Big big trip this weekend down to Austin for this year’s massive edition of the Texas Book Festival. I’m dumb honored to be included, and excited for a whopping three events on Saturday. First is an 11:30 panel discussion, “Writing in the Shadows” with Dan Chaon, Scott Blackwood, and personal buddy, Amelia Gray. We will drop dimes.
Then at 2:30 I will slay the shit out of Amelia*, Jeff Martin, and Owen Egerton at a TBF version of the world famous Opium Magazine Literary Death Match. The judging panel is Pulitzered there and back again, so it should be a doozy. And it’s in a church. Goodness.
Then finally later that night I’m stoked to close the day with Five Things, famous in Austin and beyond. Great folks there as well (who I won’t link to because I’m becoming tired), including White Person himself, Christian Lander.
Re: a costume, I’ll probably go as a slutty author. Slutty vampire nurse debut author Midwestern slut. Pirate.
*Not a chance. In fact, I will bleed.
good luck in the Death Match! Slay hard.
thanks, jensen. i hear we’ll have cordless mics, which means i have no effing clue what to do with my hands.
you could always make threatening gestures at the readers.
Enjoyed your participation in the Writing in the Shadows panel at the Texas Book Festival. I definitely plan to read the Slide in the future. Am I bit dense or was the moderator consistently mispronouncing Dan Chaon’s first name as “Don”?
also loved the panel. thanks so much for coming. and rob, i’m not sure poor dan chaon has ever heard his name pronounced the same way twice.
it was indeed a hell of a panel, Dan / Don / Doun pronunciations notwithstanding. thank you both for coming to visit the site, and i’m glad to hear you enjoyed the discussion. Austin…what a town. i can’t get back soon enough…