Joe Palmer Author Talk at the Yulee Library

September 12, 2023 | 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Join us at the Yulee Library for an Author Talk with Joe Palmer!

Now optioned for film, by award-winning New York indie film producer, Monica Tidwell.

Joe Palmer is an award-winning former newspaper reporter and longtime columnist, whose folksy newspaper column, Cup of Joe, ran for ten years in the Fernandina Beach News-Leader with a large and enthusiastic following.

He has written investigative reporting and feature stories for the Bradenton Herald, Macon Telegraph and News and the Florida Times-Union.

A Navy veteran and medical corpsman, Joe went on to work as a surgeon’s assistant at a major medical center in Jacksonville, Florida, while attending college for his BA in English with an emphasis on literature. He parlayed his investigative reporting skills into a 20-year career as an investigator for the Federal Public Defender’s Office.

A sailor, he got the inspiration for his debut novel, A Mariner’s Tale, while doing sweat labor one scorching August afternoon on an antique sailboat he and his wife painstakingly restored