Starting this fall I want to focus on more in-person work and events. After ten years of focusing heavily on blogging and social media, I feel drawn to a more IRL existence.
More on that later (maybe). For now I want to talk about the kickoff to my real-world fall and winter.
It’s a hometown show!
I’m so excited to do this event. Frenchtown is right across the river from where I grew up, in Tinicum Township in Upper Bucks County, PA. It’s in the heart of the Delaware river towns area that inspired the setting for She’s Not Home. Doing a She’s Not Home event there feels like a homecoming for both me and Mariana.
She’s Not Home is in many ways a love letter to my hometown: the complexity of growing up in a beautiful place, having to leave it, loving it through the heartbreaks it deals you. The setting feels like a character in this story.
You see, then, why I’ve been angling to do a book event there. I want my hometown friends and family to receive this book and the love it contains. I want to read its words aloud on the ground that gave them life.
Okay, enough about my hometown on the river. If you know anyone in Bucks County, PA, or in central New Jersey, please share this event with them! I don’t know when I’ll be back, so I want to make sure everyone gets the word.
Also, Frenchtown is asking folks to preorder the book ahead of time. Do that now to ensure you’ll have a copy waiting for you on the night of the event.
I’m working on more IRL appearances in other towns. For now I’m prioritizing places where I have existing connections, so if you want me to come see you and your favorite bookstore, please let me know. I’d love to visit your haunts, too.
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