years in marketing. He laughingly states that his achievements include bringing Imodium to the world market. While at J&J, Mallegol also taught a course on marketing to the federal government without defrauding your company for Dartmouth University's Amos Tuck Business School and co-authored the book which became the standard for behaviors for the entire pharmaceutical industry.

In 2005 he retired and moved to South Florida. After five years of volunteer work at Loggerhead Marinelife Center, Mallegol returned to his love of writing and published his first novel. The Bronze Horsemen is a trilogy which vividly describes the Bronze Age people known as the Botai. The Botai dominated the steppes of the Ural Mountains in what today is Russia. They are the first race known to have tamed and ridden horses.

The Bronze Horsemen, Adventures of the Bronze Horsemen and Hunt for the Wolf Clan are compelling works of historical fiction. The three novels portray a gritty, difficult way of life for a prehistoric people who were unknown until recent excavations revealed their life circumstances. In a recent interview, Mallegol said, " Imagine living back then... you were married at 13 or 14 years of age.. you worked from dawn to dusk to survive and died at an average age of just 35 years."

Patty Perrin, who writes under the pen name P.T.L. Perrin, grew up in Europe as a military brat. While she did not have access to television, she did have a vivid imagination. Books were her main source of entertainment. She speaks several languages and enjoys the diversity of people and cultures.

Perrin's first book, Reflections of a Misfit, offers snippets of her life as influenced by the scriptures she reads daily. Her family is a rich source for entertainment and bits of wisdom. Anyone who has ever felt like a misfit will relate to her musings.

Currently, Perrin is writing the young adult SciFi series, Tetrasphere. She has a dual purpose: one is to offer pure entertainment and the other is to answer some of the unanswerable questions about our amazing universe. Perrin has always been interested in the belief systems of other cultures. She has often wondered why the creator of this vast universe would limit intelligent life to one tiny speck of a planet. The question then arose, "What if other inhabited planets are interacting with Earth?" Of course, one question led to another and another and another. When asked in a recent interview to summarize her books, Perrin said, "Consider what would happen if the fate of our planet was in the hands of four young people, each with special abilities, and each with his or her own struggles?"

The first two books in the Tetrasphere trilogy, Terra's Call and Triton's Call, have been published. The third book is nearly completed.

This event is free to the public. For more information about the event, contact Donna Carbone at write4you@comcast.net or call 561 385-1584.

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