LOSING TOUCH, QUALIA NOUS, coming to SE Wisc. Festival of Books
For four straight years, the Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books has been a book lover’s dream, with presentations, performances, creativity, and conversation … and Saturday, November 8th, I’ll be among the authors signing, bringing with me copies of LOSING TOUCH and QUALIA NOUS, which features my short story, “Cataldo’s Copy”, and “The Jaunt” by horror icon Stephen King.
Yep, that Stephen King.
QUALIA NOUS, edited by Michael Bailey, is Written Backwards’s first dedicated foray into the sci-fi end of the horror spectrum, and contains the work of thirty writers, award-winners and bestsellers among them:
- “The Jaunt” by Stephen King
- “The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family” by Usman Tanveer Malik
- “The Shaking Man” by Gene O’Neill
- “Dyscrasia” by Ashlee Scheuerman
- “The Rondelium Girl of Rue Marseille” by Emily Cataneo
- “The Angel Chaser” by Erik T. Johnson
- “Psychic Shock” by Ian Shoebridge
- “Peppermint Tea in Electronic Limbo” by D.J. Cockburn
- “Second Chance” by John R. Little
- “The Effigies of Tamber Square” by Jon Michael Kelley
- “Shades of Naught” by Lori Michelle
- “The Price of Faces” by James Chambers
- “Simulacrum” by Jason V. Brock
- “Shutdown” & “Tomorrow’s Femme” (poetry) by Marge Simon
- “Lead Me to Multiplicity” by Peter Hagelslag
- “Cataldo’s Copy” by Christian A. Larsen
- “The Neighborhood Has a Barbecue” by Max Booth III
- “The Jenny Store” by Richard Thomas
- “Night Guard” by Erinn L. Kemper
- “A New Man” by William F. Nolan
- “Voyeur” by John Everson
- “Kilroy Wasn’t There” by Pat R. Steiner
- “In the Nothing-Space, I Am What You Made Me” by Paul Anderson
- “Dura Matter” by Lucy A. Snyder
- “Ruminations” by Rena Mason
- “Good and Faithful Servant” by Thomas F. Monteleone
- “Twelve Kilos” by Patrick Freivald
- “Breathe You In Me” by Mason Ian Bundschuh
- “18P37-C, After Andrea Was Arrested” by Elizabeth Massie
- “No Fixed Address” by Gary A. Braunbeck
I’ll be signing QUALIA NOUS, LOSING TOUCH, and other titles in the Author’s Marketplace on the campus of UW-Waukesha between 11:30 and 4:00. But I’m just the undercard. Over 60 authors from around the country will be taking part in the festivities, including book signings and readings, a cookbook stage and demonstrations, panel discussions, and events for adults and young adults. Click here for directions.
This is the 5th year for this free community-wide event which is organized by the UW-Waukesha Foundation in cooperation with community groups that include the Waukesha County Federated Library System, the Waukesha Public Library, the Literacy Council of Greater Waukesha, and Martha Merrell’s Books and Cafe.
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