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Friday, April 24, 2009 

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Something unusual is brewing at the Doylestown Bookshop, and it involves games, a bunch of liars and one chill dog.
The Philly Liar's Club is hosting a party called "Liars Tell the Truth about the Doylestown Bookshop", at the store, located on 16 South Main Street in Doylestown, on Saturday, May 2nd from 2-4 p.m. This event, free and open to the public, features free food, tons of authors, and chances to win prizes that include signed books and an appearance on the canine web comedy It's Todd's Show. The Philly Liar's Club is a group of professional writers who basically…lie for a living. (Did I say that?)


Visitors to the May 2nd celebration will get to play truth or lie games for prizes, and will enjoy hanging out with the following Liars:

 

Marie Lamba, author of Doylestown-based YA novel What I Meant
Jonathan Maberry , author of Patient Zero and Zombie CSU. (If you couldn't make Zombie Fest, now's your chance to chat with the author of soon-to-be hit Joe Ledger series!)
L.A. Banks, New York Times bestselling author of the Vampire Huntress series
Kelly Simmons, author of a powerful first novel, Standing Still
Dennis Tafoya, author of the newly-released gritty thriller Dope Thief
Keith Strunk, author of Arcadia's New Jersey-based Images of America: Prallsville Mills and Stockton
D.H. Dublin, author of the Philadelphia-based forensic CSU Investigation series Gregory Frost, author of the mythic Shadowbridge series
Merry Jones, author of the suspenseful Zoey Hayes mysteries


Also attending will be Edgar Allen Poe scholar Ed Pettit, Emmy-award winning developer of The Golden Girls & Alf, Laura Schrock and Don Lafferty, social guru.

As a special treat, Laura will be bringing along her dog, Todd, star of her newly developed web-based canine comedy It's Todd's Show! Check him out at ItsToddsShow.com.

Stop by on May 2nd, grab something to eat, play some games, and get a few books signed.


It's a celebration of the spirit of local community that all of us -- the authors, the Bookshop, and you -- contribute to.

So what's the occasion? "With the rise of online bookselling, and the dominance of big chain bookstores, independent bookstores have been really challenged to stay afloat," says author Marie Lamba. "We are throwing this party to let everyone know that independents like the Doylestown Bookshop offer everything the competition does, plus more. And that we never want to live without them!" The Doylestown Bookshop is the largest independent bookstore in Bucks  County. Still, Lamba points out that if you think book orders are limited to what is found on its shelves, you're mistaken.

"Independent bookstores cater to independent minds," says author Jonathan Maberry. "It's more than just about selling books – the Indies cultivate a love and appreciation of books, literacy, learning, reading and intellectual growth in ways the big chain stores don't – or can't." The Doylestown Bookshop has become a cultural hub and a gathering place of sorts. Readers can meet other booklovers by joining book clubs, including a mother/daughter group, one for sci fi/fantasy/horror fans, and a Smart Books for Smart Women group. They even have a book group for food lovers, which meets at the specialty food store Cote and Co. The bookstore also has frequent book signings, and supports local artists with exhibitions, and local musicians with live performances.

"The past ten years have been rough for Independents," says bookshop manager Shilough Hopwood. "But we've prospered and flourished, thanks to our community. A dedicated community really makes a difference in preserving independent stores everywhere."

"We hope everyone comes out May 2nd to show their dedication, and to hang out with the Liars," says Lamba. "It's going to be a blast…and that's no lie."

For more information, or to reserve a copy of an author's book before the event, call the Doylestown Bookshop at 215-230-7610.















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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 

THE LIARS CLUB at DOYLESTOWN BOOKSHOP

DATE: Friday June 6; 7:00 pm

Jonathan Maberry, Jon McGoran (aka D H Dublin) and Gregory Frost will be signing their latest novels during Doylestown First Friday celebration.  Jonathan, Jon and Greg are founding members of THE LIARS CLUB –a group of ten professional writers that includes NY Times bestsellers L A Banks and William Lashner; crime novelist and Marvel comics writer Duane Swierczynski; women's contemporary fiction author Kelly Simmons; book reviewer and Edgar Allen Poe scholar Ed Pettit; and Emmy Award-winning TV producer Laura Schrock).

The Doylestown Bookshop

16 South Main Street

Doylestown, PA 18901

Tel: 215-230-7610

Fax: 215-230-7613

doylestownbooks@aol.com

NEW BOOKS: 

********BAD MOON RISING (Pinnacle Books) by Jonathan Maberry

********FREEZER BURN (Penguin) by D H Dublin

********LORD TOPHET (Random House) by Gregory Frost

THE LIARS CLUB at BETWEEN BOOKS

DATE: Sunday June 7; 2:00-4:00 pm

2703 Philadelphia Pike Claymont

Delaware 19703

Phone: (302)798-3378

http://www.betweenbooks.com/

Email: BetweenBooks@Verizon.net

THE LIARS CLUB at Barnes & Noble Rittenhouse Square

DATE: Thursday June 12, 7:00 pm

Barnes & Noble, Inc.

1805 Walnut Street

Philadelphia, PA 19103

PROGRAM: Come join five members of THE LIARS CLUB for a reading and signing in Center City Philly.

LIARS CLUB LINE-UP:

******** L A BANKS –signing THE DARKNESS and BAD BLOOD

********D H DUBLIN signing FREEZER BURN

********GREGORY FROST signing SHADOWBRIDGE and LORD TOPHET

********JONATHAN MABERRY signing BAD MOON RISING and CRYPTOPEDIA

********KELLY SIMMONS signing STANDING STILL

THE LIARS CLUB at CLINTON BOOK SHOP

DATE: Friday June 20; 7:00 pm

Clinton Book Shop

33 Main Street

Clinton, NJ 08809

Tel: 908-735-8811

http://clinton.booksense.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp

********D H DUBLIN signing FREEZER BURN

********GREGORY FROST signing SHADOWBRIDGE and LORD TOPHET

********JONATHAN MABERRY signing BAD MOON RISING and CRYPTOPEDIA

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Friday, February 15, 2008 

STOKER AWARD FINAL BALLOT ANNOUNCED

 

The Horror Writers Association (HWA) today announced the Final Ballot for the Bram Stoker Awards.  The awards will be presented at the Stoker Banquet at the World Horror Convention in Salt Lake City, UT on Saturday, March 29.

 

Superior Achievement in a Novel
THE GUARDENER'S TALE by Bruce Boston (Sam's Dot Publishing)
HEART-SHAPED BOX by Joe Hill (William Morrow)
THE MISSING by Sarah Langan (Harper)
THE TERROR by Dan Simmons (Little, Brown)
 
Superior Achievement in a First Novel
HEART-SHAPED BOX by Joe Hill (William Morrow)
I WILL RISE by Michael Calvillo (Lachesis Publishing)
THE MEMORY TREE by John R. Little (Nocturne Press)
THE WITCH'S TRINITY by Erika Mailman (Crown)
THE HOLLOWER by Mary SanGiovanni (Leisure Books)
 
Superior Achievement in Long Fiction
AFTERWARD, THERE WILL BE A HALLWAY by Gary Braunbeck (Five Strokes to Midnight)
ALMOST THE LAST STORY BY ALMOST THE LAST MAN by Scott Edelman (Postscripts)
GENERAL SLOCUM'S GOLD by Nicholas Kaufmann (Burning Effigy Press)
THE TENTH MUSE by William Browning Spencer  
AN APIARY OF WHITE BEES by Lee Thomas (Inferno)
 
Superior Achievement in Short Fiction
THE DEATH WAGON ROLLS ON BY by C. Dean Andersson (Cemetery Dance 57)
LETTING GO by John Everson (Needles and Sins)
THE TEACHER by Paul G. Tremblay (Chizine)
THERE'S NO LIGHT BETWEEN FLOORS by Paul G. Tremblay (Clarkesworld)
CLOSET DREAMS by Lisa Tuttle (Postscripts 10)
THE GENTLE BRUSH OF WINGS by David Niall Wilson (Defining Moments)
 
Superior Achievement in an Anthology
FIVE STROKES TO MIDNIGHT edited by Gary Braunbeck and Hank Schwaeble (Haunted Pelican Press)
INFERNO edited by Ellen Datlow (Tor)
DARK DELICACIES 2: FEAR edited by Del Howison & Jeff Gelb (Carroll & Graf/Avalon)
MIDNIGHT PREMIERE edited by Tom Piccirilli (Cemetery Dance Publications)
AT EASE WITH THE DEAD edited by Barbara & Christopher Roden (Ash-Tree Press)
 
Superior Achievement in a Collection
PROVERBS FOR MONSTERS by Michael A. Arnzen (Dark Regions Press)
THE IMAGO SEQUENCE by Laird Barron (Night Shade Books
OLD DEVIL MOON by Christopher Fowler (Serpent's Tail)
5 STORIES by Peter Straub (Borderlands)
DEFINING MOMENTS by David Niall Wilson (Sarob Press)
 
 
Superior Achievement in Nonfiction
ENCYCLOPEDIA HORRIFICA by Joshua Gee (Scholastic)
THE PORTABLE OBITUARY: HOW THE FAMOUS, RICH, AND POWERFUL REALLY DIED by Michael Largo (Harper)
THE CRYPTOPEDIA: A Dictionary of the Weird, Strange & Downright Bizarre by Jonathan Maberry & David F. Kramer (Citadel Press / Kensington)
STORYTELLERS UNPLUGGED by Joe Nassise and David Niall Wilson (Storytellers Unplugged)
 
Superior Achievement in Poetry
BEING FULL OF LIGHT, INSUBSTANTIAL by Linda Addison (Space and Time)
HERESY by Charlee Jacob (Bedlam Press [Necro Publications])
VECTORS: A WEEK IN THE DEATH OF A PLANET by Charlee Jacob & Marge Simon (Dark Regions Press)
PHANTASMAPEDIA by Mark McLaughlin (Dead Letter Press)
OSSUARY by JoSelle Vanderhooft  (Sam's Dot Publishing)  

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