Write Club Presents Gary & Rebecca Minder – September 20, 2025, 10:30 AM at the Hoover Public Library
Learn how to market your book and connect with your audience.
Author Gary Minder, along with his publicist wife Rebecca, will discuss their journey of independently publishing and promoting Gary’s debut novel, The Education of Asa Paxton.
After living in Ankara, Turkey, and Pittsburgh, Gary S. Minder landed in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, at the beginning of school desegregation. He is one of nearly six hundred graduates from the powerhouse melting pot of Central High School. Over the years he has called Chicago, Boston, Seattle, and Portland home before returning to Tuscaloosa in 2006. The Education of Asa Paxton is Gary S. Minder’s debut novel and the first installment of the Haint Blue Series.
Rebecca Todd Minder is a versatile and award-winning professional with expertise in magazine and book publishing, journalism, podcasting, graphic design, event planning, editing, and teaching. Her extensive involvement in various organizations has helped her build a strong network throughout Alabama. In her primary role, Rebecca serves as the director of Alabama Heritage magazine.
The Education of Asa Paxton: Coming of Age in the Heart of Dixie offers an historic view of rural life in the South through the eyes of young adults–the self-proclaimed Misfit Clique–who suffer through puberty’s awkward, embarrassing, and sometimes humorous moments. Asa emerges at seventeen a handsome young man, still a pariah because of the company his family keeps. Secrets soon collide with the force of a tornado, threatening to tear families apart and send the innocent to prison-or worse.