Christie Nelson

She will publish her third novel, Beautiful Illusion, San Francisco’s Golden Gate International Exposition, Treasure Island 1939 with She Writes Press in May of 2018. Beautiful Illusion is a story of love and deception, intrigue and betrayal, between a female newspaper reporter, a Japanese diplomat, and a Mayan art scholar. It is also the story of the men and women who built San Francisco’s last world’s fair dedicated to peace and brotherhood in the Pacific, of a city within a city, of grandeur and pageantry, glamour and glitz, on the eve of World War II.