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05-23-07, - 11:27 AM
Bahamian writer launches latest novel
http://www.thenassauguardian.com/social_community/310365341552255.php
By Staff Writer, Nassau Guardian
With the publication and impending launch of his second novel, "Everything Comes Around", Bahamian banker and attorney Shawn A. Forbes is adding yet another notch to his belt of literary achievement. Two years after the publication of his debut novel, "When Worlds Collide", "Everything Comes Around" will be formally launched in Nassau on May 25 with a gala cocktail reception and book signing at the British Colonial Hilton Hotel in Nassau.
However, the book is already available for purchase through the publisher's website at www.trafford.com, or through www.amazon.com and www.bn.com (the Barnes and Noble website). Like his first book, which is available for sale in local book stores, Forbes is hoping that "Everything Comes Around" will soon be available locally.
For further information, Forbes may be contacted by e-mail at shawn@shawnforbes.com.
Set principally in Atlanta and Los Angeles (with a Bahamian twist!), the work of fiction follows the intertwining lives of Geoffrey Parks, a professional basketball player and superstar; Caroline Hicks, a hungry journalist with skeletons in her closet and Jason Dash, a charismatic Atlanta attorney with secrets of his own.
Geoff Parks has it all: good looks, money beyond belief and a stellar career as a professional basketball player. He is a one-man-dynasty in the making and everyone wants a piece of him. He is the toast of Madison Avenue and the man everyone wants to know until Caroline Hicks sets her sights on him and breaks a story that threatens to bring his world crashing down in disgrace.
Caroline Hicks has spent her whole life running away- from physical, sexual and emotional abuse, from love and from herself. She is equal parts victim and vixen. Her thirst for the big time catapults her into the orbit of the beloved and phenomenally-talented Geoff Parks. Almost overnight, she goes from an unknown wanna-be journalist to the toast of the Atlanta news world, after she breaks a story that turns Geoff Parks' world upside down. But in the process, she forgets to deal with the skeletons in her own closet ... the walls of which are torn down by a single telephone call.
Jason Dash is the man every other man wants to be: Handsome, smart and personable- with the body of a Greek god. He is on the fast track to the big time after he becomes a partner of one of Atlanta's largest and oldest law firms- until his reckless and self-destructive behavior put his career in jeopardy.
Forbes promises that "Everything Comes Around" is a fast-paced, page-turning thrill of a ride that has it all: Sex, subterfuge and nail-biting suspense. At the same time, Forbes says that he explores some of the most pressing social issues of our time in a sensitive, humorous, irreverent, but ultimately touching manner that he hopes will leave the reader cheering breathlessly.
Forbes is a 1983 graduate of St. Anne's High School in Nassau. He is also a graduate of the Armband Hammer United World College of the American West in Montezuma, New Mexico (where he obtained an International Baccalaureate Diploma) and a graduate of the University of Manchester, England (where he obtained a Bachelor of Laws Degree, with Honors).
He was admitted to the Bar of England and Wales, at the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, in London, in July, 1992 and to the Bahamas Bar in August of that same year. He has worked as a litigation attorney, trust officer and served as an Assistant Registrar of Bahamian ships with The Bahamas Maritime Authority in London. Currently, he is a Senior Vice President of the Nassau subsidiary of a Geneva-based private bank, with responsibility for the bank's legal department.
http://www.thenassauguardian.com/social_community/310365341552255.php
By Staff Writer, Nassau Guardian
With the publication and impending launch of his second novel, "Everything Comes Around", Bahamian banker and attorney Shawn A. Forbes is adding yet another notch to his belt of literary achievement. Two years after the publication of his debut novel, "When Worlds Collide", "Everything Comes Around" will be formally launched in Nassau on May 25 with a gala cocktail reception and book signing at the British Colonial Hilton Hotel in Nassau.
However, the book is already available for purchase through the publisher's website at www.trafford.com, or through www.amazon.com and www.bn.com (the Barnes and Noble website). Like his first book, which is available for sale in local book stores, Forbes is hoping that "Everything Comes Around" will soon be available locally.
For further information, Forbes may be contacted by e-mail at shawn@shawnforbes.com.
Set principally in Atlanta and Los Angeles (with a Bahamian twist!), the work of fiction follows the intertwining lives of Geoffrey Parks, a professional basketball player and superstar; Caroline Hicks, a hungry journalist with skeletons in her closet and Jason Dash, a charismatic Atlanta attorney with secrets of his own.
Geoff Parks has it all: good looks, money beyond belief and a stellar career as a professional basketball player. He is a one-man-dynasty in the making and everyone wants a piece of him. He is the toast of Madison Avenue and the man everyone wants to know until Caroline Hicks sets her sights on him and breaks a story that threatens to bring his world crashing down in disgrace.
Caroline Hicks has spent her whole life running away- from physical, sexual and emotional abuse, from love and from herself. She is equal parts victim and vixen. Her thirst for the big time catapults her into the orbit of the beloved and phenomenally-talented Geoff Parks. Almost overnight, she goes from an unknown wanna-be journalist to the toast of the Atlanta news world, after she breaks a story that turns Geoff Parks' world upside down. But in the process, she forgets to deal with the skeletons in her own closet ... the walls of which are torn down by a single telephone call.
Jason Dash is the man every other man wants to be: Handsome, smart and personable- with the body of a Greek god. He is on the fast track to the big time after he becomes a partner of one of Atlanta's largest and oldest law firms- until his reckless and self-destructive behavior put his career in jeopardy.
Forbes promises that "Everything Comes Around" is a fast-paced, page-turning thrill of a ride that has it all: Sex, subterfuge and nail-biting suspense. At the same time, Forbes says that he explores some of the most pressing social issues of our time in a sensitive, humorous, irreverent, but ultimately touching manner that he hopes will leave the reader cheering breathlessly.
Forbes is a 1983 graduate of St. Anne's High School in Nassau. He is also a graduate of the Armband Hammer United World College of the American West in Montezuma, New Mexico (where he obtained an International Baccalaureate Diploma) and a graduate of the University of Manchester, England (where he obtained a Bachelor of Laws Degree, with Honors).
He was admitted to the Bar of England and Wales, at the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, in London, in July, 1992 and to the Bahamas Bar in August of that same year. He has worked as a litigation attorney, trust officer and served as an Assistant Registrar of Bahamian ships with The Bahamas Maritime Authority in London. Currently, he is a Senior Vice President of the Nassau subsidiary of a Geneva-based private bank, with responsibility for the bank's legal department.