NEWS RELEASE

Contact: David West (west@nsula.edu )
News Bureau
Northwestern State University
Natchitoches, LA 71497
(318) 357-6466

3/08/2006

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NATCHITOCHES -Author Dayne Sherman will do a reading and book signing Monday, March 20 at 7 p.m. in the Student-Faculty Reading Room in Watson Library at Northwestern State University.

Admission is free and open to the public. Sherman's reading is the first in the Department of Language and Communication's Lecture Series. The Department plans to bring regional writers to Northwestern to conduct workshops for students and present readings for the public.

Sherman's first novel, Welcome to the Fallen Paradise, was published in 2004 by MacAdam/Cage. It was named a Best Crime Novel Debut of the Year by Booklist and a Notable Book by BookSense. His novel was released in trade paperback in October.

In naming the book one of the Best Debuts of the Year the New Orleans Times-Picayune said "Backwoods violence and blood feuds are nothing new in Southern fiction, so it takes a strong writer to slug it out with in swamp and come back with a memorable story. Ponchatoula novelist Dayne Sherman is just such a writer, and Welcome to the Fallen Paradise, set in a fictional Baxter Parish, is just such an unforgettable book utterly compelling."

Rick Bragg, Pulitzer Prize winning author of All Over but the Shoutin' and Ava's Man said about Sherman, "Dayne Sherman writes like I wish I could if I was still young enough to change."

An assistant professor of library science at Southeastern Louisiana University, Sherman received the 2005 SLU President's Award for Excellence in Artistic Activity. He took several graduate courses at Northwestern in the late 1990s. Sherman is writing a new novel titled Louisiana Public Integrity.

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