I’ve been meaning to tell everyone this for several weeks, so…
My book signing at the main branch of the Noble County Public Library in Albion, Indiana, has been rescheduled for March 14 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm. Mark your calendars, and come pay me a visit! Oh, and I’ll be selling and signing copies of Pandora’s Box, too. FYI: The books will be sold at discounted prices!
I just discovered that Tomislav Tikulin, the artist who painted the cover of my novel, Pandora’s Box, has a website. It features many of his prints, including the one for my book’s cover, and all of them are excellent. Please check out his website here.
Unfortunately, my novel, Pandora’s Box, did not make it into the top ten for the Alberta Readers’ Choice Award. However, Cinco de Mayo by Michael J. Martineck, which was published by Absolute XPress’ main imprint, Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy, did make it. He’s also, as far as I can tell, the only American author to make it through. Godspeed to him!
LAST MINUTE REMINDER: I’m having a book signing for Pandora’s Box today at the Peabody Public Library in Columbia City! It’ll be from 4pm-6pm. Be there, or be square!
I just read on the Absolute XPress blog that my novel, Pandora’s Box, is one of 30 books on the “long list” of nominees for the 2011 Alberta Readers’ Choice Award. According to its website, “The Alberta Readers’ Choice Award (ARC) is an annual award for adult fiction and narrative non-fiction titles. Narrative non-fiction is defined as a work of non-fiction which lends itself to a public reading.” The list of 30 will now be read by librarians throughout Alberta, Canada, and narrowed to 10 nominees. After that, from then until April, “noted Albertans” will read the 10 nominees and whittle them down to five. Then throughout May, online voting will be conducted to pick the winner from those five nominees. The award will be given June 11. The grand prize is $10,000.
Yes, you read that right–I have a one in 30 chance of winning ten-grand!
I will be sure to keep you updated on this.
It’s been a long time since I posted any new material on this website. It’s been mostly news these last few months. So I decided to post a poem. It’s entitled “Never Christmas.” I posted it because it will soon be Christmas, but I must tell you it is a sad poem at worst, or a melancholy one at best. I do hope you will appreciate it for what it is, perhaps even identify with it in some way.
You can read it below or click the title in the above paragraph. Pleas enjoy.
Due to nasty winter weather, my signing at the Noble County Public Library in Albion, Indiana, has been delayed once more. I am truly sorry. I will let you know when a new date has been selected as soon as it is decided.
Be sure to come out to my book signing today at the Kendallville Public Library in Kendallville, Indiana, from 3pm-5pm! I’ll see you there!
Due to me not ordering a new batch of books soon enough, I had to delay the Pandora’s Box signing at the Noble County Public Library on December 6. It will now be held December 13. Sorry about the inconvenience.
It’s been over a week, but I was interviewed by The News-Sun, a Noble County newspaper located in Kendallville, Indiana, and that interview was published in their weekend edition last week. You can read the piece online here (though you’ll have to log into the paper’s website to read it). The reporter, Bob Braley, I think has written the best interview I’ve had yet.