My colorful presentations of The Sceptre have delighted groups in states all up and down the Eastern seaboard. At book events related to The Sceptre , I wear an Austrian costume and Keltic jewelry. I show large posterboards with photos of people, places, and objects in the book, use Austrian and Gaelic background music, and distribute free material about the book, about its background in Austrian history, about Keltic prehistory's place in the story, and even about Austrian cooking.
Listeners receive free Austrian dinner menus and recipes as well as free souvenir pens.
Go back to the page describing Austrian Food in The Sceptre . For literary groups, book clubs, and college classes I have also prepared free plot outlines, study questions, and character lists. The Plot Outline, a thirteen-page document, explains the events of each chapter and is handy for readers who like to check back to recall an event or learn whether they have correctly grasped the meaning of an event they've read about. The Cast of Characters is ten pages long and lists all the characters in each section of the book, in the order in which they appear, explaining briefly who they are. The third document, Study Questions, contains twenty-five discussion questions helpful for group leaders.