An adjunct professor at Norwalk Community College and a journalist
with ten years’ experience, tonight’s guest reader, A.J. O’Connell is a
graduate of Fairfield University’s MFA program and has contributed articles and
fiction to the Boston Herald, Citizen Culture magazine, The Battered Suitcase, The Wheel and other anthologies.
Beware the Hawk (Vagabondage Press, 2012), published last January,
is a noir thriller, set in the Boston underworld and featuring a savvy, sharp-tongued,
courier who manages to go through the entire story without revealing her
identity (a reader contest to name her is posted on The Garret, A.J. O’Connell’s
blog).
Penned as an original e-novella, with Nook, Kindle
and other electronic book readers in mind, in other ways, A.J.’s latest project
embodies effectively how the writing/publishing process has had to grow with
the simultaneous opportunities and demands of the Internet. In contrast to her account
of her husband’s reluctance to join Facebook found on The Garret, A.J. created
a line of t-shirts to promote Hawk
through Zazzle.com, one of numerous do-it-yourself resources indispensable
to sustaining one’s work in today’s crowded online/mobile media climate.
Hosted by Frank Chambers
and PoemAlley's Nick Miele, the Barnes & Noble's Open Mic
Poetry program meets the second Monday of each month in the cookbook section on
the main floor of the bookstore (located in the Stamford Down Center), beginning
at 7:30 p.m.
For more information, contact:
Barnes & Noble
100 Greyrock Place
Suite H009
Stamford, CT 06901
203-323-1248
203-323-1248
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