Sarasota novelist and professor of law emeritus Michael Polelle will discuss “The Importance of Setting in a Novel: One Author’s Experience.” He’s speaking at the monthly meeting of Sarasota Fiction Writers, Selby Library, 1331 First St., Sarasota, Tuesday, Nov. 5, beginning at 6 pm, second floor conference room. Visitors always welcome free of charge.
“I’ll discuss my background briefly and how I came to write The Mithras Conspiracy. I plan to focus on the general theory of setting and then apply it to my novel,” he said. “My career began as a civil trial lawyer in Chicago but most of it was spent as a tenured professor of law at DePaul College of Law and John Marshall Law School, both in Chicago. In August 2019 the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) legally merged with John Marshall Law School, now known as UIC John Marshall Law School and a part of the University of Illinois system,” he said.
“While at John Marshall Law School I worked on the craft of fiction-writing by attending, among others, the Writer’s Loft and a summer workshop at the University of Iowa. After my retirement eight years ago, we moved to Sarasota full time where I planned my second act of becoming a writer. I took a writing seminar for several semesters at Lifetime Learning on the USF Sarasota-Manatee campus. I published The Mithras Conspiracy in March 2019 on Amazon and IngramSpark.”
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