Back To School

I graduated from college in 2004, and next month I'll be headed to college again. Only this time I won't be taking any classes. This time I'll be teaching a class. Sorta. Here are the deets:

Saturday, October 27 | 12 – 2:30pm BOWERS WRITERS HOUSE

Fiction Masterclass and Lunch w/ Robert Swartwood

Novelist and fiction dynamo Robert Swartwood will join us for lunch, and offer a craft talk/workshop concerning fiction, especially flash and hint fiction. What are those? Come on down and find out! Robert Swartwood was born in 1981. His work has appeared in such venues as The Los Angeles Review, The Daily Beast, Postscripts, ChiZine, Space and Time, Wigleaf, and PANK. He is the editor of Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer, which was chosen by The Nervous Breakdown as one of their favorite books of 2010, and was featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday with Scott Simon.

Cost: free. Attendance based on reservations. First-come first-served; arrive at least a half hour before the event to get a seat.

Sponsor: Bowers Writers House

Contact: Jesse Waters at writershouse@etown.edu or 717-689-3945

Open to the public

So if you're in the central Pennsylvania area that day, stop by Elizabethtown College and check it out!

Reminder: The Inner Circle Live Reading Tonight

First, the trade paperback of The Inner Circle is now available via Amazon. The expanded distribution will probably take another week or two, but really, why not just buy it from Amazon, like, now? (UK readers, check it out here.) As always, if you'd like a signed personalized copy of The Inner Circle or any of my novels, email me at robert (at) robertswartwood (dot) com for details.

One thing I really went back and forth on was the price. I've been pricing my paperbacks either $13.95 or $14.95 (or £8.99 in the UK), depending on the number of pages. The Inner Circle, though, is my longest book yet, coming in at just over 450 pages, and to make the book cost effective I had to bump the price a bit. So you can pick it up for $16.95, and in the UK £10.99. Is that too much? I studied a lot of pricing structures for thick novels, and believe it or not, some were even more expensive than seventeen bucks. In the end, I priced it as fair as I could without practically losing money.

Now, are you excited for tonight's live reading? Sure you are! The first one begins at 7:00 pm EST, the second one at 10:00 pm EST. Why am I doing two? Well, because I know not everyone is free at one particular time of the day, so I'm hoping by doing two readings, more people can join in on the fun. It seemed to work out well the last time I did it. See you then.