From now until the birfday o’ the bouncing baby Jesus, your favorite underground publisher —Plastic Love Monkey Press—is offering 30% off on orders of Román Leão’s inside a broken clock.
That’s cheaper than a half-rack of Lone Star, and better for you! Enjoy.
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I’ve been invited to read from the good ol’ metaphysical Sasquatch time-skipping bardo freakout as part of San Rafael’s LitQuake this Saturday. Come on down, I’ll be wearing my Román Leão mask; I’ll be masquerading (I think Bob Dylan said that). This from the Blue Moon Comics website:
The first LITQUAKE SAN RAFAEL
An All-Day Festival of Books and Authors in Downtown/West End San Rafael
When: Saturday, October 11th, 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
Where: Blue Moon Comics, 1560 4th St., San Rafael
We will be having people read from various books and Graphic novels.
Román Leão will read from his book, inside a broken clock.
Katherine Elizabeth will read from her book of poetry, Fairy Tale and Ferris Wheels.
Charles Yoakum (artist/writer/inker) reads from his comic, The Carnival.
And special guest comedian Mark Pitta will read from a selected comic book.
Check out the links below for more information!
http://www.litquake.org/event-series/litquake-san-rafael
http://www.litquake.org/events/whizz-bam-comic-writers-read-their-work
I popped into Whyte’s Booksmith in San Anselmo to pick up the copy of John Barth’s Lost in the Funhouse that I ordered in a weird postmodernist frenzy, and, low and behold, what intriguing novel by a local up-and-coming author did they have on the shelf? That’s right, Román Leão’s inside a broken clock: a modern fable! It looks right—all nestled up between T. E. Lawrence and Harper Lee. The three of them will have lots to talk about I’m sure.
That’s right, the first pull of T-shirts for the Plastic Love Monkey Press Review a Book, Get a Shirt merch sling turned out better than we hoped. What merch sling you ask? Well, with close to 100 copies of Román Leão’s inside a broken clock: a modern fable floating around out there, it’s time to tell the world what y’all thought of it.
Review that bad boy on any book site—whether Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Lulu.com, Powell’s, Goodreads, LibraryThing, we don’t care—go to squatch [at] plasticlovemonkeypress.com and drop us a line with your shirt size, as well as someplace to send it, and BAM you’ll be sportin’ the latest in proto-meme literary finery. Get one and look awesome before the hipsters find out about it and wreck it for everybody.
As always, ask for inside a broken clock at your local fine bookery or you go here (hipsters welcome):
With inside a broken clock: a modern fable making its way out into the big world, it’s time for you, as part of the literary vanguard, to tell the unconverted just what you thought of it.
Now that you’ve become part of the swelling ranks of happy readers who have finished the book, everyone here at the Plastic Love Money Press home office has been wracking their brain for ways to entice you to take time from your busy day to post a review.
OK, that’s not entirely true, we’ve actually been enjoying these incredible evenings out on the porch with the dog, but that is where our best ideas come from, so dig this: post a review to Amazon, Goodreads, LibraryThing, wherever, and we’ll silkscreen you a shirt!
All you have to do is send a link to your review, your shirt size, and someplace to send it to squatch@plasticlovemonkeypress.com and we’ll do the rest.
All opinions accepted, even if you hated it … but it would be a shame if your shirt was accidentally printed upside down. Oops.
One had to be from the small Solano County town to call it Main St. in the first place, and sure enough, June 1st found our intrepid author right where he started—back in Benicia like a bogus $20.
A homecoming of sorts, Román Leão’s latest reading from inside a broken clock: a modern fable packed the independent Bookshop Benicia with friends, family, and lovers of quality independent literature of all stripes.
The locally owned bookstore has provided town bibliophiles with their drug of choice since the early ’90s (that’s the Nineteen 90s for all you youngsters on the Interwebs).
A few years back, owner Christine moved the shop to an historic building across the street from the Old Capitol. Of California. That’s right, Benicia was the capital of the greatest state in these United States back in the ’50s (that’s the Eighteen 50s, long before the iPhone, Rolling Stones, or Civil War).
You can find a book all about it at 636 First St.—as well as pick up a copy (or two) of inside a broken clock.
Read a book (or two). Your brain will thank you for it.
Photos by Tue Nam Ton
Lovers of fine literature and potent poetry packed San Rafael’s Blue Moon Comics the evening of Saturday, April 26 for the release of Román Leão’s inside a broken clock and Sam Shiffler’s Words Fell Out My Brain.
The North Bay shop has become a magnet for scenesters in the West End who turned out to meet artists who contributed to Shiffler’s book of poems and to hear Leão read from his debut novel.
After a collective signing of Words was well under way, Leão took the loft overlooking the long narrow space and regaled the crowd with bawdy tales of karmic misadventure. By the time he finished reading, there wasn’t a dry mind in the place.
Many thanks to everyone who came out for the event and to Alex Jane Head who took photos. Both books are available at Blue Moon Comics, located 1560 4th St, San Rafael, as well as on the Interwebs.
The next planned event for inside a broken clock will take place June 1, 5:00 pm at Bookshop Benicia. Details to follow as we get closer.
Listen up all you rascals and reprobates, independent bookstore Bookshop Benicia is the latest brick and mortar to carry Román Leão’s blockbuster sci-fi novel, inside a broken clock. For the past 20 years, owner Christine has provided a great resource for books and author appearances in the Northeast Bay.
The move to carry the novel underlines the kind of dedication to local artists and interests that you just aren’t going to find online or at the big box stores. Bookshop Benicia is located at 636 First St., kitty-corner from the Old Capitol. Go there. Buy a book. It’s good for you. It’s good for America. You like America, right?
Plastic Love Monkey Press is collaborating with Blue Moon Comics to foist a bit of culture upon San Rafael’s up-and-coming West End. Join author Román Leão and überpoet Sam Shiffler the evening of Saturday, April 26 for a reading or two from inside a broken clock as well as signings from Shiffler and the artists who contributed to his book Words Fell Out My Brain.
Have you always wished you had been there to watch Ginsburg drop Howl on the teaheads crammed into the Six Gallery back in ’55? Missed the Sex Pistols at the Manchester Lesser Free Trade Hall gig in ’76? Here’s your chance to stand at ground zero for the next big thing. This is going to be epic.
Both books will be available for purchase at the event, hell, buy two. You’ll thank yourself later.
The debut novel from Fairfax writer Román Leão is now available at San Rafael’s premiere comic shop, Blue Moon Comics. The store at 1560B 4th St. will also be the site of a joint book release party/bacchanal the evening of April 26.
Store proprietor Sam Shiffler will be slinging his outstanding book of homespun poetry Words Fell Out My Brain and featured artists will be on hand to sign their work.
Leão will be giving a short reading from inside a broken clock before drinking in earnest and rocking out to live music. Be there.
