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Secret World event went really well
Last night, Jeremy T. Wilson and I did “A Beastly Reading” at Secret World Books in suburban Highland Park. It was a really fun event and the store has a few extra signed copies if you missed it. I read excerpts from three stories in Animal Husbandry: “Clarksdale,” “Seaweed and Salt,” and “Paying the Piper.” […]
Animal Husbandry signing at Secret World Books
Tonight is the suburban launch of Animal Husbandry at Secret World Books in Highland Park, right next door to my hometown of Deerfield. It’s a joint event with Jeremy Wilson for his enjoyable novel The Quail Who Wears the Shirt. We will both read from our books, do Q&A with the bookstore owner, and take […]
More praise for Votes of Confidence
With the 2024 election tomorrow, it’s a good time for a roundup of recent praise for Votes of Confidence: A Young Person’s Guide to American Elections. Here are a few examples. The Alameda County Library (which includes Oakland, California, briefly my home in 2024) included Votes in its election roundup of voting resources, Q&A, and […]
Foreword Reviews praises Civic Minded
I’ve been able to quote from it before now, but the November/December issue of Foreword Reviews has a full review of Civic Minded. The book came out on October 1 and has been gaining a lot of momentum lately, appearing on a lot of lists of best books for election season, which is really nice […]
“The Wampanoag” appears in The Brussels Review
My books have obviously taken most of my time and attention lately, but I also had three short stories accepted for fall 2024 publication and the first of those came out today in The Brussels Review. “The Wampanoag” is about two boys waiting to greet their older brother on his scheduled return from a trip […]
More nice accolades for the civics books
With the election coming up, both Votes of Confidence 3rd Edition and Civic Minded are getting some nice accolades. First, here’s a great downloadable Inspiring Future Voters guide put together by the American Library Association, ALA Booklist, and Association for Library Service to Children. It includes Votes of Confidence as one of its five recommended […]
Thank you to 57th Street Books
Last night was the in-person book launch for Civic Minded: What Everyone Should Know about the US Government at 57th Street Books in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood. We had a small but engaged crowd (6 p.m. is tough for people coming from the north side), and my friend David Nelson (get his book here) did […]
