Join Us for the Shepherdstown Author Fair @ StreetFest 2025
Shepherdstown’s biggest block party meets book fair! Join Four Seasons Books during StreetFest 2025 for a celebration of local and regional authors, right in the heart of Shepherdstown’s most vibrant festival.
Spend the day strolling through the festival, enjoying music, food, and shopping — and stop by Four Seasons Books to meet the incredible authors who are keeping the Appalachian literary scene alive, weird, and thriving. Pick up signed copies, discover your next favorite read, and support the creative voices of our region.
Spend the day strolling through the festival, enjoying music, food, and shopping — and stop by Four Seasons Books to meet the incredible authors who are keeping the Appalachian literary scene alive, weird, and thriving. Pick up signed copies, discover your next favorite read, and support the creative voices of our region.
Meet the Authors - Morning Lineup: 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Meet the authors who are bringing big energy and even bigger book stacks to kick off the day.
Victoria GilbertCozy mysteries, clever plots, and the kind of small-town secrets you've been warned you about.
Raised at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Victoria Gilbert is the author of the Blue Ridge Library Mystery series, Booklover’s B&B Mystery series, Hunter and Clewe traditional mystery series, and the Campus Sleuth mystery series for Crooked Lane Books. A retired librarian with over 30 years in the field, she now writes full-time from her home in North Carolina.
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Reiner ProchaskaEpic sagas, heathen magic, and betrayals that hit harder than your ex’s playlist.
Reiner Prochaska is a novelist, playwright, filmmaker, actor, director, and university lecturer whose storytelling spans centuries and continents. His historical fiction weaves together tales of honor, betrayal, friendship, faith, and magic— as well as a riveting new saga exploring vengeance, witchcraft, and redemption across Icelandic and global landscapes. When he’s not writing or directing, Reiner teaches writing at Towson University and contributes creatively and administratively to the Catoctin Furnace Living History Festival.
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Afternoon Lineup: 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Catch the second wave of authors serving stories as bold as the StreetFest lemonade.
Jena DoyleTattooed bad boys, queer fairytales, and enough heat to melt your funnel cake.
Jena Doyle writes dark motorcycle club romance, queer fairytale adaptations, and paranormal smut for all the good girls who love a tattooed hand necklace. When she's not dreaming up dirty words, she enjoys traveling, binge-watching trash TV, and dabbling in all things witchy-woo-woo. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in English / Creative Writing and has been known to ramble at great length about Shakespeare’s gay agenda. Jena currently lives in West Virginia with her partner and a snuggly pup named Merlin.
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Shawn AmickMagic, mayhem, and the kind of publishing glow-up we love to see.
Shawn Amick is the author of The Cruelty of Magic, first self-published in December 2023 and acquired just three months later by Conquest Publishing. Beyond his own writing, Shawn is a passionate supporter of fellow authors and the broader publishing community—previously hosting an author-focused podcast, running a vibrant reader and writer Discord, and creating “book mail” videos. Now partnered with Conquest Publishing, Shawn helps provide opportunities for emerging writers to gain experience with professional editors and build writing credentials through a collaborative publication on Medium.
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