Saturday, November 1 - Texas Book Festival
Book signing from 9-11
Writers’ League of Texas Booth
Book festival is held on the grounds of the Texas State Capitol

Frances Hunter will be signing To the Ends of the Earth: The Last Journey of Lewis & Clark as part of the Texas Book Festival. The Texas Book Festival is one of the premier literary festivals in the country, hosting more than 200 authors and drawing more than 45,000 annual attendees. The festival features panels, book signings, live music, cooking demonstrations, children’s activities, and readings.

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 Wilkinson 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 Violet Crown Award for Fiction and a silver medal for historical fiction in the Independent Publisher “IPPY” Book Awards.