Authors: Help Build the Steward's Library on Calkins Day (And Take Home a Book for Yourself)

Readers, writers, and everyone else is invited to join us for Calkins Day 2023.

Calkins Day will be held this year from 6 to 8 p.m. on Feb. 13 (Calkins Day, what else) at The Book Market in Crest Hill, 2365 Plainfield Road.

For very detailed and very precise information on a BryonySeries holiday that actually preceded the series, read this post from last week.

Here are the highlights for the event:

1) Meet Ed Calkins, Steward of Tara: Ed is a real person who worked through his dyslexia to become a real BryonySeries author (he's written two books and is working on a third). Ed is also an Irish vampire in the BryonySeries "drop of blood" trilogy.

2) Enjoy refreshments: We have some special treats in the planning stage. And we're not sharing details.

3) A special offer for local authors: If you are a local author, bring one of your books as a birthday gift to Ed and then take home one of ours (offer limited to books Ed has either written or appeared as a character). The first twenty authors to bring a book will also receive a $5 gift card to The Book Market, redeemable that night or any time. 

And if your book isn't in the local authors section at The Book Market yet, the owner Janet Staley will be happy to add it. Unlike some bookstores, she doesn't charge a fee to place the book to the shelf. Talk to her ahout the consignment process.

For instance, Ed really enjoyed this non-BryonySeries book and bought five copies in December to give as Christmas gifts to his friends and family members. So he enjoys your book, he may wind up buying multiple copies.

4) Everyone else who wants a free book: Talk him out of one. Present an original limerick. Read something original that you have written. Flatter him. Dress like a BryonySeries character. Wear a striped shirt. Cry. Wheedle. You get the idea. 

5) Browse our table of additional BryonySeries books for sale.

6) Browse The Book Market, which has thousands of new, used, and rare books for sale. 

7) Chat with guests. This is a very low-key birthday party event that celebrates (according to official Calkins Day verbiage) laughter, imagination, and generosity. 

We hope to see you there!