Coffee with Local Authors is a panel discussion with three local authors sharing their writing and publishing experience.

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Paul Yovino of Braintree
The Man from Swan Lake – A Hero of the Cocoanut Grove Nightclub Fire: The Clifford Johnson Story (2025)
The Man from Swan Lake is a novel of historical fiction based upon the life of twenty-one-year-old Coast Guardsman Clifford Allison Johnson, a burn survivor of the Coconut Grove Nightclub fire in the Bay Village section of Boston on the night of Saturday, November 28, 1942 -- a fire that took the lives of 490 people.

Rich Feitelberg of Quincy
Air and Wind (2025)
Rich Feitelberg is a fantasy author, poet, playwright, map nerd, gamer, and comic book lover. Author of the fantasy series, the Gambit Trilogy, he has written both fiction and non-fiction for many years. Air and Wind is his latest a romance/fantasy novel
Prior to starting his novel writing, Rich wrote plays, poetry, biographical anecdotes, blog posts, and instructional text. More recently he began to chronicle the history of comic books.
Rich is an avid map collector and believes all books benefit from a map. In former lives, Rich was a website designer, a freelance technical consultant, and a technical writer. He grew up on a steady diet of comic books, science fiction, and fairy tales of all kinds and has been weaving his own tales since elementary school. In high school, he started gaming and discovered his love of fantasy and map-making

Neil Liebowitz of Braintree, writing as Aaron Riley
Deception: A Psychiatrist’s Stolen Journal (2024)
Neil Liebowitz is a partially retired psychiatrist who trained during the transition from psychoanalytic practice to a more practical medical model. Since retiring, he took on the alias of Aaron Riley in order to creatively tell the “real story” of being a psychiatrist. Full of personal challenges and struggles with patients, Deception is also full of every kind of deceit the author could think of. Two early career psychiatrists are learning on the job while a serial killer lurks in the background. The reader will learn about a multitude about psychiatric conditions.
After training at Stony Brook, Columbia and Yale schools of medicine, Neil worked six years on the UConn faculty before opening the Connecticut Anxiety and Depression Treatment Center. He wrote his first book on the lessons he learned in 40 years of psychiatry practice, Psychiatry in Techno Colors: A Psychiatrist’s Memoir of Lessons.