Booksburgh, 5 Author Tour of Pittsburgh
October 19th • 1-6pm
We’d never done anything quite like #Booksburgh, a 5 Author tour of Pittsburgh bookstores. We took a day and book-hopped through five shops. Each featured one of our authors who did a short reading and Q&A but all the books were available at each stop and most of the authors were there to sign as well. The event was sponsored by PARSEC and many thanks go out to Diane Turnshek and Laurie Mann for all their help setting the event up. Multiple locations kept us hustling but also gave the event lots of energy and the chance to meet new people at each stop. Every store was different and had its own personality which added to the atmosphere of adventure.
Our schedule looked like this:
- Michael Arnzen at 1pm at Carnegie Mellon Bookstore — 5000 Forbes Ave.
- Stephanie Wytovich at 2pm at The Big Idea Bookstore – 4812 Liberty Ave.
- Matt Betts at 3pm at The Muse Stand – 4524 Liberty Ave.
- Heidi Ruby Miller at 4pm at Bradley’s Books – 125 West Station Square Drive
- Jason Jack Miller at 5pm at Eljays Books – 3233 W Liberty, (under new management as Rickert & Beagle Bookstore)
- Matt Betts is such a gearhead!
- We “decorated” a mask at CMU with our signatures.
- Jennifer Barnes signs the mask
- Jason models the mask
- John Edward Lawson and Diane Turnshek
- Michael Arnzen getting his “game face” on
- Diane Turnshek, Heidi Ruby Miller, K. Ceres Wright
- Heidi and bookstore host Katie
- The Big Idea was a neat co-op store
- Stephanie Wytovich in the pooky basement!
- Wytovich reading
- Meeting Michelle Lane for the first time
- What’s the Big Idea?
- On our way to the next stop!
- The audience awaits Matt Betts
- Matt Betts at The Muse Book Stand
- How much for that Betts in the window?
- Matt Betts reading
- Heidi Ruby Miller at Bradley’s Books
- Greenshift was our best seller!
- Bradley’s Books
- K. Ceres Wright, Al Wendland
- Jason Jack Miller reading
- Heidi Ruby Miller reading
- Nice books!
- Jennifer Barnes, Chris Stout