Jessamyn is in town and it has been delightful to get to hang out. We’ve now known each other for over a decade, and that is equally bizarre and awesome to contemplate.
Last night, around eleven thirty, there was a small group of us at the studio, all working, and Rich asked me, “Typical Saturday night for you?” “Um, yeah, actually.”
I’m reading, among other things, The Final Act: the roads to Waterloo by Gregor Dallas, for what he says about cities and diplomats and nobility and intrigue and power.
And I should mention that I’ll be at Comicon Friday through Sunday. You’ll be able to find me some of the time in Artist’s Alley at table II-03, and on Sunday on this panel:
11:30-1:00 Comics Are Not Literature—For years, comics have presented themselves as a new kind of literature—but cartooning isn’t prose, and graphic novels aren’t novels. What if conflating comics with “literary” storytelling is a terrible mistake? Douglas Wolk (Reading Comics) moderates what should be a contentious discussion with Cecil Castellucci (The PLAIN Janes), Dan Nadel (PictureBox Inc.), Austin Grossman (Soon I Will Be Invincible), Paul Tobin (Spider-Man Family), and Sara Ryan (The Rules for Hearts). Room 8
Preparing for contention, I remain.
I stole this ALA picture from Cecil’s blog:
And I stole this report about the comics panel from the Periscope blog.
Thievingly yours, I remain, etc.
Hey everybody: Thanks so much for coming to the reading last night. I was so pleased to see y’all there! I wasn’t on top of it enough to get any photos, unfortunately, otherwise I would have documented the crowd, and especially the amazing special guest that looked exactly like Lucky.
Those of you who haven’t read Rules yet, Lucky appears in the cast of characters thusly: LUCKY, 3, a dog.
Hey Portlanders!
Please come to In Other Words Tuesday, May 8th, at 6:30 pm for my first reading of Rules in Portland!
Please also bring a dollar. Not for me, for the bookstore. It is the very last surviving nonprofit women’s bookstore in the country, and as they say on their site, “In an effort to become more sustainable we have decided to charge a minimal fee for events held at the store. Event attendees will be asked to donate $1 admission to store events, unless otherwise noted.”
There will be snacks.
And yes, it’s a women’s bookstore, but I assure you that people of all genders will be absolutely welcome.
Hey. I was offline for a day and a half and it feels like forever. This probably means I should stay offline longer, but here I am, slave to the keyboard and the coffeehouse wifi.
Huge thanks to everyone who came to see Lauren Myracle and me at the Not Your Mother’s Bookclub event! (Click that link for photos and more…)
It was super fun, it is a lovely store, and I highly encourage anyone who lives within traveling distance to come to future events. Even huger thanks to Jennifer and the rest of the fabulous Books Inc. staff for making it all happen. And yes, although it starts in the middle of a sentence and cuts off before the end of the Q and A, the podcast worked.