Local authors Rebecca Cuthbert, Catherine D’Agostino, and Trenton Lutes will be at the Next Chapter Bookstore in Fredonia on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. as part of the Miracle on Main Street events. Customers purchasing author books will receive complementary Christmas wrapping and a cookie while supplies last.

Rebecca Cuthbert, who lives in Dunkirk and teaches creative writing at SUNY Fredonia, will be signing copies of her debut spooky children’s picture book, “Down in the Dark Deep Where the Puddlers Dwell”, illustrated by SUNY Fredonia graduate Dakota Marquardt. She will also have copies of her books for adult readers available: “Self-Made Monsters”, “Creep This Way”, and “In Memory of Exoskeletons”.

Cuthbert loves writing scary books for all ages. She has five more children’s picture books coming out through Malediction and AEA Press; a short story collection, “Six O’Clock House & Other Strange Tales”, coming out in January from Watertower Hill Publishing, and a ghost story collection scheduled for November of 2025 through Undertaker Books. A YA/New Adult trilogy is also scheduled with Watertower Hill Publishing.

Cuthbert’s titles are also available through one or more of the following retailers: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, watertowerhill.com, aeapress.com, and undertakerbooks.com.

Fredonia resident Catherine D’Agostino will be on hand to sign copies of her five-star mystery novel, “Braided Lies: A Thousand Islands Castle Mystery”.

D’Agostino was inspired to write her book after visiting the Boldt Castle in the Thousand Islands region of New York State. “I was highly motivated, obsessed even, with the stories I heard about the Boldt family and the mysteries that remain unsolved to this day. I crafted a story that readers will find suspenseful and entertaining.”

Copies are also available via Barnes & Noble, Goodreads and Amazon.

Trenton Lutes, local author and artist from Westfield, has just published the third and final book in his Terra-Healer Series and will have copies of all three books “In-Spire”, “Beyond The Wasted Lands”, and “Raevin’s Hope”) available during the Shop Local Authors event.

The series, a young adult, dystopian, sci-fi/fantasy, follows the exploits of a group of young Terra-Healers whose powers come from absorbing the pollution of their decimated world. Join Wolvf, his sister, Eren, and their unique group of friends as they travel the Wasted Lands, face off against the terror that is the High Empress, and work toward undoing the Pollution Level Event that destroyed their planet over a century ago.

The Terra-Healer Series is also available from Goodreads and Amazon where “In-Spire: Book One of The Terra-Healers” was the #1 new release in Children’s Dystopian Fiction and reached #34 on the Amazon Best Sellers list in the same category for August of 2022.

Next Chapter Bookstore is located at 12 Park Place in Fredonia.