Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
Project: LEARN Fundraiser ~
Nicole will be joining the fun and fundraising at the annual Alphabet Affair to Benefit Project: LEARN, on Saturday, October 22, 2005, in the Cleveland Public Library, Louis Stokes Wing.
This gala event is presented each year by the Friends of Project: LEARN, who work to promote and support adult literacy through creative resource development and volunteer activities for the benefit of Project: LEARN, Cleveland’s largest organization for adult literacy.
This year’s Alphabet Affair stars the letter “L” with the theme “Luau at the Library.” Tickets are available to the public. Most partygoers will come in costume, whether for a “Luau” or as another “L” character, and you're invited to do the same! Visit Project: LEARN’s special events web page for details.
Book Discussion ~
Nicole will join the Walden Pointe Book Club in Westlake, Ohio, for their discussion of Waiting of the World to End on Monday evening, October 10.
TV Appearance ~
Nicole will be a guest on “The Hazel Chapman Show,” a national award winner showcasing artists, artisans, and entertainers on community television in Northeast Ohio.
Nicole’s appearance on "The Hazel Chapman Show" will be broadcast on ALC-TV in Avon Lake, Ohio, the week of October 26 through November 1, 2005. Please see the ALC-TV program schedule for broadcast times.
Hazel Chapman is the mother of Tracy Chapman, the admired and beloved Grammy Award-winning singer, performer, and songwriter. Tracy Chapman’s new CD is Where You Live, released in September 2005.
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Book of the Year Finalist in ForeWord Magazine's 2004 Competition
Waiting for the World to End by Nicole Hunter has been named a Semi-Finalist in the 2005 Independent Publishers Book Awards (the IPPYs). Waiting for the World to End by Nicole Hunter has just received the Book of the Year Silver Award for religious fiction from ForeWord Magazine. Award winners were announced at Book Expo America in New York on June 3, 2005.
The Book of the Year Silver Award makes Waiting for the World to End a double winner for independently published religious fiction. Hunter’s novel recently received Honorable Mention in the Independent Publisher Book Awards.
Nicole Hunter is now represented by Karen Solem of Spencerhill Associates in Chatham, New York.
Beyond politics, saints, and sinners is
Waiting for the World to End
by Nicole Hunter—
the new novel about abortion and faith
in contemporary middle America.
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In our culture of polarized public opinions, Waiting for the World to End tells a surprisingly different story—one that calls readers back to the wisdom of their own hearts and spirits. Waiting for the World to End's main characters deal in different ways not only with abortion, but also with Christianity and sexual and emotional ethics, and make it hard to pigeonhole sinners and saints.
Raised in upper-class Boston as the only child of two economists, Thomas Olsen feels like a perpetual outsider. Athletic and poetic, he eventually settles with more kindred spirits in suburban Indiana. But no one knows that Olsen is hiding a devastating secret: he and his former fiancée agreed on the abortion she had during their graduate school years, after which Olsen abruptly called the wedding off and hit the road running, leaving Alexandra in his dust—dust of the personal pain he couldn't put into words.
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As English department chairman and basketball coach at an Indiana high school, Olsen endears himself to the locals, yet despite his popularity, he can't shake the loneliness that dogs him. After years of keeping a guilty silence around part of his past, his body and soul have learned to lead separate lives.
Then, at 41, Olsen develops a father-son bond with Ben Wendling, his student and player, and falls in love with Ben's enigmatic married mother. With Mary and Ben, the missing pieces of Olsen's life somehow feel restored—until a surreal accident changes the course of all their futures.
Olsen, Mary, and Ben search for themselves in sports and spirituality, in the words of the great modern poets and novelists, in each other—and always in ways that include readers as both observers and participants in the journey.
From the recurring backdrop of the wistfully beautiful Indiana Dunes to the wilds of the Arizona desert, Olsen, Mary, and Ben struggle with timely and timeless problems. Their story creates a path away from the confines of polarized opinions to the wide open spaces of empathy and insight—spaces that give each of us room to grow. |
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NEW SITE! —
AMAZON.COM PROMOTION —
INTERNATIONAL BOOK-SHARING CLUB —
Have you heard of BookCrossing.com? It’s the free, international book-sharing club with 400,000 worldwide members and 2 million books in circulation. More than 30 copies of Waiting for the World to End are being read by BookCrossers in The Netherlands, Italy, Portugal, Kuwait, Germany, England, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, as well as across the USA. You can read dozens of “journal entries” (book reviews) of these globe-trotting copies of Waiting for the World to End — just click on “All Books” on my BookCrossing Bookshelf.
BOOK CLUB SELECTION —
I enjoy participating in book club discussions whenever possible. If you’re interested in having me join your group’s discussion of Waiting for the World to End, please e-mail me at nicole_hunter@nicolehunterbooks.com.
ENGLISH CURRICULUMS —
More than 75 English teachers in Ohio and Indiana have ordered copies of Waiting for the World to End and are considering the book for their English curriculums. The novel is already established in the curriculum in Valparaiso, Indiana’s Wheeler High School, where the inaugural Nicole Hunter Day was celebrated April 8, 2005.
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