From author Harry Kollatz, Jr., comes the latest word about his new book, “True Richmond Stories,” which has just hit local bookstores.

You may know that my slender volume of history, “True Richmond Stories” is making its sure way to the shelves of finer book stores and boutiques throughout the Richmond region. Thus, I am beginning the “True Richmond Stories GRTC Autumn-Winter Tour” so-called because I’ll be getting most places by bus. And it just doesn’t get much better than that.

This very evening [Tuesday] I’ll be appearing (not in a nimbus of light, nor with thrones of angels singing my arrival) at Fountain Books, 1312 E. Cary St., at 6:30 p.m., and I’ll read some pieces and sign books and even act all author-like and stuff.

If you can’t catch me there, I’m next set to go on October 15 at Cafe Gutenberg, 1700 E. Main St., at 7 p.m. and a conceptual-type presentation will occur on October 26, 7:30 p.m. in conjunction with partner-in-art Amie Oliver’s exhibit Walk The Walk at Plant Zero Art Center, 0 E. 4th St. in Manchester (South Richmond), where books will also be available.

Hope you can make it out tonight, and if not, sometime soon. For more of this scintillating info, see truerichmondstories.com. And may all your True Richmond Stories be good ones.

Readers may be familiar with Kollatz’s many contributions to Richmond Magazine, which include those presented in his regular column, “Flashback,” from which the stories in this new book were culled.

– The illustration for the story “Mr. Hawkins’s Wild Ride” is by Jay Bohannan