LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Lake County Library celebrates Lake County’s own authors all through November with free events at all four library branches.

Each library will present a slate of local authors who will talk about the inspiration behind their books and how they got started writing.

The writers participating in the “Local Author Showcase” are Lake County’s Poet Laureate Richard Schmidt, author of “Virgil Cooper,” a western fiction novel; Anusha Amen-Ra, “Woman’s Water, Man’s Fire: the metaphysics of love, sex and relationship”; Steve Bartholomew, who writes tales of the Old West; Carolyn Decanti, creator of the Cobb Mountain mystery series; Linda Green, “Solving the Post Traumatic Stress Brain Injury Puzzle”; Jordan O’Halloran, “Clean Up on Aisle Three,” a work of young adult fiction; JoAnn Saccato, “Mindful and Intentional Living: a path to peace, clarity and freedom”; Jodi Schneider, “Raising Rover,” a self-help book; John Urfurth, “Adventures of the Buckaroo Dogs” for children; and Mimi Whitaker, a self-help guide, “Happiness is your Purpose,” and a volume of poetry, “Pears From My Mother’s Tree.”

At Lakeport Library, 1425 N. High St. on Nov. 2 at 2 p.m. the authors will be Richard Schmidt, Mimi Whitaker, Jordan O’Halloran, Linda Green, John Urfurth and Jodi Schneider.

Middletown Library, 21256 Washington St. will host Richard Schmidt, JoAnn Saccato, Carolyn Decanti, Anusha Amen-Ra, Linda Green, Mimi Whitaker, Jordan O’Halloran, John Urfurth and Jodi Schneider on Nov. 8, at 3 p.m.

Richard Schmidt, Steve Bartholomew, John Urfurth, Mimi Whitaker, Jordan O’Halloran and Jodi Schneider will be at Upper Lake Library, 310 Second St. Nov. 15 at 3 p.m.

Richard Schmidt, Jordan O’Halloran, Jodi Schneider, Mimi Whitaker, and John Urfurth will visit Redbud Library, 14785 Burns Valley Rd. in Clearlake on Nov. 16 at 10:30 a.m.

The Lake County Library is on the Internet at http://library.lakecountyca.gov and Facebook at www.facebook.com/LakeCountyLibrary.

Jan Cook is a library technician for the Lake County Library.