Upcoming Events Part 1 – Prose/Craft

I have a bunch of events coming up where I will be promoting and/or selling my debut novel The Jaguar Mask and/or other Stelliform Press titles and/or Reckoning! This schedule above is a work in progress. More TK! But the first event is less than a week away.

Phew, this book promo business is no joke.

I really enjoy going out and talking to people about books, about environmental justice, climate justice, writing and publishing about climate, and working for justice. I’m motivated to do it on my own behalf—because The Jaguar Mask is a good book I wrote and I’m proud of it—but also, I always want to boost the amazing work of Reckoning contributors, to get these ideas out there, encourage people to think and talk about them, build community, and strengthen connections between individual humans that empower them in ways social media’s corporate-captured tools don’t.

In some ways I feel like it’s the most important work I can do.

I’ve embraced hermit mode since the pandemic, so the excuse of promoting the book has been a nice way to make myself get back out there and meet people and remember that introversion is surmountable. Plus it seems incredibly important right now to affirm that yielding the public forum and public discourse to trolls and fascist monsters is not an option.

Ursula Whitcher invited me to do this cool zoom event to celebrate her debut short fiction collection North Continent Ribbon (which I blurbed!), also including Kristen Kooperman, (Reckoning contributor and editorial staffer emeritus!) Marie Vibbert, and Erin Barbeau, in which we will get together and do crafts and talk about writing and crafts. I’m excited for this because I am a person with a ridiculous number of hobbies, most of which are completely unsuited to being pursued while also listening respectfully&emdash;but I’m taking that part of it as a challenge&emdash;and also because I have a lot of thoughts about how the creative processes for fiction converges with and diverges from the processes for, e.g., coming up with the ingredients and recipe for a beer I’ve never made before, refining my sourdough baking routine, repairing old bikes, etc. I think this could be a great conversation.

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