Live Event 1/31/26 in Beverley, MA to Raise Money for the Shirley Jackson Awards, Featuring Paul Tremblay, John Langan, Eric LaRocca, Catherynne Valente, and Me

I am so excited to invite you all to this amazing event in conjunction with the Why I Love Horror Book Tour. We are appearing at Copper Dog Books in Beverly, MA at 7pm on Saturday January 31, 2026 and we are asking for a $5 suggested donation to the Shirley Jackson Awards to enter. You can give less or more, your choice. 

Here is the link to the book store to register.

Click here for a press release from the Shirley Jackson Awards about this event with lots more details.

A huge shout out to the Shirley Jackson Awards Administrator, JoAnn Cox for working to get this all set up.

We are having this event 6 months out from the awards themselves. We feel like it is a great time to remind everyone that while all of us involved with the awards are volunteers, there are costs to administering the awards themselves, let alone our ideas about funding scholarships and travel grants to people in the future. 

That being said, this one off event is part of a grander plan that JoAnn and I envision and have already laid some basic ground work for. Ideally, we take this idea and replicate it at book stores all over America on this same weekend next year (strategically picked as the free weekend between the end of the NFL playoffs  and the Super Bowl). 

We have already talked to a few other people in other cities about hosting this on an annual basis, but first things first, we need to have this first event.

Please go here to learn more about the Shirley Jackson Awards. I am a proud member of the Advisory Board

And here to register for this event on 1/31/26.

And here for a press release from the Shirley Jackson Awards about this event with lots more details.