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Withoutscene and Glenda, please email me your mailing addresses.  I shall be adding your additions to my bio posthaste, and then sending you each a book!

In other important news, those of you in the mid-Atlantic might wanna know specifically about a few upcoming events that are happening this weekend and next…

On Saturday night (the 24th) I'm moderating a panel on Diversity in Genre Fiction at the Maryland Romance Writers stage at the Baltimore Book Festival.  Panel starts at 7 and like all Baltimore Book Festival events, it's free and open to the public.  There will be books on sale, including Big Big Love and Virgin and Unruly Appetites, and it looks like a great panel of writers so I'm anticipating a fantastic and insightful conversation.

Next weekend is my hometown doubleheader.  I am blessed to live in Hampden — I say that if you've gotta live in Baltimore it might as well be in Hampden — and because my neighborhood is just so damn awesome, I'll be doing two events within walking distance of my house.

Friday night, September 30 at 7 pm is the official authorized Big Big Love launch shindig at the one and only Atomic Books.  Free, open to the public…and I'm  bakin' cupcakes 'cause nothing goes better with a book launch than homemade cupcakes.   Vegan ones and dairy ones 'cause that's how I roll.

Sunday, October 2 at 6 pm I'm teaching — one time only! — my (in)famous Big Fat Sex Workshop at Sugar.  Tix are $20 (at the store, or click the link!) and there's a cap on the number of folks they can fit into their space, so sign up ASAP if you want to get up close and personal with some big big love action.  Will there be cupcakes?  Depends on how much time I have on Saturday!

Muchas gracias to Rachel and Benn at Atomic and to Jacq and her staff at Sugar for making these happen, and I hope to see you all there!  Don't be shy, now!

And!  I know I've been talking a lot about BBL in this space lately, but I'm gonna link you out to one more thing:  Illustrator Liz Tamny's blog entry about the book's release.