Young author presents first novel to President, Prime Minister

Ashley Anthony, daughter of Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport Dr. Frank Anthony and National Aids Programme Secretariat (NAPS) Director Dr. Shanti Singh presented a copy of the first book she authored to President Donald Ramotar and Prime Minister Samuel Hinds today.

Ashley Anthony presenting her first novel “Mysterious

Association and the Virtu Gems” to President Donald

Ramotar

The book entitled “Mysterious Association and the Virtu Gems” tells the tale of a scientist who was lost in a virtual world after a deliberate explosion at his laboratory to avert an invasion.

Ashley Anthony presents her novel to President Donald

Ramotar in the presence of her sister Jessica Anthony

and parents Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport Dr. Frank

Anthony and National Aids Programme Secretariat (NAPS)

Director Dr. Shanti Singh

The explosion, according to the novel, scattered virtual gems around the world including the Iwokrama forest in Guyana where a child attained special powers after coming into contact with the gem. Two other children in South Africa and England where gems had scattered had similar encounters.

The story goes on to say that a special agent who discovered the children assigned them on a mission to rescue the scientist from the virtual world in which he was trapped.

Ashley Anthony, presents her novel to Prime Minister Samuel Hinds in the presence of her sister Jessica Anthony and parents Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport Dr. Frank Anthony and National Aids Programme Secretariat (NAPS) Director Dr. Shanti Singh

Ashley Anthony started writing the book at age 10 and completed the process two years after. With the help of an English editor who is the nephew of renowned author Dr. David Dabydeen, the book was published.

Ashley is in the process of writing another novel.