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The Witching Hour has announced two new Guest Speakers! Nancy Farmer and Rose Earhart. Registration is also now open!

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Date: May 3, 2004
RE: The Witching Hour announces special guests Nancy Farmer and Rose Earhart, and launches registration

The Witching Hour – the next Harry Potter symposium presented by HP Education Fanon, Inc. – is pleased to announce two new special guests: Nancy Farmer and Rose Earhart.

Nancy Farmer is the author of The Eye, the Ear and the Arm, A Girl Named Disaster, and The House of the Scorpion. She has won three Newbery Awards, a Michael L. Printz Award and the National Book Award for her work. Ms. Farmer will be sitting on From Scribbles to Autographs: A Writer’s Panel and Moral Twilight: When Absolutes Are Shadowed in Fantasy Literature with New York Times best-selling author Holly Black.

Rose Earhart has written several novels focusing on Historic Salem, including Dorcas Good, the Diary of Salem Witch and Salem’s Ghosts. Ms. Earhart is a historian of the Salem Witch Hysteria, and has also been a professional ballerina, actress and journalist. She lives in a haunted house on the Salem Common. Ms. Earhart will be presenting on Harry Potter and witchcraft, and will participate in Thinning the Veil, a discussion of death and the afterlife at the Hallowe’en Ball.

The Witching Hour is also thrilled to announce that it is accepting registrations for the conference and all special events. [www.witchinghour.org/registration] The first fifty registrants will receive a free t-shirt with a unique, never-to-be-used again design, so make sure to sign up today!