Event at The Voracious Reader in Larchmont!
I’ll be doing a little fencing demo at a wonderful kids bookstore called The Voracious Reader in Larchmont, New York, on Friday evening July 29th at 6pm. They will have Open Wounds available to buy so if you’ve been waiting for an opportunity to get your hands on a copy and support an independent book store this is your chance. The Westchester Fencing Academy will be there to do a fencing demo and yours truly will do a little stage combat too with rapiers. It’s easy to get to from metro north – walking distance from the Larchmont train station – and a short 30 minutes driving from Manhattan. Let me know if you can come.
New York Fencers Academy in Brooklyn
Went to speak to the nine members of the New York Fencer’s Academy in Coney Island today during lunch of their summer camp. Taught them some stage fencing, talked about Open Wounds, and read a piece from the book. The kids were great and I had a blast. Special thanks to Coach Misha Mokretsov for inviting me and giving me the time to speak to the kids.
Teaching the duck and hitch!
The Duck!
Engarde!
The whole club!
Engage the blade!
Photo’s from ALA
It took me all this time to download them after I got back late last night. Met some great librarians, great writers and had a blast with Allison, Jonathan, and Irv at the New Orleans Fencer’s Club tournament!
Picture with a Fan at ALA WestSide Books Book Signing
SCARS Author cheryl Rainfield Signing at WestSide Booth with Publisher Evelyn Fazio
Allison from the New Orleans Fencing Club with her copy of Open Wounds
Octavia Books in the Garden District - Wonderful Independant Store
Checked out 4-club competition at New Orleans Fencer's Club
Hanging Our With Ed Yamada from WestSide Sales
Book Signing 101 - Colpire Senza Essere Colpito
Tag-line
Colpira senza essere colpito.
Hit but don’t get hit.
It’s a 16th or 17th century Italian Fencing Master’s motto. Considering it is for duels and not sport it makes sense. It is also Cid Wymann’s (the protagonist of my book Open Wounds) motto. I wrote this on books that I signed yesterday. Selene Castrovilla (Author of Saved by the Music, The Girl Next Door, and Melt) gave me the idea. And I found out it seems most authors have a tagline like this that they sign on their books.
I like the Italian fencing phrase but I have to say when I was signing, I was so nervous I had to write it down and hide it next to me on an index card. Sometimes I spelled it wrong because my hand shook. That could have been the coffee (drinking too much while in NO) or the forgetting to eat lunch (or both). In any case when I told people what it said and meant they seemed to like it. I like it too.
It seems to fit.
Open Wounds has Landed!
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