Macomber providing foreword to GCWA’s Hurricane Ian anthology
The Gulf Coast Writers Association Inc., Southwest Florida’s 28-year-old meeting ground for writers, editors and their associates, announced this week that Robert N. Macomber, well-known author of naval historical fiction, has written the foreword to its anthology of stories, poems and photos to be published this September recalling personal experiences during Hurricane Ian.
Macomber had to be evacuated after the hurricane exploded his Pine Island, Fla., home. He now lives elsewhere on the island.
Macomber says in the foreword: “In this collection of stories, you will read of that storm’s [Ian’s] profound effects on the people and places of this coast, told by those who endured it. I am proud to be part of this literary endeavor, for the heart of it is a powerful, vivid story about the better angels of human nature, which emerge when least expected and most needed.”
The book, “Storm Stories-Hurricane Ian,” will be available as a trade paperback and hard cover at local book stores, the gift shop at the Alliance for the Arts and the Alliance’s popular monthly Night Market, and Leoma Lovegrove’s Art Gallery in downtown Fort Myers. It also will be available in other Southwest Florida outlets, including Copperfish in Punta Gorda and Annette’s Book Nook on Fort Myers Beach. It will be obtainable online from Amazon.com in e-book, paperback and hard cover versions.
Pre-publication orders for the e-book on Amazon are now being accepted.
Hurricane Ian was the nation’s third costliest storm and Florida’s costliest, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center. It hit the Gulf Coast last September before continuing on a path of destruction through the state and up the Atlantic coast. Overall, 156 deaths in the United States, including 150 in Florida, are attributed to Ian.
The GCWA’s website is gulfwriters.org.