Monday, March 30, 2022.

The afternoon started, unexpectedly, on the steps of our local city hall, promoting freedom, courage and literature with help from Julie (of JulieJupiter.com)

Next, we headed to our local Fanfare Books which just received a shipment of Much Ado About Corona . (Left to right) Mark Feuer (our local anti-masking warrior), my wife Nicole (who took all the photos) and Dianne Fleischauer of Golden Acre Farms and me wearing purple.

It was a dream come true finding a novel I've written on the shelf of my local bookstore...

Then we took fan photos. That didn't take long. There may not have many locals who joined us, but these two friends are worth two thousand fans: Julie and Dianne Flieschauer (who also helped proofread the novel)...

And then Grant and Phil from Druthers News dropped by for surprise interview on their live feed (which you can watch here).

John C. A. Manley is the author of Much Ado About Corona: A Dystopian Love Story, the forthcoming All The Humans Are Sleeping and other works of speculative fiction. Get free samples of his stories by becoming a Blazing Pine Cone email subscriber at: https://blazingpinecone.com/subscribe/