Brittle leaves rattled around outside and scratched against the glass door of Longfellow Books in Portland. A group of bibliophiles, many of them writers themselves, listened to James Hayman channel Poe. This wasn’t poetry though, it was a reading from the latest in his murder mystery series set in Portland, Maine: The Girl in the Glass.
What makes an island community gasp, collectively? When an islander sells their dream house or cottage and becomes — cough — a mainlander. Author Jim Hayman has made that plunge (pardon the […]
All across the island, residents are chopping and splitting wood or carrying it inside to stoke their stove again the November chill. And with crime fiction author James Hayman living among us, […]
Those of you who are subscribed readers of Peaks Island Press have read previously about Peaks Island author, educator, and scholar Laima Vince when I featured one of her many books, The […]
On Sunday, March 10th, the Peaks Island community of authors, readers, and unabashed bibliophiles will gather to raise funds to benefit their beloved, award-winning independent bookstore, Longfellow Books. As most people know, […]
“Maine has an unusually strong, tightly-woven writing community, and when tragedy happens to one of us, it impacts us all.” (writer Shonna Milliken Humphrey in Portland Press Herald) When novelist Cynthia Thayer […]
Like other Mainers, Portland residents are famous for their independence. Some even call it stubborness. Longfellow Books on Monument Square is one of the few remaining independent (“fiercely independent” according to its […]
Book Sale and Author Signing (including the island’s own James Hayman) Saturday, April 10, 2010 Noon- 2 PM The Abromson Center on the Portland Campus of the University of Southern Maine Plan […]
Casting Off: Three Peaks Author Launch Their Books Tuesday, August 18th at 6:45 p.m. at the MacVane Community Center, Peaks Island Panelists: James Hayman, The Cutting, Christopher Hoppin, Same Date of Rank, […]
The first line of James Hayman’s debut thriller The Cutting reads “Fog can be a sudden thing on the Maine coast.” These days, fog is nearly a constant thing but that hasn’t […]
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