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On October 10, at 7 pm I will be at Books Inc. in Palo Alto’s Town and Country Village for a conversation about Whispers Across A Sea with Robert Pogue Harrison, a distinguished professor of French and Italian literature at Stanford. Robert is an intellectual, discerning reader and author. He also does many interviews for Stanford and, with a smile I say, I am Robert’s warm-up for Andre Agassi on October 15!
Robert’s review — “The narrative flows like a stream into and Irish world of the past full of color, spirit, and a medley of distinctive characters. As one family’s story intermingles with its surrounding local and national histories, a bygone time comes alive on the page as if by magic or incantation.”
I did a second reading from Whispers on Dublin South FM radio’s Rhyme or Reason. They record at 4 am my time and noon theirs!... Listen if you have time. The book is selling in Ireland. Listen Now.
I have selected a wonderful narrator to do my audiobook, Charlie Emmeline, (stage name, Charlotte Albers) who is British and lives in Westport, Conn. She is an actress with a marvelous voice that is warm, soothing, engaging & friendly with an eloquent twist. Her prep is beginning. The schedule is not firm for the audio release, but I will let you know when it is ready. Charlie found a beautiful piece of music to bring the reader into the story and to hear as they carry their emotions away at the end. It is called Passage to the New World. I love the drama of this beautiful piece.
https://www.pond5.com/royalty-free-music/item/284735844-passage-new-world-2m36s
The Executive Producer of Masterpiece Theatre positively reviewed Whispers and sent it on to some Irish production companies...there is always hope! Ken Burns and his historian, Dayton Duncan, whom I came to know through my work with Yosemite, have the book at their request... their bedside piles are high but, again... a good word from them would be fantastic. Anne Lamott also has Whispers with a “must read” message, as a personal hand-off from a neighbor who lives in Anne’s old house. You never know. These are exciting possibilities.
Happy Fall and thank you again for listening and taking an interest in Whispers Across A Sea.
PS. Check out some new additions to the website
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