With HORSE SHOW’s release date of 4/9/24 rapidly approaching, lots of irons are in the fire!
Over at Electric Literature, Wendy J. Fox included HORSE SHOW on her list of “15 Small Press Books You Should Be Reading This Winter.” She writes, “Horse Show has a sweeping, cinematic quality to it, and a thematic cohesion that tightly ties the stories together. A distinctive accomplishment.”
The Associated Writing Programs’ annual conference is being held in Kansas City this year, from February 7-10 at the Kansas City Convention Center. I’ll be camped out at Santa Fe Writers Project’s booth, which we’re sharing with Whiskey Tit Books.
AND I’ll have 50 special preview copies of HORSE SHOW with me for sale and signing!
I’ll be at Booth #3124 from 11:00-1:30 CST on Thursday, 2/8, and from 1:30-2:00 CST on Friday, 2/9. Come say hi and nab your copy of HORSE SHOW months before its official release!
AWP is also all about the nightlife, baby, and the good people at Laurel Review, SEMO Press, Braddock Avenue Books, and Puerto Del Sol have put together an off-site reading at Cinder Block Brewery that all the cool kids are going to attend on Thursday, 2/8 from 6:00-8:00 PM CST.
Come out for tall beers and short readings by some up-and-coming Midwestern authors, including Khem Aryal, James Brubaker, Luke Rolfes, Ron A. Austin, Robert Long Foreman, and yours truly!
The full lineup is listed above. I can’t promise that Taylor Swift will be there, but I also can’t promise she won’t be! I bet she and Travis Kelce love independent literary presses and craft beer!
Last but not least, folks in and around St. Louis should mark their calendars for April 9th!
This is, of course, HORSE SHOW’s global release date, and Maryville University’s ready to celebrate with a reading/Q&A at 3:30 PM in the Morton May Gallery on campus. This event is free and open to the public, so come on down!
More news to come soon. Stay tuned…I may be coming to a bookstore (or horse barn!) near you this spring/summer!
Jess Bowers 