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'Lay Down Your Weary Tune' By W.B. Belcher

  In W. B. Belcher's debut novel, Lay Down You’re Weary Tune, a ghostwriter of the memoirs of a reclusive folk music icon attempts to glean fact from fiction, only to discover the deeper he digs into the musician’s past, the more his own past rises to the surface

Despite his fame, Eli Page is a riddle wrapped in a myth, inside decades of mask-making. His past is so shrouded in gossip and half-truths that no one knows who he is behind the act. Jack Wyeth, a budding writer, joins Eli in Galesville, a small town on the border of New York and Vermont, only to learn that the musician’s mind is failing.

As he scrambles to uncover the truth, Jack is forced to confront his own past, his own hang-ups, and his own fears. At the same time, he falls for a local artist who has secrets of her own, he becomes linked to a town controversy, and he struggles to let go of his childhood idols and bridge the divide between myth and reality.

 W. B. Belcher will be all over our region in the coming days, weeks, and months:
JAN 26 – Northshire Bookstore (Saratoga Springs, NY)
JAN 28 – Battenkill Books (Cambridge, NY)
JAN 30 – Barnes & Noble (Pittsfield, MA)
FEB 10 – Odyssey Bookshop (South Hadley, MA)
FEB 15 – The Sage Colleges (Troy, NY)
FEB 18 – Water Street Books (Williamstown, MA)
FEB 23 – The Hyde (Glens Falls, NY)
FEB 24 – Hartwick College (Oneonta, NY)
MAR 11 – The Lenox Bookstore (Lenox, MA)
APR 2 – Barnes & Noble (Colonie, NY)

Joe talks to people on the radio for a living. In addition to countless impressive human "gets" - he has talked to a lot of Muppets. Joe grew up in Philadelphia, has been on the area airwaves for more than 25 years and currently lives in Washington County, NY with his wife, Kelly, and their dog, Brady. And yes, he reads every single book.
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