Category: The Winship Affair

Leslie Douglas of Boston College reads a shocking passage in “The Winship Affair.”

The Winship Affair ended up as a “book end” on a crowded shelf in the mystery section of Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA. (I swear, I didn’t stage it!) Good exposure, if I may say so!

Yippee! I received this note from the Boston College Libraries:

…The item that you recommended has been added to the collection. To submit a hold request, please visit Holmes: http://www.bc.edu/libraries/ or contact a member of library staff at 617-552-8038 :

Title : Winship Affair., Blue Mustang Press, 2014., 9781935199182, ISBN

Call Number : PS3620.E465 W56 2014

Owning Library: O’Neill

 

I’m reading The Winship Affair by my friend Phil Temples. A great book! Even Tsunami of Sound is in there on page 102! Please get this book! You won’t put it down!  –Rick Sanger

Yesterday, I read to the fourth graders at the St. Columbkille Partnership School in Brighton, as part of BC’s Read Aloud program. Previously, I had mentioned to the kids that I was now a published author. They begged me to read from my book, The Winship Affair. I told them that it was for “adults only” but the prologue is “G-rated” so I read that section to them. Afterwards, about a dozen came up to me with little scraps of paper. They all wanted my autograph!

It’s amusing how many of my friends think that I’m going to make a lot of money from publishing a novel. Shown here is my first (and possibly last) royalty check from book sales. A large part of this “profit” is no doubt derived from the book copies that I personally purchased for gift copies for friends and family. 😉 But, hey, at least I did not “self publish” which means someone else believed in the book and underwrote the production costs.

After a pleasant conversation with the store manager, Von’s Books in West Lafayette, Indiana has agreed to carry copies of The Winship Affair. It’s a great little independent book store! http://www.vonsshops.com/Book_Shop.html

There’s something magical about seeing your novel appear for the first time in a world-class bookstore! Here are copies of The Winship Affair in the mystery/fiction section of the Harvard Cooperative Society (a.k.a. “The Coop”) in Cambridge, Massachusetts.