Friday, February 18, 2022
Johnny Carrabba – is our chief author/speaker with his book With Gratitude, Johnny Carrabba Celebrating 30 Years of Recipes, Stories, and Family. Proudly born and raised in the East End of Houston, Texas, Johnny Carrabba III was raised in his parent’s family-owned grocery store. Carrabba’s Friendly Grocery, and attended St. Thomas High School. In 1986, Johnny opened The Original Carrabba’s on Kirby Drive.
Stacy Edick – (writing as Stacy Wilder) whose debut novel, Charleston Conundrum, was just released in January, 2022, and will be the one she features. She will talk from the prospective of a new author’s process of writing a book and getting it published.
Patricia Hunt Holmes – author of Crude Ambition, a Houston attorney, will also present. Patricia spent 30 years as a public finance attorney with a large international law firm. From the power centers of Houston law and oil to the fracking fields of South Texas to the Jersey Shore and Washington D.C., this story chronicles the struggles of two ambitious young women in their quest for legal success and justice.