An Afternoon with an Author, sponsored by Friends of the Library, is scheduled for Sunday, April 29, at 2 p.m. at the library. The event will feature Tom Poland, a Lincoln County native, talking about his new book Forbidden Island...An Island Called Sapelo. He will sign copies of the book during the afternoon. Light refreshments will be served.

Tom graduated from Lincoln County High School in the sixties and went on to receive a Journalism degree at the University of Georgia and then a master's in Media. He has written the script for six nonfiction books and has published over 400 articles in local, state, regional, and national magazines. For four years he was managing editor of South Carolina Wildlife, a highly ranked outdoor recreation magazine. He lives in Columbia, S.C. where he free-lances for diverse clients and serves as adjunct faculty at the University of South Carolina, teaching journalism courses.

Forbidden Island is Tom's first fiction venture, and it proves to be a suspenseful, exciting journey to a remote, frightening island ruled by a voo-doo "king." Written in first person, the narrator, Slater Watts, and the woman who accompanies him have reason to need the assistance of this man since both have intensely personal issues to resolve on this island. The book contains nerve-wracking suspense and violence set amid beautiful scenery, and the reader will anxiously turn pages to find out if Watts will find redemption or death.

The public is invited to attend and enjoy Friends of the Library's first "Afternoon with an Author."