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April 16, 2008
Media Glutton April 16, 2008 and others
OK, well, I was lazy last week and didn't actually post the links to my blog entries, even though I wrote them. Lame of me, I know. So here's the new Media Glutton:
This past weekend I went up to New York City to do some readings and help promote my Geek Mafia and Geek Mafia: Mile Zero at the NY Anarchist Book Fair. It was a pretty interesting experience all things considered. I did two events at the wonderful Blue Stockings Books, a collectively run radical book store that is a great locus for reading, activism, and hanging out. I had a reading there Friday night which was, well, not packed. Still, it was fun. Then the next night wa part of a group salon of authors and artists and we had the place filled to the gills, which was awesome. I had a great time ad encourage anyone in NY to stop by the store and see what other events they've got coming up - they're always doing something cool.
The book fair itself was a little smaller than the one in San Francisco, but it's only in it's second year. The room got to sauna-levels of heat and humidity by the afternoon, but the location across the street from Washington Square was nice and let me slip out and get some air (and delicious street food) pretty much at will. Again, I was almost the only novel there and I'm not sure the attendees come looking for much in the way of fiction. I didn't do a reading or presentation this time, so without that to drive some interest there wasn't a whole lot. There was one other novelist there that I saw, but he was giving away copies of his book. I talked to him for a while and was surprised to find he'd printed up 10,000 copies and had been giving them away for a while now. It wasn't even really a marketing gimmick as far as I could tell - he just wanted to get his story out there. I'm sad to say the story didn't grab me at all as I tried to get through it that afternoon, but I admire his mad devotion to his art.
And Here's Last Week's Future Compliant
Posted by rdakan at April 16, 2008 01:58 PM