BGB Reading Series, Vol. II: The first event in the newly minted Baby Got Books Reading Series (Rob Sheffield and musical guest The Swear) was a huge success. We’ve been working hard to piece together the follow-up, and we should have news to report later this week. It should be another excellent evening of bookish fun. Stay tuned.
BGB Reading Series, Vol. III: We’re very excited about what could be the third event in our series. I noticed last week that BGB-favorite, Steven Hall (The Raw Shark Texts), mentioned in a blog post that he would be returning to the US for a small book tour. Of course, I was e-mailing the author about coming to Atlanta within minutes of reading the post. A follow-up blog post revealed the reason that Hall is coming to our shores is that The Raw Shark Texts has won the Borders Original Voices Award for Fiction. From Steven Hall’s latest blog post:
As a result of the win I’m going to be coming back to the US, to collect the award and also to do a bit of a mini-tour to coincide with the paperback launch. The exact dates and locations aren’t set yet (I’ll post them up here as soon as I have them) but it’ll looking like it’ll be the second or third week in April with possible events in - Long Beach, CA., San Diego, CA, Sacramento CA, Boston and Portland, Maine. And Atlanta hopefully (I’m really pushing for this one BGB folks, I really am!).
Did you catch that last bit? We’ll keep you posted on our efforts.