Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch—in situ

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.

Where is Waldo? Taken before my Elliott Bay Book Company workshop.

The shelf by the door at Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle, Nov. 3, 2012.

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

David Foster Wallace and moi at [words] in Maplewood, NJ, on Oct. 16, 2012.

I love it that my reading is advertised in the window of a hamburger joint in Jersey.

NY writer Paul Strassfield glimpsed the book at Barnes & Noble on 86th St. & Lexington.

The B & N saleswoman takes a peek, at the urging of Paul Strassfield.

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.