Cocos Hotel Hosts Award Winning Author and Actress Victoria Rowell

Victoria Rowell, best accepted as “Drucilla Winters” from the US soap opera “Young and the Restless”, captivated a appropriate affectionate book signing at Cocos Hotel during her appointment to Antigua to appear the 3rd Antigua and Barbuda International Literary Festival.

Miss Rowell was a featured columnist at the anniversary Literary Festival from November 7, 2008 area she batten on a amount of panels and apprehend from her new account “The Women Who Raised Me”. The best affairs account accustomed The African American Literary Award and two NAACP Image Award nominations in the arcane category, including Outstanding Literary Work/Debut Author. The book is aswell a New York Times Extended Bestseller and is on the best sellers account of the Boston Globe and Essence magazine.

Participants at the Festival anxious for added advice on her action for autograph this arresting book and gluttonous added insights on the art of cogent our belief and the accent of accepting them published, encouraged Ms. Rowell to host an ad-lib affair which was captivated at her hotel, Cocos.

Miss Rowell aggregate her affection of the accounting chat with locals and visitors to the Festival and encouraged ambitious writers to be amorous about cogent their story. “It is important to get your adventure out and to acquisition the conduct and adventuresomeness to write”, aggregate Miss Rowell.

A able added of theatre, primetime, daytime and affection films, Rowell is accepted about the apple for her assorted roles. She is an figure in daytime television as the angry Drucilla Winters on CBS's highly-rated daytime series, "The Young and the Restless." She has been nominated alert for a Daytime Emmy and awarded 12 NAACP Image Awards. She aswell co-starred in the CBS hit primetime television alternation “Diagnosis Murder” with Dick Van Dyke for eight seasons while accompanying continuing her role in daytime.

Other top writers abutting Miss Rowell at Cocos Hotel, including Esmerelda Santiago, an award-winning biographer and columnist and columnist of three memoirs. Her acclimation of her account Almost a Woman into a awful acclaimed blur for PBS Masterpiece Theatre: The American Collection won a George Foster Peabody Award. Her profiles and assessment pieces accept been appear in magazines like Sports Illustrated, Latina, House & Garden, and Good Housekeeping as able-bodied as in newspapers like The New York Times, The Boston Globe and El Nuevo Día. Completing the leash of authors was Roscoe Orman, able-bodied accepted abecedarian in the children’s continued active alternation Sesame Street, area he played the appearance Gordon for thirty two years. His beautifully crafted memoir, Sesame Street Dad: Evolution of an Actor traces a lifetime of performances, alternate by the contest and movements that ascertain the decades in between.

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