Glowing with pale green phosphorescence, individual units of “Live Free or Undead” will be delivered in tightly packed cardboard boxes, pages still warm and moist from the Hyperborian presses, to a secure, labyrinthine warehouse on Oct. 14. Like viral cells, the books will then begin to stream through the semi-permeable membrane of the vast gelatinous network of independent bookstores to the gaping maws of the slavering reading public. And what is the soundtrack of this dark digestive ballet? It is the borborygmos of human voices, intoning aloud the spells and chants contained within the literary bowels of this granitic grimoire.
Enticed?
Here’s a list of opportunities to listen in on the authorial readings of stories from Live Free or Undead. If you know of some bookstore or other public venue that would welcome the Undead into their midst, let us know. The readers stand by, ready to spread their contagion to unsuspecting ears.
VENUES, READERS AND STORIES
RiverRun October 20, 7 p.m.
http://www.riverrunbookstore.com
Trevor Bartlett: A Lot Like Life
J. Zachary Pike: The Spiral
Ernesto Burden: Live Free or Undead
Jeffrey DeRego: Lillies for Donald
Joyce Wagner: Acalia
Concord Literary Festival – Oct. 22 – Barley House – 5-7 p.m.
http://www.nhwritersproject.org, http://www.thebarleyhouse.com
Becky Rule: The Haze
James Patrick Kelly: The Waiting Room
Brendan Dubois: Uneasy Lies the Head
Ernesto Burden: Live Free or Undead
David O’Keefe: Wonders in the Woods
Kristopher Seavey: Little Ones
Elaine Isaak: Memento Mori
Jason Allard: Love in the Time of Zombies
Double Midnight Comics, Manchester, Oct. 27, 7 p.m.
(note: there will also be a zombie costume contest with prizes!)
http://www.dmcomics.com
Ernesto Burden: Live Free or Undead
Catie Jarvis: Deer Island
Jeffrey DeRego: Lillies for Donald
Gregory L. Norris: Road Rage
Rye Public Library – Oct. 27, 7 p.m.
581 Washington St., Rye
Brendan DuBois: Uneasy Lies the Head
Michael DeLuca: Misty Rain
Elaine Isaak: Memento Mori
Andy Richmond: Epitaph
Kimball-Jenkins Estate, Concord, Oct. 29 and 30
http://www.kimballjenkins.com
Becky Rule: The Haze
David Elliott: Couple Voted Most Likely to Stay Together
Toadstool Books, Peterborough, Oct. 30, 11:00 a.m.
Joyce Wagner: Acalia
Kristopher Seavey: Little Ones
Lorrie Lee O’Neill: Mairzy Doats
Toadstool Books, Milford, Oct. 30, 7 p.m.
David O’Keefe: Wonders in the Woods
Gregory Norris: Road Rage
David Elliott: The Couple Voted Most Likely to Stay Together
Jason Allard: Love in the Time of Zombies
Lorrie Lee O’Neill: Mairzy Doats
Live Free or Undead 
Great job. I looking forward to reading the book.
Can we get addresses for the readings? I want to make sure I’m at the right place at the right time.
I’ll try to add the addresses to the page today. I think in most cases I gave the website, so you should be able to trace them pretty easily. Anyway, I’m really looking forward to meeting you and the other writers at these readings. I hope everyone is spreading the word via social media, etc. so we get great turn outs at each event. From what I hear, the book has a lot of buzz, so we’ll probably get an audience regardless, but the publisher says that turn out for readings can often be disappointing even when the book sells well. I guess we’ll know soon enough. See you there.
I can make the Milford reading too, if you want to add me to that roster also?
Consider it done. Looking forward to hearing you intone your tale.