The Tewksbury Garden Club will present A Husband’s Point of View of Gardening with Neal Sanders on Wednesday, January 8, from 7 – 8, at the Tewksbury Senior Center, 175 Chandler Street in Tewksbury.  Neal is an author and garden lover, and his humorous horticulture lecture is free and open to the public, but please bring a canned food donation for the Food Pantry.  In Mr. Sanders’ words:

“Eight years ago, I helped sell the company that had been my long-time employer. When the sale was done, I had two ‘sensible’ offers that would have kept me in the corporate world. To make a long story short, neither option appealed.

There was something else I wanted to do, something that had been on my mind for a couple of decades: I wanted to see if I could write fiction. Not the Great American Novel. Not poetry. Not some thinly disguised autobiographical cathartic work. I wanted to see if I could tell a rousing good story using believable characters people would root for. I wanted to write stories with satisfying conclusions that sprinkled enough clues about the outcome throughout the story to make a reader say, ‘why didn’t I see that coming?’ Oh, and I wanted to write stuff that people would actually go out and buy. In short, I wanted to write mysteries, suspense, and thrillers.

Since then, I’ve published seven books: Murder Imperfect, The Accidental Spy , Deal Killer, The Garden Club Gang, A Murder in the Garden Club, and Murder for a Worthy Cause. All are available in both print and Kindle editions at Amazon.com and in book stores . My latest, Deadly Deeds, has just been published.”