The February meeting of the Vicksburg Association of Marketing Professionals will feature Ridgeland author and financial consultant Nancy Lottridge Anderson.

The lunch event will be at noon Feb. 2 at Ameristar Casino’s Heritage Buffet.

Anderson is the author of “Tough Talk For Tough Times: Real Conversations For Real People about Money,” and president of New Perspectives Inc., an investment management and financial consulting firm. She is also co-host of “Money Talks” a weekly Mississippi Public Broadcasting radio program. She hosted a book-signing in Vicksburg Saturday.

Anderson was among Worth Magazine’s Top 250 Financial Advisors in the country for 2001-02, and in 2005 was ranked among the Top 50 Businesswomen by the Mississippi Business Journal.

VAMP meets each first Tuesday at Ameristar. The president is Derek Adams, who can be reached at 601-630-3747