For some reason, people always ask me where they can buy my books. The first two, you’ll probably have to go online, but I usually tell them that any real bookstore should stock the latest one or order it on request, or they can go to any of several online booksellers and buy a copy there. Still, that’s a lot of work for some people.
If you live in the Greater Atlantic County area, it just got really easy for you to buy Roll the Bones. I know, for a fact, that there are currently two (2) copies of the book at the Borders next to the Hamilton Mall, and there are more on the way.
But wait–there’s more! If you go down there now and get one of these two copies, you’ll score a rare, valuable author-signed copy–for just $30, the regular hardcover price. But these are not only signed copies, which you can also get at the Reading Room at Mandalay Bay and the Storyteller at Foxwoods. These are personalized Atlantic City-area copies. You see, I’ve not only signed my name and the date, but also “ACHS ’91.” That’s because I figure a graduate of Atlantic City High School is more likely to happen across the book there than in Vegas or Ledyard, and I figured it was the best way to include something that locals would appreciate.
Now, though, I’ve got a better idea. Next time I sign books in AC (which may be as soon as this spring, and shouldn’t be later than the fall), I might just write “Shoobies go home” after my signature. That’s something that only a real local would get.
I just thought of something–I think I am a reverse shoobie. When I fly out of AC, I use the Philly airport. Instead of buying crappy airport food, I usually grab myself a sub from Dino’s in Margate and bring it to eat up there or on the place. Since shoobies got their derisive name from bringing their lunches “down the shore” with them in shoe boxes, I’m pretty much doing the opposite–bringing a meal from the shore up to “the city.” It’s just my way of getting even for all those lunches that went unsold on the Boardwalk back in the day.
So if you live around Atlantic City and haven’t gotten your copy of Roll the Bones yet, it’s waiting for you.
