NCWN

Cost: Free and open to the public
In the process of writing her middle grade novel Come August, Come Freedom, author Gigi Amateau spent time researching primary documents in several archives. A document, a journal or a blacksmith account book became a time machine, transporting her to 1800, and the true life of a twenty-four-year-old slave named Gabriel, plotting a rebellion. Join Gigi and Brendan Wolfe, Managing Editor, Encyclopedia Virginia, for a discussion of historical research for the purposes of fiction. Free and open to the public. No registration required. Books will be available for purchase and signing.