Due to circumstances beyond our control at Amazon.com, the only print copies they’re offering at the moment are from third party resellers. If you want a nice new copy that will pay royalties to the author, buy direct from Agate Publishing and use the promo code “Ramblers” to get $6 off the $16 list price. Or buy from Barnes & Noble. Or buy the Kindle edition, which is probably what Amazon wants you to do.
Go here to read more about Ramblers.
Happy to be returning to Arcadia Books in Spring Green for a second round of hawking and talking about Much Ado.
On Sunday, August 27, I’ll be signing books and chatting informally with readers and friends starting at 11 AM. At 1 PM, after the crowd thins out a bit (as people head off to the APT matinees), I’ll commandeer a podium and give a more formal (but not very formal) presentation about the book, how it came to be, what I learned in the rehearsal room, and whatever else people want to talk about. Please join us and tell your friends.
Thanks to Doug Moe, Mr. Madison, for a nice writeup in his Madison Magazine blog. He says Much Ado is “delightful.” Obviously a man of taste and breeding, Doug has been writing about Madison and its people for close to 40 years now.
If you’re in or around Madison on Monday night (June 19), please join me at A Room of One’s Own Bookstore, 315 W Gorham, at 6 PM. I’ll be hawking and talking, selling and signing. Would love to see you there. More info here.
Happy to say I will be appearing at the Printers Row Lit Fest on Saturday, June 10, with Cari Lynn, Neil Steinberg, and Rick Kogan. More details here.
Thanks to the Chicago Tribune‘s Rick Kogan for a relaxed and gracious interview on WGN Radio. You can listen here. Of course the whole show is fascinating, but if you’re in a hurry the Much Ado segment starts at about 17:00.
Remember your newspaper’s books section? It died and went to cyberspace and became the National Book Review. I’ve always wanted to be on their weekly Hot 5 list: “five books people are talking about this week, or should be.” And here I am! Thank you Elizabeth Taylor, Chicago book goddess.
In late summer 2013, when David Frank knew for sure he would be directing Much Ado, he didn’t have to think about who would be his Beatrice: Colleen Madden would. She is one of the company’s stars, a small woman with a big voice, an extraordinary actress. I saw her take Benedick’s arm in playful surrender to their newly blossomed love, and moments later I watched enraptured as he knelt before her and asked, “How doth your cousin?” more
