Meet the Author James McKenna
Schedule
Sat May 04 2024 at 12:00 pm to 02:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
Fair Trade Books Red Wing | Red Wing, MN
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“An October’s Journey: Poe’s Final Gift”By James McKenna
In this elegant work of speculative historical fiction, a young, nineteenth-century attorney receives a strange birthday gift from his friend, Edgar Allan Poe, who convinces him to
defend a woman and her two grown children who have been arrested for practicing witchcraft. The trial is to be held in an old Puritan town that has somehow “fallen out of time,” and the verdict of the case will determine the fate of many more than just the
three souls on trial. Navigating as a stranger in an even stranger land, he must piece together the truth of the most bizarre case of his career.
James McKenna is retired, living in southern Minnesota, and feels it is important for a person to keep active. That being said, he is an author whose style of writing is keenly reminiscent of that style made popular in the 19th century. He loves the richness extant in
the English language normally found in novels of that era and believes that such richness could and should be used to make the reader’s experience as entertaining and rewarding
as possible. James also believes that there should be a graceful flow and sense of meter to each sentence that will carry the reader forward in a novel. It is a style, he says, that has been lost over time and must be revived. To James, sentences, if carefully written, can and should approach something very much akin to what he calls . . . poetic prose. In short, James believes that it is not just what you write, but how you write it!
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Where is it happening?
Fair Trade Books Red Wing, 320 Bush St,Red Wing,MN,United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
