Elk Lake Publishing, Inc. is proud to announce the launch of its latest release, Easton at the Forks: A Novel, by multi-published author Rebecca Price Janney. Written in the tradition of Jan Karon’s beloved Mitford series, Easton at the Forks is a heart-warming story featuring two characters two centuries apart in the winsome city that has been undergoing a resurgence in recent years. Publication of the novel promises to push Easton’s renown beyond the Keystone State toward more national exposure.
According to Mayor Sal Panto, “In her book, Easton at the Forks, Rebecca Price Janney captures a story that is both historical and entertaining as her main character, Erin, strives to learn everything about her ancestral family lineage. Rebecca takes you from the present quest to search the family tree back to the 18th century with actual happenings of Erin’s ancestor’s role in the establishment of this great country we call America. The book is thoroughly enjoyable reading and presents an interesting format between then and now.”
Easton is a charming city at the forks of Delaware and Lehigh Rivers, a place author Janney’s family has known as “home” since the city’s founding in 1752.
In Easton at the Forks, both Peter Kichline and Erin Miles are trying to make sense of life after losing their spouses. As Sheriff of Northampton County, Pennsylvania, he’s on the trail of an elusive thief, finding that challenge much easier to deal with than running a household, although several Easton ladies are more than a little willing to help—which poses its own challenges.
Erin doesn’t have her work to turn anymore to after being denied a promotion she counted on, nor has she been close to her family since leaving Easton after college. When she stumbles upon a TV show about ancestry, Erin’s inspired to search her own mysterious roots. Discovering Peter Kichline completely changes her life, even as she starts drawing closer to the family and the place she only thought she knew.
About the Author
For Rebecca Price Janney, who grew up in the Easton area, Easton at the Forks is her 19th published book. She first began writing professionally at the age of 14 and by the next year she was covering the Philadelphia Phillies for a local newspaper. Throughout high school she covered other professional sports as well as politics—which she also considers a kind of contact sport—and had her first magazine article published in Seventeen during her senior year of high school, the same year Seventeen and the Columbia Scholastic Press Association named her a runner-up in their teen-of-the-year contest. A lifelong history buff, she majored in that subject at Lafayette College and Princeton Seminary, then earned her doctorate, focusing on the role of women in American society throughout the centuries, from Biblical Seminary. She’s taught history at several Philadelphia area colleges and universities.
Rebecca, who’s earned many writing awards and written hundreds of articles for newspapers and magazines, had her first book published in the mid-90s. Easton at the Forks is her first novel for an adult audience. A member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, she is a popular speaker at DAR venues, civic organizations, historical societies, schools, libraries, churches, and synagogues, and has promoted her books on TV and radio. She and her husband and young son live in the Philadelphia suburbs.
For more information about Easton at the Forks, please visit www.elklakepublishinginc.com or contact Deb Haggerty at 508.746.1734 or Deb @ElkLakePublishingInc.com. To schedule an interview or personal appearance, contact Rebecca Price Janney at rebeccapricejanney@gmail.com or through her website, www.rebeccapricejanney.com.
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Deb Haggerty
Publisher & Editor-in-Chief, Elk Lake Publishing, Inc
Deb.Haggerty@ElkLakePublishing.com
