READERS RESPOND TO PAMELA GLASNER'S
DARK HISTORICAL NOVEL "FINDING EMMAUS"

October 8, 2009, Hartford, CT – Connecticut author Pamela Glasner’s first novel, Finding Emmaus, book one of The Lodestarre Series, was released on October 1, 2009.

The psychiatric community has confused Empathic personality traits and mental illness with tragic results for centuries, leading two Empaths – Francis Nettleton and Katherine Spencer – who live three hundred years apart, on personal journeys to learn the true nature of Empathy, misdiagnosis and a multimillion dollar pharmaceutical industry conspiracy.

“Finding Emmaus presented me with a reader’s most agonizing predicament: torn between reading each page carefully for the nuggets the research disclosed and wanting to gallop ahead to find out what happens next. That is the storyteller's mission ever since we gathered around fires to keep sabre-tooth tigers at bay.
A work can be exquisitely written, fraught with symbolic meaning, and if I don't care what happens to the characters, it's a failure. Based on that yardstick, Finding Emmaus is a resounding success.”
~ Burt Kempner, Filmmaker

“The author has given readers a wild journey with Francis and Katherine. She provides historical data, romance, mystery and an insight into how we as a society now, and in the past, truly view those individuals who have been labeled with mental illness.”
~ Carol Hoyer, PhD, for Reader Views

“This is a first novel from an extraordinarily talented woman whose voice is one we all need. This is new fiction at its best, full of realism, magic, and thought-provoking ideas to make us think hard about our world. It will launch you into a narrative you will not want to leave. Finding Emmaus interweaves history, philosophy, medicine, and some of the greatest forces in human life. One of the best I’ve read in a long time!”
~ Tom V. Morris, PhD, former professor, Notre Dame, and author, “If Harry Potter Ran General Electric”

“Pamela Glasner leads us into a strange, dark, intricate world where her own glowing writing provides the only path out.”
~ Howard Kurtz, staff writer, The Washington Post

“Captivated by the very first sentence, I now find myself suspended, awaiting the continuation of my journey through the profoundly complicated world created by Pamela Glasner.”
~ Mark Hundley, Speaker, Author, Psychotherapist

“An INCREDIBLE author and motivational leader”
~ Geoff Hampton, Internationally known Wellness/Fitness Author, Speaker, and Consultant

Ms. Glasner is managed byPublicist, Deborah Riley-Magnus. Finding Emmaus is published by Emerald Book Company, an imprint of Greenleaf Book Group.  The book is available at several locations in the US and UK, and may be ordered online, click here.

Ms. Glasner’s current speaking engagements and appearances include the following:

Oct. 8               Book Launch Party - Wallingford, CT                                      
Oct. 13             Rotary Club speaking engagement - Rocky Hill, CT
Nov. 14            Booklover’s Gourmet – book signing and speaking engagement - Webster, MA
Nov. 15           Essex Books - book signing and speaking engagement - Essex, CT

TBA    “So Many Books” with Toni Andrews, Connecticut public television covering seven states.