Actor Kevin Costner to rap about new book at the Press Club, Oct. 23

Oscar–winning director and actor Kevin Costner, best known for his leading roles in movies including “Field of Dreams”, “The Untouchables” and “Dances With Wolves”, plans to speak about his new book The Explorers Guild: Volume One: A Passage to Shambhala on Friday, Oct. 23 at noon at the National Press Club's conference rooms.

The event includes an author discussion, question-and-answer period, and book signing. Tickets are $5 for Press Club members and $10 for the public. Click here to register.

The Book Rap is a fundraiser for the non-profit National Press Club Journalism Institute, so no outside books or memorabilia are permitted. Books must be purchased through the Press Club. All sales are final and no refunds are issued.

Costner won two Academy Awards for directing and producing “Dancing With Wolves” and an Emmy, a Golden Globe, and a Screen Actors Guild award for his starring role in “Hatfields & McCoys”.
The Explorers Guild is his first book, after signing a contract with Jon Baird and Rick Ross to write it in 2012. Baird and Ross are planning on joining Costner at the Book Rap.

Baird is the author/illustrator of the novels Day Job and Songs from Nowhere Near the Heart. He is a co-developer, with Kevin Costner, of a Western miniseries called “Horizon”.

Ross is an artist and filmmaker who illustrated the Image Comics series Urban Monsters. He was the lead artist for the graphic novelization of Spike TV’s 1000 Ways to Die, and he has created artwork for animated-motion comics, including for the Cinemax television series “Femme Fatales”. He publishes the online graphic fiction anthology Agitainment Comics.

The Explorers Guild is a fictional adventure tale about a clandestine group that journeys to discover mysteries that lie beyond the boundaries of the known world. It’s set against the backdrop of World War I and is the first installment in a series.

A Passage to Shambhala is the Adventure Guild’s first quest to find the golden city of Buddhist myth. They embark on a search that leads them from Polar Regions in a globe-spanning journey through Mongolian deserts and the Himalayas.