Appearances & Events




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- LEVIN






May 17 — Raymond Carver Writing Festival, Clatskanie, Oregon

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Silicon Valley Reads 2016 events - January 26 - March 20 -  SVR calendar here - I will be down in the Silicon Valley a ton for their truly awesome Silicon Valley Reads program. Here are the publish-able dates. Hope to see you there!

(not listed: I will be visiting various high schools during the Silicon Valley Reads period)

January 26 -  Silicon Valley Reads Kick-off - Heritage Theater  - Emmi Itäranta, author of Memory of Water, and Benjamin Parzybok, author of Sherwood Nation, are interviewed on stage by Mercury News columnist Sal Pizarro.  Co-sponsored by Commonwealth Club Silicon Valley.

February 16 -  Santa Clara University, Learning Commons, St. Clare Room - 4pm - interviewed by SCU faculty member John Farnsworth, followed by audience Q&A and book signing.

February 17 -  West Valley College, Campus Center, The Baltic Room - 12:30pm

February 17 -  Milpitas Library - 7pm

February 18 -  Los Altos Library - 7pm

February 19 -  Berryessa Branch Library - 1pm

February 20 -  Evergreen Branch Library - 1pm

February 20 -  Santa Teresa Branch Library - 3pm

March 7 -  The Tech Museum - 6 - 7:30pm: "Could it happen here?" Panel: Discussing “Could It Happen Here” with author Parzybok are panelists:

  • Dr. Brian Green, Assistant Director, Campus Ethics, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics and Assistant Director of Engineering, Santa Clara University
  • Jim Fiedler, Chief Operating Officer, Water Utility, Santa Clara Valley Water District
  • Additional panelists to be announced
  • Moderated by Barbara Marshman, Editorial Page Editor, Mercury News.

    • March 8 - Santa Clara County Office of Education - 10 - 11:30 -  "Chance of Rain: The impact of climate change in our lives"  followed by a signing until 11:30 a.m. Books will be available for purchase.

    March 8 - West Valley Branch Library - 4pm

    March 8 -  Morgan Hill Library - 7pm

    March 9 - Pearl Avenue Branch Library - 5:30pm

    March 10 -  Evergreen Valley College, Montgomery Hall - 2pm

    March 10 -  Tully Community Branch Library - 5:30pm

    March 19 -  Willow Glen Branch Library - 2pm

    March 20  -  Cupertino Community Hall - 1-3pm at   Cupertino Community Hall.  Closing Event of Silicon Valley Reads 2016! - Authors Emmi Itäranta and Benjamin Parzybok discuss their books and the Silicon Valley Reads experience with Nancy Howe, Santa Clara County Librarian and co-chair of Silicon Valley Reads.   Co-sponsored by the Cupertino Library Foundation.

    October 29th: Loggernaut Reading Series - Ristretto, 3808 N. Williams Ave, Portland, OR - 7:30pm

    September 10 - 12: Montana Book Festival: I’ll be doing a panel (and more?) with Shya Scanlon, Sharma Shields, and J. Robert Lennon

    September 14 - 25: Residency at Playa

    June 25th, 2015: LitHop 2015

    November 29th, 2014: Broadway Books for Indies First, Portland, Or

    December 4th, 2014: Auntie’s Bookstore, Spokane, Wa - with Samuel Ligon!

    June 28th - ALA Conference in Las Vegas

    ‘Meet the Author’ - Exhibit hall, Booth 343, 1:30pm - 2pm

    Panel, Quirky books for Quirky Librarians - Convention center #N252 - 3:00pm - 4:30pm (along with: Jennifer Holland, Ian Doesher, Andrew Mayne, Liz Climo, and Caitlin Dougherty. Moderated by Barbara Hoffert.)

    September 9th, 2014: Novel launches!

    September 11th, 2014: on KBOO’s ‘Between the Covers’ 11:00-11:30am

    September 16th, 2014: Powell’s City of Books downtown, 7:30pm (See event page)

    September 26th, 2014: On ‘The Record’, KUOW Seattle, 12pm-1pm

    September 27th, 2014: PNBA- Sweet & Greet - Tacoma, WA 8:30 - 10pm

    October 15th, 2014: Elliot Bay Books - Seattle, WA - 7pm




    This box is you.

    Some adventures can be undertaken name-less. This is not one of them.


    Go ahead! it'll be fine...

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    Hello {{pseudonym}}!

    This is your inventory satchel. Your gathered items, new destinations, and any actions you acquire will all go here. Good luck questing!

    (...what is this? Try the help button below)

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    Destinations ({{destinations.length}} of 5)


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    This is a game.

    This is a game, built on top of a fairly boring straightforward author's website.

    It's part scavenger hunt, part narrative, part fight-scene. The objective, of course, is to fight, and win, against the author.

    Items are things you gather. They often look something like this: (←if you've already entered a pseudonym, try clicking on the ambulance...you should see a message 'item added to inventory')

    Destinations are places you visit

    Actions are things you can do

    As you play, new items/destinations/actions will be added to your inventory satchel.

    Look for the numbers next to your Items, Destinations,and Actions in order to see how far along you are:
    Example
    Example number of actions

    If you lose the game or wish to become someone else, hit the 'start over' button.

    Tip Explore! Many peculiar things are clickable, hidden, or require a certain amount of time to be spent somewhere, or require interaction to work. And as you get deeper into the game, places that were once normal begin to alter.

    Fight scene

    If you spot any bugs, irregularities, surprises, etc - drop me an email: ben@ideacog.net - thanks for visiting!