Book Bunko Bash!

Writing is Easy, the collaborative effort of the four Rogues, is now available. In massive celebration, the Rogues Gallery Writers are throwing a book/bunko bash. This event will combine books art and fun with great food and excellent interaction.

Mark Saturday, October 2, 2010 on your calendar. Barbara Jean's restaurant in the European Village is the location. The party will run from 11:00am to 3:00pm. Here's some of what will be happening:

Bunko. Anyone who has not played this crazy, mindless game will be thrilled to learn that there are no strategies, no high-brow thought processes nor dexterity involved. As long as you can roll dice and scream at them, you'll be fine. For those who've played, well, we understand your addiction...

Raffle. Rogue Tracy will raffle off a $400 painting at the end of the party. Her artwork graces the covers of Writing is Easy and Loves Lost and Found as well as having loads of interior paintings in the book Loves Lost and Found.

Door prizes and readings. During the course of the bunko game, breaks are scheduled at specific times. During these breaks, a Rogue will read an excerpt from Writing is Easy and then a door prize will be handed out to a lucky winner. For you die-hard bunko-ers, this intrusion will be brief and you will be able to soon return to your regularly scheduled game addiction.

Food. Barbara Jean's will offer a buffet to anyone wishing to eat during the festivities. This will allow bunko players to graze at their leisure as well as the authors who no doubt will want to stuff their faces between autographs.

Books. The Rogues Gallery Writers are busy little writers. They have five books between them and all will be on display (and for sale) to the right when you walk into Barbara Jean's. The authors will make themselves available to sign autographs or hang out the whole time. Yes, we won't be able to play bunko, but I bet we can sneak away and sub for someone for a few tantalizing rolls of the dice!

Book prizes. The Rogues will give away books as the bunko prizes for Most Wins (Writing is Easy), Travels (Flight From Fear), and Bunkos (Loves Lost and Found). These books will be autographed not only by one Rogue, but ALL the Rogues!

This will be a gala event, loads of fun, books, prizes, raffles, food and great people. Evites will be sent out soon. Please sign up as we are targeting 100 guests and need to know how many will be attending so that Barbara Jean's can prepare the requisite amount of food.

And buy a book! The Rogues will be thrilled to autograph it for you!

Bunko Bash

Bunko arrives to our town next week folks! This mixer loads fun, social networking and prizes into one fun-filled afternoon of insanity. If you do not care for crowd, high noise levels (people's voices yelling at dice) and tons of food, this event should not make your calender.

If, perchance, you enjoy meeting new people, you love to play games and you don't desire to use your brain too much, Bunko fills the bill for you. We (the hosts) give out prizes for this game of total chance. Originally, we scheduled this Bunko Bash to be a Book Bunko Bash, but delays due to contracts and editing caused us to go with the normal arrangement.

Books dominate the list of prizes for this year's Bunko party. Publication and delivery dates determine which books make up the prizes for the winners in our three prize categories. As is often the case in football, game-day decisions on which books land on the prize list must be determined at the last minute.

Stay tuned, there may be posts that contain this information before next Saturday, December 5, 2009 which so happens to be our Bunko Bash!

Woo hoo!