When’s the last time you got the opportunity to spend the weekend with your favorite author? Join us this fall as we host Katherine Neville November 13-15, 2009.

Katherine Neville’s 20-year career as an international computer executive and consultant, principally in the fields of finance and energy, took her to live and work in six countries on three continents and half of the states in the U.S. She numbered among her clients and employers IBM, the Bank of America, OPEC, and the US Department of Energy. Katherine did her post-graduate studies in African Literature. She has worked as a commercial photographer, portrait painter, busboy, waiter, and model, and she draws from all these work experiences to enrich her novels.
 
Katherine has been a guest or speaker at interesting venues around the world including the Today show; Publishers Weekly; Voice of America; National Public Radio; The Georgia Tech Women’s Leadership Conference; the Edgar Allan Poe and the Agatha Christie Awards; The Ateneo de Madrid; the Turkish Culture Ministry in Ankara and the First International Rumi Symposium in Konya, Turkey; The Smithsonian in Washington D.C.; and the World Affairs Conference in Boulder, CO.

Katherine’s books THE FIRE, The Eight, A Calculated Risk, and The Magic Circle are bestsellers in more than thirty languages. Her colorful adventure-quest-thriller novels are hard to categorize. She has been described as the female Umberto Eco, the female Alexander Dumas, and the female Stephen Spielberg. Publishers Weekly has described her books as having paved the way for books like The Da Vinci Code. In a national poll by the noted journal El Pais, in Spain, The Eight was voted one of the top ten books of all time.
Our weekend commences on Friday at 6:00 with dinner at Lowery’s where Ms. Neville will talk about her new book. Copies of her books will be available for sale and for autographs.

Saturday includes breakfast; an afternoon presentation by Ms. Neville: “Adventures in Research: Exciting Glimpses into a Writer’s Travels and Discoveries.” and free time to explore our local museums, used book store, boutiques and antique shops or catch up on your reading.

Saturday night will be an intimate evening here at the Inn just for our guests and Ms Neville. We will start at 6pm with cocktails and then enjoy a three-course meal.

Sunday includes breakfast and a special take home gift from the Essex Inn.
Package Price for 2 people (includes tax): Queen room $601, King Room $623, Small Suite $623, King Suite $660.

Space is very limited, please make your reservations as soon as possible!