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Hello fellow 1818 H’ers,

One of your own has just e-published his first fiction thriller about international oil intrigue. My novel (under my pen name for fiction, “Thomas Torrens”), The Viking Sands is out on Amazon.com for Kindles and Barnes & Noble for Nooks this morning for only $2.99! Have a look:

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-viking-sands-thomas-torrens/1108324480?ean=2940013679078&itm=1&usri=the+viking+sands

Many thanks!

W.T. Onorato

I worked at the World Bank from 1977 to 1987 in the Public Affairs and later Publications Department. After leaving the Bank to stay home with my young son, I continued to occasionally freelance and publish articles in a number of magazines and local papers and volunteer in Fairfax County schools. My first novel, To Come and Go Like Magic, was published on February 9 by Knopf Books for Young Readers/Random House Books. It has been getting very good reviews from Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books (Johns Hopkins University Press), and various other periodicals.

On April 17, I’ll be doing a book-signing at The Artisans in McLean, Virginia. The shop has graciously offered to donate 10% of all proceeds (from books and all other gift items) to the Kentucky Humanities Council. The Council qualifies for matching funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Their program, New Books for New Readers, supplies books written on the 4th grade level to adults just learning to read, as well as to their children. My novel is set in Kentucky’s Appalachian region during the 1970s in an area where I spent my childhood.

The following links provide more information about my book, the Kentucky Humanities Council, and The Artisans website for the event. The shop is a great place to pick up handmade gift items from around the country and may be of interest to retirees, as well as active Bank staff.

http://katiepickardfawcett.wordpress.com/

http://www.kyhumanities.org/

http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07e2qqr0cw6a84a949 (The EVENT website)

Sincerely,

Katie Pickard Fawcett

Great pictures…memories! Any more where those came from?