Foundling Fathers
Ok so I have a weird favor to ask.
This one isn’t about buying books or signing up for trainings or calling your reps. It’s a little odd. I’m currently pitching a project that, for the pitch, requires… footage of me speaking in public.
(I told you it was weird.)
If you’ve been to an event where I’ve spoken to a crowd, and you have footage of that event, can you get in touch? It’d go a long way toward helping this project get off the ground.
And if you haven’t been to an event where I’ve spoken to a crowd, how about coming to…
July 11: Columbus, Ohio
Columbus Book Festival
Panels and Signing
Main Library
96 S. Grant Ave
Topiary Park
July 12: San Francisco, California
SF in SF | 3:00 PM
Panel with Meg Elison
Koret Auditorium
Main Library
100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
July 23-25: San Diego, California
San Diego Comic ConPanels and Signing
Full schedule soon!
Featured New Release: Foundling Fathers by Meg Elison
The trouble starts when a curious young man finds a smartphone in his privy. The problem is, it’s supposed to be the year 1750.
The Antediluvian Society—a shadowy cabal of right-wing billionaires—is fed up with a country they cannot fully control or understand. So they have done what any reasonable American patriots would do: Clone the Founding Fathers and raise them in secrecy. The plan, unbeknownst to the boys, is for them to restore America to its "original glory."
Ben takes his technological discovery to his brothers, Thomas, John, and George. The boys have been raised on an isolated island plantation by Mary Libertas, a firm but kind woman, and Jeff Hancock, their de facto father. But the idyllic life is far too dull for young men. The boys have been chafing at the restrictions upon them (especially Tom, who has impregnated yet another of the servants). Hancock is complaining to the Society that it's well past the time to tell the boys where they come from and what they must do.
Unfortunately for their keepers, the young men now have a phone...and many other notions.
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Currently Reading: Less by Andrew Sean Greer
Who says you can't run away from your problems? You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. You can't say yes—it would be too awkward—and you can't say no—it would look like defeat. On your desk are a series of invitations to half-baked literary events around the world.
QUESTION: How do you arrange to skip town?
ANSWER: You accept them all.
What would possibly go wrong? Arthur Less will almost fall in love in Paris, almost fall to his death in Berlin, barely escape to a Moroccan ski chalet from a Saharan sandstorm, accidentally book himself as the (only) writer-in-residence at a Christian Retreat Center in Southern India, and encounter, on a desert island in the Arabian Sea, the last person on Earth he wants to face. Somewhere in there: he will turn fifty. Through it all, there is his first love. And there is his last.
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Make Me Better is on sale now
If you haven’t already ordered Make Me Better, I hope you will! It’s one of the best things you can do to support my work. Here are all the places you can order your copy:
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