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A signing, a series on sale, and a title announcement

So I am doing my very first in-person reader event at Novel Grounds, a romance book in Chesapeake, Virginia, on October 12. You can reserve a ticket here, and the price includes a print copy of Bad Reputation—which I will happily sign for you.

Until now, I haven’t done any signings because I didn’t feel like a “real” author. I still don’t, to be honest. But I’m trying to fake it until I make it and to be more confident about promo. (Is my confession adding or detracting from the effect?) It would certainly help me own it if someone shows up for this event. So I would love, love, LOVE to see you there.

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Poetical Thoughts

For the brave world is given to us

For all the brave in heart to keep,

Lest wicked hands should sow the thorne

That bleeding generations weep.

Julia Ward Howe, “From Newport to Rome” (1854)

Here’s the conclusion of the poem in a review of Howe’s collection Passion-Flowers in Graham’s Magazine.