https://www.janecallen.ca/home daily 1.0 2024-02-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb886881cc2f94ce78abc42/6459c4da-de06-424e-9d68-cc9850951841/Jane+Callen+website+photo+feb+2022.jpg Home Photo credit: Anita Lee https://www.janecallen.ca/novel daily 0.75 2024-02-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb886881cc2f94ce78abc42/85ef29a2-549a-470c-910d-28455bc9f796/BECOVER.jpg Novel Albert Einstein noted that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only changed from one form to another. Kat, a middle-aged marketing executive from Vancouver, ponders the truth behind Einstein’s law as she tours the antiquities of Italy. In Pompeii, volcanic ash remains in the shape of a woman bear witness to her futile escape of the rage of Mount Vesuvius. Kat, a widow with blood on her hands, contemplates the ancient woman’s destiny and her own. To escape the consequences of past choices, Kat abandons her travel companion and sometime accomplice. She links up instead with Franco, a street artist painting in the Roman twilight near Bernini’s sculpture of an elephant. Becoming Franco’s patron is the easy part. Kat learns that Einstein’s theory holds in everyday life. She cannot escape past decisions. Murder undetected remains murder after all. Fiction | LITERARY THRILLER PUB. DATE: May 1st, 2023 SIZE: 9 x 6 PAGES: 254 PRICE: $25.00 CAD / $ 21.95 US ISBN: 978-1-77183-784-2 AVAILABLE FROM Guernica Editions, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Chapters/Indigo, Booktopia. 2024 EVENTS February 12, 2024 Writers Radio Podcast - LISTEN NOW! Murder. Art. Love: The Transformation of Kat in Bernini's Elephant, an interview with author Jane Callen. February 23, 2024 7pm Café Calabria 1745 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, Canada Face-to-face book club meet with the author. April 22, 2024 Il Giardino Segreto Area Verde Camollia 85, Siena, Italy Jane will explore her experience as an author in contemporary Canada. May 16, 2024 SpaZio Pontano Centro Culturale Via Giovanni Potano 35, Milan, Italy A bilingual reading with the help of friends. June 25, 6:30 pm Vancouver Public Library 350 West Georgia, Vancouver, Canada Writers Showcase, Jane joins fellow authors to read and answer audience questions. PAST EVENTS June 27, 2023 Writers Showcase Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver, Canada June 8, 2023 Books and Biscotti Italian Cultural Centre, Vancouver, Canada May 28, 2023 Guernica Editions Book Launch, Toronto, Canada May 4, 2023 6pm “Il Maggio dei Libri 2023”, San Gimignano, Italy INTERVIEWS & REVIEWS “Bernini’s Elephant”, a noir set in beautiful Italy: interview with the author Jane Callen “Bernini’s Elephant”, un noir ambientato nella bella Italia: intervista all'autrice Jane Callen | Corriere Canadese The Artisanal Writer, Lucy Black’s interview with author Jane Callen ”Since 2011 I had travelled each September to Italy, a country I have come to love. An unframed painting recently purchased from a street artist in Rome was leaning on a shelf in my bookcase. I walked over to it and asked Bernini’s elephant, do you want to be Kat’s next adventure? The story took off from there." - Jane Callen Goodreads Review by Lucy Black “Bernini’s Elephant by Jane Callen is an impressive debut novel. Kat is a recently-widowed Canadian, who travels to Italy, where she discovers Franco, a young Italian painter. Kat decides to become his patron and brings Franco to Vancouver. [read full review] Goodreads Review by Caitlin Hicks “Against a backdrop of Italian buildings and ruins, lagoons, canals, islands and descriptions of the best Italy has to offer, a traditional-yet-modern, a distant-yet-mysterious story emerges. 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