Best-selling author Tom Angelberger will be at Hastings on Caraway Road in Jonesboro tomorrow night at seven o’clock to sign copies of his newest book “The Surprise Attack Of Jabba The Puppet.” It is the latest installment of his Origami Yoda book series for middle-schoolers, a series which has over four million copies in print. KASU’s Marty Scarbrough spoke with Angelberger who described this unique series of books.
Johnathan Reaves is the faculty advisor and editor-in-chief for Delta Digital News Service and the former News Director for KASU Public Radio. As part of an Air Force Family, he moved to Arkansas from Minot, North Dakota in 1986. He was first bitten by the radio bug after he graduated from Gosnell High School in 1992. While working on his undergraduate degree, he worked at KOSE, a small 1,000 watt AM commercial station in Osceola, Arkansas. Upon graduation from Arkansas State University in 1996 with a degree in Radio-Television Broadcast News, he decided that he wanted to stay in radio news. He moved to Stuttgart, Arkansas and worked for East Arkansas Broadcasters as news director and was there for 16 years.