Here’s an invitation to all my friends and readers: If you see Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch in a store, on a shelf, at a friend’s or anywhere else, take a snapshot and send it to me at connie[at]sinandsyntax.com. I’ll post it here along with a caption.

Mediabistro’s Carmen Scheidel gives her slant to things on Oct. 22, at Gusto Ristorante in the West Village, NYC.

Vitrine in Massachusetts, on Oct. 12, 2012, as I arrive for a magical evening with bookseller Nat and select bibliophiles.

Vex, Hex in triplicate, with its little sis, Sin and Syntax, which apparently has a following among Amherst students.

My cousin Rob Ramsdell caught his son Ben reading to my godson Christopher Scanlon Shelby at a book party in Cambridge, MA, on Oct. 13, 2012.

Monica Campbell snapped this at Green Apple Books in San Francisco on Oct. 14, 2012, the day before the official release.



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