South Buffalo native Michael “MJ” Maccalupo will visit Dog Ears Bookstore & Café for a book-signing and meet & greet event from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 3. The nonprofit community bookstore is located at 688 Abbott Road in South Buffalo.
Maccalupo is the author of six books: Where the Road Begins (2011), Murder at Ravenswood Hall (2012), The Almost Definitive Collection Vol. 1 (2013), The Allentown Murders (2014), Death by Incarceration (2017) and The Umbrella (2023). He is currently working on Blood Moon Murders, a mystery involving the Biblical prophesies surrounding the three blood moon cycles spanning the last 60 years.
The author has appeared on Winging It! Buffalo Style and AM Buffalo, WNED radio in Buffalo, WPTF radio in Raleigh, NC and WHQR public radio in Wilmington, NC. Reviews and promotional pieces have appeared in Encore Magazine and the Star News in Wilmington, NC, and in The Buffalo News.
The Umbrella, his most recent novel, follows the lives of 16 people who have only one thing in common: a mysterious black umbrella and a visit to a very unusual bar and restaurant called The Seventh Circle.
Maccalupo currently lives with his wife and two dogs in Scotts Hill, NC. For more information, please visit www.mj-maccalupo.com.
For information on Dog Ears Bookstore, please call 823-2665.