Unsent letters. TinyLetters, that is. Also: Salt Lake! Denver! things.
Some of the drafts I have sitting in my TinyLetter drafts folder:
Always Adapting
The Last Father Figure
On 35 Years of Body Dysmorphia
Reformation Sunday
Broadway
Location, Location, Location
99 Introvert Problems and a Book Is One
Those sound so good and interesting. In theory, I'd like to get them all beyond the notes stage someday. In theory, I'd intended to send out a new TL every couple of weeks. In theory, I'm overflowing with insights and thoughts and the wherewithal to type them out.
In reality, thinking is hard, and putting thoughts into words is really hard. I know this, because it's literally my job. In reality, I've been revisited by depression and sadness this second half of 2017, which has expressed as isolation and apathy and it's hard to work up the juice to TinyLetter it up as I try to stay pecking away at my fiction and taking care of myself.
I think I'm emerging from the mire, slowly. Not enough that I'm going to be able to write up all those obviously great topics into amazing letters that will win me friends and influence and the buckets and buckets of money that all the top TinyLetter writers are paid by Paul Manafort as part of his laundering scheme.
But, I did promise that if you subscribed, I would stay in touch at least with news. So here is some news! Location specific and otherwise:
Salt Lake City. The City of Salt. Behind the Zion Curtain. The SLC. The Valley. Whatever you like to call it, I'm going to be there this Friday night Nov 1 delivering a keynote talk and Q&A to kick off Salt Lake County Library's LOCAL AUTHORS AND YOU. 7 p.m. at the Viridian Center. It's free, but you can reserve tickets for the talk and reception here
Denver! The Mile-High City. Cow Town. Wall Street of the West. Story of a Girl is screening at the Denver Film Festival on Saturday Nov 2, 1:15 p.m. I will be there, and the plan is for me to join directory Kyra Sedgwick for a Q&A afterwards. Get your tickets here
Speaking of Story of a Girl, I don't think I've written since the movie became available for digital purchase via Amazon, iTunes, etc. And/or read the book!
Gem & Dixie has passed the "6 months in hardcover" point, which means it may be harder to find in stores than it was earlier this year. You can still get it in ebook, of course, or order a hard copy from your favorite bookseller. Also, Publishers Weekly named it one of the best YA books of 2017, so if you've been thinking well I really want to read it and the reviews have been great, but let's just wait and see until those end of the year lists come out, wait no longer!
Now I'm going to put a pretty picture here of the Wasatch Mountains so that it all looks fun to click on.