Awesome Fest 08

Wordsmiths Books is putting together a weekend of events to help raise the necessary cash to keep their doors open. The finishing touches have been put on the opening night’s festivities.  Here’s what’s on tap:

Jack Pendarvis will read from his new novel Awesome.  Pendarvis is awesome.  His short story collection, Your Body is Changing, won the prestigious Pushcart Prize.  I’m reading Awesome (the novel) now, and it is pretty special.  It’s not like anything I’ve read.  The synopsis on the back cover begins:

A giant strides this land.  A giant who builds robots, invents religions, and kisses like a dream…

Remember that “builds robots” bit.  It’s important later on.

Live music by Sealions will follow.  Awesome.

And handcrafted robots – see – by local artists and friends will be sold via silent auction.  Also awesome.

I would have called it Awesome Fest 08.  Instead Wordmsiths Russ decided to go with – ahem – “Saving Bookstores is Awesome!!! Night of Awesome!!!”  And he was fairly insistent on the punctuation.

The evening will be co-sponsored by Paste Magazine and BGB.  Here’s what the poster looks like:

You know what’s not awesome?  The sticky note that Russ decided serves as our logo.  We need a logo.