Recently, following a Google rabbit-hole search on “Brave Men Run — A Novel of the Sovereign Era,” I discovered that the book was part of the Denver, Colorado public library system. I tweeted about it, and twitter pal @ClaudiaC went and asked her own local library to order it… and they did!

That’s when my wheels started turning, my friends.

Let’s try something together that will help boost sales and raise awareness of the book. I’d like each of you to visit your local public library and ask if they have “Brave Men Run — A Novel of the Sovereign Era” in their inventory.

If they do, awesome — check it out and take a picture of yourself at the library with the book and send the picture to me.

If they don’t, ask them if they’ll order it for the library and hold it for you once it arrives… then check it out and take a picture of yourself at the library with the book, as above, and send the picture to me.

The goal, of course, is to get “Brave Men Run — A Novel of the Sovereign Era” on the shelves of every library in America and the world (school libraries count!), and to check it out so that it has a history of being read at that library, since they will “discard” books that don’t have circulation. Think you can help with that?

Here’s what I’ll do to make it fun:

• For every ten pictures I receive proving that a library has stocked “Brave Men Run — A Novel of the Sovereign Era,” I will randomly select one person to receive a free one-year subscription to my serial fiction webzine, “Hazy Days and Cloudy Nights.”
• For every fifty pictures received, I’ll randomly select one person to get a free one-year subscription to “Hazy Days and Cloudy Nights” and an autographed copy of “Brave Men Run — A Novel of the Sovereign Era.”

Some Rules

Because the goal is to get the book in as many library systems as possible, you can do this more than once… but keep in mind we’re not counting individual library branches but library systems. For example, the Denver Public Library system services many different library branches.

Also note that your picture must show proof that the book is part of the library system and that you checked it out… no fair just taking your own copy of “Brave Men Run — A Novel of the Sovereign Era” into the library and taking a picture, you scamp.

This campaign will run at least until I receive ten pictures… if there’s lots of success, we’ll keep it up! Please spread the word about this campaign, any way you can.

Get to it! Go visit your local library and get “Brave Men Run,” or get ‘em to get it for you!

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