Only a few more days

Image taken from the purveyors of fine literature at The Collagist

My book launch is only three days away!

Please join me at WORD on Tuesday, June 26 at 7pm when I’ll read from and talk about and sign copies of The Mere Weight of Words. I’m thrilled and anxious and (honestly) really hyper about this event. WORD is an awesome bookstore run by awesome people and I’m honored to be reading there.

For those of you who might need convincing about coming to hear me read from a book that’s not out yet, you might be swayed by this review from Shelf Unbound that got picked up by Flavorwire this week. There are also quite a few excerpts available to read online, thanks to editors at The Collagist. The first is long and representative of the “serious” parts of the book. The others are much shorter and some of them represent the “lighter” parts of the book.

What I’m trying to say is that there’s something for everyone–the funny, the sad; the abstract, the concrete; the wordy, the silent.

So I hope to see you at WORD on Tuesday night.

And just in case you’re not in Brooklyn, you might be in some of these other places where I will also be, fairly soon:

7/14/2012 at 1pm – Bethlehem, PA – Moravian Bookshop

7/17/2012 at 7pm – Brookline, MA – Brookline Booksmith (with Jill McDonough)

7/27/2012 at 7:30pm – Manassas, VA – Zabb (with Gillian Devereux)

9/29/2012 – Baltimore, MD – Baltimore Book Festival (part of 510 Reading Series)

If you’re not in those places, but you’d like me to read where you are, let me know! I’m also available for online readings/chats if that’s your preference.

Also, just in case you want to read the book before the events, you can pre-order your own copy of TMWW right here, signed copies available through June 30.