Readings for "The Thursday Appointments of Bill Sloan", Cambridge, SD, SEA, PORT, OAKLAND, LA and NYC

 Read a review of The Thursday Appointments of Bill Sloan (HERE), or some others on Amazon, then go find me on this tour

September 2, 2014 Cambridge, Ma

Book Release Party
Porter Square Books, 7 PM 

Write up HERE

Tuesday Release Party Appointment of The Thursday Appointments of Bill Sloan
Porter Square Shopping Center

with readings by Robin Stratton (Publisher of), 
Christopher Reilley (cover design) 
and Rusty Barnes (famous Blurber of)

...and then the tour



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To buy The Thursday Appointments of Bill Sloan

October 6, 2014 San Diego, California 
event WRITE UP  

The Ink Spot, 7 PM  
Monday Appointments with San Diego Writers 
NTC at Liberty Station, Barracks 16
  2730 Historic Decatur Rd., Suite 202, San Diego, Ca

 


 Featuring with Heather Fowler, Bonnie Zobell and Maggie May Ethridge

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October 9, 2014 Seattle, Washington

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Bang and a Smoke Series, Time 8 PM

The Interrobang Appointments of Timothy Gager
The Pocket Theater
8312 Greenwood Ave. N., Seattle
 

Featuring with Dave Clapper's Interrobang Improv
The Pocket Theater, 
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 October 10, 2014 Portland, Oregon

event WRITE UP

The Jade Lounge, 8 PM 

Friday Appointment with Portland Writers 
2342 SE Ankeny St., Portland, Oregon

 






Featuring with Parker Tettleton,  Dena Rash Guzman, Yuvi Zalkow, Sam Snoek-Brown,  and Julia ClareTillinghast  

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October 11, 2014  Oakland, California

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E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore, 6:30 PM

The Saturday Appointment with Bay Area Writers
410 13th St.Oakland, California

 




Featuring with Alexandra Naughton, Carmella Veronica,  Paul Murufas, Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 

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October 12, 2014 Los Angeles, California 

event WRITE UP

Roar Shack Series, 4 PM 

The Sunday Appointment with LA Writers
"826" in Echo Park 
1714 West Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, Ca 
Los Angeles, California

 


Reading with: Tanya Ward Goodman, Allison Burnett  and Jeff Edwards 
Hosted by David Rocklin 
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October 18, 2014 Cambridge, Ma

Lilly Pad, 10 PM-1 AM

The Experimental Appointment with Izihotane
1353 Cambridge, St., Cambridge, Ma

 








Reading with: Izihotane (Avant-Garde in the age of Auto-Correct. Absurd, Psychedelic, Experimental. Izikhotane is Poetry, Music, Performance Art.) Other great acts to be added. 

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November 11, 2014 Salem,  Ma

Wicked Good Books, 7 PM

Wicked Good Books
215 Essex Street, Salem Ma

 





Reading with: Michael Keith

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 November 16, 2014 New York, New York

event listing listed later

Sunday Salon, 7 PM 

Jimmy's no. 43 
43 East Seventh Street, , New York, New York

 




Reading with Mike Harvkey, Johanna Lake, Christy Crutchfield + Mel Bosworth
Hosted by Nita Noveno and Sara Lippman

  December 4, 2014 Gloucester, Ma

Author Night at Lit House, Gloucester "Ladies Night" 5-10 PM

Eastern Point Lit House
261 Main Street,
Gloucester, Ma

Signing with Barbar Boudreau, Kelly DuMar, Renee Mallett, Jenn Monroe, Ivy Page, Eric Pinder and Margaret Young



December 5, 2014 Cambridge, Ma

Dire Literary Series, 8 PM

Out of the Blue Art Gallery
541 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, Ma

with guests Michael Keith, George Wallace, and Laura Bernard



December 11, 2014 Newburyport, Ma

Newburyport High School 9 AM

Workshopping with students for Student Day of Poetry, Mass Poetry



December 12, 2014 Newton, Ma

Meet and Greet at NE Mobile Book Fair, 4-6 PM

New England Mobile Book Fair
282 Needham St,
Newton Highlands, MA

Signing and chatting with customers (right at the register)

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PREVIOUS DATES

"A Modern Form of Disorderly Conduct" nominated by Right Hand Pointing for Best of the Net Anthology

 Hipsters, hockey and homeless. That's the ticket in my story, nominated by RHP from all the wonderful work they've published in the last year. I'm grateful and lucky that they nominated me for Best of the Net Anthology.

My favorite player! She wouldn't be bothered
by no stinking fog horn.

 Here's the rest of their nominations

Prose:

Timothy Gager, “A Modern Form of Disorderly Conduct” (#71)
Meg Pokrass, "Time Lady" (#73)

Poems:

Eric Burke: "Haruspex" (#75)
Robert Scotellaro “Pallbearers for the Living” (#75)
José Angel Araguz “Kindred Spirit” (#72)
Sarah J. Sloat “Heiress to a Small Ruin” (2014 mini-chapbook)
Jon Densford “Omline” (#66)
Lauren Gordon: "Your poem is learning language" (2014 mini-chapbook)

Trying not to be a hypocrite in the asking for money world.

"Just people begging for money"

"If you can't afford to do something than don't do it."

"Modern Socialism"

"They appear to be doing ok. Give to those who really are less fortunate."

"There are so many stupid projects out there, I don't want to be the stupid one funding them."


You've heard all these and heard many of these from me. I've be vocal against kickstarter and other such places because I'm just plan tired of people asking for money. When "The Thursday Appointments of Bill Sloan" was announced I decided to go West to California all the way up to Washington State because I've never read on that coast. My friends out there have been asking for a long time for me to do so. So I've booked a cheap flight, rented a car, made plans to surf sofas and it all seems to have worked out--except now I'm having doubts.

 HERE is my gofundme for West Coast and Charity Tour. (click this link) Yes, I'm giving half of it away because it makes me feel like I'm no hypocrite. 



Here's some nuts and bolts.

Costs:

Flight Boston to San Diego, Round trip ($350)

3 day rental car ($106 mileage $100)

                                                 $556

Flight San Diego to Seattle One way ($73)

                                                 $73

Drive Seattle to Portland    FREE

Flight Portland to San Francisco One Way ($69)

                                                          $69

Flight San Francisco to Los Angeles One Way ($71)

                                                                        $71

Flight Los Angeles to San Diego, One Way one day rental car ($156 and $82)

                                                                                                            $238

Shipping of Books to various locations ($35)

                                                                   $35

Meals on the road, 9 days--on the cheap $25 a day $225. Normal $450--so lets so ($337.50)

                                                                                                                              $337.50

Total of Flights and Rental Cars: $1,329.50

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My goal is $1200 donated of which half I will write a check to a random donor's charity. This is how I can live with asking for money. Money will be used for gas, tolls, maybe a hotel when I'm exhausted.  Even when asking, there will be certain levels--for example

The $26 level gives you a $16 dollar book. My net is ten and of which I give half to a charity. My take is $5.

The $100 level  Get a signed copy of the novel and four other of my books, a personal CD reading from the novel and a tour of Boston if you ever visit here. The net is $20, I give half to a charity, my take is $10. The tour of Boston=Priceless

Anything less than $26, I net all (50-50 with charity). I'm not looking to pay for this trip through anyone, but any small amount I net would be a bonus, a little help and/or a Supersized meal vs. a Regular. What it most likely do is allow me to stay somewhere to sleep, or pay for part of a flight)

I have 3539 friends on Facebook. The minimum on Gofundme is $5. If only 200 of the 3539 did this, I'd be set for my goal. If everyone threw me fifty cents outside of the site, that would work too.

That's the deal--so share, donate or bitch about it, which is fine because I've done that myself. If you just want to buy The Thursday Appointments of Bill Sloan when it comes out, that's great!

Teisha Dawn Twomey and I tell the real, I mean the fake story in The Cape Fear Review

Usually, stories do not begin in a room where the hairdryer is secured to a wall, but this one does and it's a sad one. That's how it begins. It ends with " I’m sorry my love, so sorry, sweet darling."

Being Aesthetically Pleasing is Teisha and my third published co-written story. This one was driven by Teisha, and I felt I was just in for the ride, co-piloting with various bridges, connections and transitions which helped make it work. Thanks again to the kind folks at Cape Fear Review. We are no longer scared. 


Ooooooo nice

First review of soon to be released "The Thursday Appointments of Bill Sloan"

Here it is in The Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene

review by Rene Schwiesow


Soon to be available, pre-release sale occurring soon.

The Thursday Appointments of Bill Sloan

Timothy Gager

Big Table Publishing

Release date: Only a few more weeks

$16.00 available as a special order from select books stores

and at most online book retailers

By Rene Schwiesow

A few years ago Timothy Gager contacted me and asked if I might like to read the draft of his novel and offer some edit suggestions. Who am I to turn down the opportunity to read a book, especially a book by a writer I respect and whose work I have admired? I accepted and, once I began reading, I happily took note of its unique formatting style. “The Thursday Appointments of Bill Sloan” showcases Gager’s development of his fearless, individual voice. He introduces us to his well-crafted characters first through the clinical notes taken by Bill Sloan, their more-than-struggling-himself therapist.

Gager offers this one line synopsis: “A story of a man whose job it is to help people, but in reality, he is inept, sarcastic, and each and every day represents something to get through.” Sloan is definitely inept and sarcastic and I’ll throw unethical into the mix. The journey through Bill Sloan’s days, however, brings transformation to Gager’s characters, ultimately also transforming Sloan; but as with all transformational journeys the shifts are not without their tragedies. Gager takes quirky characters experiencing grief, past trauma, and existential angst and adds his unique humor intertwining the characters’ lives through their clinical liason, and a twist on counseling Lucy Van Pelt style when the character Kate Hummingbird Warrior sets up a sidewalk therapy stand.

Sloan is therapist meet greed and self-centered absorption. More concerned with promoting Bill Sloan than healing his clients, he spirals downward and out of control. The question is can alternative healing, angry, self-deprecating clients, and a wolf be enough to save him from himself? Can his demise be enough to save his clients from their own self-absorbed morass?

No, Gager’s work does not follow your typical novel template. How refreshing. The formatting captures the reader’s attention from the get-go. Rusty Barnes, co-founder Night Train Magazine and author of “Reckoning,” calls “The Thursday Appointments of Bill Sloan” a “gangbusters novel.” Meg Tuite, author of “Bound by Blue” says “Get a Copy!” This reviewer agrees on both counts. Do yourself a favor and pick this novel up immediately upon release!

Plans for the 4th? "Rockwellian BBQ at The Town Green" . See you at the grill

Oddball Magazine published my small town based, based in the early70's poem "Rockwellian BBQ at The Town Green" Much food was devoured, many ideals were lost.

Ira Joel Haber

Ibbetson 35 is out, with the late Ed Galing on the cover

Doug Holder and Harris Gardner have done it again. Honored to have my poem, "About Making Love" in this print issue.

About Making Love                

 by Timothy Gager
 
Something released, birds
flew homeward, better than
pigeons homing, better than
cages, we talked about
vexing inward, in land
there is dark
lit tunnels, shadowy, deep,
we talked about
making love, comfort,
and about birds.

Also in this issue, Michael Collier, Marge Piercy, Brendan Galvin, Ted Kooser, Daniel Tobin, Laura Cherry, Lawrence Kessenich, Irene Koronas, Kathleen Spivack, Ralph Pennel, Teisha Dawn Twomey, Richard Hoffman and many more friends and poets I'm proud to be associated with

To order it go to the publisher's on-line bookstore

Coming Soon: The Thursday Appointments of Bill Sloan (a novel)...some blurbs and West Coast Schedule-SD, Sea, Portland, Oakland and LA

Some Reviews from 
a) The Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene
b) Amazon 

  As the son of two psychoanalysts, I feel qualified in diagnosing Timothy Gager as a very sick human being and a fearless writer. His prose is odd, mordant, and disobedient. Read him at your peril.

Steve Almond, “God Bless America: Stories”
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Timothy Gager's “The Thursday Appointments of Bill Sloan” is a gangbusters novel, its characters sharply defined against a backdrop both tense and funny. Bill Sloan is the therapist no one wants, especially since you might say he needs therapy more than his patients. This is a great read.

Rusty Barnes, co-founder Night Train Magazine, author of “Reckoning”
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Timothy Gager blasts another beauty of twisted humanity at its best in “The Thursday Appointments of Bill Sloan”. Gager steers us “like a bird without wings” through this hilarious and strangely familiar brood of characters, accelerating and diving down into the intricacies and mania of our own inner pathos. Get a copy!

–Meg Tuite, “Bound By Blue”   

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September 2, 2014 Cambridge, Ma

Book Release Party

event listing Porter Square Books, 7 PM 

Tuesday Release Pary Appointment of The Thursday Appointments of Bill Sloan
Porter Square Shopping Center

with readings by Robin Stratton (Publisher of), 
Christopher Reilley (cover design) 
and Rusty Barnes (famous Blurber of)

...and then the tour

(to help fund the tour with half going to charity, while reading the reasons, go HERE)

 
 October 6, 2014 San Diego, California 
event listing The Ink Spot, 7 PM 

Monday Appointments with San Diego Writers 
2730 Historic Decatur Rd., Suite 203, San Diego, Ca

Featuring with Heather Fowler, Maggie May Ethridge and Bonnie Zobell

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October 9, 2014 Seattle, Washington

event listing

Bang and a Smoke Series, Time 8 PM

The Interrobang Appointments of Timothy Gager
The Pocket Theater
8312 Greenwood Ave. N., Seattle
 
Featuring with Dave Clapper's Interrobang Improv
The Pocket Theater, 
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October 10, 2014 Portland, Oregon

event listing

The Jade Lounge, 8 PM 

Friday Appointment with Portland Writers 
2342 SE Ankeny Portland, Oregon

Featuring with Parker Tettleton, Liz Prato, Dena Rash Guzman
Yuvi Zalkow, Sam Snoek-Brown,  and Julia ClareTillinghast  
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October 11, 2014  Oakland, California

event listing listed later 

E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore

The Saturday Appointment with Bay Area Writers
410 13th St.Oakland, California

Featuring with Alexandra Naughton and TBA
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October 12, 2014 Los Angeles, California 

event listing

Roar Shack Series, 4 PM 

The Sunday Appointment with LA Writers
826 in Echo Park 1714 West Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, Ca 
Los Angeles, California

Reading with: Tanya Ward Goodman, Kima Jones and Jeff Edwards 
Hosted by David Rocklin 
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 November 16, 2014 New York, New York

event listing listed later

Sunday Salon, 7 PM 

Jimmy's no. 43 
43 East Seventh Street, , New York, New York

Hosted by Nita Noveno and Sara Lippman

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Cape Fear Review publishes "Iron Mike Behind Bars"

In 2013, I heard an interview with Mike Tyson and his main concern was that no matter how hard we wants to be considered and viewed as a good person, it's impossible. He thanks his wife for understanding him and looking past all that-and also for accepting him as a common man, no longer with a heavyweight income.

I was struck by his interview because it softened the hardened negative opinion I'd had of him. This piece of empathy and truth I gained from the interview is what I drew from when I wrote this story (which appears HERE.)






Thanks to Cape Fear Review, a new market for writers. Here's what they say, Cape Fear Review is a biannual effort, conceived, edited, and produced by Vallie Lynn Watson and Gregory Napp, whose friendship dates from some time in 2005, somewhere in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where they studied and played at the Center for Writers.

Cape Fear Review publishes two issues per year, summer and winter, releasing two stories into the wild each week until that season’s issue is fully at large. We currently operate on a solicitation-only basis.

Podcast from Eastern Point Lit House reading.

Inside Eastern Point Lit House

Gloucester-Third reading in five days as "The Shutting Door Tour" is now almost finished. Some of my set was captured here and it's half new poems and the other half are read from the book.

Eastern Point Lit House is a great place where there are readings, workshops and books for sale. They are also an arm of Eastern Point Press. Check out the link for all their events and offerings.

There I saw the owners and friends Christopher Anderson and Jenn Monroe---I know it's cliche to say "good people" but they are good people.