Come on by to the second BooksNJ, which is happening on Saturday, June 12, at the Paramus Public Library. I’ll be on the panel Life on the Turnpike with John Hilferty, Jon Michaud, and Pamela Redmond Satran between 2 and 2:45pm. There are over 100 authors at the event, so it should be a pretty good time. The event runs from 1-5pm.
[PDF: full schedule]
Next Saturday (May 28) at 2pm, I’ll be at the Atlantic City Free Public Library to do a reading/Q&A for Everything Asian and everything not Asian, too. The nice folks at the library put together this nice flyer:
[in PDF]
So if you’re in the mood to gamble away your life savings, stop by the library before you do so.
Also, an advance notice — next month, on Saturday, June 12 between 1-5pm, BooksNJ 2011 will be held in Paramus, NJ. In addition to myself, lots of fine authors will be in attendance, so mark it down in your calendars.
For the last month, I could see the end, that moment when I’d write the last sentence of my second novel. I imagined there would be exaltation, relief, a supreme sense of satisfaction rolled into that single keystroke when I’d tap the period and put an end to this work that began on August 11, 2002.
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An essay for The Nervous Breakdown about the experience of writing the second book. It’s mostly not pretty.