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Meet Glastonbury Police Officer and Author at Numerous Events this Weekend

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Author Ken Keeney will be at three different bookstores this weekend reading and signing his newly released children’s book, Megan and Riley Share the Joy of Christmas.

He visits the River Bend Bookshop in Glastonbury, CT. from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 15. The River Bend Bookshop is located at 2217 Main Street in Glastonbury.

On Saturday, he also visits the Bookclub bookstore in South Windsor, CT. from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. The Bookclub is located at 869 Sullivan Ave. in South Windsor.

On Sunday, he will be at the Glastonbury Barnes and Noble located at 175 Glastonbury Blvd., in Glastonbury, CT. from 12 to 2 p.m.

Are you looking to meet some authors?

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Our authors will be reading and signing in multiple places during the month of October.

Author John Valeri.

Author John Valeri.

Listen to and meet Dan Foley, Stacey Longo and John Valeri at the Mary Cheney Library on Oct. 14 from 2 to 4 p.m. for Indie Author Day. They will be discussing the writing process, getting published, and marketing one’s work. The library is located at 586 Main Street in Manchester, CT.

Author Dan Foley.

Author Dan Foley.

Meet authors Longo and Rob Watts at Super Megafest in Marlborough, MA. on Oct. 21 and 22. They will also be hosting a panel, So You Want to be a Writer, at 11 a.m. on Sunday, Oct. 22. Rob Smales will be joining them for the panel.

Authors Stacey Longo and Rob Watts.

Authors Stacey Longo and Rob Watts.

Meet authors Foley, Smales and Tony Tremblay at the Merrimack Valley Halloween Book Festival at the Haverhill Public Library in Haverhill, MA. ​from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Special guests include authors Brian Keene, Mary Sangiovani, and Joe Hill.

Author Tony Tremblay.

Author Tony Tremblay.

Meet Smales at Super Megafest on Sunday, Oct. 22. He will be talking about writing and other topics with Longo and Watts on the So You Want to be a Writer panel at 11 a.m.

Author Rob Smales.

Author Rob Smales.

‘Three on a Match’ Book Release Party

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This past Saturday, a book release party for Three on a Match was held.

Three on a Match is the second installment of the Terror Project, and features novellas from talented authors Melissa Crandall, g. Elmer Munson, and Kristi Petersen Schoonover.

The release party was put on by Schoonover, who did an awesome job from the food to the decorations. She even got a cake showcasing the book cover.

Crandall and Munson joined Schoonover for over four hours to celebrate the release of Three on a Match, the newest book from Books & Boos Press.

Authors Melissa Crandall, g. Elmer Munson, and Kristi Petersen Schoonover.

Authors Melissa Crandall, g. Elmer Munson, and Kristi Petersen Schoonover.

Three on a Match will be released on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017.

A Chance to Meet Author Rob Smales

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The New England Author Expo takes place this Wednesday, July 26, at the Danversport Yacht Club in Danvers, MA. from 4 to 9 p.m.

Author Rob Smales will be signing copies of his book, Echoes of Darkness at the Books & Boos Press table. There will also be copies of Insanity Tales II: The Sense of Fear, which contains two of Smales’ stories.

There will also be books by some of our other authors at the table as well.

The yacht club is located at 161 Elliot Street in Danvers, MA.

Authors’ Night by the Sea Event This Friday

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This Friday at the Red Hook Brewery in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, an Authors’ Night by the Sea event takes place from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. This free event will allow the public to meet authors and publishers.

At the Books & Boos Press table, you will be able to meet author Rob Smales. We will have his book, Echoes of Darkness, available for purchase. We will also have Insanity Tales II, which is a collection containing two of his stories, and Triplicity, which contains one of his stories.

Other books such as Secret Things, Tricks and Treats, and Where Spiders Fear to Spin will be available.

‘Tricks and Treats’ Earns Best Anthology Award

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Tricks and Treats: A Collection of Spooky Stories by Connecticut Authors has won the Preditors & Editors Poll for Anthologies. We want to thank all the authors in the anthology: Melissa Crandall, Dan Foley, Stacey Longo, G. Elmer Munson, Kristi Petersen Schoonover, Ryanne Strong, and John Valeri for helping to promote this great Connecticut collection.

Thank you to all the fans of the authors and of Tricks and Treats for voting. Without you, we never would have received this honor for Tricks and Treats. Thank you again.

You can see all the books that were in the poll here.

Help ‘Tricks and Treats’ in Current Poll

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Tricks and Treats: A Collection of Spooky Stories by Connecticut Authors is sitting at number 1 on the Preditors & Editors Poll at the moment. The poll ends at 7 a.m. on January 14. We would love your help in keeping it there. You can vote here.

‘My Mom, MS, and a Sixth-Grade Mess’ Debuts this January

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IMG_0083.JPGFarmer’s Daughter Press is proud to announce they’ll be releasing My Mom, MS, and a Sixth-Grade Mess by Stacey Longo in mid-January. The book tells the tale of Patrick Holder, who first appeared in the children’s book My Mom Has MS (2015, Farmer’s Daughter Press), now in middle school. Patrick has problems: he has an English project due and he hasn’t read the book yet; he and his best friend like the same girl; he suspects he might have a unibrow. Oh yeah—and his mom has multiple sclerosis.

The book’s cover art and interior images were also illustrated by Longo, and the subject matter is personal. “My friend Renee was diagnosed with MS in 2008, and the way she and her family rallied to make the best of her situation was amazing.” The protagonist of the books—Patrick Holder—is based on Renee’s youngest son, and many members of her family make appearances in the latest book.

Written to help kids deal with their parent’s MS diagnosis, a portion of every sale of this book is donated to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. 

Our Authors Appearing at Various Venues

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On June 17, author Dan Foley appeared at the Book Club Bookstore and More in East Windsor to read and sign his new book, Abandoned.

Author Dan Foley.

On June 18 through 19, author Stacey Longo was signing her books at Northeast Comic Con at the Shriner’s Auditorium in Wilmington, MA.

Author Stacey Longo.

Longo also spent time talking about writing and publishing at a YMCA day camp.
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Recent Events

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Recently, we attended two events to promote our authors, their books, and the other books we have published.

Queen City Kamikaze in Manchester, New Hampshire, was the first event we attended. This convention is a one-day show that has been going on for the past four years. This year we were joined by our authors Stacey Longo and Rob Smales. We also invited friend and fellow author Tony Tremblay to  sell his books at our tables.

From left to right: authors Stacey Longo, Rob Smales, and Tony Tremblay.

From left to right: authors Stacey Longo, Rob Smales, and Tony Tremblay.

This past Friday, we set-up our books at the Author by the Sea event organized by the New England Author Expo. This event was held at Elks Lodge in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. We were happy to have Smales at our table once again.2016-03-18 13.16.28-1

Author Rob Smales.

Author Rob Smales.

Click here to find out where we will be next.