[bookshare-discuss] Fw: Accessible World sponsors a historical novels discussion group the first Tuesday of each month
- From: "Bob Acosta" <boacosta@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:58:55 -0800
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Subject: Accessible World sponsors a historical novels discussion group the
first Tuesday of each month
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New Historical Novels Discussion Group To Be Launched by the Accessible
World January 6, 2008
The Accessible World News Wire, Indianapolis, Indiana USA
In its quest to expand the reading experience of everyone, Pat Price,
founder and events coordinator recently announced the Accessible World will
sponsor a historical novels discussion group the first Tuesday of each month
beginning January 6, 2009. "We are especially fortunate" Price said, "to
have not only a published author but a person whose professional careers
has included both the profit and non-profit sectors but also has been
heavily involved in management of employment issues of those with
disabilities. Nan Hawthorne, who resides in the Seattle area, is without a
doubt the right person to lead our new effort."
During an interview with Nan Hawthorne about the new group, she commented:
"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."
Join us for Reading the Past, 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 Imaginary 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 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, humor and overall a cast of characters
so vividly drawn you will never forget them.
Plan now to read the group's first book so you can participate in the live,
online discussion. 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 are available. It is 648 pages long and has some
strong language, violence and adult situations.
Date: Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Time: 5:00 p.m. Pacific, 6:00 p.m. Mountain, 7:00 p.m. Central,
8:00 p.m. Eastern and elsewhere in the world Tuesday 1:00 GMT.
Where: Accessible World Auditorium at:
http://conference321.com/masteradmin/room.asp?id=rs5affc3cfa191
Or, alternatively,
http://www.accessibleworld.org. Select the Accessible World Auditorium,
enter your first and last names on the sign-in screen.
All Accessible World events are recorded so if you are unable to participate
live at the above times then you may download the presentation or podcast
from the appropriate room archives on our website at
http://www.accessibleworld.org.
All online interactive programs require no password, are free of charge, and
open to anyone worldwide having a PC running Windows XP or higher, an
Internet connection, a sound card, speakers, and a microphone. Those with
microphone can interact audibly with others in the virtual audience. Text
messaging is also available. Also, there is limited access for some recent
Macintosh computers.
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 online rooms.
Sign up information for all Accessible World News Wires and discussion lists
are also available at our website: http://www.accessibleworld.org.
Media Contacts:
Nan Hawthorne, Author and Group Leader
hawthorne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Web: http://www.nanhawthorne.com
Robert Acosta, Chair, Planning Committee
818-998-0044
Email: boacosta@xxxxxxxxxxx
Web: http://www.helpinghands4theblind.com
Pat Price, Founder and Events Coordinator
The Accessible World Symposiums Vision Worldwide, Inc.
317-254-1185
Email: pat@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Web: http://www.accessibleworld.org
The Accessible World, a division of Vision Worldwide, Inc. a 501(c)(3)
not-for-profit organization, seeks to educate the general public, the
disabled community and the professionals who serve them by providing highly
relevant information about new products, services, and training
opportunities designed specifically to eliminate geographic and access
barriers that adversely affect them.
Media Contacts for Additional Information:
Robert Acosta, Chair, Planning Committee
Helping Hands for the Blind
818-998-0044
Email: boacosta@xxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.helpinghands4theblind.com
Pat Price, Events Coordinator
The Accessible World Symposiums
317-254-1185
Skype: patprice1
Email: pat@xxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.accessibleworld.org
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