Sunday Night Fun: a reading

Being as how I’ll be stiff and sore from soccer on Sunday (June 22nd), I’m going to be sitting at home. However, that doesn’t mean I don’t want to have fun. I’m in the mood to do a reading, so that’s what I’ll do.

I’m going to be reading the first two chapters from In Hero Years… I’m Dead. That is the novel I wrote last fall. It’s a noir take on a superhero world where the greatest generation has all retired, and the world has shifted in tone and focus. But, of course, not everyone agrees with how the world has progressed. Forces gather to make changes and our hero, who has been away from Capital City for twenty years, returns just in time to be caught right in the middle.

So, how can you come to this reading? I’ll be reading in Second Life, at 9 pm Eastern/6 pm Pacific (which is also game time). I’ll be doing the reading in voice-chat, so you’ll need to enable that function and have a pair of headphones. The reading should take about an hour, including a question-and-answer session afterward.

The event is free and will be a bunch of fun. It’s your chance to get a first look/listen at my latest novel.

Boilerplate below about Second Life. You can learn more at The Second Life web page. Check it out, download the software, and come on in and chat.

Second Life, for those who have never chatted online, is a graphical chat interface. It does not cost money to register or use. It operates on a “micro-economy” model, which is to say that you can uses it for free, but you can do a lot more if you just pay a little more here and there. I sell books in Second Life to cover the costs of promoting my work and having the space to hold seminars. Lots of other wildly creative people turn out really cool products to feed their habits, too.

If you hit the link above, download the software and head into Second Life, you can find me by searching for “Noble Charron.” That’s the name of my alter-ego in the world of SL. You can find the bookstore by searching on books, or ThirdLife, or clicking on this convenient link, which will take you directly there. When you arrive, please click on the sign at the front of Wordsmith Hall, so you can be added to the ThirdLife group, so I can get you announcements about things we will be doing.