Hello- I would like to invite you to join Franke Tobey Jones Senior University for the event below: Friday, August 23 Writing Four Historical Novels-From Imagination to Reality, the Empress Irini Byzantine Series* Humans are a curious species, and we are most curious about each other-whether it's truth or gossip. For that reason, historical fiction is enormously popular, even though it's partly fiction. Most of the bookstores that carry Jan McGiffin's books have a separate table for historical fiction and it's right by the door. Next to Young Adult fiction. Her Empress Irini four-book historical fiction series is set in the Byzantine era. It was published by Scotland Street Press in Edinburgh. The first two books came out together last year; the third was released this March; and the fourth will be released March of next year. Every person in the books is real, with few exceptions. She found them all in the pages of history and what wasn't in history, she found in her imagination. This talk will be about writing historical fiction, the joys of research in Oxford, England and New York, the anguish of deciding what facts to use or leave out, how to make the characters accessible to a modern reader without forgetting their place in history, the back-and-forth exchanges with the editor assigned by the publisher, the final copy-reading, finding an illustrator, and arranging the initial book-signings in England. Some of those who attend the class may have written memoirs or other sorts of historical fiction and will want to share their experience. Please RSVP to jwennstrom@franketobeyjones.com<mailto:jwennstrom@franketobeyjones.com>. 2:00 pm, MJ Wicks Wellness Center Presenter Bio: Janet McGiffin's first job in college was summer fill-in at the Ellensburg Daily Record, which was published by her father who didn't pay her. After college at UC Berkeley studying Comparative Literature, she got married and worked at a weekly newspaper in Wallingford, Seattle, then went to Milwaukee with her husband and worked for the Milwaukee Health Department. After some years back in Tacoma where she wrote her three-book detective series and worked as a Press Officer for the Washington State Senate, she spent eleven years in Athens Greece, where she started her research for the Empress Irini Series. She finished the first draft of the series in the New York Reference Library while she was teaching Business English at Berlitz. When COVID hit, she came to Tacoma where her son and daughter-in-law live with her two perfect grandchildren. She found a wonderful condo in Old Town and decided to stay. During the two COVID years, she and her three Greek friends skyped every two weeks to make sure everyone was all right. They did the final research and gave her their bluntly helpful editing comments. 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