Announcing the Publish This Book One Beer YouTube Contest. Submit the best YouTube ad/teaser/promotional video about Stephen Markley’s premature memoir and he will drive anywhere in the continental United States or Canada to buy you a beer (plus $100). Get more details here.
Thursday, Dec. 9 - Tufts University, Boston
Time and place TBA
Thursday, Dec. 16 - In the Flesh Erotic Reading Series
Happy Ending Lounge, 302 Broome St. New York City
Pittsburgh, PA - July 17
Borders at 2 pm… 5986 Penn Cir S
Stonecoast Writer’s Conference, University of Southern Maine - July 22
Time and location TBA
Portsmouth, NH - July 27
Riverrun Bookstore at 7 pm… 20 Congress S
Boston, MA - July 29
Porter Square Bookstore at 7 pm… 25 White St., Cambridge, MA
Markley will appear on a panel at Printer’s Row Lit Fest in Chicago on June 12 along with authors Billy Lombardo, Jim Kokoris, and Jacqueline Carey… 3:30 pm in the Burnham Room of the Hotel Blake.
He’ll also read at The Whistler in Chicago on June 27 at 7 pm… 2421 N. Milwaukee Ave.
March 26 - Reading at the Book Cellar, 4736 N. Lincoln Ave., Chicago. 7 pm.
March 29 - Miami University, Oxford, Ohio (time and place TBA)
March 31 - Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio. Reading at Kenyon Bookstore 7 pm.
April 1 - Paragraphs Bookstore, Mount Vernon, Ohio. Singing at 6 pm.
April 7 - Signing at Barnes & Noble at 1 East Jackson Blvd. 6 pm.
April 15 - Signing at Borders at Clark and Diversey, Chicago (time TBA)
You can pre-order a copy of “Publish This Book” right now at Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble. Wal-Mart will pick it up soon, just so it can ban it from its shelves.
Chicago Reader Fiction Issue 2009: I Think the Company I’m Temping for May Be Masterminding a Plot for Global Domination
comes out in March 2010 and it’s going to be amazing. Read more about it here.