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Be sure to stop by the Loughmare Winery Gift Shop at Cafe Press. There you’ll find all sorts of fun gifts with the catchphrase from A Sudden Gift of Fate, “Got terroir?”
On Friday, Dec. 11, be sure to stop by RiverRead Books for a fun evening of holiday shopping. Starting at 6:30 p.m. there will be live music, I will read & sign my new novel plus lead people through a tasting of Finger Lakes wines. Special guest will be there, too! Click here for more information.
You can now purchase signed copies of A Sudden Gift of Fate at Riverow Bookshop in Owego, recently named “Coolest Small Town in America.”
Be sure to tell the lovely Laura Spencer you read about her store carrying the book here.
Over the next couple months, several reviews are planned of A Sudden Gift of Fate in publications including two Irish-American newspapers.
I just posted a reader’s review on the Reviews Page.
If you’d like to send your own review, email it here.
On Cyber Monday, Nov. 30, you can buy my novels at 20 percent off. Follow @cailinAolain on Twitter to get the special one-day Amazon.com discount code!
Local indie bookstore > local author > local story >
… get them all on Friday, Dec. 11 from 7-9 p.m. at RiverRead Books, 5 Court St. Binghamton. I will be reading from A Sudden Gift of Fate, answering your questions about my writing process and signing copies of both my novels (The Cyber Miracles, too!) There will also be a sampling of Finger Lakes wines to enhance your holiday shopping experience. If you haven’t visited Binghamton’s coolest new bookstore, now’s the time. Great books & gifts!
A book is a gift that keeps on giving.
I’m trying something new to market this book. Beginning Nov. 23, there will be ads placed on facebook pages. If you see one of these, I’d love to know. Drop me a line here! Thanks a million!
Photo by Anne Woodard
I was the guest of Jane’s Readers Club tonight at RiverRead Books. The evening started with a review of Comfort Food by Kate Jacobs. It was fun being an author sitting among a group of readers telling what they thought of a story, what the author was trying to accomplish and whether they found her successful. I imagined what it would be like if the group was discussing my novel, and what I was trying to accomplish with A Sudden Gift of Fate and whether they found my effort successful.
After their discussion, I spoke about the selection of Finger Lakes wines Jane had set out for a sampling, telling them the history of wine grapes in New York and what I’d learned about the wine industry while researching the book. After they sampled two Rieslings, a dry and semi-dry, then I read from the novel and answered their questions about writing it. One woman, Donna, had a similar background, Syracuse U. art grad, loved music, thought of combining the two into designing record album covers. Small world!
I found out that Jane’s husband grew up on Italy Hill, one of the locales in the novel! Even smaller world!
It was a delightful evening made all the cozier by its great location, the always fabulous RiverRead!
A Sudden Gift of Fate is now available at two public libraries. The Penn Yan Public Library and George F. Johnson Memorial Library in Endicott, NY. The latter also has a copy of The Cyber Miracles.
As the pumpkin at Jackson Farms says, "This season, fall into a book!"
Reminder: Tomorrow is the official book launch for A Sudden Gift of Fate from 2-5 p.m. at RiverRead Books, 5 Court Street, Binghamton. Festivities will include a reading, Q&A with the author (mise), book signing and sampling of Finger Lakes wines. Hope to see you there!
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