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Author Book Signing

A native West Virginia author, Mary Lou Warstler, will be signing her two mystery novels, "Cats in the Belfrey" and "Pushing Up Geraniums" from 1-4 p.m. Saturday at the local Borders store.

Warstler is a retired ordained elder in the East Ohio Conference of the United Methodist Church. She has received several awards for her writing and published several short stories and poems, as well as worship resources, plays and sermons. She has been married to Rodney Warstler, a retired United Methodist minister, for 51 years. They have four children, nine grandchildren and one great-grandson.

Warstler's first Biblical fiction, "Before the Dawn: A Night of Memories" was published in 2002 from PublishAmerica. "Cats in the Belfrey" was published in 2007 from PublishAmerica, and "Pushing Up Geraniums" was published in January 2008. The third in the series will be available January 2009.