SMILE, HON kicks off Baltimore Book Fest!

BALTIMORE, Md. – Join Smile, Hon, You’re in Baltimore! editor, publisher, and contributing writer William P. Tandy for an evening of Mobtown mayhem Friday, September 28, 2012, beginning at 6:00 p.m. under the City Lit Tent at the Baltimore Book Festival.

Tandy will host a lineup of contributors from Alleyways, the latest installment in the long-running Smile, Hon series published by Eight-Stone Press.  Readers include:

• Earl Crown
• Girl Crown
• E. Doyle-Gillespie
• Anthony C. Hayes
• Alex Hewett
• Mary Elizabeth Mays
• Fernando Quijano III
• Geoffrey Welchman

While there, pick up a copy of Alleyways, back issues of Smile, Hon, t-shirts and more.  Plus, enjoy live musical interludes from The Wayfarers, who will mark the release of their new CD.

From the harbor to the hills, Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! collects the tales of those on whom Mobtown has left her indelible mark. Polished, professional essays; barroom sermons delivered from the sanctity of a favorite stool; the poet's fleeting sentiment, captured in both word and snapshot – Smile, Hon offers a slice of Baltimore as told by Baltimore, presented with the time-honored DIY accessibility of a limited-run, handcrafted zine. A two-time Utne Independent Press Award Nominee, Smile, Hon has also been dubbed "Best Zine" by Baltimore Magazine (2008) and Baltimore City Paper (2004).

An Eight-Stone Press production, Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! is available locally for purchase at Atomic Books (Baltimore, MD); City Lights Books (San Francisco, CA) Cyclops Books & Music (Baltimore, MD); Microcosm Publishing (Bloomington, IN, and Portland, OR); Quimby's (Chicago, IL); Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse (Baltimore, MD) and Ukazoo Books (Towson, MD).

For more information, contact:

William P. Tandy, Editor

Eight-Stone Press

P.O. Box 11064

Baltimore, Maryland 21212

E-mail: Wpt@eightstonepress.com

Website: http://www.eightstonepress.com

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/wptandy

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/eightstonepress

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