The Facebook page for Jerome Charyn’s Joe DiMaggio: The Long Vigil has nearly reached 1,000 fans (more than the official Joe DiMaggio page!), and the book’s official publication date isn’t even until tomorrow! The page is loaded with stories about Joe and from fans, fun facts, videos, and photos from yesteryear, when Joe’s image took center stage on magazine covers and front-page recaps.

If you need a little incentive, check out Charyn’s interview on NBC’s All Night with Joey Reynolds. Timed for our celebration of Women’s History Month, we’ll have a guest post from Charyn on the romance between Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe going up shortly on the blog. Help Joe’s fandom reach 1,000 today and stay tuned for more updates!

P.S. For e-reader fans, the long vigil ends tomorrow when the book is released from your favorite eBook provider.