Hi everyone!
I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday. I have several important updates for you this month.
Recently, I submitted the television treatment for The Able Archers to our producer and he is now interviewing potential show runners. Productions in Hollywood are backed up due to the recently concluded writers’ and actors’ strikes, but we are hopeful for progress on The Able Archers TV series in 2024.
I know it has been a long wait, but Koehler Books will publish the second book in The Able Archers collection—The Righteous Arrows—in April 2024. I will have more details about it, including pre-ordering information, in the coming weeks and months. Kevin Cattani and Ivan Levchenko are back dealing with new crises both geopolitical and personal. The irascible and irrepressible character from The Able Archers, the red-haired major, has a prominent role in The Righteous Arrows.
The latest word is that the new Netflix eight-part “Turning Point” documentary series on The Cold War
should air in February 2024, around the two-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. I will be featured in the episode on the 1983 nuclear war crisis. BBC TV’s “Spy Wars” series, hosted by the great actor Damien Lewis, is on track to air its episode on the Able Archer crisis in April 2024, which represents a delay from what I reported in my last newsletter. I think it will be worth the wait.
This fall is the 40th
anniversary of the 1983 Soviet nuclear crisis and I have been speaking quite a bit, including two presentations at my undergraduate alma mater, William and Mary. If you happen to be in the Sarasota, Florida area in December or February, please try to join me at one of the events listed below. You can contact me at brian@brianjmorra.com for more information.
Upcoming:
December 8, 11:45 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
Harvard Club of Sarasota Luncheon with Brian Morra
Speaking on The Able Archers
Michaels on East
1212 S East Ave
Sarasota, FL
Learn more & buy tickets
December 13, 1:00 p.m.
Book Talk & Signing
Selby Public Library
Geldbart Auditorium
1331 First Street
Sarasota, FL
2024
February 9 The Great Nuclear War Crisis of 1983 Ringling College OLLI Seminar Sarasota, FL
February 28 The Able Archers Lecture Private Event Grand Bahama Island
Remember you can order The Able Archers in all formats from Amazon or go to my website at brianjmorra.com for more information. The audiobook of The Able Archers has been a big hit, with the book’s first-person narration read by American and Russian actors. It is a great Christmas present—as are the other book formats, of course!
Thanks and Happy Holidays,
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