Corrected News about The Witching Hour (Salem, Mass, October 6-10, 2005)

[heiditandy]

Three exciting announcements today from The Witching Hour, the Harry
Potter symposium set for Salem, Massachusetts from October 6-10,
2005:

1. Newberry Award-winning author Nancy Farmer will be presenting on
two panels with Holly Black.

2. Author and haunted-house-resident Rose Earhart will be speaking
before the Halloween Ball.

3. REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! You can visit
http://www.witchinghour.org/registration/ and register - and if
you're among the first fifty registrants, you'll receive a special,
limited-edition TWH t-shirt.

More about the above...

Nancy Farmer, author of The Eye, The Ear and The Arm, A Girl Named
Disaster and The House of the Scorpion, is coming to TWH! Nancy has
won three Newbery Awards, a Michael L. Printz Award and a National
Book Award. She grew up on the Arizona-Mexico border, served in the
Peace Corps in India and lived in both South Africa and Zimbabwe.
Her next book, a YA fantasy novel called Sea of Trolls, will be out
this fall. Nancy will sit on From Scribbles to Autographs: A
Writers' Panel and Moral Twlight: When Absolutes Are Shadowered in
Fantasy Literature, both with Holly Black.

Second, Rose Earhart is also speaking at TWH. Rose has written
Dorcas Good, the Diary of a Salem Witch, and Salem's Ghosts, both
fictional novels set against the backdrop of Salem's hisory. Rose is
a former professional ballerina, actress and journalist, and lives
in a haunted house on the Salem Common. Rose will sit on Thinning
the Veil, a panel on death and the afterlife that's part of the
Hallowe'en Ball, and will present on HP and witchcraft.

Third, registration is open! That's right, after many months of
arduous work by the tech team and others, the system is up and ready
for you to register! First 50 registrants will receive a free t-
shirt with a never-to-be-used-again TWH design.

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