I called Jeff Auckerman, book manager at Vintage Stock on the Mall a few minutes ago and canceled the event, which had been scheduled for Saturday afternoon. I will reschedule sometime after Christmas.
The book, which details former East Middle School students' tornado experiences and our first year in a warehouse school, features essays by students and by me and student poems.
Scars was published in March, but due to the problems Joplin R-8 school officials had with the book, which have been written about on this blog numerous times, it and the wonderful writing done by these young people never received the attention it deserved.
For those who do not yet have a copy of the book, it is available locally at Vintage Stock on the Mall, Always Buying Books, and Changing Hands Book Shoppe in Joplin, and at Pat's Books in Carthage. Amazon has them on sale at the moment for $8.60.
2 comments:
If anything the Joplin R-8 is the only reason your books received any attention at all. You are as honest and informative about the Joplin R-8 as the Republicans are about Obamacare. Of course both the administration and the Affordable Care have issues that need to be corrected. But the GOP can't just refuse to admit anything good about Obamacare they insist on exaggerating and many times flat out lying when discussing it. You obviously decided to follow their example. Blaming the R-8 district for your book sales. Pathetic. Do you think if all of your drama wouldn't have happened that book that you "wrote" would have been popular almost 2 years after the tornado?
I feel compelled to admit that although I am a very vocal critic of your opinion concerning the R-8 school district I bought, read and reread your book 5:41 many times. I really do pray 2014 is a good year for you, Mr. Turner.
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