03.27.07
Where I’ve Been
In case you’ve been wondering where I’ve been (and let’s face it, you probably haven’t been), I’ve been listening to Tuvan throat-singing virtuoso Kongar-Ol Ondar [Link] and dealing with book release stuff, including a mess o’ reviews and interviews and whatnot. For links to the reviews that have appeared online, you can check out Virginbook.org — this past Sunday saw reviews in the New York Times and the Chicago Sun-Times both, plus a review in the New York Observer that ran on the 26th, all of which was pretty darned exciting. I hear tell that it’s reviewed in Ms. magazine’s spring issue, too, and on Thursday, it should be featured in Josey Vogels’ “My Messy Bedroom” column, which runs in a buncha different papers across Canada.
This weekend I’ll be teaching and speaking at the FORGE Forward conference in Milwaukee, WI — I’m the Friday night dinner keynote speaker. Then, on April 5, I’m reading from and signing copies of Virgin right here in Baltimore, at Atomic Pop [Info at the link]. If you’re at either event, don’t be shy! Especially because there may well be an outing to the Golden West’s Long Bar after the Atomic Pop event… signin’ books is thirsty work, pardners.
And now, because the life of a writer is one of unparalleled glamour, I must go move books around in advance of having a nice young man come to rip out a chunk of the ceiling in the stairwell.