Saturday, October 11 - Hill Country Book Festival
Book signing from 9-4
Georgetown Public Library, 402 W. Eighth St., Georgetown, Texas

Frances Hunter will be signing To the Ends of the Earth: The Last Journey of Lewis & Clark as part of the Hill Country Book Festival. The Hill Country Book Festival will feature celebrity authors, writing workshops, children’s activities, and more! The festival will feature guest authors and speakers, workshops, publishers, editors and children’s activities. Thirty-one area authors will be present to showcase and sell their books.
Review from Roundup Magazine (Western Writers of America):

This first novel is a blending of fact and fiction that can be described as a historical whodunit, but it is so much more. It is the story of a desperately ill, desperately depressed man who has accomplished great things, and who seeks his own redemption at a terrible cost. It is also the story of friendship between Meriwether Lewis and William Clark; friendship betrayed between William Clark and his slave, York; and love between William Clark and his wife, Julia. It is the story of bravery, of honor betrayed and honor redeemed, and the undeniable truth that great men possess great flaws as well as great strengths.

Frances Hunter’s characterization of Lewis, Clark, York, Julia, and Wilkerson are superb, truly astonishing accomplishments for a first novelist, or any novelist for that matter. Her settings are lovingly described, and the skillful plotting that blends the facts that we know, the facts that we suspect, and the fiction that is the mark of a great imagination, is remarkable. To Liz and Mary Clare, sisters writing under the name of Frances Hunter, bravo and welcome to two bright new stars of Western fiction!

To the Ends of the Earth won the 2007 Violet Crown Award for Fiction and a silver medal for historical fiction in the 2007 Independent Publisher “IPPY” Book Awards.