MEWSie DAVID HOLMBERG writes: My novel, “The Hurricane Murders,” came out recently and I’ll be doing a reading/signing at Watchung Books on Wednesday, September 15th.

I’m a former reporter for New York Newsday and a former senior editor of The Village Voice, and this novel should be of interest to Montclair media people. It’s a quasi-literary novel that’s prescient (unintentionally) about the crisis in print journalism. It’s set in South Florida in 1998. Its other themes are the false seductiveness of Florida and the victimization of women.

“The Hurricane Murders” is available to order on Amazon books.

MEWSie PHIL SIMON writes: I’m pleased to announce that you can now preorder my third book: The New Small: How small businesses are using emerging technologies to attract new customers, reduce costs, and win the war for talent

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/705402671/the-new-small-my-third-book

MEWS member Anthony Buccino will sign copies of his latest book “CANNED – Booted, bumped, down-sized, fired, forced out, hated, hired, jobless, laid off, let go, out of work, out-sourced, pink-slipped, terminated, sacked, unemployed” at.2 p.m., on Saturday, June 26, at The Stuffed Cupcake-tm, 231 Franklin Avenue, Nutley, N.J.

Fans can pick up a few signed-books for summer reads and gifts and bring home some fabulous, world-famous, stuffed cupcakes.

This collection was inspired by a conversation at the MEWS social gathering earlier this year. Stop by for details.

Authors, writers, and anyone interested in this brave new world of publishing…Please join us for a night of food, fun, and fascinating discussion! Three debut novelists appear at Watchung Booksellers on Friday May 21st at 7:00PM to discuss the process of bringing a book into the world in the latest installment of the exciting Writing Matters series.

For more information, please visit the store’s Writing Matters web page:

http://www.watchungbooksellers.com/writing-matters

CANNED
booted, bumped, down-sized, fired, forced out, hated, hired, jobless, laid off, let go, out of work, out-sourced, pink-slipped, terminated, sacked, unemployed

MEWS member Anthony Buccino publishes his latest collection of non-rhyming verse. This volume is about being down-sized on an individual basis (fired, canned, laid-off, etc.)

MEWSIE Note: This collection is available now because of a casual conversation at the MEWS get together earlier this year. One MEWSIE asked Buccino what he wrote and what might be in his desk drawer – and when the CANNED collection was mentioned, there was a certain roar of the time is now for that book.

“This collection deals with a difficult subject in a very real way. It’s strength is its realness and that is also its greatest weakness. It’s not for the faint of heart.

“A must-have for anyone who deals in human resources, personnel, recruitment, job placement, or has been fired, laid-off and is out of work. ”

Check it out, (see the free preview on the purchase link) and see for yourself.

http://www.anthonysworld.com/canned.html

The Feral Press (Oyster Bay, NY) has just published “My Mother’s Keeper,” a memoir of MEWSie NANCY GERBER’s mother’s descent into Alzheimer’s, as an illustrated booklet. The booklet is $8 and is available for sale at Watchung Plaza Home, 129B Watchung Avenue, Upper Montclair, 973-744-8100. All proceeds benefit the Alzheimer’s Poetry Project.

Charlotte will read and discuss her poem-novella THE MARRIAGES OF JACOB on Wednesday, May 6th, 7:30 p.m., West End Synagogue, 190 Amsterdam Avenue, at 69th Street, New York City 10023. Free, Refreshments. Contact: 212-579-0777 P

MEWSie STUART LUTZ writes: My oral history The Last Leaf was just published by Prometheus. On April 29th at 7PM, I will appear with 106 year old Doris Eaton Travis at the 82nd Street Barnes & Noble in NYC. Mrs. Travis is the last Ziegfeld Folly performer, and she, as a girl, danced for President Woodrow Wilson. You are cordially invited.

MEWSie PHIL SIMON, author of The Next Wave of Technologies, writes:

I’m having a little contest in which you can win a copy of my new book. Go to the link below and follow the instructions. Show off your writing chops in the process!

http://www.philsimonsystems.com/blog/announcements/contest/

More.com has invited IndieReader to send them our top 10 indie reads for Spring. If you’d like to help us decide which books to send, please go to www.indiereader.com and place your vote. May the best books win!