Come to Hicklebee’s Monday September 12th at 7 pm to meet Elizabeth Eulberg!
The author of books such as The Lonely Hearts Club, Prom and Prejudice, Take a Bow, Revenge of the Girl with the Great Personality, and Better Off Friends, will be coming to Hicklebee’s today.
Eulberg was born and raised in a small town in Wisconsin, where she was passionate about traveling, music, and reading - three things that she still loves.
She went to Syracuse University to study public relations at the Newhouse School of Public Communications. She got a job at an entertainment PR firm, but she got what she describes as a “fateful call” that resulted in her becoming a publicist. Thinking about the books she enjoyed as a teen, “books that were fun,” eventually resulted in “The Lonely Hearts Club” in 2009. In 2011, she started to write full-time.
She will be coming to Hicklebee's for her middle grade debut - The Great Shelby Holmes.
One of Eulberg's first experiences with Arthur Conan Doyle's famous character was when she was cast in the choir of a Sherlock Holmes play in which her brother played the title role. After watching the RDJ movies and the Benedict Cumberbatch BBC show, she had the wonderful idea to write about a girl detective based on Sherlock. After lots of research (including reading the original Sherlock Holmes stories, watching TV and movie adaptations of the detective, and talking to people who live on army bases), Eulberg has just released - on September 6th - the first of three books starring Shelby Holmes and John Watson.
Meet spunky sleuth Shelby and her sports-loving sidekick Watson as they take on a dog-napper in this fresh twist on Sherlock Holmes.
Shelby Holmes is not your average sixth grader. She’s nine years old, barely four feet tall, and the best detective her Harlem neighborhood has ever seen—always using logic and a bit of pluck (which yes, some might call “bossiness”) to solve the toughest crimes.
When eleven-year-old John Watson moves downstairs, Shelby finds something that’s eluded her up till now: a friend. Easy-going John isn’t sure of what to make of Shelby, but he soon finds himself her most-trusted (read: only) partner in a dog-napping case that'll take both their talents to crack.
Check out her website for more about her: http://www.elizabetheulberg.com
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