Kindling Reader Interest: A.J. O’Connell At Tonight’s Open Mic At Barnes & Noble

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