And feel free to call it “champag-nah!”
For I finished grading today! I also knocked out a massive chunk of my to-do list, including deciding what texts to use for my literature course (writing about literature) next semester. It’s a writing intensive course, so there’s not too much we can do, but here’s what I chose:
Don Delillo’s White Noise
Angela Cater The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
Henry James The Turn of the Screw
Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author
And an antho of poetry, plus the readings from the textbook.
So I’m very excited! White Noise is one of my all time favorite books, and it’s great to study with English majors, not least as it makes so much fun of academia. I also have a near obsessive love of The Turn of the Screw, but I’m sure there’s a pill for that on the market by now. I’m really excited to teach Carter, as I’ve not taught her before, but I think she’ll BLOW SOME MINDS. 😉 And who doesn’t love Pirandello? I mean, really?
And meanwhile, what finishing all of this means is that I get to be an AUTHOR again. The deadline for Tempest’s Fury is alarmingly close (like nibbling on the nape of my neck close), but I’ll be jumping back into Full Author Mode with a book tour. So by the time that’s done I should be totally recharged and ready to write! After a nap. For those of you who are like, “Book tour? What book tour?”, Jaye Wells and I are going to be all over Texas and Louisiana, swarming like ants on the ass of a dead armadillah. Here’s the roster if you’re interested:
Sunday, May 15th — DALLAS, TX
4:00 pm, Borders (965 West Bethany Dr., Allen, TX 75013)
Monday, May 16th – AUSTIN, TX
7:00 pm, BookPeople (603 North Lamar Boulevard, Austin, TX 78703)
Tuesday, May 17th — HOUSTON, TX
6:30 pm, Murder By The Book (2342 Bissonnet St., Houston TX, 77005)
Thursday, May, 19th — BATON ROUGE, LA
6:30 pm, Books-A-Million (2380 Towne Center Blvd, Baton Rouge, LA, 70806)
Friday, May 20th – SHREVEPORT, LA
7:00 PM, Barnes & Noble (Bayou Walk, 6646 Youree Drive, Shreveport, LA, 71105)
Jaye and I will be doing all sorts of stupid shit with each other’s books, because we get bored doing regular readings. You can also meet the infamous Mary Lois, from Shreveport, who is serving as our Turtle.
You have to get through her, people.
So that’s what I’ll be doing Sunday! Friday and Saturday will be taken up with last minute crazy prep for the tour, plus graduation and the two solid days of activities that it entails.
But then I’ll be FREEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!
Man I love being a teacher. 😀
In the meantime, let me know if there’s something you think would be really funny if Jaye & I do on the tour, or what you’d like to know about touring. I’m gonna try to take lots of pictures (read, make ML take lots of pictures), so that we can do some major Bloggage. 😉
See y’all on the flipside!
Congratulations!
Will you be doing any author appearances when you're in London? I'd love to see your charming self!
I'z so excited to have you and Jaye at the same signing in my city. Yeah for me!
Oh, man, I remember Pirandello! I read that exact work in the original Italian (she adds pretentiously) when I was finishing my minor in that language about a million years ago. Così divertimento! (I totally just looked that up on Babel Fish, 'cause I couldn't remember the word for "fun". Sigh.)
Elizabeth: Sadly no, this time. But hopefully the next time I'm in I'll be able to set something up! Realistically I'll be back around Xmas time. 😉
Shannonannon: Yay! 😉
Toni: I'd LOVE to be able to read the in Italian. Such a beautiful language! I think this semester I'm going to bone up on my Spanish. It's also fallen by the wayside. . .