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I’ll be making a few appearances this weekend at the American Library Association’s Annual Conference in Anaheim, California. All of them will be at the Anaheim Convention Center. I visited Anaheim every year or two when I was growing up–my grandparents lived there–but my family usually went to Disneyland or the beach, so this will be my first visit to the convention center. Another dream comes true.

Saturday, June 28
1:30-2 p.m.
Interview with Ingram Library Services
Booth 800, Exhibition Hall

This will be a live interview that will later be made available as a podcast on the Ingram site. Ingram distributes books for my fine publisher, Severn House.

Sunday, June 29
1:30-3:30 p.m.

Booklist Adult Books Readers’ Advisory Forum: The Post-9/11 Novel

Convention Center 304 A/B

Also appearing: Ellen Gilchrist, Janette Turner Hospital, and Carolyn See. Am I nervous? Not unless you count obsessive speech rewriting as a sign of nervousness. I’ll be appearing as both author and moderator. I’ll try to keep myself in line.

Monday, June 30
1-1:30 p.m.
LIVE! @ your library Reading Stage
Aisle 2500, Exhibition Hall

I’ll be reading a passage from my forthcoming book, One Nation, Under God. Which passage? Um . . . I’ll get back to you on that. Probably not the sex scene.

A pleasant surprise to find myself on NewCity’s Lit 50 at #45. That’s pretty good company I’m keeping–being on the same page as Studs Terkel and Stuart Dybek (and Aleksandar Hemon and Chris Ware and Scott Turow and Joe Meno and Sara Paretsky) feels pretty good.

Of course, in the print version, you have to turn the page three times before you see my name–but online it’s just one long page.