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Local Author Book Fair: Thayer Public Library, Braintree, MA

The TPL Writers Group presents the second annual Local Author Book Fair at Thayer Public Library on Saturday, Dec. 7, 10:30 am-12 pm. Stop in for complimentary hot cider and to chat with local authors from Braintree and other area towns. 10% of proceeds to benefit The Friends of Thayer Public Library. Shop for holiday gifts at the library, and support our local…
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Plymouth Public Library: Local Author Fair
I’ll be doing a reading (Time TBD) and will be signing books at this wonderful event. Please come and meet amazing authors form southeastern Massachusetts.
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Coffee with local Authors

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Interview on “The Village,” WBCA-lp Radio 102.9 fm with Willie P.

Willie P., host of “The Village,” radio show on WBCA-lp 102.9 FM Boston Community Radio interviews C.L. Manning. They talk of his confessions, naivete, and unsought danger, spawned from his African adventures as well as what it’s like to have a close relative on the FBI’s top ten most wanted list, all experiences that laid…
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Boston Neighborhood Network Show: “The Village” with Willie Wideman-Pleasants

Interview Author C.L. Manning will be interviewed on the Boston Neighborhood Network show: “The Village” by Willie Wideman-Pleasants. He will speak of his transition from scientist to healthcare I.T. specialist to author, featuring his new novel, Rhodesian Doll Hunt.” URL of the will be posted when show is released post production.
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Book Club: Private Appearance
Discussion/Signing
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Coffee with Local Authors

C.L. Manning will be on a panel with two other authors local to southeastern Massachusetts. He will speak about the joys, sorrows, and epiphanies of his writing and publishing experiences, what motivates him, and review the truths and lies of writing autobiographical fiction. See Presentation on Youtube. (C.L. talk begins at minute 16).
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Mad Man on “Mad Men Finale”
And Don-the character whose story lines were thrown into a Oster blender-developing relationships that bore few connections-flipping from good guy to man slut to assho^%$ to creative genius with each flutter of a hummingbird’s wing. And in the end he stands on the California cliffs chanting, “Om, om, om,” like he just solved the mysteries…
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The Selous Scout

Who were the Selous Scouts? The most ferocious bush fighting unit in the world—I read. Special ops force of the Rhodesian Army; counterintelligence. They infiltrate the enemy, gather information, and kill. They wear shorts. They wear camo shirts. They sleep in three-foot-high A-Frame tents built from bush grass. On their brow droops a chocolate brown…

