A signing event and a giveaway
Join me and Jen Conley on 5/28, and a chance to win a new anthology
I received my lovely contributor’s copies of Low Down Dirty Vote volume 3 in the mail, and I will say the opening a box of books with stuff I wrote in inside it never loses its luster. This one’s especially nice because while it is a charity anthology for a cause, supporting Democracy Docket, an organization that works to protect voting rights, they already have the money. Mysti Berry and those behind the book have donated $10,000 to the cause.
That’s pretty awesome, as we say here in the perpetual late ‘70s.1 So I have no qualms about giving away one of my copies to a lucky subscriber. They will be randomly chosen from the paid subscriber list on my birthday, June 9th. So if you’ve been considering becoming a full-fledged subscriber and supporting my writing here, that’s another bonus. You still get access to my growing online story archive, you get to read The Pine Bairn adventures a week before the free subscribers, and you get that warm fuzzy feeling, like a sip of the finest aqua vitae, from being a patron of The Arts.2
You can subscribe with a seven-day preview here. I’ll draw a wiener on June 9th.
If you’d like to see me and Jen Conley, at my first book event of the Pandemic Era, we’ll have a table outside Second Time Books in Mt. Laurel on Saturday, May 28th, from 10am until 12:30pm. Jen is the author of Seven Ways to Get Rid of Harry, an ‘80s middle-grade novel about a kid warring with his jerky abusive stepfather, and I love it. She also wrote Cannibals and Other Stories from the Edge of the Pine Barrens, and guess what? We’ll be at the edge of them Pines!
If you want to make a day of it, you can spend hours exploring Second Time Books, which has a fantastic section of history, horror, fantasy, science fiction, literary treasures, and more. Seriously, they have dollar books and a signed copy of Wind, Sand, and Stars by Antoine de St. Exupéry. And they are nestled in the Rancocas Woods craft shops, with Made & Found, the Rancocas Woods Craft Co-Op, the Green Cat Cafe, and more. Nearby is the Timbuctoo cemetery, which I’ve written about, and Rancocas State Park, which has many lovely trails along Rancocas Creek, and a creepy, abandoned ranger’s cabin known as “Mister Wilkie’s.” Pick up signed copies of our books, get a bagel at Victoria’s or shawarma at Aziza’s, and enjoy.
That’s where I live now, in a idyllic childhood paradise before Reagan became President and my Huffy Bandit BMX bike was stolen.
And the farts, as you help me buy pizza with ridiculous toppings.
A signing event and a giveaway
Super awesome.