Louise Hawes Shares Her Book, Black Pearls: A Faerie Strand
On UNC-TV’s North Carolina Bookwatch, Friday, October 31, at 9:30 PM

" . . . and they lived happily ever after."

Remember the fairy tales you put away after you found that no princess is as beautiful as common sense and happy endings are just the beginning?

Louise Hawes’ Black Pearls: A Faerie Strand brings you the stories of your childhood, told in a way you've never heard before. Instead of lulling you to sleep, they'll wake you up—to the haunting sadness that waits just inside the windows of a gingerbread cottage, the passion that fuels a witch's flight, and the heartache that comes, again and again, at the stroke of midnight.

In an all-new episode of UNC-TV’s local literary series North Carolina Bookwatch with D.G. Martin, premiering Friday, October 31, at 9:30 PM, Hawes discusses her Black Pearls tales—dark as human nature itself but also lit with the fire of dreams and a hunger for magic.

Louise Hawes lives in Pittsboro, North Carolina, and is also the author of an adult fiction collection and novels for young readers.She is a faculty member of the Vermont CollegeMFA in Writing program, and also teaches at Meredith College'sFocusing on Form, a summer writing workshop for women. She has always loved fairy tales and says that Black Pearls was written for readers of any agewho dance without looking at the clock.

Don’t miss D.G. Martin’s engaging interview with Louise Hawes on North Carolina Bookwatch, Friday, October 31, at 9:30 PM, with an encore episode airing Sunday, November 2, at 5 PM.

During the 26-week season of North Carolina Bookwatch, guests also include: Frances Mayes (A Year in the World), Rob Christensen (The Paradox of Tar Heel Politics), Robert Morgan (Boone), Eleanora Tate (Celeste’s Harlem Renaissance), Eric Wilson (Against Happiness), Wayne Caldwell (Cataloochee), Theda Perdue (The Cherokee Nation and The Trail of Tears), Bernie Harberts (Too Proud to Ride a Cow), Therese Fowler (Souvenir), Joe Glatthaar (General Lee’s Army), Nortin Hadler (Worried Sick), Anna Hayes (Without Precedent), Jean Anderson (A Love Affair with Southern Cooking), J.D. Rhoades (Breaking Cover), Anna Rubino (Queen of the Oil Club), Nancy Peacock (A Broom of One's Own), Tony Earley (The blue Star) and  Cindy H. Ramsey (Boys of the Battleship North Carolina).

For additional information about series guests and airdates, plus links to the Bookwatch blog and online book club, please visit: www.unctv.org/ncbookwatch.

Funding for North Carolina Bookwatch is provided by UNC-TV members and by Quail Ridge Books and Music, Raleigh’s independent, full service bookstore, bringing readers and writers together since 1984.

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