Bruce Adams's Blog
February 26, 2012
Basement Finds
How many books have you found in a box somewhere? In the case of The Portcullis Room, my father-in-law was foisting some old books in the basement he felt had to go. It came home with some choice others. Turns out the author, Valentine Williams wrote a bunch of Country House mysteries. The Portcullis Room takes place in a castle on a Scottish isle. Williams does his best to make the Scottish characters in the book dour and inscrutable, but the book lacks a clear cut protagonist. As an American of Scottish descent I find the portrayals to be laughable. So why did I grab it and why did I read it? Because it's an old book. And I'm the kind of guy who grabs old books if they're offered to me.
November 14, 2011
Book Launch - Sat. Nov. 26
The Continuing Case of Manny Tippitoes
I'll be celebrating the release of The Continuing Case of Manny Tippitoes with my friends Kathleen Judge and Dan Grzeca as they host an open studio on Sat. Nov. 26 from 12pm-5pm.
Dan and Kathleen are accomplished poster artists and will be displaying a number of silk-screened posters. You can take a look at the paperback book, grab a libation, get a free canvas bag with each purchase and maybe even persuade the author to do a reading.
4045 N. Rockwell Chicago, IL
I'll be celebrating the release of The Continuing Case of Manny Tippitoes with my friends Kathleen Judge and Dan Grzeca as they host an open studio on Sat. Nov. 26 from 12pm-5pm.
Dan and Kathleen are accomplished poster artists and will be displaying a number of silk-screened posters. You can take a look at the paperback book, grab a libation, get a free canvas bag with each purchase and maybe even persuade the author to do a reading.
4045 N. Rockwell Chicago, IL
October 31, 2011
Happy Halloween!!
A portly figure stood beneath the Senate podium. Smoke drifted from the nozzle of a Winchester repeating rifle in his left hand. A ring of dead men lay spread out in front of him as the rotund, mustachioed ex-President stood face to face with a snarling man-wolf. The bandelero of silver bullets across his ample chest was exhausted of ammunition.
Grover Cleveland tossed some berries in the air with his free hand. The foaming mouth of the werewolf snapped at each in rapid succession. Slowly and quietly, nation’s twenty-second president, to the astonishment of the assembled legislators, spoke to the werewolf...
excerpted from Grover Cleveland, Werewolf Whisperer - from The Extravagant Escapades of Manny Tippitoes - Book Two
Grover Cleveland tossed some berries in the air with his free hand. The foaming mouth of the werewolf snapped at each in rapid succession. Slowly and quietly, nation’s twenty-second president, to the astonishment of the assembled legislators, spoke to the werewolf...
excerpted from Grover Cleveland, Werewolf Whisperer - from The Extravagant Escapades of Manny Tippitoes - Book Two
Belief in wolf charmers was widespread in France in the early 1800s, one of the last vestiges of the werewolf - Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition (1910-1911)
