1) I'll be signing books at the VINTAGE MOTORSPORT booth in Gasoline Alley (pretty cool, eh?) at the SVRA's watershed Brickyard Invitational event (translation: entries got turned away) at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway June 6-8. I'll also have signed copies (not by me, thank goodness) of my longtime hero and new friend, designated pilot and car buddy (translation: I think I'm the sidekick here) John Morton's excellent insider memoir "Inside Shelby American." Not to mention copies of his successful novelist, storm anchor & longtime companion Sylvia Wilkinson's "The Stainless Steel Carrot," which is about John's early, about-to-take off (or so he thought) racing career and about as great an examination of the highs, lows, exhultations and depressions of trying to become a successful pro racing driver as you will find anywhere. If you're not captivated, moved & entertained, I'll give your effing money back. Maybe.

 

2) Ziva Allen, wife or the boss and web-content head of  the new, excellent and burgeoning "Auto Track Day Monthly" website (aimed at tyro track-day types and obviously in search of older followers with fewer teeth and hair) did a damn near embarrassing (go ahead, laugh...I can take it) story on me and may so-called career in their June 1 issue. Here's the link if you somehow haven't gotten enough of me already: Auto Track Day. My story click is in the lower LH corner in case you're effing blind.

 

3) BIG NEWS! BURT IS GIVING SOMETHING AWAY!!!! Almost...

See, here's the deal. In a desperate, even semi-pathetic mid-life-crisis effort to find new, young, hopefully hot & succulent and hooked-into-the-internet readers, Burt and his self-run, peanut-stand publishing company THINK FAST INK, will be embarking on a ONE WEEK ONLY, JUNE 19-26 e-book web promotion in conjunction with BOOKBUB, AMAZON.COM and BARNES & NOBLE NOOK. The bottom line is that for those seven days, e-book copies of Burt's seminal, cult-classic novel THE LAST OPEN ROAD will be on sale for LESS THAN A BUCK!!!

OK, it's not much less than a buck (99 cents U$D, in fact) but it's a hell of a deal for those without big rigs, pneumatic, fake-bosomy girlfriends and a secure future (wonder what one of those looks like?). Also a particularly good deal for our fans overseas, where the effing freight is half again (or more) as much as the damn books.