Virtual Book Club
May 5, 2022 6:30pm — 8:00pm
Join us on May 5th, at 6:30 pm with the author, Gary Earl Ross, to discuss his book "Nickel City Storm Warning".
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About Nickel City Storm Warning
There is a storm coming, as destructive as any hurricane or wildfire . . . with winds of rage driving rain of hate.
Jasper Hellman, the surviving spree killer taken down by then Buffalo State security officer Gideon Rimes, is plotting payback from his Attica cell. In addition to busily watching his back after Hellman’s reach manages to get past the prison walls, private investigator Rimes is hired to ensure the safety of Drea Wingard, a bestselling author and cultural lightning rod who’s headed to Buffalo as the keynote speaker of a major diversity and inclusion conference.
Drea too is a survivor. Her revered memoir, In the Mouth of the Wolf, chronicles the horrifying home invasion and murder of her journalist husband by the hands of masked white supremacists. Narrowly escaping a similar fate, Drea took on her late husband’s dangerous mission to expose the domestic terrorists at whatever personal cost to her liberty, welfare, and soul.
After one of Rimes’s inner circle is assaulted in broad daylight and there’s an indication that Liberty Storm, a notorious hate group with possible ties to Drea’s nightmare, has come to spread bigotry and chaos, Rimes knows that in order to quell this cancerous evil, he’ll need to assemble a trusted team of surveillance, security, and law enforcement talent. Tasked with protecting Drea’s weeklong itinerary throughout town, and the packed conference hosted at a local billionaire’s luxury hotel complex, Rimes must lean into his honed skills and instincts, as Nickel City is on course to be in the eye of the storm.
About the Author:
Edgar Award-winning playwright, novelist, public radio essayist, popular culture scholar, actor, director, and audiobook recording artist, Gary Earl Ross retired in 2013 from a language arts professorship at the University at Buffalo Educational Opportunity Center. Named Erie County's 2003 Artist of the Year, Ross has published more than 200 short stories, poems, essays, and scholarly papers. He has won numerous awards for writing and teaching, including a LIFT Fellowship for his fiction, an ASI-DEC grant for his fiction, three Emanuel Fried Outstanding New Play Awards (Matter of Intent, The Guns of Christmas, and The Mark of Cain), an NYSCA Individual Artists grant (Stoker's Guest), and a Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award (Matter of Intent), an Excellence Award from United University Professions and the State University of New York, and for his public radio essays first place commentary awards from the New York Associated Press and the New York Broadcasters' Association. In 2008 readers of the alternative newsweekly Artvoice voted him the Best Writer in Buffalo.
His books include The Wheel of Desire and Other Intimate Hauntings (2000), Summerville: Tales Macabre and Curious (2002), the children's tale Dots (2002), Blackbird Rising: A Novel of the American Spirit (2009), WordCraft, A Concise Handbook for the Everyday Writer (2013), Nickel City Blues, A Gideon Rimes Mystery (2017, 2021), Nickel City Crossfire (2021), Nickel City Storm Warning (2021).Beneath the Ice and Other Stories (2021),
In 2008, Ross edited Nickel City Nights: Erotic Writing in Western New York and published the collection of prose and poetry through his website, The Writer's Den (www.garyearlross.net). In June 2009 his Edgar Award-winning play Matter of Intent was a selection of the NAAA Festival in London, England. Also in 2009, he co-edited (with Gunilla Theander Kester) The Empty Chair: Love and Loss in the Wake of Flight 3407, which was published in 2010, on the first anniversary of the worst air disaster to occur in Western New York. Later, they edited a companion volume, The Still Empty Chair. Ross's most recent editing project was Queen City Flash, Flash Fiction from Western New York (2013).
An avid reader, film buff, bicyclist, gamer, and occasional actor and director, Gary Earl Ross is the father of five adult children and lives in Buffalo, New York.