Bacon Academy held its third annual Sleigh Bells Arts & Crafts Fair at Bacon Academy in Colchester, Connecticut. This year Hebron author Stacey Longo was on-hand selling and signing her books including Secret Things and Pookie and the Lost & Found Friend.
Author Stacey Longo holding her book, Secret Things.
She also had a number of anthologies she has stories in at her table. One of the anthologies was Insanity Tales, which was published this past October.
Books & Boos, which closed its physical location at the end of May, is continuing to do events like it was doing when the bookstore was still open. This weekend will give people two opportunities to visit the traveling bookstore.
The first opportunity to visit the bookstore will be Saturday at the Connecticut Horrorfest. Along with used books, people will be able to meet authors Stacey Longo and G. Elmer Munson and get them to sign one of their books. The horrorfest takes place at the Courtyard Waterbury Marriott located at 63 Grand Street in Waterbury, CT. It runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The second opportunity happens on Sunday when Books & Boos takes part in the Open Air Market and Festival at the Wadsworth Mansion in Middletown, Connecticut. This will be the bookstore’s second appearance at this event, which runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Wadsworth Mansion is located at 421 Wadsworth St. in Middletown, CT. Longo will also be signing her books at this event as well. She is joined by authors Dan Foley, Dale T. Phillips, and Joseph Ross.
The bookstore, Books & Boos was involved with the Jaycees Fourth Annual Spring Fair on Sunday, May 18. Normally, this event is held on a Saturday, but the organizers decided to move it to the rain date this year since the weather wasn’t looking too good for May 17. Click here for the previous article about this event. Click here for pictures from the 2012 Spring Fair when I, Jason Harris of Jason Harris Promotions, organized a vendor spot for the New England Horror Writers organization (NEHW).
Click here to see pictures on the Books & Boos’ website from this event.
Author Dale T. Phillips also posted pictures from the event on his website. You can find them here.
There will be three authors at the Books & Boos’ tables during the Foxboro Jaycees Fourth Annual Spring Fair happening this Sunday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Foxboro, MA.
The three authors people can meet are Stacey Longo, Dale T. Phillips, and Vlad Vaslyn. Fair attendees will be able to purchase these author’s books and get them signed as well. Longo will have her short story collection, Secret Things, Phillips will have his horror thriller, Shadow of the Wendigo, and Vaslyn will have his science fiction thrill, The Button.
Along with the authors, there will be crafters, artists, and vendors at the Spring Fair.
The fair was originally scheduled for Saturday, but the prospect of rainy weather caused the organizers to hold the fair on its rain date. The fair is being held on the Foxboro Common in Foxboro, MA.
I have been to many craft fairs as a patron and as a vendor. I use to set-up events at craft fairs and open air markets for the New England Horror Writers (NEHW) organization. These events were very successful for the NEHW so I have continued setting-up events like these for my bookstore, Books & Boos, which I co-own with my wife. Along with these shows, I also set-up events such as conventions and comic book shows for the bookstore. You can find out about these Books & Boos’ events here.
At the 41st Annual Craft Fair held at the Keefe Technical School in Framingham, MA. yesterday, there were the usual jewelry sellers, dog stuff, and handmade wooden bird houses. There was one unusual seller at this craft fair. The vendor was Frankenstein Medical School, which is owned and operated by Jerry Stiles. He sells finger hooks, coffin-shaped keepsake boxes, and interesting magnets.
Jerry Stiles
Coffin-Shaped Keepsake Box
Magnets
One of Stiles’ magnets.
Finger hooks.
Stiles has a site on Esty, you can check it out here.
This Friday, the Bozrah Farmer’s Market welcomes 18 authors and illustrators.
The farmer’s market takes place from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Maple Farm Park located at 45 Bozrah Street in Bozrah, Connecticut.
Here is the list of the 18 authors and/or illustrators who will be selling and signing their work:
Donna Marie Merritt
Lee Ann Graham
Julie Wakely
Liz Michalski
James Rourke
Richard Haesche
Melissa Damon
Susan Scheyder
Ryan San Angelo
Pat Demers Kaneda
Matthew Goldman
Laura Jacques
Carol Majewski
Trent Young
Dan Waters
Jan Grosskopf
Stacey Longo
Mary Elizabeth Lang
There will also be over 30 vendors at this event. Live music will be performed by Boom Chuck.
Check out the market’s website here.
The 11th Annual Open Air Market and Festival took place this past Sunday at the Wadsworth Mansion in Middletown, Connecticut. According to Deborah Moore, the event’s organizer, she believes there were record crowds. A record number of vendors participated in the event as well, she said. There were over 80 vendors.
Why A Spoon
Raymond J. Medeiros Jr., a spoon carver, operates Why a Spoon. He sales wood carved spoons and “treen ware.” You can check out his website here.
More products from Why a Spoon.
The Farmer’s Cow. There are five farms operating under that brand in Connecticut.
The Creative Salt Dough Arts & Crafts booth.
The Creative Salt Dough Arts & Crafts is located in Middletown and is operated by Kisha Michael. You can check out her website here.
The Books & Boos tent.
The Books & Boos bookstore is located at 514 Westchester Road in Colchester, Connecticut. You can find it’s website here.
Cato Corner Farm, located in Colchester, Connecticut.
The next three pictures are of the work by Rustica Ornamentals. You can find the website here.
A picture facing towards the mansion.
Vivienne McGarry, owner of Cold Goats Farm.
York Road Pottery
The products of York Road Pottery.
York Road Pottery is owned and operated by Cynthia Wallace, who works with pottery and weaving. She is located in Kensington, CT.
A far shot of the Open Air Market and Festival at the Wadsworth Mansion in Middletown, CT. (2011)
Books & Boos will be one of the 80 plus vendors at this event. There will be 8 authors at the bookstore’s tent. The authors are Stacey Longo, Rob Watts, G. Elmer Munson, Erin Thorne, Craig D.B. Patton, Dale T. Phillips, Vlad Vaslyn, and Dan Foley, who will be selling their books there. There will also be Zombie Poe t-shirts, mugs, and keychains, wooden bookmarks, hand-carved wine stoppers and bowls, crocheted Cthulhus and reused flatware creations.
The Open Air Market and Festival takes place at the Wadsworth Mansion at Long Hill Estate. It’s located at 421 Wadsworth Street in Middletown, Connecticut. It runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. You can check out the other vendors here.
Crocheted Cthulhus
Jim Dyer and his independent publishing house, Fenham Publishing, will be at the Gaspee Days Arts and Crafts Festival in Warwick, Rhode Island, this weekend. It’s a three-day event, which runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday and from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Monday.
Stop by his table to speak with him and to find out about the books he has published.
Dyer, the grandson of author C.M. Eddy, Jr., got the idea about publishing his grandfather’s collections after going through his grandparent’s papers and manuscripts. He wanted to produce a cohesive collection of their works, he said.
According to a 1963 Providence Evening Bulletin article, Eddy knew and worked with Houdini and H.P. Lovecraft. He was one of Houdini’s ghost writers along with Lovecraft. This article also states that Eddy’s wife typed up Lovecraft’s manuscripts.
His grandmother had written quite a few essays and remembrances of H.P. Lovecraft throughout the years for various magazines, newspapers, fanzines and books, he said.
“Many people wanted her to give her personal memories and view of Lovecraft, as she knew him as a friend,” Dyer said.
Dyer’s publishing house is located in Narragansett.
For more information about the Gaspee Days Arts and Crafts Festival, click here or to find out more about Fenham Publishing, click here.
Here is another article about Dyer, click here.
The New England Horror Writers will be at the indoor Heritage Craft Fair in Framingham, MA. this coming Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Authors on hand will be Rob Smales, Rob Watts, Erin Thorne, Rose Mambert, Tracy Carbone, Bracken MacLeod, and Scott Goudsward.
The craft fair will be held at the Keefe Technical School, located at 750 Winter Street in Framingham, MA.
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