Confirmed: Feb 7 Morgan Campbell Book Signing at Indigo Erin Mills

Back with another personal invitation.

If Super Bowl Sunday is a secular holiday, then Super Bowl Saturday is the new Christmas Eve, and if you’re in the area I’d love if you spent some of it with me at Indigo Erin Mills (5015 Glen Erin Drive, Mississauga, Ont.), where I’ll be hanging out all afternoon, signing copies of My Fighting Family: Borders and Bloodlines and The Battles That Made Us.

Put it in your calendar, send a note to yourself on your smart phone. Create a countdown on your preferred social media platform, or write on a Post-It Note and stick it on your fridge. Just make sure you come through. If you have a copy, bring it. If you need one, buy it on site. I’ll sign it with my purple sharpie either way.

If you’re a longtime reader, you’ll remember I visited this bookstore last spring. You’ll also recall that I sold every copy, which was an absolute blessing, even though we had to send a few folks home with empty hands and promise I’d sign their book next time.

Well, next time is here but a few things have changed since last May.

First, as I keep reminding everyone who cares and a few people who don’t, are the awards and nominations. They piled up quickly last spring and summer. Doesn’t mean that the price of the brick is going up, but if I can parlay them into enough sales it might net me a few extra pennies in my next book contract.

Second, as we’ve discussed recently, paperback pub date is coming. New launch, new marketing push, new cover. I’ve seen the design and I love it, but I’m also deeply attached to the original cover, and I urge you to grab your OG copy before the hardcover becomes scarce.

Of course, the book promotion hustle doesn’t care about your awards or new cover designs, just that you’re out there with your book, meeting readers and making relationships. So if you’re new here, I’ll re-introduce you:

If you’re interested in a memoir about growing up Black and American in Canada, in a family whose two halves are at war…

If you’re curious about how history, heritage and the here-and-now intersect and overlap to help form personal identity…

If you like stories about fistfghts, football, smoky jazz clubs and sleazy slow jams…

If you’re eager to read a long-overdue Love Letter to Black America…

Then My Fighting Family is for you.

This appearance at Indigo Erin Mills is my first official Black History Month engagement, but there will be more. It’s February, everybody’s fav Black writer is either fully booked or still accepting bookings for the next few weeks.

As for me?

I’m both. I have some open slots on my calendar, but while you’re here I’ll remind you that on Feb 25 I’ll be at the Cyril Clark Theatre in Brampton for an Author Talk, organized by Brampton Public Library and the FOLD, in conversation with a TBA VIP. If you’re interested, register here.

I’ll discuss that event in more detail a little closer to the date, but for now set a reminder and carve a few minutes out of your schedule for Super Bowl Saturday to come meet your next fav book and your new fav author.

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