The Hub City Holiday Bookfest and Annual Inventory Clearance Sale will be held Saturday, Dec. 15, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Showroom at Hub-Bub, 149 S. Daniel Morgan Ave. in downtown Spartanburg. Authors will sign from noon to 2 p.m., including Philip Belcher, Carroll Foster, Aly Goodwin, Gary Henderson, Sheila Ingle, Tom Johnson, Angela Kelly, John Lane, Kirk Neely, Scott Neely, Mark Olencki, Dave Partridge, Alex Richardson, Rick Mulkey, Betsy Teter and Kimberly Ward. 

Please join us Monday Dec. 3 at 7:30 p.m. as we welcome Greenville novelist Ashley Warlick to the Showroom at Hub-Bub for the last reading of the year in the Hub City Writers Project’s 2007 fall series. Ashley is the author of three novels, The Distance From The Heart of Things (1996), The Summer After June (2000), and Seek the Living (2005), all published by Houghton Mifflin. She is the youngest winner of the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship, a founding member of the advisory board for the Novello Festival Press, and book columnist for several newspapers.