The Fayette

Book Shop will have two acclaimed Southern wirters signing their works

this weekend.

Terry Kay and

Margaret Anne Barnes are both authors with several award-winning works

under their belts, and both reflect the Southern life-style.

Kay will appear

Saturday and will sign his new book, "Taking Lottie Home." The

book focuses on two professional baseball players who are cut from their

team and take a runaway, Lottie, with them as they leave Augusta. Lottie

marries one of the players and has a child with him. After her husband

dies, Lottie goes to the other player's home before he is to be married.

Kay has lived

in and around Atlanta for his entire life. He was graduated from West

Georgia College and LaGrange College and was a sports writer for the Atlanta

Journal for eight years. He has been a full-time fiction writer since

1989 and has written 10 books, as well as an epsiode of "In the Heat

of the Night." He lives in Athens, Ga.

Barnes will

appear at Fayette Book Shop Sunday. Her book, "A Buzzard is My Best

Friend - A Memoir" is being re-released. The tale is an often hysterical

account of a family's attempt to manage a farm in Virginia. The family

is trying to get