I will read things. You will listen.

Yesterday, I was talking to Carolyn Zaikowski about possibly doing a mid-Atlantic or west coast tour together sometime in the not too distant future.

Then I found out she’d be reading in Baltimore next Saturday, so I said, “Great! We can talk about it then!”

Then, less than twelve hours later, I was invited to read at the same venue on the same night.

So, I can say (with fair certainty) that the future is rapidly approaching.

To that end, if you’re in Baltimore next weekend, you should show up to Say It with Writing next Saturday to hear me and Carolyn AND Jamie Iredell (!). Reasons to come include:

a nice range of contemporary fiction
that just so happens to be free
and will also, as it turns out, be followed by a party

So if you don’t like contemporary fiction, come for the party. And if you don’t like parties, come for the fiction.

And if you don’t like either of those things, come anyway so we can try to change your mind.

Also, for my dears in Boston, I’ll be coming at you twice in January:

FIRST in co-emceeing capacity (with the always lovely Randolph Pfaff) at Brookline Booksmith for the apt release party on Saturday, January 18;

THEN at Literary Firsts on Monday, January 20, I’ll be functioning in full host/reader force–and Carolyn will be reading that night too! She’ll be the fiction reader. I’ll be the confessional reader. My reading will NOT be recorded, so you’ll want to be there in person for this one.

Also, as a friendly reminder, you can keep track of all appearances (if you so desire) on the events page.

And now I have to run because I have to go to a different reading where I will just be in the audience, which is good because that’s where I like to be.