Book Signing with Shane Pittman

On Sat Oct. 10th from 4-6pm Silent Slayer Ghost Tours will host a book signingand conversation with author, director, TV Personality, and paranormal investigator  Shane Pittman in celebration of the release of his newest book Hope on the Other Side of Pain: Grief, Grace, and Ghosts (forward by Dave Schrader).  Shane will be signing copies of his book and talking about his life as a paranormal investigator.

Shane Pittman has been searching for answers in the dark since before it was a career. As equipment technician and co-star on Travel Channel's The Holzer Filesfor two seasons, then lead investigator on Netflix's 28 Days Haunted, he has spent more time inside documented haunted locations than most people will ever see in a lifetime.

He didn't stop when the cameras did. Network shows were getting cancelled, audiences were losing access to the people and content they actually wanted, and nobody was doing anything about it. So he built Beacon TV, a streaming platform for paranormal, true crime, and horror, to bring viewers exactly what the networks kept taking away. He also wrote a book, because some things you can't capture on film.

This event is free and open to the public.  Please RSVP so we know how many books to have on hand

RSVP for Shane Pittman Book Signing

Storytelling @ the Kerouac House feat. JD Adler

On Sat Oct 24th from 7-9pm this month’s Storytelling @ the Kerouac House will present local storyteller extraordinaire JD Adler as our featured Storyteller. Vlada Bernhardtz will return as the opener.

JD Adler was born with a black eye and giggling in Easton, Pennsylvania. He spent two decades alternating between traveling across America and attending college. He has volunteered with the Fire Department in Lake Tahoe, Mighty Writers in Philadelphia, SOS in Key West, and currently serves on the board of The Suncoast Storytellers in Tampa Bay. Adler's diverse work history includes stints as an EMT, bartender, ski lift operator, bookstore manager, line cook, freelance journalist, university consultant, and haunted pub crawl tour guide, just to name a few. A prolific writer, he has published works of journalism, poetry, plays, screenplays, novels, and short fiction, and also operates as an occasional indie publisher, championing emerging authors' voices. After a lifetime of traveling, writing, and doing every job there is in one restaurant or another, JD and Lisa (the love of his life) have decided to settle down in beautiful Dunedin and put all that experience to work in a cozy cafe. We hope you’ll join us at JD’s Place.

Sign up to tell a 5-7 minute story at the event. Libations, snacks and Kerouac merch are available.

Bringing her creativity and unique style to various age groups and venues, Ms. Vlada Bernhardtz  lets the story be the star of the show! Having grown up in Africa and Europe, she brings a wealth of stories and folktales from many corners of the world. Her audiences - big and small - enjoy the wit and wisdom of generations and cultures weaved into her stories.

Vlada is a member of the Windy City Storytelling Guild and has performed at schools, folk festivals, Park Districts, Senior Centers, libraries and Forest Preserves. She can create a program to target specific themes for a variety of audiences.

Sign up to tell a 5-7 minute story at the event. Libations, snacks and Kerouac merch are available.

Tickets $10 plus tax.

Tickets for Storytelling featuring JD Adler

Coffee and Poetry at Jack's:  Victoria Dym’s Swan Song!

Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow!

The Featured Reader for October is the Poet-in-Residence at The Jack Kerouac House

of St. Petersburg, Victoria Dym.  Victoria has hosted Coffee & Poetry since September of 2025 and will be moving back to her beloved Pittsburgh in early November.  This reading will be her swan song, a goodbye poetry party, a bittersweet ending to a twelve-plus-year life in Tampa Bay.

She is planning to hold the event in the round, outside and in Jack's backyard on 10/25 from 3-6 pm. Shelley Jaffe has offered to bake. As always, there will be an open mic (sign-up at the event, 1-2 poems). Ms. Dym will have her books available for sale and signing.

Victoria Dym is a graduate of Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Clown College with a degree in Humility, a Bachelor of Arts, in Philosophy, from the University of Pittsburgh, and a Masters of Fine Arts, Creative Writing-Poetry from Carlow University. Her two poetry chapbooks, Class Clown, and When the Walls Cave In were published by Finishing Line Press in 2015 and 2018.  Victoria’s chapbook, Spontaneous, was selected by Northwest Florida Poet Laureate Katherine Nelson-Born as the winner of the 2021 Poem-A-Day Chapbook Challenge Contest, won a cash prize and subsequently was published by the West Florida Literary Federation in 2022. Ms. Dym's full-length manuscript, The Hatchet Sun, was published by Finishing Line Press in August 2023.

Victoria was cast for the Risk! Live from Orlando storytelling show and her story, One Shot was selected for the podcast. Her short story, The Linzer Torte was published in The Scribe, 2020 and she performs at The Commodore Theater, regularly, and yearly, at The Countdown Improv Festival. Her solo improv characters include The Haiku Lady and Judge Trudy. Ms. Dym is also the host and producer of Poetry on the Lighter Side, where poetry and improv collide.

Victoria, a Certified Laughter Yoga Leader and a Certified Narrative Therapy Practitioner lives in Tampa Florida, where she hosts the Annual October Haiku Challenge, teaches poetry, improv, storytelling, and facilitates Laughter Yoga workshops. She is employed as a Patient Actor with Nova Southeastern University, and is both the Storyteller-in-Residence and the Poet-in- Residence at The Jack Kerouac House in St. Pete, and hosts monthly events in both genres there.

Tickets $10 plus tax

Tickets for Coffee & Poetry: Victoria Dym's Swan Song!

That’s it for our offerings this month.  Don’t forget, the Jack Kerouac House is also available for private events, parties, tours, and overnight stays.  Keep in touch by following us on Facebook and Instagram!

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