There will be books.

For real. Many. And thank you to The Book Cellar for that.

Orphans Book Release Party Yo.

It's true we are Orphans release party on November 6th, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm, at the Beauty Bar Chicago and we would like you to join us. There will be a laser light show. Fog machines. Drinks. Many. Books (courtesy of the most awesome The Book Cellar). Dogs and Cats living together. And rock star readers who are sure to change your life:

Joseph G. Peterson - Beautiful Piece, Inside The Whale: A Novel in Verse, Wanted: Elevator Man

Kathryn Born - The Blue Kind

Bill Hillmann - The Old Neighborhood

Patricia Ann McNair - The Temple of Air

Jason Fisk - Hank & Jules, The Salt Creek Anthology

And TBWYL, Inc. Spokesperson Ben Tanzer - Orphans, coming soon from Switchgrass Books and NIU Press, among others.

So please join us. Please spread the word. And please don't stop being you, because we think you are quite awesome at that.

Word.

This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Sixty-One - Bad to Worse, starring the Kathryn Born.

Happening it is. We are podcast with the Kathryn Born, author of The Blue Kind. We are also Argo Tea, for what it's worth, and you, you are listen, or you can be, now, thank you. It just might change your life.

This Book Will Change Your Life - The Blue Kind by Kathryn Born.

There are drug tales where the stories are fueled by binge, violence, and desperation, sordid, and sad, and filled with characters who will do anything for their next high. Some are cautionary tales. Others a celebration of what it means to exist at bottom, all hand to mouth, yet still romantic and full of color. The Blue Kind by Kathryn Born has some of all of this in its Requiem for Dream-like shadings. But it something else as well. More than something. Some things maybe. First, it spins its tale through a druggy Sci Fi dreamscape that would make Darren Aronofsky smile. And second, The Blue Kind speaks to how the drug trade works and feels, the trade-offs and misogyny, the endless enabling and co-dependance, and the willingness to kill that which we love for one more chance to make a killing, even as you unsuccessfully, and repeatedly, try to avoid using your own stuff. The Blue Kind is knowing in these ways, even if we don't know quite what's real, what's drug-induced, or what's going to ultimately change the lives of the characters, or the choices they make.