Fiction Addiction

1175 Woods Crossing Rd. #5
Greenville, SC 29607
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www.fiction-addiction.comFebruary 17, 2014

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

CONTACT:
Jill Hendrix
Fiction Addiction
864-675-0540
[email protected]
http://www.fiction-addiction.com 

 

Join Us for Stories and Sweets With NC Authors Barbara Claypole White and Anne Clinard Barnhill

  

 

Greenville, SC, February 17th, 2014 - Join us for a Stories & Sweets event on Wed., April 16th at 7:00 pm at Fiction Addiction, with North Carolina authors Barbara Claypole White  and Anne Clinard Barnhill as they discuss their latest novels, The In-Between Hour (Mira, paperback, $14.95) and Queen Elizabeth's Daughter: A Novel of Elizabeth I (St. Martin's Griffin, paperback, $15.99, on sale 3/18/14).

 

The two authors make for a great panel since our English-born author, Barbara Claypole White, set her novel in America and our American-born author, Anne Barnhill, set her novel in England. Refreshments will include homemade desserts and punch.  

 

Tickets are $10.00 per person, which includes a $10.00 voucher that can be redeemed at the event. Tickets may be purchased at the door or in advance at http://www.bookyourlunch.com or by calling Fiction Addiction at 864-675-0540.

 

 

The In-Between Hour

What could be worse than losing your child? Having to pretend he's still alive...  

Bestselling author Will Shepard is caught in the twilight of grief, after his young son dies in a car accident. But when his father's aging mind erases the memory, Will rewrites the truth. The story he spins brings unexpected relief...until he's forced to return to rural North Carolina, trapping himself in a lie.

 

Holistic veterinarian Hannah Linden is a healer who opens her heart to strays but can only watch, powerless, as her grown son struggles with inner demons. When she rents her guest cottage to Will and his dad, she finds solace in trying to mend their broken world, even while her own shatters.

 

As their lives connect and collide, Will and Hannah become each other's only hope - if they can find their way into a new story, one that begins with love. 

 

 

 

 

Queen Elizabeth's Daughter

From Anne Barnhill, the author of At the Mercy of the Queen, comes the gripping tale of Mary Shelton, Elizabeth I's young cousin and ward, set against the glittering backdrop of the Elizabethan court.

Mistress Mary Shelton is Queen Elizabeth's favorite ward, enjoying every privilege the position affords. The queen loves Mary like a daughter, and, like any good mother, she wants her to make a powerful match. The most likely prospect: Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford. But while Oxford seems to be everything the queen admires: clever, polished and wealthy, Mary knows him to be lecherous, cruel, and full of treachery. No matter how hard the queen tries to push her into his arms, Mary refuses.

Instead, Mary falls in love with a man who is completely unsuitable. Sir John Skydemore is a minor knight with little money, a widower with five children. Worst of all, he's a Catholic at a time when Catholic plots against Elizabeth are rampant. The queen forbids Mary to wed the man she loves. When the young woman, who is the queen's own flesh and blood, defies her, the couple finds their very lives in danger as Elizabeth's wrath knows no bounds. 

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

About the authors:

Barbara Claypole White grew up in the English village of Turvey with big dreams of becoming a novelist. After a detour through women's and medieval history at York University, she landed a job promoting London fashion.

One day her boss sent her to New York, and she fell in love with an American professor who followed her around JFK Airport. Eighteen months later she was a faculty spouse, freelance writer, and marketing director in Champaign, Illinois, a small Midwest college town. She also started writing her first novel -- a love story set against the world of eighties fashion and AIDS.

Five years passed; then Barbara learned she was pregnant, and her husband was offered a distinguished professorship at UNC Chapel Hill. The family moved to the North Carolina forest, and Barbara became a stay-at-home mom and a woodland gardener-factors that would shape her writing voice. She returned to her manuscript, took evening classes in writing at the local arts center, and slammed into another detour: her young son developed obsessive-compulsive disorder.

From that moment, fascination with mental illness framed her life. She ditched her first novel and began writing Dogwood Days, which turned into The Unfinished Garden. She also joined a nonfiction project for parents of children with invisible disabilities. Her son is now an award-winning poet and musician attending college in the Midwest.

Barbara is consistently drawn to the theme that people who need each other find each other, and is hard at work on her next novel...when she's not gardening.



Anne Clinard Barnhill has been writing or dreaming of writing for most of her life. For the past twenty years, she has published articles, book and theater reviews, poetry, and short stories. Her first book, At Home In the Land of Oz, recalls what it was like growing up with an autistic sister. Her work has won various awards and grants. Barnhill holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.

Besides writing, Anne also enjoys teaching, conducting writing workshops, and facilitating seminars to enhance creativity. She loves spending time with her three grown sons and their families. For fun, she and her husband of thirty years, Frank, take long walks and play bridge. In rare moments, they dance.

 

 

If you cannot make the event, you can reserve a personalized copy of any of the author's books by contacting Fiction Addiction in advance at 864-675-0540 or at [email protected].

   

 

ABOUT FICTION ADDICTION

Fiction Addiction is a local, woman-owned, independent bookstore established in 2001. The store carries a mixture of new and used fiction and nonfiction, including children's books, as well as gift items. We have recently moved to a new location at 1175 Woods Crossing Road (in the shopping center with Five Guys and Fried Green Tomatoes). For more information, visit our website at http://www.fiction-addiction.com or call us at 864-675-0540.

  

  

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