Join us at Hallwalls to celebrate the release of Buffalo native Timothy Schmand's new novella, The Danbury Chronicles! Set in a working-class Buffalo neighborhood during Thanksgiving 1969, The Danbury Chronicles is an unflinching coming-of-age story following twelve-year-old Patrick Barry as he navigates family tensions, street rituals, and one epic football game during a weekend blizzard. 

This event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase and signing courtesy of Talking Leaves Books. Purchasing your book from Talking Leaves is the best way to show your support.

“The Danbury Chronicles is a vivid snapshot of a working-class community revealing the  poignant humor and stark realities of growing up amidst life's absurdities.” 
— JJ Colagrande, author of Reduce Heat Continue to Boil and Decò. 

Timothy Schmand left Buffalo to join a wagon train and settled in South Florida in 1982. His fiction, though rooted in reality, never strays far from an imagined world where a hole dug in the ground might lead to China. His work has appeared in numerous literary journals, popular magazines, and anthologies. His novels Just Johnson: The London Delivery and The True Tales of Bad Benny Taggart are published by Jitney Books.

Haunted forests, Gothic castles, Ouija boards, spirits, phantoms, and things that go bump in the night: throughout literary history, audiences and authors have been captivated by ghosts, whether they be frightening or benevolent, literal or metaphorical. Just in time for Halloween, a group of genre-bending authors with new middle grade, young adult, and adult novels from Regal House will share excerpts from their work, talk about their writing processes, and offer strategies for writing haunted stories. A few copies of their books will be available for purchase and signing.

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