Monthly Archives: September 2009

Saturday

Noon – Bookstacks Trivia: The Booker Prize
This week’s quiz is an easy one…well, Simeon has tried to make it not so, but pull up the Booker Prize website and you will be half-way there. Winners, nominees, longlists, shortlists and their books are featured this week, so you are bound to have read one or two. For a chance at 500L, show us your knowledge, google and guessing skills this Saturday at noon. Find something to wear that suits the theme, and you could be taking away 500L for doing so.
Location: Bookstacks Pub

2:00 Science Fiction Saturday
Join Jago Constantine for a discussion of what people have been reading in Science Fiction this week. Always a good conversation.

Sunday

11:00 – Book Lovers’ Sunday Social
Our regular gathering of book lovers to discuss what they are reading, thinking about reading, and general gossip.
Location: RF Burton Public Library (slurl)

1:00 – Off the Shelf: Guest ToryLynn Writer
Author and one of the motivating forces behind the Inksters’ group in Second Life, ToryLynn Writer is this week’s guest on Off the Shelf. Please join us as we record the final podcast of the season.
Location: Off the Shelf Studio (slurl)

3:00 – Poetry Libre Open Mic
Serene Bechir and Leonardo Zimring lead a weekly open mic poetry reading, encourage voices from around the world to share their work.
Location: Bookstacks Pub

Book Discussion: The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
Date & Time: Sept. 27 at 11 a.m.
Location: Wind River Territory (Part of Third Life’s celebration of its new sim)

The Illustrated Man consists of 18 short stories tied together by the frame device of “the Illustrated Man”, a vagrant with a tattooed body whom the unnamed narrator meets. The man’s tattoos are animated and each tell a different tale. (see Wikipedia for additional information)

Read the book or a few stories and join the discussion!

Second Life is a home to many wonderful authors, but sometimes it is hard for readers to find them. Bookstacks would like to help to get the word out. This is a new service, so please be patient while we work out the process. We will start in October, so please start submitting your information to us.

What Bookstacks Will Do:

• Bookstacks will feature a new book every two weeks.
• We will announce the Featured Book on the Bookstacks group.
• We will announce the featured book on our website at http://thebookstacks.org
• We will put up a display board with a poster of your book cover in the Bookstacks Pub and at our outlets on Book Island and Wild River Territories.
• The poster can contain a link to your website.
• It can link to a location to purchase your book.
• It can contain a biography and/or press release information.
• Add you to a Second Life Authors’ Directory on the Bookstacks website

What You Need to Do:

• Drop a folder onto Kghia Gherardi containing the following information:
• A full perm image of your book cover that we can display.
• A full perm notecard containing a description of the book.
• A notecard with URLs to your website, online location to purchase your book, and any other websites and Second Life slurls that you feel are relevant.
• Any additional PR materials you’d like us to distribute.

Are you a venue interested in getting the word out as well?

We are happy to share the displays with other venues. Please contact Kghia Gherardi to work out the details.

If you have any questions or need further information, please contact Kghia Gherardi or Simeon Beresford.