Charlie Ryan’s new novel, The Pullman Hilton, is a fast moving winter’s tale that centers on the escapades of seven youngsters as they seek adventure and encounter mystery and the unknown during a Depression-era Christmas.

 Editor-at-large Pat Conroy joins local Story River Books authors for a literary summit at USCB.

Ever wonder what it would be like to sit in an audience with an iconic public figure and a group of peers participating in a panel discussion, every word spoken by the panel shaping the views of its listeners? Such a narrative scene harkens straight from a clip in HBO’s first episode of The Newsroom when Jeff Daniel’s character ‘Will McAvoy’ rallies his best journalistic self to the surprise and adulation of the audience. The difference here? A lively discussion about works of fiction by South Carolinian authors on a stage with Pat Conroy.

Join New York Times best-selling author and Story River Books editor at large Pat Conroy on Monday, December 8 at 6 pm for a lively discussion with Beaufort writers John Warley (A Southern Girl), Bernie Schein (Famous all over Town), and Maggie Schein (Lost Cantos of the Ouroboros Caves: Expanded & Illustrated Edition) and artist Jonathan Hannah (Lost Cantos).