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Authors please send your  events, readings, and gigs information to Jackie Steelman at  XclusivlyU@aol.com

 
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Larry Joe Campbell‘s debut novel Remember That One Time? is available for preorder starting December 2. To celebrate and promote Larry’s second published book and first ever published novel, we are going on tour! The “I Wrote a Book! Tour” shows will include improv, musical numbers, and live performances of scenes from the novel, featuring the great Jaime Moyer, Nancy Hayden, and Rico Bruce Wade. California shows will feature Larry’s own wife Peggy Johns-Campbell and son Nathan Atticus Campbell.  Tour dates and ticket links can be found below! Book preorders will be available online at Finishinglinepress.com, and in person after each show.  See link below for ticket info:
  • December 12thSan Pedro CA at Port Town Brewery 
  • December 27th Muskegon MI at Frauenthal Performing Arts Center
  • December 29th Bloomfield Hills MI at The Berman Center
  • January 28th Chicago IL at Begyle Brewery
  • January 29th Frankfort MI at The Garden Theater
  • January 30thMt Pleasant MI at Sleepy Dog Books/                                       
A mostly comprehensive look at Larry Joe Campbell‘s past acting, directing, and production roles in film and television can be found on IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0132660/
Larry is also known for his comedic, dramatic, theatrical, and improvisational acting as a Second City Detroit and 313 Improv alumnus and member of Jim Belushi’s Board of Comedy.
 
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Carol Shamon events: / Stronger Than Salmon
Here are some upcoming events/readings I have scheduled for 2025.
 
1) City of San Diego reception for local authors. See flyer below. 1-31-25
 
2) Reading of Stronger Than Salmon at Poets INC on 2/2/25 located in the Escondido Arts Partnership Gallery.
 
3) I’ll be attending The San Miguel Writers’ Conference from 2/12/25 – 2/16/25 where I’ll be participating in readings and my book will be for sale in the conference bookstore. They have outdone themselves this year with the keynote speaker being John Irving and other speakers including the 2024 bestselling authors of Martyr and James!
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COME TO A POETRY READING AND CRAFT TALK TOMORROW!
 

Writers.com is hosting a free, online reading with me, Brookes Moody, tomorrow night, Wednesday, January 8 at 7pm EST. I will be reading from my forthcoming poetry collection, Astral Weeks, Etc. being published by Finishing Line Press on March 14. The reading will include a craft talk and conclude with a Q&A. RSVP here to get the Zoom link.

SALE PERIOD FOR ASTRAL WEEKS, ECT. ENDS ON JANUARY 17
 
 
 

Astral Weeks, Etc. is on SALE from now until January 17, 2025 as part of Finishing Line Press’s pre-order promotion. If you haven’t place your pre-order ahead of the March 14, 2025 publication date, do so now to secure this discounted price! To learn more, about the book, read the press release here.
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BOOK ME FOR AN AUTHOR EVENT

I am available to participate in poetry readings, panel discussions, book signings, or to lead writing workshops. This includes virtual events! If you would like me to visit your local bookstore, art center, or school during my book tour of Astral Weeks, Etc. in the spring or fall of 2025, please contact me or follow me on Instagram @brookes.moody for event announcements.

You can also RSVP here to register for my free, online reading and craft talk with Writers.com tomorrow, January 8th at 7pm EST.
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1. Buy your friend’s book! It’s even better if you pre-order it!

2. Read the book and leave a thoughtful on platforms like Amazon, Goodreads, or on the publisher’s website.

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WHY PRE-ORDER A BOOK BEFORE ITS RELEASE?
  • While the book will be published on March 14, pre-orders indicate consumer interest in a book and in turn, confidence in the writer from the publisher!
  • When you pre-order a book, it shows bookstores that people want this book, which makes them typically stock more copies of the book, which of course means more people see it and buy it.
  • Pre-orders can help determine the royalty percentage rate for the author. 
  • Take advantage of the pre-order sale and save! Astral Weeks, Etc. is on SALE from now until January 17. If you pre-order now, you will have a guarantee on the sale price.
 
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AN EXCERPT FROM ASTRAL WEEKS, ETC.
 

Quantum Decoherence

Tom Petty is unreliable

as a narrator. Do we really

believe he doesn’t miss her?

Through the butterscotch

scented Jeffrey Pines,

I glide up Coldwater Canyon

to Mulholland thanks

to the uninterrupted ease

of my continuously variable transmission,

its conical ingenuity—a wonder,

second only to the Bluetooth

conducting quanta in airwaves

or ether—mechanized

music of the spheres.

A physicist will tell you

the moon itself is in free fall:

a predictable trajectory

that reads like a mixed metaphor.

I thought the Valley was a thirsty place,

burnt from a lack of ozone and condescension

from shadier zip codes with bay figs and kumquats,

but here I really drive west down Ventura Boulevard,

the trumpet trees in their Barbie pink

reminding me of cherry blossoms, of northeast springs,

that the address on my licenses has never matched

the address on my lease, that quantum mechanics

can unambiguously tell you where a body will be—

or at least the probability where it will be

and maybe even then, a little off to the side.

Heisenberg thought nothing exists in space

until you look at it. Was I only visiting

this mythology until I rode my brake down

the backside of the Canyon, seeing the vapor

that had risen off the Pacific and got trapped

in the puckered folds of the mountains?

What a pity they call this smog.

Further south, bells are ringing

for the return of the swallows.

It’s a reminder that migration

also means to come back home.
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Susan Jaret McKinstry will read from her chapbook Tumblehome on January 23d at The Book Store in Appleton, Wisconsin from 5-6:30 p.m. with Northfield poet Leslie Schultz and her new book, Geranium Lake: Poems on Art and Art-Making.
 
Susan Jaret McKinstry (with her new book Tumblehome) will join poet Leslie Schultz (with her new book Geranium Lake: Poems on Art and Art-Making)and singer-songwriter Katie Dahl to share songs and poems that celebrate place, memory, and the heartening power of the arts in all of our lives on January 25th at 3 p.m. at Write On, Door County in Fish Creek, Wisconsin.
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Off the Wall by  Kari Wergeland (Finishing Line Press) been selected to be featured in the Reimagined Indie Author Experience at the 2025 Tucson Festival of Books. Kari Wergeland will be signing copies in the Indie Authors Pavilion (adult fiction and non-fiction) 
on Saturday, March 15, 10 am – 1 pm.

https://tucsonfestivalofbooks.org/ 

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 William H. McCann, Jr. reading:
 
I will be doing a reading at the Winchester-Clark County Public Library on Sunday March 9th at 2:00 pm._
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