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Free the Bear Indie Bookstore Partners

Free the Bear author, CD Spensley, believes strongly in the importance of independent bookstores and actively seeks partnerships with local booksellers. There’s nothing like an indie bookstore to provide direct connection to readers, offering knowledge and individualized help, as well as book readings, local information, and overall involvement in the community. Most likely you will…

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December 6th Reading!

Join us for our first Bookstore reading at Green Apple Books original location in San Francisco on December 6th at 7:15PM! We love Green Apple and are quite excited to be reading there. https://www.facebook.com/events/497917633919421/

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Readings etc. update!

Our first reading in SF went off swimmingly. A great gathering and we sold nearly every book. What fun autographing! The next reading is on December 6th at 7PM at Green Apple Books in San Francisco’s Richmond District. We will also be appearing at the Bolinas Craft Festival on December 16th and 17th. What fun…

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Fiction is art and should not be confused with reality

Dear Free the Bear! readers. Judging by some of the posts on the @FreetheBear! Facebook page, there is some confusion about the fact that this is a fictional novel. A fictional novel is a work of art that should not be confused with some kind of political manifesto. Read the novel or don’t but judge…

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Push back from the right…

We expected that some people might be a little critical of a premise that includes defying the US Government. What we didn’t expect is that people would not recognize that Free the Bear! is a novel, an artwork and NOT a manifesto for a secession movement. The Facebook page had exactly 8 comments on it…

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Much to do!

There is always something to do for an indie author, today we worked on polishing up the bios and creating the Amazon author page. The forecast is creation of a card to hand out to people, scheduling the hard launch party, setting up book readings and so on! An indie author’s work is never done,…

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