Author Nan Hawthorne To Begin Historical Novels Discussion Group Tuesday, January 6, 2009
The Accessible World News Wire
Author Nan Hawthorne To Begin Let's Read Historical Novels Discussion Group
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
As the world anticipates change in the New Year 2009, Pat Price, the
Accessible World.org founder and events coordinator, recently announced the
organization would begin a new series of special online events that will
expand significantly the scope of its current online programming. The new
initiative will feature events that will provide an abundance of information
on a variety of topics that will interest, inform, challenge, and entertain
a broader cross section of the population than it currently serves. These
special programs will reach out beyond the disability field into the 'real
world' in which we all live.
On Tuesday, January 6, 2009, author Nan Hawthorne will have center stage in
the Accessible World Auditorium as the new historical novels discussion
group is launched.
Commenting on the scope of the group, Hawthorne states, "Every yesterday has
a story, and that story is what we call history. Historical novelists love
to take history and recreate it with vivid characters, vibrant settings, and
tantalizing connections to the great people and events of the past. Whether
a novel takes place in the court of Solomon, in a village on the icy shore
of Viking Greenland, in a dark and foreboding castle in Italy, on a
battlefield about to erupt into Napoleonic gun fire, or in a modest cabin on
an American frontier, the reader joins the writer in coming to understand
just how different life was and people were not."
Plan now to attend Let's Read Historical Novels, a monthly excursion into
the historical novelist's imagination with author Nan Hawthorne as your
guide. We will start with Hawthorne's own first novel, An Involuntary King:
A Tale of Anglo Saxon England. Begun as stories a friend and she wrote as
teenagers in the 1960s, An Involuntary King is the story of the king of an
imaginary kingdom that would nevertheless be recognizable to any denizen of
England before the Norman Invasion. Hawthorne took a teenager's romantic
story and reworked it to make it true to the era, which she loves. The
young king is thrust unexpectedly into his exalted role and must struggle
not only to keep his crown but also to deserve it. Threat and treachery
besets his every turn while other men come to love and serve his beloved
queen. Can the royal pair overcome all the obstacles through their own
strengths and their steadfast allies and come together in the end? An
Involuntary King contains adventure, romance, battle, intrigue and humor and
an overall cast of characters so vividly drawn you will never forget them.
The book is available in print through Shield-wall Books and in a digital
version through Lullu.com and for members at BookShare.org. Signed print
copies also available. It is 648 pages long and has some strong language,
violence and adult situations.
Contact: Nan Hawthorne, P O Box 12454,
Mill Creek WA 98011 USA
Tel: 425-487-1140
Email: Hawthorne@nanhawthorne.com
Web: http://www.nanhawthorne.com
Here's the info you need to join others online from your home, office, or
wherever you and your computer, an Internet connection, a sound card
speakers and a microphone happen to be at the time of the event. Everyone
worldwide is welcome. NO PASSWORD IS REQUIRED AND the entire event is FREE!
Date: Tuesday, January 6, 2009.
Time: 5:00 p.m. PST, 6:00 p.m. MST, 7:00 p.m. CST,
8:00 p.m. EST and elsewhere in the world Wednesday 1:00 GMT.
Where: The Accessible World Auditorium at:
http://conference321.com/masteradmin/room.asp?id=rs5affc3cfa191
Or, alternatively, select the Accessible World Auditorium at
http://www.accessibleworld.org.
If you are a first-time user of the Talking Communities online conferencing
software, there is a small, safe software program that you need to download
and then run. A link to the software is available on every entry screen to
the Accessible World rooms.
Media Contacts:
Robert Acosta, Chair, Planning Committee
818-998-0044
Email: boacosta@pacbell.net
Web: http://www.helpinghands4theblind.com
Pat Price, Founder and Events Coordinator
The Accessible World Symposiums
Vision Worldwide, Inc.
317-254-1185
Email: pat@patprice.org
Web: http://www.accessibleworld.org
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