Bangor Authors' Book Fair and Literary Festival Saturday December 14

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That lumberjack Paul Bunyan is everywhere in Bangor. There's a massive statue of him across from the casino where I worked briefly, a statue that I DID NOT NOTICE until someone pointed him out. Three stories tall! Look, I was focusing. 

If you're in the area, which you're not, come out and see me at the library Saturday December 14th! I will be selling books and giving away a ton of stickers. No, really, I think I bought 300 or so little stickers about reading and so on. But you should also buy a book. Books are good! We like books. 

Oh heck, I need to make postcards of each one with a pitch on the back. WELL, FINE.



I've been entertaining myself making cover art for books that aren't finished yet. Not a waste of time as it is extremely motivating. This one reminds me of some publisher I can't place. Also I wish the font were sort of sculpted, know what I mean? It's a work in progress. Are they not centered on each other? They're not. UGH.

That's the bay or inlet on the ocean as seen from the summer house I lived in one whole fall, winter, and spring. Pretend it's the lake in Summerlands. Pretend I leveled it so the ocean won't all fall out the left side. 

Here's a possible cover for The Geographic Cure, which is either in Acadia or Bangor City Forest. Nobody knows. The Geographic Cure Volume One could be ready if I read and edit and format it this weekend then upload and struggle with that and order a proof copy and get it proofed and ordered in time, which I could easily have done if I'd thought about it in advance, which I didn't. It's going to need black blocks for title and author also. Or green? Blue? We'll figure it out. I'm doing this in MS Paint so options are limited, though I really enjoy (as seen above) matching font color to the image colors.

Books! Sacred cheese of life!



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