I couldn’t be more pleased and proud to announce the book launch of my son Nestor’s first novel, An Earth Day Eulogy. It will be held on April 19th at 2:00 p.m. at Stanford Bookstore, 519 Lasuen Mall, Stanford, California. If you live in the Bay Area, please stop by. I am coming down from Seattle for the event so I hope to see you there. Here’s a summary:

Jacob Wilder has nothing against Earth Day — he just has ‘real responsibilities’ and can’t be bothered by it. But on Earth Day Eve, the ghost of Wilder’s old platoon buddy, Eddie, announces that three spirits will visit — those of Earth’s past, present, and future — and he warns that one of two things will have to die: Earth, or our old way of life.

As Nestor’s website explains, he was born in Bangladesh, raised in Greece, and served ten years in the U.S. Navy. He has now almost completed his Master’s Degree at Stanford’s Institute of Computational and Mathematical Engineering. Interestingly, a few years ago he was accepted at the Clarion West writer’s workshop; however, the summer his class was scheduled the workshop was cancelled due to the COVID breakout. Since I attended Clarion West in 1973, to my knowledge, if he would have gone it would have been the first time that both a parent and a child attended Clarion West.

If you can’t make the book launch, you can order a physical or digital copy of the book on the website for An Earth Day Eulogy.