The essential nature of Philly sports fandom:

I expect all local yokels to come out for this, because bookstores are amazing *and* it's going to be too rainy for you to do anything but spend your day in a bookstore.

Inkwood Books, Haddonfield, NJ, IBD flier: April 25, 10am to 8pm 11am to 12pm book signing with Kory Stamper [HI, IT'S ME, I'M HERE!] ALL DAY Enter to win a giant stack of books Spend $75 to get a from IBSD tote bag Fine the golden ticket for 12 free audiobooks from Libro.fm Raffle tickets and ARCs with every purchase Special Inciardi prints in the vending machine [these are very cool] Exclusive IBSD items, bookish templrary tattoes, snacks & treats, and more free stuff! (All prizes, totes, and stuff while supplies last) 10am to 6pm: make buttons with singularity press/spin the wheel to win a prize 6pm to 8pm Indie Bookstore Day After Hours Live music with Jess & Falc Dirty Shirleys & savory snacks

Main Point Books, Indie Bookstore Day flyer: Author Appearances at Main Point Book 10am: Erin Entrada Kelly--The Second Life of Snap 10am: Candaca Spizzirri--A Moose in Chartreuse 11am: Matt Phelan--Bartleby 11am: Kyle BEckett--Pizzasaurus 12pm: Nichole Michels--The Giant Orange What-The-What!? 12pm: Jo Piazza--Everyone Is Lying To You 1pm: Alli Hoff Kosik--Too Blessed to Stress 1pm: Lori Litchman--Pennsylvania Day Trips 2pm: Kory Stamper--True Color [THAT'S ME] 2pm: Lee Kelly--My Fair Frauds 3pm: Nancy Schwartz--The Main Line Mutt 3pm: Joseph Natalicchio--Baseball's Most Outrageous Promotions 4pm: Richard McKnight--Light Many Fires 4pm: Skylar Sokolowski--Baking Simplified

PHILLY: I have two local signings on Saturday, April 25, for Indie Bookstore Day!

HADDONFIELD, NJ, Inkwood Books, 11am-noon. Lots of cool giveaways! (inkwoodnj.com)

MEDIA, PA, Main Point Books, 2-3pm. Local author extravaganza! (mainpointbooks.com)

Love your local bookstore, go Flyers!

A table in a bookstore with an iPad on it (with my lecture up) and chairs beyond it. I'm so excited to yak at everyone.

Howdy, Brooklyn! Me and my ridiculous slides are eager to see you.

Lectures on Tap - "The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color" Professors, experts, and storytellers giving thought-provoking lectures in NYC bars.

BROOKLYN FRIENDS: Lectures on Tap is releasing five more tickets for my Ridiculous Slides Funtimes this Monday night (April 20, 6:30pm). Check the link at

10:00 AM MONDAY MORNING

to snag the extra tickets!
www.eventbrite.com/e/lectures-o...

Yay, thank you! And hmm. If you can't leave a review on a local bookstore's page, then I suppose Goodreads?

Lectures on Tap - "The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color" Professors, experts, and storytellers giving thought-provoking lectures in NYC bars.

BROOKLYN FRIENDS: Lectures on Tap is releasing five more tickets for my Ridiculous Slides Funtimes this Monday night (April 20, 6:30pm). Check the link at

10:00 AM MONDAY MORNING

to snag the extra tickets!
www.eventbrite.com/e/lectures-o...

A slide from my talk about how hard it is to define colors. It is a black slide with the word "magenta" at the top, and the Elmo-in-front-of-the-fires-of-hell meme below.

Reviewing slides for my talk on how hard it is to define colors (TONIGHT! @ndbookshop.bsky.social IN CHARLOTTESVILLE! 7:00 PM!) and dang, does it feel good to be back in my presentation wheelhouse.

Aw, happy birthday, Iva!! 🎊

Allusionist 225. Hues — The Allusionist You know what's an absolutely pesky kind of word to define in a dictionary? Colour names. A passel of lexicographers spent years - decades, even - trying different ways to describe colours in words fo...

Hello! The show is back from hibernation! Alumsionist @korystamper.bsky.social explains her multi-year quest to document the multi-decade quest to define colours for Webster’s Third New International Dictionary. Listen/read at theallusionist.org/hues and of course the podplaces

SEA THRIFT! Amazing flower name, absolute rubbish color name. I love everything about this.

Charlottesville (VA) folks, come on out! Forecast calls for cheery dispositions and ridiculous slides!

QUICK, POST ABOUT BASEBALL

Yay!

Oh, the big reveal is so good! And leads to other, smaller reveals that are also so good!

"Penuche" sits in the same part of my brain as "pinochle" and "velocipede" and "rheum." A part of my brain I don't visit often.

An addendum!

Only review the book if you've actually read it. Nothing makes me cast mine eyes heavenward and mutter a fuckword like a review that is clearly based on an interview I did or someone else's review and not _the actual book I wrote_.

YES, the big reveal! Or, I guess, the biggest of the reveals? There are more coming!

Trufax: I had to redo that section twice while reading the audiobook because I kept tearing up each time. I still get a little teary when I read it.

First: Everyone who checks my book out from their local library is a gentleperson, hero, and saint. Libraries are the best.

Second: The big online retailers (sigh, yes, Amazon) are best. Yeah, I hate it, too. But you can leave good reviews in multiple places! Leave one at Bookshop.org, too!

OH, YOU CRIED AT A PART! 🥹 Is it the big reveal? Did you cry at the big reveal??

I hate this on a molecular level, but: Amazon is the place to leave reviews. You can definitely double-dip, though: leave a good review on Bookshop.org, too!

Self-promotion makes me hella itchy, tbh. But publishing is a business, and if this book looks like it's not <grits teeth> a good ROI, they're not going to buy more books from me.

I don't rely on writing for income, but I do like doing it! So help a nerd out, if you're so inclined! 2/2

Pocket friends, I have a slightly cringe request:

If you read my second dumb book (True Color! Out now! Vitamins added!) and liked it, would you consider leaving a review for it at some bookseller's website? Reviews matter to my publisher; the algorithm recommends books based on them. 1/2

A huge thank-you to @interabangbooks.bsky.social for hosting a fabulous conversation about True Color last night! Y'all are great.

If you're in the Dallas area and want a signed book, Interabang has a bunch. Go forth!

Trixie Mattel and Katya Zamo. Trixie is looking at the camera like "uh oh" and Katya has her hand up in the "stop" gesture. Behind them, in giant black and red text, it says "OH BITCH, OH BITCH"

No idea! You'll have to ask the bookstore!

Yay!

Yay!! (To books, not a solid month of 12-hr graveyard shifts.)

I just *had* to visit when Neilson was closed for renovations, it was imperative I visited *right then.* Poor Archives staff!