Co-authors of A Bloodstained Hammer host book signing Saturday
By Nelson Daily Staff
Local writer Brian T. Seifrit of Fruitvale has joined forces with 100 Mile House author Alison Townsend MacNicol to bring to life events from the late 1950s in A Bloodstained Hammer.
Both MacNicol and Seifrit will be at the Waneta Plaza Mall in Trail for a book signing Saturday (June 22) from 1-4 p.m.
The authors are tossing out the welcome mat for readers that want their book signed or purchase one of the exciting readers.
This is a work of fiction that is based on the actual events that occurred in the Kootenay District of British Columbia, Canada in 1959 and subsequent years.
It describes the routine work of a hog farmer and his hired hand and describes how the hired hand’s crimes affected the Townsends for the rest of their lives.
Based on the actual events that affected the Townsend family, the story captures the rough speech of the uneducated farm hand and his more educated boss.
After living with the Townsends for almost a year, after a night of drinking, the hired man attacked and killed Mrs. Townsend and her eight-year-old daughter.
He fled the scene but was arrested after taking a ferry across a lake near Nelson, BC.
The last part of the story shows the impact that these events had on the Townsend family. It emphasizes how the Canadian Justice System failed to punish the hired hand because of his manipulative abilities.
The authors have changed the first names of the Townsends and the last name of the hired hand in this fictional account.
Alison Townsend MacNicol is a daughter of the union of the hog farmer and his second wife.
MacNicol works at a full-time job as Supervisor of a retail operation, is a housewife and mother and somehow found the time, along with Seifrit, an accomplished author with six books previously published, to write this story.
For more information visit Brian’s website at: www.booksbybriant.com
