Last weekend, Water Street Bookstore, Exeter, N.H., hosted a launch party for The Devil of Echo Lake by Douglas Wynne (JournalStone), which won JournalStone's $2,000 prize for best horror fiction. The party included a Ouija board cake made by Wild Orchid Baking Company. (Cutting the cake, events coordinator Stefanie Kiper Schmidt borrowed the huge knife from a nearby restaurant and carried it to the store, making her, she said, look "like a really guilty, very nervous criminal.") Behind the cake (from l.): Schmidt; author Douglas Wynne; Wynne friend and party planner Jill Sweeney-Bosa; and Water Street Bookstore owner Dan Chartrand.
Photo: Jennifer Salt