tor’cha reading and book signing event

good people, wanted to make sure i came back through real quick to share the good news with you, and give you all the necessary information. i hope you can make it out to this event: it’ll be a talk about “returning home”, a reading from the novel tor’cha and a book signing. it’s home-team for me, so i’m excited to bring back where it’s supposed to be!

here are all the vitals:

Saturday, May 31 – 3:00pm
Queens Library – Long Island City
37-44 21 Street
718-752-3700

you can get details and directs by downloading the pdf for the event at:

http://www.queenslibrary.org/index.aspx?page_id=126&section_id=12&branch_id=Lic

in the meantime, check the press release below…beautiful things are going on…y’all heard it first!!!

peace

SWANK BOOKS
P.O. Box 300447, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 617-512-7763

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Bilal Polson
Tel. 516/424-9163
Email: events@blackerinwells.com

TODD CRAIG TO GIVE FIRST

NYC READING OF DEBUT

NOVEL, tor’cha

Swank Books Will Donate

Copies to Grub Street’s YAWP

Long Island City, NY May 31, 2008 – Swank Books is pleased to announce that Todd Craig will read from and discuss his cinematic first novel, tor’cha, at the Long Island City Public Library at 3:00 PM.

In his coming-of-age tale of three African American brothers tempted and tested in their struggle to be moral men in a corrupt world, Craig paints a hopeful portrait of urban life. His talk will gesture towards the positive choices youth in the community can make. A product of New York City housing himself, Craig will also discuss what it means to “come home” as an intellectual and as a writer, and the importance of contribution.

Craig said about his first New York City reading, “The Long Island City Public Library is right in the middle of Queensbridge and Ravenswood projects – I grew up running back and forth between the two, so it’s really a homecoming of sorts.”

In the spirit of “giving back,” Craig will announce that the first market to which he will donate tor’cha, will be Grub Street’s Young Adult Writers Program (YAWP). In addition, Prodigy, of Mobb Deep, who is featured on tor’cha’s accompanying soundtrack, and Voxonic Records (formally known as Infamous / Voxonic Music) will be purchasing between 100-200 books to donate to underprivileged youth in 5-7 markets across the country.

When asked about the Infamous / Voxonic donation for tor’cha, Havoc, of Mobb Deep, said, “Todd’s been down with us since the very beginning-he’s part of the foundation. He’s talked to us about this book and soundtrack idea for years. Me and P both worked with Todd on different projects – he’s an ill writer. So when the time came for his book, we was all happy that we could support him. I worked with him on the soundtrack, and P and Voxonic came through on the donation. He’s really trying to make change in the hood by getting the kids to read. Who can be mad at that?”

YAWP is a free creative writing workshop for high school students offered by Grub Street, a non-profit writing center committed to nurturing writers and connecting readers with the abundance of literary talent in the greater Boston area.

Swank Books is a non-profit cooperative, founded in 2004, dedicated to the survival of independent fiction.

If you’d like more information about tor’cha or Todd Craig, please visit www.blackerinkwells.com