Elliott DeLine’s Newsletter Issue #7 June 28th, 2013 Philadelphia Trans Health Conference! June 14 th and 15 th I attended Philadelphia Trans-Health Conference for the first time, selling and signing my books. It was an awesome experience. Thank you to everyone who stopped by my table or bought a book! It was a great trip and I met so many nice people. Me, selling my books at the conference. I didn’t sell as many books as I hoped to at the Philly Trans- Health Conference. We had to leave a day early for our march at Syracuse Pride, and I guess most sales happen on Saturday. I’ve got a lot of books lying around now. As some of you know, I am moving out west to the SF Bay area in two weeks with a few thousand dollars and no job (as of yet). Soooo! 40% off REFUSE & I KNOW VERY WELL HOW I GOT MY NAME with free shipping! Only available at: http://elliottdeline.bigcartel.com/ Expires on July 1, 2013 at 11:59pm AST (GMT-4). Quoted in the Philadelphia Gay News: …The event promises to be just as special for the authors as it is for attendees. Elliott DeLine, author of the novella “I Know Very Well How I Got My Name,” responded enthusiastically when asked if he was looking forward to the conference. “This is my first time attending the Philadelphia Trans- Health Conference and I’m very excited,” he said. “I’m grateful that Giovanni’s Room has set up this reading at the convention. I can’t imagine a better opportunity to share my writing with other transgender people and allies.” In addition to Thursday evening’s author event, DeLine, a regular blogger for the popular FTM magazine “Original Plumbing,” will be manning his own vendor booth throughout the conference. Novelist DeLine expressed the current situation well when he unequivocally stated: “We need art just like all people need art, and our mental health has suffered from a lack of it. Our experiences are medicalized, memoir-ized, theorized and trivialized, but rarely treated seriously as something artistic. Fiction, and all art for that matter, gives the soul something that pragmatic things cannot, and nourishing the soul is an important part of being healthy.” Read more: PGN-The Philadelphia Gay News. Phila gay news. philly news - Book programs abound at trans conference