Jonathan notes in FFAF that NPR’s All Songs Considered blog has a link that allows you to download the first four chapters of the book “Wildwood“, who’s authors, Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis of The Decemberists, are the keynote speakers at this year’s Decatur Book Festival on September 2nd. Well now DM is offering it too!  (Because it’s just an embedded widget.)

You have to input your b-day and email address, and then they send your an email with a link to download, but it’s no more involved than that. I was  able to do it all on my iPad and open it in iBooks, so its just like reading in the Kindle app!

Wildwood releases to the public on August 30th.  Meloy and Ellis will launch the book at Powell’s in their hometown of Portland on Aug 30th, and then two days later, DBF baby!

Lots of Decatur folk know Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis from their artistic lives with “The Decemberists“, but let’s not forget they’re coming to our fair city to give the Decatur Book Festival keynote address about their new fantasy/adventure book “Wildwood”.

What’s Wildwood all about?  Little Shop posted this great little interview with the two found on currently living on YouTube.   Check it!