Florida authors Barbara Harrington (Give Him Back to God), Harry Yessian (Nothing is Forever . . . Darling), Mavis Viles (Chocolate at Midnight), Dolores Attias (Maite), John Riedel (Requiem in Red), Phil Gulick (Ride the High Iron) and Al Felman (From the Ends of the Earth) will conduct workshops and sign books at 1 p.m. Saturday at Books-A-Million, 9570 U.S. 19 N, Port Richey. For more information, call (727) 847-3373.

Dress up for the festival:

Costume designer Natalie Howden will present Thrifty, Nifty Costumes for Kids to help parents and children dress up for the Times Festival of Reading (Nov. 11-12 at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg). She will conduct the workshop at 2 p.m. Oct. 14 at the North Branch of St. Petersburg Public Library, 861 70th Ave. N and at 11 a.m. Oct. 28 at the Main Library, 3745 Ninth Ave. N. For more information, call the Main Library at (727) 893-7724.

On writing true crime:

Joy Wellman (Smoldering Embers) will lead a True Crime Writer's Workshop at 7 p.m. every Wednesday at Books-A-Million, 33550 U.S. 19 N, Palm Harbor. For more information, call (727) 773-1362.

Author appearances:

Connie Haines (Snootie Little Cutie: The Connie Haines Story), 7 p.m. Wednesday, Barnes & Noble, 213 N Dale Mabry Highway, Tampa.

Susan Bradley (Sudden Money: Managing Unexpected Windfall), 7 p.m. Thursday, Barnes & Noble, Tampa.

Gabriel Horn, White Deer of Autumn (The Book of Ceremonies), 6 p.m. Friday, Red Cloud Art Gallery, 208 Beach Drive NE, St. Petersburg.

Jeff LaHurd (Sarasota), 7 p.m. Friday, Sarasota News & Books, 1341 Main St., Sarasota.

Ferdie Pacheco (The 12 Greatest Rounds of Boxing: The Untold Stories), 2 p.m. Saturday, Inkwood Books, 216 S Armenia Ave., Tampa.

Scott L. Peeler, Jr. (The Confederate Cookbook: Family Favorites From the Sons of Confederate Veterans), 3 p.m. Saturday, Barnes & Noble, Tampa.

Clifford M. Gross, Ph.D., Uwe Reischl, Ph.D., M.D. and Paul Abercrombie (The New Idea Factory: Expanding Technology Companies with University Intellectual Capital), 2 p.m. Saturday, Barnes & Noble, 11802 N Dale Mabry Highway, Carrollwood.

Tom Bunevich (Sign This: The Real Truth About Your Sports Heroes and the Sports Autograph Industry), 2 p.m. Saturday, Books-A-Million, 9570 U.S. 19 N, Port Richey.

Book Stamp Act:

Here's a novel idea to lick illiteracy. Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, are proposing a "child literacy" stamp that would allow purchasers to voluntarily pay a small premium above the regular first-class rate to support child literacy programs. Similar stamps issued to support breast cancer research generated $12-million. The bipartisan legislation known as the Book Stamp Act would make $50-million in federal funds available to local child care and early education resources to purchase books for kids who need them. The full text of the Kennedy-Hutchison bill can be found on the Senate Web site at www.senate.gov.

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