It feels these past couple of weeks (or maybe these past couple of months…years…decades?) that every headline and every social media post is some version of this letter’s title. Run! Run fast! Just run! Panic! Panic now! No, if you’re just now panicking, it’s already too late. If you haven’t started running, you’re already screwed.
Maybe everyone’s right. Maybe we are all screwed. What do I know, except that the surest way to get attention is to scare the hell out of people, a truism I am crassly using to get you to maybe go pre-order my book, which, by the way, is not at all scary.
Here’s the scariest thing that happens in SEX OF THE MIDWEST—some women arrive in town from one of the riverboats and proceed to crash a party. Or, okay, a dude with bad lungs gets pneumonia. A duck may or may not die along a beach in Florida. A writer has to get up in front of people at a coffee shop and do her first reading. Okay, that is very scary.
SEX OF THE MIDWEST is my attempt to make sense of what it’s like living in this often fucked-up, but also sometimes very beautiful, post-pandemic world. It’s hopeful because most days I’m too stubborn to allow the world to knock all the hope out of me. Most days. Some days I give in and crawl back into bed with my cat.
But not today! Today you can go pre-order SEX OF THE MIDWEST! Today you can read this lovely interview about the book at David Brown’s blog! Today is the first day of fall, which as everyone knows, is the very best season of the year! Today for the first time in months, it is going to rain and rain and rain, which is the perfect weather for the first day of fall! Today, my Reds are tied for the wild card spot! Today, anything is possible!
I don’t know, have I mentioned that my book is for sale, here? Or that is got a Kirkus starred review, here? Have I mentioned I’ll be signing copies in Madison, Indiana, at Analog Coffee on Oct. 22 at 5:30? Or that I’ll be at Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Cincinnati on Oct. 23 (more details coming soon)? Or that you can find a list of other events at my website, here, including several in the Boston area in November? Have I showed you my beautiful cover? No? Here it is.
your interview with David Brown is wonderful!
Robyn, thanks so much for chatting with me for my newsletter. It was great to talk books, small towns, and more with you. The book is terrific! David