Steven R. Porter Official Website

Steven R. Porter - Confessions of the Meek and the Valiant

The Official Website
for Writer & AUTHOR Steven R. Porter

Thank you for visiting my website!

It is with great pleasure that I present my first novel -- Confessions of the Meek and the Valiant. Though when people ask me what it's about, I honestly find it difficult to answer.

The novel is part crime story, part romance, and part coming-of-age tale. It is also part comedy and part tragedy. It endeavors to question how we perceive and define good and evil, and is bound in a wrapping of family values, religious conviction and excellent food. It's sort of a "Godfather" meets "Catcher in the Rye" meets "Love Story" with some soda bread and a little fresh calamari... but not really.

I guess you'll just have to read it.

And I promise it won't take 25 years to write my next book. I had a blast creating this one. The next one is already underway.

Thank You!

~ Steven R. Porter

2011 AUTHOR APPEARANCE SCHEDULE

Thursday, August 18, 2011
Book Signing & Discussion
"The New Internet Publishing Process"
Brightview Commons (by invitation only)
57 Grandeville Court, Wakefield, RI-- 7 p.m.
•
Saturday, August 20, 2011
Book Release Launch Party!
Brown & Hopkins Country Store
1179 Putnam Pike, Chepachet, RI -- 11 a.m - 1 p.m.
•
Friday, September 9, 2011
Book Signing & Presentation
"Building Your Brand with the New Indie-Publishing"
RINOD to Jobs (by invitation only)
Norwood Baptist Church
49 Budlong Ave., Warwick, RI -- 10 a.m.
•
Saturday, September 24 & Sunday, September 25
24th Annual Apple Festival
Book Signing with Multiple Area Authors
Johnston Memorial Park
1385 Hartford Avenue, Johnston, RI -- Times TBA
•
Wednesday, September 28
Book Signing & Reading
Harmony Public Library
195 Putnam Pike, Harmony, RI -- 6:30 p.m.
•
Thursday, October 6
Book Signing & Presentation
"The Indie-Publishing Revolution"
How New Technologies are Transforming
Writers and Readers
Harmony Public Library
195 Putnam Pike, Harmony, RI -- 6:30 p.m.
•
Saturday, October 8
Book Signing & Reading
Tatnuck Booksellers
Westborough Shopping Center
Route 9 and Lyman Street
Westborough, MA 015811 -- 1:00 p.m - 3:00 p.m.
•
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Book Signing & Presentation
Lincoln Public Library
145 Old River Road, Lincoln, RI -- 6 p.m.
•
Thursday, October 20
Book Signing & Reading
Barnes & Noble
1350 Bald Hill Road, Warwick, RII -- 6:00 p.m.

Thursday, October 27, 2011
Book Signing
Glocester Business Association Meeting
Brown & Hopkins Country Store
1179 Putnam Pike, Chepachet, RI -- Time TBA

Check back for more events coming soon!

NEW WORKS COMING SOON

Available Summer 2011
Confessions of the Meek & the Valiant
(a novel)

Coming Fall 2011
The Kanc
(a short story)
A bitter elderly couple is caught in a violent winter storm while driving along New Hampshire's
Kancamagus Highway.

Coming Fall 2012
Manisses
(a novel)
The fictional history of an unassuming rock on a small, New England island and the natives, explorers, pirates and charlatans who rely on it.

Available Now!

Order your own
personally autographed
paperback copy today!

only $17.00
(plus tax and shipping).

Just in time for the holidays.
Signed books make great gifts!

Questions? steve@spimac.com

325 pages
ISBN: 1-4635-4200-3
EAN: 978-1-46354-200-9

cover design by Dawn M. Porter
Published July 2011

e-Book Download only $4.95
ISBN: 978-1-4580-1714-7
ASIN: B0052YYBFO

Brown & Hopkins Booksigning

About the Author:

Steven R. Porter is a self-employed writer, marketing consultant and the former Director of Advertising and Public Relations for Lauriat's Bookstores, Inc. Steven is also a frequent speaker and lecturer on Internet job search technologies in his role as an outreach consultant for www.JobsinRI.com.

Steven studied writing and communications at the University of Rhode island in the late Eighties where he served as editor of the campus literary magazine, The Great Swamp Gazette.

Confessions of the Meek and the Valiant is his first novel.

He and his wife Dawn are active volunteers in their local community and reside in the village of Harmony, Rhode Island with their two children Thomas and Susannah.

Dawn M. & Steven R. Porter
at the Brown & Hopkins Book Launch Party.

Steven is an experienced speaker and is available for signings, readings, lectures or other personal appearances.
Please send requests to:
steve@spimac.com

Read updates on Steven's blog at:

Along the Village Green

or follow using your social media network of choice.

Steven R. Porter is a proud member of the following organizations:

	ARIA
	Rhode Island Romance Writers

HERE'S WHAT THEY'RE SAYING ABOUT
CONFESSIONS OF THE MEEK & THE VALIANT

This book has absolutely something for everyone...intrigue, history, love and action! The words come together beautifully and create vivid pictures as you get deeper and deeper into the story. The character of Riley is so perfectly developed and where I thought I might have had an inkling of where the story was going, I was fabulously surprised! Not many authors are able to pull this off today and Porter has done so in this tremendously crafted novel!

----
In addition to the strong storyline, the writing itself is excellent.
It draws you into what is happening by making
the characters seem very real.

----
...a solid well-written enjoyable beach read kinda book.

----
Steve...the only thing disappointing about the book is the fact
that it had to end!!! Hurry up with another please!!!

Get your copy of Confessions of the Meek and the Valiant at:

	Support your local, independent bookstore!

Don't have any e-book reader?
Read e-books on your PC for free!

This site was created by: