West Coast Link

Mon 26 Feb 2024 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , , | Posted by: Gavin

Kelly is off to the west coast for 3 quick readings then one in Atlanta. If you go, please mask up! Info below or here.

List of events from Kelly's site


Kelly’s Book of Love Tour

Wed 7 Feb 2024 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , , | Posted by: Gavin

Kelly’s new (first!) novel, The Book of Love (reviewed today by Ron Charles in the WaPo) comes out next Tuesday and very appropriately she will be at Books Are Magic with Hilary Leichter in Brooklyn to launch it.

Since we don’t host readings at Book Moon, she’ll do a local reading (with Yvette Lisa Ndlovu) on Thursday with our friends over at the Odyssey in South Hadley, and then will do a drop-in signing at Book Moon on Saturday. The next week she’s off to the Harvard Bookstore and the B&N in Natick before a quick jaunt over to the West Coast. One extra day in Atlanta, then home.

Here’s a link to all the events — there will be a virtual event with Kathleen Jennings open to all hosted by Moon Palace on March 5 — and if you do manage to go, please do wear a mask.


Whee!

Tue 14 Aug 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , , | Posted by: Gavin

Alien Virus Love Disaster cover - click to view full sizeAnd off it goes! Today we are publishing a fantastic first book of stories, Alien Virus Love Disaster by Abbey Mei Otis. This book tore into our hearts and then knocked our heads off. This is contemporary fiction through an sf&f lens. Things drop out the sky, there are aliens, there are crappy jobs, there are families doing what it takes to not lose the family house. Booklist gave it a starred review (you can read that here), Everdeen Mason liked it (as per the Washington Post Book World), and Brit Mandelo just reviewed it (“It’s a collection that will keep your heart half in your throat and half in your toes, and I recommend it”) yesterday on Tor.com.

At AWP this March Abbey was part of a huge group reading with Juan Martinez and a number of Black Ocean and Third Man Books poets and writers at a bar in Tampa, FL, and she was amazing. Being a young and enthusiastic author Abbey is on tour starting tonight. Later in autumn she’ll be reading at Malaprop’s and then — if all goes well — Moon Palace in Minneapolis. Don’t miss her!

You can read 3 stories now:

The title story — as recommended by Dan Chaon — on Electric Lit’s Recommended Reading.
“Blood, Blood” on Strange Horizons.
“Sweetheart” on Tor.com.
Prefer print? Read “Rich People” in the new issue of Tin House.

So here’s your chance to catch an author at the start of it all. Get ye to a bookstore and see Abbey Mei Otis’s August 2018 Debut Tour

Tue., 8/14
7 p.m. reading & signing
Mac’s Backs-Books, 1820 Coventry Road, Cleveland Heights, OH 4411 · 216.321.2665 · Facebook

Wed. 8/15
7:30 p.m. reading & signing
Two Dollar Radio HQ, 1124 Parsons Ave., Columbus, OH 43206 · 614-725-1505 · Facebook
Thu 8/16
7 p.m. In conversation with Sam Krowchenko
Literati Bookstore, 124 E Washington, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 · 734.585.5567 · Facebook
Tues. 8/21
7 p.m. reading & signing
Scuppernong Books, 304 S. Elm St. Greensboro, NC 27401 · Facebook
Wed. 8/22
7 p.m. reading & signing
Flyleaf Books, 752 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd., Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Sun., 9/30
3 p.m. In conversation with Nathan Ballingrud
Malaprop’s, 55 Haywood St., Asheville, NC 28801