Conferences and Launches and Podcasts — Oh My!
In which I thank people for coming to Hicklebee's
Dear Reader,
They Shut Me Up has now been out for a little over a month. At the risk of sounding too much like someone who just won a Golden Globe,1 I really want to thank everyone who got me here. It was a joyful, wonderful experience.2
My official book launch event was Sunday, April 21 at Hicklebee’s Bookstore, which is a very special place to me for a number of reasons.3 Thank you so, so much to everyone who came out to hear me read a book that was too vulgar for the setting4, and thank you to everyone at Hicklebee’s who made it happen.
I was also lucky enough to be a guest on House of Mystery Radio, which airs as a NBC Radio show in LA and is also available as a podcast. Listen now to hear me talk about Seinfeld, which terrible character of mine is my favorite to write, and why I might be in the witness protection program.
Available now on Apple Podcasts, and wherever fine podcasts are downloaded.
Also: I was delighted to be part of the New Authors’ Breakfast and a panel moderator at the Left Coast Crime Convention in Seattle. I had to get my pitch for my book down to one minute, and still managed to squeeze in both a pretentious pitch and an unpretentious pitch (that referenced a dick joke and “someone sneezing on something gross”). In other words, it was a perfect first literary conference experience.
Turns out that people in the book business (fans, authors, editors, you name it) aren’t in it for the gold.5 So many people I met were incredibly supportive and interesting and kind to a debut author whose book had been out for a week and a half at that point.6
Anyway, it was a very nice April. Thank you again to everyone who helped launch my book. If you’re reading it now, no spoilers! This is the time in the newsletter where I beg for Amazon and Goodreads reviews, because a girl’s gotta eat.
Thank you for reading.
Cassandra
Travel photo of the month
A view from the top of a hill in Quito, Ecuador.
Fake news corner
The glamour of a writer’s life.
Real news corner
Quote of the month
“I don’t do anything all day but sit and long for you.”
“Well, why don’t you try and read?”
— From the movie Dinner at Eight with Jean Harlow
Yes, I did steal this joke from myself from my launch event. So nice I said it twice.
And naturally I was terrified.
My first job, the place I first attended an author event, a truly special community hub, and more other reasons than I can name.
I said the f word.
If you are, you might be slightly stupid.
This is just to check if there are too many footnotes and if anyone else is rolling their eyes and saying, “Hey, David Foster Wallace! Enough with the footnotes already!”
Hey DFW--I compulsively read footnotes...beware!